When Naruto finally caught up to the Iwa Jonin to see the man standing at the edge of a cliff face, Onato spun around and smirked as he looked at Naruto. "I may not be able to kill you right now," Onato said as his smirked turned into a large grin that seemed to scream insanity. "But I'm at least gonna make sure that I hurt in some way!" Naruto's eyes widened as Onato through Koyuki off the cliff, "now it's your turn to feel the pain of losing someone you love! HAHA OOF!"
The man's laughing rant was cut off as Naruto smashed his fist in the man's gut with enough force to send him flying off the cliff as well. Not wasting a moment Naruto threw himself headfirst over the ledge, channeling wind chakra in front of him to cut through the air to decrease the wind resistance around him and allow him to speed up. Naruto caught up with Koyuki and wrapped an arm around her waist before flashing to Onato who he had placed a Hiraishin seal on when he hit him. Creating a Kage Bushin to grab Onato Naruto threw a kunai high into the air, both Naruto's flashed to it and Naruto re threw the kunai so it was back to where he had jumped. Flashing one more time the clone Naruto dropped Onato and dispelled, before the man could even think to get away Naruto stomped his face into the ground with a foot, lifting it up several more times and brought it down; not stopping until there was a sizable indent in the shape of Onato's face as the now unconscious man bleed from his mouth, nose and ears.
Sighing Naruto looked at Koyuki who was still completely out of it, readjusting her so that her head was resting on his shoulder Naruto created another clone to tie Onato up and bring him with them. With luck Jiraiya would be able to interrogate the man and find out if this was Iwa trying to kill him, or if the man had acted on his own.
A fat and fairly short man with cropped brown hair and dark black eyes was running through the hall of his mansion as if the hounds of hell were after him, this could be likened to the truth only instead of hounds it was a group of samurai. The man eventually made it to his office and bared the doors shut, pushing his desk and several other large objects in the way in an attempt to hold them so he could use his secret escape route.
Moving over to his fire place he twisted one of the statues on it and watched with an impatient air as the fire place began to rotate. Only to see a tall man with spiky white hair, the fat man turned around to try and get away, only to feel a sharp pain in the back of his neck just as the samurai burst through the door.
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Jiraiya walked down the hall towards the room he knew his apprentice most likely was, as he did he gave a few whistles and cat calls to some of the maids he passed; much to their disdain. Reaching the room the white haired Sennin knocked on the door.
"Come in!"
Opening the door Jiraiya found his prized pupil sitting on the bed, with Koyuki's head in his lap as he gently ran his hands through the young woman's hair. It had been a few days since the Fiasco where Koyuki had been kidnapped and used as bait to get to Naruto, since then his blond apprentice had refused to let the Daimyo out of his sight and had even gone so far as to threaten anyone except for a few people that Koyuki seemed to trust when they came near her. Resisting the urge to tease his apprentice Jiraiya got the young man's attention, "I got the information you wanted."
"Which bit?" asked Naruto as Koyuki turned on her side to look at the white haired man.
"Both," Jiraiya said with a smirk as he tossed the blond a scroll while Koyuki sat up and put her head on his shoulder. Jiraiya bit his lip so as not to let out a perverted giggle, knowing what kind of pain it would bring as he continued. "It seems that the one who allowed them to infiltrate the palace was a council member by the name of Kawasaii Fuheki, he had apparently made a deal with Onato to allow him entrance so long as he killed you, Koyuki-Dono."
Koyuki frowned, "I am not surprised by that, when Doto had his coup-d'état Kawasaii had literally vanished. At the time many of us thought he had been killed off, but when he returned some time after the war claiming to have been imprisoned and escaped many became suspicious of him. Though no one could ever prove anything and he had at least outwardly shown support for myself and my father."
Jiraiya nodded, "it seems that he had been hiding out in an isolated region of Haru No Kuni to the northeast and returned when he had heard of Doto's defeat. My guess is he was waiting for an opportunity to kill you and take over himself. The movie combined with the Iwa ninja who had come to kill Naruto presented him the perfect opportunity. Thankfully he won't be a bother since the man was arrested by your forces just a few hours ago."
Koyuki nodded as Naruto asked his next question, "what about Onato, was this a planned assassination or the result of a man driven by revenge?"
"Apparently it was revenge," Jiraiya said as he crossed his arms, "I was able to find out that he had been told specifically not to go after you by the Tsuchikage. It seemed that with the old man ordering him not to kill you he became… unhinged I guess would be the best way to put it. He managed to forge mission documents and handed them to several Chunin, they were so eager to kill the son of the Yondaime I doubt they even noticed they were fake."
Naruto nodded, "very well, I will send a message to Iwa letting them know to keep a better leash on their ninja and to make sure they give some form of reparations to me and Koyu-hime for not making a war over this little incident."
Jiraiya smiled at his apprentices decision, it was both wise and a good tactical move as far as politics went and would put the Sandaime Tsuchikage in his pocket since the old man would be smart enough to realize that it was only because of Naruto that his village would not be destroyed. This assassination fiasco should also keep their ninja in check, since they just officially not only failed but would have to be weary of Konoha finding out.
Clapping his hands together Jiraiya smirked at the two of them, "now that all of this boring stuff is out of the way I've come to tell you that we will be filming again."
Naruto sighed, "Somehow I knew you would bring that up," he looked over at Koyuki who shrugged, "I suppose it can't be helped."
"Of course we've got to finish this movie!" Jiraiya shouted as he pumped his fist in the air causing Naruto to groan.
Lnoki looked out of the window in his office as he stared at the buildings below, his current mind going through the conversation he had with Onato a few months ago. He had not seen the man again afterwards and was beginning to get worried; it was well known that his hatred for the Kiroii Senkouran far deeper than anyone else's. That he had not shown up for a mission or anything like he usually did in the past few months was worrying. A knock at the door interrupted his thoughts.
"Enter!" he ordered.
The door opened and in walked one of his messenger ninja who had a scroll in his hands, "sir this scroll came from Haru No Kuni."
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