Disclaimer: I no own Naruto, whaaaah!.. Just an odd fic I came up with while bored. It has some humour and adventure and stuff.

Summoner!

"WHAT!" screamed the young looking, and beautiful blonde Godaime Hokage enraged, a tick of anger prominent on her forehead as her fist smashed through her desk, breaking it in half with a deafening crash.

The white haired old man in front of her desk flinched and lost all of the colour from his face as he shook his hands in front of himself hoping to protect himself if she attacked. "C-calm down Tsunade-hime," he spoke quietly trying to appease her anger, which he knew was not going to work, but it was worth a try right?… right?

"CALM DOWN, CALM DOWN!" she screeched, her brown eyes blazing with indignation and vicious furry causing him to take a step back as he felt her intent to kill him. "JIRAIYA YOU FOOLISH OLD PERVERT, YOU LOST HIM TWO FUCKING YEARS AGO, AND NOT ONLY HAVE YOU NOT FOUND HIM, BUT YOU NEGLECTED TO TELL ME. I COULD HAVE SENT OUT A TEAM OR TWO TO FIND THE BAKA BRAT AND HAVE OTHERS ON THE LOOK OUT, HOW DARE YOU TELL ME TO CALM DOWN!"

Jiraiya gulped and took another step back towards the door in the hope of escaping if she sees fit to kick his ass. It was not as if he did not look his hardest for his blonde haired student, it was just the boy did not stay in one place long enough for him to track him down. He sighed sadly and hung his head in shame… damn that kid… who would have thought he would be so slippery, not that the brat was trying to keep away from him, but hell the kid was hard to keep up with.

Tsunade continued glaring at her old teammate as she took a few deep steadying breathes. "Now Jiraiya, tell me what exactly happened to get you separated in the first place!" she demanded in a much calmer voice than she had before, her glare never leaving the old perverts face.

He groaned and began the story…

Flashback!!!

"Hey ero-sannin, teach me a new super cool jutsu I'm bored!" whined a loud blonde boy wearing black and orange. Jiraiya had tried to dissuade the boy from wearing orange but explaining that such colours are not smart for a ninja to the boy was like trying to explain the meaning of life… impossible. However, at least the self-proclaimed super pervert had managed to get the boy to wear a darker shade of orange, and black too.

The blonde fifteen year old looked up slightly at him with sparkling sapphire blue eyes full of hope while he grinned full-fledged.

"Nope, I have some important research to be getting on with while we're here," replied Jiraiya with a grin of his own. "Why don't you go get us a hotel room while we're here?"

Naruto groaned in annoyance. "Aww, come on don't be such a pervo!" he whined loudly. "I'll warn all the girls in town of you if you don't teach me some cool new jutsu, ero-sannin!" he added smugly.

"You do that and I won't teach you anything!" the white haired old pervert retorted just as smugly. "And stop calling me that… I am one of the legendary sannin, so show some proper respect. Now I have research to do, go get a room at the inn and I'll see you later, Naruto."

He growled in frustration. "No, why should I you perv… if you're not going to teach me anything I might as well just leave you here and find a teacher who actually teaches. It's a wonder the Yondaime Hokage became so powerful with you as his sensei!" he yelled heatedly before running off around a corner and out of sight into a busy street.

Jiraiya sighed while rolling his eyes, the kid was so melodramatic sometimes. That was the third time this week Naruto had ran off claiming to find a new sensei, but he was not too bothered, the boy would cool off and find a hotel room and Jiraiya would find him later. With a perverted grin, the old hermit made his way through the morning crowd towards the nearest hot springs with a spring in his step.

End flashback!!!

"How was I to know he wasn't bluffing that time?" asked the old man staring worriedly at his old teammate. "He had pulled that bluff so many times I thought nothing off it."

The woman scowled angrily. "Well you were supposed to be teaching him, not spying on naked women you bastard," she retorted heatedly. "Now where was the last place you tracked him to so I can send out a tracker team to do what you were too thick to accomplish and find him?"

Jiraiya gulped but was thankful he did not seem to be getting a beating, well that could change. "Well, the last I heard he is in Fire Country… he was in Holei Town about two weeks ago."

Tsunade sighed while rubbing her tired eyes before sitting down in her comfortable chair. "And what of the Akatsuki, do they know Naruto is unprotected?"

"No, I don't believe they do since they were following me," he answered seriously. "I spotted Itachi and Kisame a few times, but I kept under their radar as much as I could and tried to make it seem as if Naruto was still with me."

"Ok," she replied with narrowed eyes. "SHINZUNE!" she yelled loudly.

