"I went over it," said Jiraiya. "It's... complicated. There are parts of it that I'm not sure of, but the parts I've been able to puzzle out are basically filters."
"'Filters'?" asked the Hokage.
"He has a summoning contract, but it's NOT what you would normally expect," said Jiraiya. "A typical Summoning Contract such as I have with the toads allows for you to be summoned or for you to summon them. It's with a very specific group such as the toads of Mount Myoboku. This isn't - which is where the filters kick in."
"So how much of a problem is this?" asked the Hokage. "Right now I've got twenty-four women and children who claim to be refugees from some war."
"I'd say lock it up as a kinjutsu," said Jiraiya. "I also went over the records of their interviews. Civilians and noncombatants. All fleeing a war zone, having been sighted by the enemy, surrounded, and seconds away from being literally ripped apart. Which pretty much corresponds to the filters."
"So what are these filters?" asked the Hokage, leaning back and considering the Toad Sage.
"The first is that they need a friend," said Jiraiya. "The second is that they have to be willing to put aside their previous lives and actually come here. The third is a compatibility thing - they have to be capable of being friends with Naruto and accepting him. If any of those filters are not met - they don't get summoned. If all three conditions ARE met - then the summons will pull them across space and time and dimensional boundaries and they end up here."
"So that explains why they all want to settle in the Land Of Fire," said the Hokage. "I see."
"All their stories mesh together on the major points," continued Jiraiya. "Surrounded by the enemy which had killed most of their defenders, facing certain death, and so on. Ibiki has had to abandon some of his more strongarm tactics because of the emotional fragility of many survivors."
"I see," said the Hokage. "Well, it doesn't sound too bad, and we can stop it right here. All we have to do is tell Naruto not to summon any further groups of refugees."
"That still leaves you a group of twenty-four women and children," pointed out Jiraiya.
"Yes," said the Hokage. The simplest solution, the one Homura had advised him on, was to simply kill all of them. He wasn't particularly fond of that plan, especially as the group had been quite cooperative and enthusiastic about no longer being seconds from certain death.
Really, it was hard to fault them for that.
Though it was made more complicated because:
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