A year after Naruto had been banished there had still not been any sign of Naruto anywhere, although Jiraiya had still confirmed from the Toads that he was still alive somewhere. Kurenai remembered during that time not much had changed in the village, other than when she and Asuma had gotten married. But soon after they had married, news had arrived about Naruto.
When finishing a mission, a team of Jonins had found what looked to have been a battle in a clearing of a forest, trees had fallen and scorch marks were on the ground as well as holes but the most notable things that they found were Black Flames around the clearing that would not go out even with a Water Jutsu sprayed on it, and a torn piece of a Black Cloak with a red clouds on it along with some blood on it and a badly ripped Orange jacket, also covered in a large amount of blood. When the team returned what they found to Tsunade, she immediately had the blood on the cloak and the blood on the jacket compared with certain samples. When the testing was done it had proven everyone's worst fears true, the blood on the cloak was Uchiha Itachi's blood and the blood on the jacket was Naruto's blood, which confirmed that the Akatsuki had captured Naruto.
Tsunade had quickly called Jiraiya to her office and tired to form a recovery team and a tracking team in hopes of tracking the Akatsuki before they extracted the Kyuubi from Naruto. Kurenai remembered that day well since she, herself had been on the team along with Kaskahi, Asuma and Gai. Since they all were among Konoha's top Shinobi and had experience fighting with at least two of the Akatsuki members. But before they left Danzo and Koharu had stopped them stating that, if they left they would ruin their plan to destroy the Akatsuki it was at this point that Tsuande and Jiraiya demanded to know their plan to deal with the Akatsuki. The two elder's then explained that when Naruto was being given the Seals to stop him from using his Chakra and keep him from telling anyone about Konoha, he was also given another Seal that Danzo had some of his top Seal Masters create a Seal that would be put over the seal that the Yondaime created to seal up the Kyuubi. Danzo's Seal would only activate when the Kyuubi was being extracted from him by the Akatsuki and once that happened Danzo's Seal would cause all of the Kyuubi's Chakra to come out all at once causing a massive explosion that, according to the Seal Masters calculations, would destroy anything from a Five to Ten mile radius. Which would destroy the Akatsuki and then Konoha would claim to have destroyed the Akatsuki by using a new weapon to do it, where the other villages would then fear to attack Konoha for fear that they would use that weapon against them. They also informed Tsuande and Jiraiya that they need not bother trying to find them, since if the Akatsuki had indeed captured Naruto then they would have already began to extract the Kyuubi from Naruto and it would be too late for them to stop it.
Kurenai scowled as remembered, when Danzo and Homaru had explained their plan, it made her sick at how they would use an innocent boy in such away.
Kurenai also remembered Tsunade's and Jiraiya's reaction to the news, since once Tsuande and Jiraiya had heard the plan they went ballistic and it took both the tracking team and the recovery team as well as fifty ANBU (That had arrived once they felt Jiraiya's and Tsuande's Killing Intent) to hold them both back from killing the Two Elders, not that Kureani or several others weren't tempted to do so and even joining them in killing the two Elders. Soon after, both Sannin stop trying to kill the Elders knowing that it would do no good after which they just broke down a cried
About a week after finding Naruto blooded jacket there had been no sign of any kind of explosion or reports of one. This, of course, cause a great deal of concern among the Council since they had been informed of Danzo and Koharu plan after Tsunade and Jiraiya had been told. When they learned this, most of the Can heads as well as Homura had openly glared at the Two Elders, since they did not agree with what they did. Even the Two Elders had begun to get concerned with no sign or reports of a explosion. It was not until Jiraiya asked the Toads summons about Naruto, that they had informed them that Naruto was dead since the contract with them had expired.
This left two possible outcomes. One, during the battle Itachi might have accidentally killed Naruto with his Amaterasu or the more likely one was that the Akatsuki had found Danzo's seal and removed it before they extracted the Kyuubi from him. But it did not matter, Danzo and Koharu plan had failed and Naruto was dead.
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