The office door swung open and in walked a nervous pretty young woman with short brown hair with a nervous but worried smile on her face. She had heard all of the screaming and yelling from Tsunade and discovered why the woman was so angry with Jiraiya and was now worried about the blonde bundle of energy that is Naruto Uzumaki.

"Yes Tsunade-sama?" she asked as she looked at the Hokage.

"What tracker teams do we have available?" she demanded straight to the point.

To Be Continued...

A/N: I haven't watched Naruto in a while so I hope it's all good.

Summoner!

Chapter 2...

Troublesome!!

“What tracker teams do we have available?” she demanded straight to the point.

Shinzune looked thoughtful but in all honesty she already had the answer; she just did not what to seem nosy. “Unfortunately Tsunade-sama we only have one tracker team in the village at the moment and that would be team eight, but we have a few other ninja that we could send with them if that would help at all?”

Tsunade nodded slowly. “Ok, who else do we have spare to go with them?” she demanded gritting her teeth as the blue fire in her eyes glared at Jiraiya.

“Well we have, Kakashi and Sakura since they might need a medic with Naruto’s record,” she began thoughtfully. “And maybe Iruka since term has ended and you know how he feels about Naruto, they’re like brothers…”

“Is that all?” asked the Hokage.

Shinzune nodded sadly. “All that can be trusted to find him and bring him back safely. I would hate to think what would happen if we sent, the wrong people and they tried to kill him. He might not return after that.”

Tsunade nodded with a sad sigh. “Very well, Shinzune,” she said before looking at Jiraiya. “Asshole… you two go and gather them three, and Kiba, Shino, Hinata, and Kurenai and bring them to me for this mission, but don’t brief them just tell them I have a mission. And Jiraiya you’ll be leading one team. I’ll send you with Kakashi, Sakura, and Shino, both Kakashi and Shino both have tracking skills. Kurenai will lead Hinata, Kiba and Iruka as a second team, understood?”

Jiraiya nodded as he and Shinzune left the office in search of the two hunter teams.

--

Shinzune was not sure where the two should start looking, but figured Sakura might be at the hospital. “Jiraiya-sama,” she began getting the concerned mans attention. “Sakura maybe at the hospital we should go their first.”

He nodded his head as they moved in that direction. “Yeah… I really am sorry I lost him. I’ve never misplaced a student before,” he replied with a nervous chuckle.

Shinzune looked at him with a small glare before sighing. “Its ok, I’m sure you’ll find him soon, you know Naruto, he can get into a lot of trouble but he always manages to escape. He has a weird way of getting people to like him; even if they don’t want to admit it… he has a strange affect on people. He’s probably made plenty of new friends, and learnt a lot about the world, and I’m sure he has help.”

Jiraiya smiled at the confidence she has in Naruto sadly. “I… I should have been here for him. I should have taken him with me all those years ago… but I was scared… a kid, me… could you see me bringing up a kid?”

Shinzune chuckled lightly with an understanding look. “Maybe you should tell him how you feel… how you felt when you find him. Its never too late to apologise and make up for what you did wrong… or didn’t do right,” she answered him understanding what its like to have regrets, all ninja did.

Jiraiya smiled lightly. “I guess you’re right… m-maybe, I should tell him… err, never mind,” he sighed as they walked into the hospital. It did not take long to find the pink haired kunoichi exiting a patents room.

“Sakura!” called Shinzune as they came to a stop by her.

Sakura smiled as she looked at them. “Shinzune, Jiraiya-sama… but where’s Naruto?” she asked interestedly. “I would have thought he would have come to see me already?” the seventeen-year-old girl asked hopefully.

“I um…” began Jiraiya nervously. “Tsunade-sama has a mission for you, if you could wait for us outside her office we have more ninja to find,” he answered instead of telling her he lost the boy.

Sakura nodded. “Well ok.”

--

It had not taken them long to find the rest of the two teams, and after the briefing with Tsunade, Jiraiya found a lot of glares aimed his way. It was a little disconcerting as even the shy Hyuuga girl was glaring, though hers was more if you say one thing wrong I am so going to kill you for losing ‘my’ Naruto-kun.

“YOU LOST HIM!” roared Sakura suddenly. “HOW THE FUCK DO YOU JUST LOOSE NARUTO, HE’S SO GOD DAMN LOUD!” her furious glare made Jiraiya wince back in fear; he knew she could hit almost as hard as her teacher, Tsunade could.

“Um…” he chuckled nervously scratching his white haired head. “Well technically he ditched me,” he tried defending himself in a small voice.

“DITCHED YOU!” she screamed in his face clenching her fists as the others took a step away. “ITS NO WONDER HE DITCHED YOU, YOU PERVERTED OLD BAKA. YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO BE HIS SENSEI, NOT SPYING ON WOMEN WHILE THEY TAKE A BATH, AND NOW YOU’VE LOST MY SECOND TEAMMATE BECAUSE OF IT!”

