"I'll be curious to know what he says. Enjoy your plant sense." And he lets himself out.

A few hours later he gets an email:

So there's a range of about twenty miles from my original body to any one controlled body, and I can't use them as relays, but I think I should be able to mess with that range somehow.

Also Naruto named the new body Daisuke and the old body Kosuke, which I suppose is more clever than Rocket and Tree.

Is it a reference I'm missing?

Kosuke and Sasuke could be written to mean the same thing, 'small help', though Sasuke doesn't have an official writing and Kosuke's usually written as 'peace herald'. Daisuke means 'big' or 'great help'. So the identical clone has a name that could mean the same, and the actually secretly Senju one means the opposite.

Cute. Does it extend to how many bodies you might eventually have?

There's not many more names with 'suke' in them already but more puns are possible.

Hooray!

Probably I'll be lazy and just use existing names, or throw pun opportunities to Naruto.

I've never had a particular gift for puns, and for some reason it's even less in languages beyond my first.

I'm terrible at word play.

Whatever Cam could have sent in response is interrupted by a bright flash as Minato appears in front of the main body.

"Jiraiya's injured, badly. I dropped him off in the Leaf. Nagato's extremely hostile. There's indication he's behind the Akatsuki; he might try to move on one of the jinchuuriki soon."

"Uh, shit. Can Leaf handle his injuries okay?"

"It has the world's best medic, Tsunade. I wanted to alert here to keep an eye on Naruto - one thing Jiraiya was nervous about is an attack on the Leaf to draw out the Nine Tails - and to fetch the other Hokage to station more centrally, so we can respond faster to any mainland moves from the Akatsuki."

"Okay. I'll go bodyguard Naruto."

Relieved sigh. "Thanks. Here - this has a special seal. I'll notice if it's thrown, and come running." He hands Cam a three-pronged kunai.

Cam takes it, sticks it in a belt loop, and goes and (in his original, suitably indestructible form) hunts for Naruto.

Who doesn't seem to have noticed anything wrong, and is leaning against Kurama as they watch something on Kurama's computer.

"Something up?"

"Yes, Jiraiaya went and visited an old student of his, got the crap kicked out of him, some reason to believe said student is after jinchuuriki."

" - Nagato is involved in the Akatsuki?"

Kurama just rumbles, baring his teeth.

"That's what your dad said. Well, he said there's indication, I don't think we caught him carrying a membership card."

"Is this the boy with the Rinnegan?"

"Yes, assuming you mean the correct specific individual boy with a Rinnegan."

"Not the Uchiha."

"The Rinnegan's more dangerous than you likely realize. If he's after the Tailed Beasts - the Rinnegan could recombine us into the Ten Tails, and then break the seals on Kaguya."

"To be avoided. Any specific advice? Should you be off far away or something?"