“Calm down now Sakura,” interrupted Kakashi nervously coming to his idles defence. “I’m sure we’ll find Naruto soon… with two teams looking for him, it can’t be that hard.”

She glared at him with a groan. “Whatever Kakashi, it wasn’t like you’re any better… augh, I’m surrounded by idiot sensei’s who either loose their students or don’t teach them hardly anything useful.”

“Hey!” interrupted Kurenai and Tsunade together, offended at her accusation.

“I wasn’t talking about you two,” said Sakura sheepishly. “I was talking about these two perverts.”

“Yes well,” interrupted Tsunade. “You’ll be leaving in one hour, so get your supplies together and meet at the west gate, you’ll all be heading for Holei Town to search for clues before splitting up. Team Alpha shall be Jiraiya’s team of Kakashi, Shino, and Sakura, and team Beta shall be Kurenai’s team of Hinata, Kiba, and Iruka. I’ll be expecting weekly reports sent in code… dismissed!”

The two teams bowled before exiting but not before, she heard something to make her smile. “If something bad has happened to him,” growled Iruka as they exited. “I don’t care whether you are a sannin; I’ll kick your ass!”

“Me too,” added Sakura glaring at the white haired man.

Hinata just scowled at him, which suggested the pounding would involve her too.

Tsunade sighed as she sat back on her chair as the door closed behind them. She hoped Naruto is ok wherever he is, and hoped he has not gotten himself into any trouble. She knows the brat can take care of himself but that did not mean she was not going to worry, he was after all the only reason she even came back to Konoha, and the reason she became Hokage. Without Naruto here, she felt as if there was no reason to stay in the village herself, so prayed he was not going nuke-nin or she would just leave too, after making sure she resigns herself and Naruto first of course. She did not want hunter-nin hunting either of them.

To Be Continued…

Summoner!

Chapter 3...

Regrets!!

It had been half an hour since the two teams had left Konoha. Team alpha moved fast through the trees on one side of the path, while team Beta moved the other side. Nobody was talking as they hurried towards their destination, but most of them were worried about the blonde haired dope they were trying to find. None more it seemed than Hinata Hyuuga as her byakugan eyes scanned the area.

She was angry and disappointed in Jiraiya for losing the only boy she had ever like, liked… or dare she think it, loved, or loves. The boy had always been inspiration to her… he never gave up no matter how hard things became, and it made her heart flutter and dance. Hinata was not sure how she felt about him anymore, it had been just under three years since she had last seen him, and she had not even dated anybody before, but always found her thoughts, perverted or otherwise wondering to one Naruto Uzumaki.

He was a kind and light-hearted boy who always got the short end of the stick. However, he had never to her knowledge let it get him down, which made him a special individual in her book, and should too in anybodies. He has defeated greater foes and come out stronger for it, and still held his ideals strong, never letting anyone keep him down for too long, even after he lost his best friend to the evil snake freak Orochimaru and his Sound Village.

Naruto came out alive and could still grin stupidly. She new most of his smiles were to hide his pain… to make others feel better, but when he truly smiled, it was the most wonderful thing she has ever seen. In just one real smile, Naruto can shine the world with innocent caring, and love the likes most people could not imagine. He is special that she could tell without a doubt, and wished she had the guts to tell him how she feels about him, but she was too afraid of rejection.

Rejection… it was her life… her father had always rejected her for things she cannot change, such as her gentle and caring nature, or the fact she was kidnapped when she was four. Her father called her weak because a jounin from Cloud had taken her… but how could any child of four hope to fight a jounin.

However, she had gotten used to her fathers criticism but did not think she could take rejection from Naruto, even though she knew Naruto would never hurt her feelings on purpose.

“What’s on your mind Hinata?” asked Kurenai leaping along side her and startling the girl out of her thoughts. “Is it a certain bundle of energy?” she continued with a smirk.

Hinata looked down slightly with a thoughtful frown. “I… yeah… I w-want to tell him something, b-but what if he… what if he doesn’t accept me like that… or worse…” she trailed off her small voice sadly.

Kurenai sighed with an understanding smile. “Well if you don’t tell him… then you may always wonder what could have been,” she answered wisely. “Its better to have been rejected than to always ask yourself what if,” she said with a kind smile.

Hinata looked up at her in wonder. “B-but… it hurts… and I don’t want to make things more uncomfortable than they have been ever since I’ve known him. He just thinks I’m a weird girl with some stupid fainting illness or something.”

Kurenai chuckled lightly. “Well you’ve come along way since then,” she said trying to reassure her student. “He respects you Hinata, whether you respect yourself or not. He’s a nice good boy… and might I add extra cute.”

Hinata blushed with a small giggle. “H-he is, but he… he’s not the brightest person. He never notices most things and I don’t think he really knows how to act around people.”

“That’s true,” interrupted Iruka as he ran beside the two startling them to look at him. “But Naruto isn’t as stupid as he makes people think… I’ve seen him smart. I just think it’s a defence mechanism that he has trouble dropping he’s used it for so long. I’m sure if you tell him how you feel you will make him very happy just to know you’ve cared for so long, and he’ll wish he had paid more attention… you could have been best friends. You would have made him feel special just being around to help him.”

Hinata could not help but feel saddened by her old sensei’s words, was it true… could she have been that special to him? She could not know right now, but one thing was certain, she would have to find out… she would have to tell him how she has felt and hope he can find feelings for her too. She knows he has always like Sakura, but hoped maybe that crush had at least have lessened over time, and he could perhaps find some love for her too.

She gave a small smile to Iruka before speeding a little further ahead to continue searching for any potential threat. She would soon find out if she could have Naruto, and mostly she could not wait, but also she was still scared of rejection.

**

Sakura had watched Hinata from across the path as she had spoken with Kurenai. She could not hear what they said but knew the subject must have been the shy girls crush, or maybe love of Naruto. She knew how it felt to care about someone and not have those feelings returned. She felt sorry for Hinata… it was different for the Hyuuga since Naruto was unaware of her feelings for him, and nobody seemed to think it reasonable to tell the stupid boy.

She should have told him outright. However, she did not. It had not really been on her thoughts much, but Naruto had. She had analysed his behaviour… the way he acted and realised one important thing she had never thought possible. Naruto was lonely… he was always alone crying out for attention with his loudness, stupid pranks, and those bright orange clothes. He was alone… an orphan just like Sasuke, but while Sasuke got all of the attention he did not want, Naruto got scorned and hated.

Sasuke got treated as if he was a god just because of his damn eyes while Naruto and other orphans barely got anything if anything at all. It was depressing to think that one boy got so much affection when he neither wanted it nor deserved it while another who did got angry glares and spiteful scorn. She had discovered, or suspects the reason Naruto is despised and it tore at her inside to think of the way they treated an innocent boy… a hero even, and not just because of some stupid fox, but because he had saved the whole village of Konoha from Gaara destroying it.

Naruto had defeated a Jinchuriki to defend his home village and yet the people did not seem to care, but Sakura did. Naruto had defeated Gaara and saved her life in doing so, and she now understood that she should be grateful to Naruto, yet she had never even thanked him. It would have made him happy just knowing she was grateful.

“Was I really that bad a sensei?” asked Kakashi suddenly as he joined her in tree leaping.

She just looked at him with narrowed eyes. “Yes,” she simply replied making him flinch and enjoying the fact he did. “All you cared about was Sasuke’s progress… we both knew you were training him behind our backs, and at the time I didn’t care because I was just one of the teme’s fan girls. He knew too, I could see it every time he asked you for extra help, and you said no. it was in his eyes, but we didn’t care, and he just pretended it didn’t bother him. I bet he just thought the bastard deserved it more than him… but that’s not true, he deserved so much more than anyone gave him.”

Kakashi looked down at the branches they travelled over in shame remembering all of the times he just refused to teach Naruto a jutsu, or all the times he could have helped with the boys’ lack of taijutsu. “I-I can never make it up to him can I?” he asked in a shaky voice as he thought back to his old teammates, he had let his friend and sensei down.

“In my books you can’t,” she agreed with a hiss causing him to gulp. “But Naruto is Naruto. He doesn’t seem capable of holding a grudge for too long.”

“M-maybe he’ll let me teach him the Chidori?” he suggested hopefully wondering whether that would be enough to at least begin mending the bridge, he began knocking down as soon as they met.

“Maybe,” piped in Jiraiya as he joined in their conversation. “But where the hell do I start, he already knows how to summon and the Rasengan,” he told them sadly.

“His taijutsu always stunk,” said Kakashi with a light chuckle. “I should have taught him a style even if it meant handing him over to Gai every morning. He already wears orange and is loud so it couldn’t have been too bad.”

Sakura shuddered at the thought. “No, you did the world a favour by not sending him to them,” she answered quickly with a small laugh. “We don’t need Naruto crying about his flames of youth too.”

Jiraiya and Kakashi laughed at the thought while Shino up ahead rolled his eyes behind his glasses wondering why he had to be on a team with two idiot perverted sensei’s. He sighed; he supposed it could be worse and hoped they found Naruto soon because he did not want Naruto’s idiot sensei’s to rub off on him.

T.B.C…