Leo Vulpes: Welcome and thank you for joining us in the reading of My Other Life, once again... -.- I would like to introduce my three co-hosts Hellbringer, Sasuke, and Itachi!

Sasuke: -twitch- Why, dear Kami-sama!? Why are you so cruel... wait.. it's all Leo's fault! Why, dear Kami-sama!? Why do you let her exist on this earth!

Leo Vulpes: Cause heaven won't accept me and my eco-friendly-bisexual-non-homophobic ways... and hell has a restraining order on me... and other planets find me terrifying, so earth is the only place left! n.n

Sasuke: But did you have to bring those two! -points to the two sexy men (Itachi and Hellbringer)-

Leo Vulpes: But of course! I brought Itachi because I love to torture you, and Hellbringer because then he'd have my head... he's a possesive bitch over Itachi...

Hellbringer: -death glares Sasuke-

Sasuke: Meep! -hides behind Leo-

Leo Vulpes: -offers Sasuke to Hellbringer as a symbol of peace for things to come- Well, I guess now would be a good time for the-

Disclaimer: None of the characters in this chapter are mine...

Warnings: None are needed for this chapter...

Dedication: To Yukirain, 2.tails.derik, Lifeless Heartless, and fox fan for promoting this!

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My Other Life

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Chapter 1

The Prologue, The Mission, The Night

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Tsunade slammed down the sake bottle and growled deep in her throat. "Get me the best Shinobi we have available at this moment!" She demanded of Shizune who 'eeped' and scampered off to follow the Hokage's request. She looked down at the mission report and growled louder this time, after some immense staring at the papers, she roughly shoved them onto the floor, where they fluttered about in a mess.

How could this happen? Twenty-six ANBU all injured majorly, but none dead. This was confusing her beyond belief. Would you kill someone when they were that injured? Or maybe they didn't want ill intentions? What in the world was going on here?

Looking up, she was met with the best Shinobi of the country and smiled wryly.

Uzumaki Naruto, Uchiha Sasuke, Haruno Sakura, Ni Sai, Hatake Kakashi, Hyuuga Hinata, Aburame Shino, Inuzuka Kiba, Hyuuga Neji, and Umino Iruka stood before her.

Standing up, Tsunade managed to find the one paper with the mission summary on it. She scanned her eyes over it once more before setting it down. "We have an issue near the gates of Konoha. There seems to be a small campout, and when anyone went to investigate, they came back with major injuries but not dead… all twenty-six ANBU. Most have said their attacker looked like a demon. One report is a man with brown hair, bright, glowing green eyes, and cat ears and tail. I want you to go out, find what he wants, and tell him to leave and if he doesn't comply, use force."

Naruto slapped his forehead sliding it down his face with a look of dread.

"Kazekage-sama requests to assist you." Tsunade said, motioning to the shadows where Gaara stepped out, Temari and Kankuro by his side.

"The same reports happened around our village last week. And one of the ANBU came back with a note stating to do this." Gaara explained, standing within the group. "If we go in two hours, we'll be three-fourths way there by sundown. We can rest up- in case of battle, and continue our journey the next morning." He said tactically. "Just in case they have moved since now, pack for a week."

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Standing at the gate, the last of the group arrived, the one and only Uzumaki Naruto. As he did, everyone made sure to secure their pouches, kunai holsters, and tighten their headbands. Sakura looked around to make sure everyone was properly equipped but when she got to Naruto, her rage showed on her face and everyone but the blonde took one pace back. "NARUTO!"

Said shinobi glanced lazily at his teammate out of the corner of his eye.

"Where the fuck is your stuff? You needed to pack for a week!"

Naruto waved her off and stuffed his hand in his pocket, pulling out a cup of instant ramen. "I ate my dinner already, this is for tomorrow." He said with a drawl.

"What's in your other pocket then?" Neji observed, pointing to the box shaped outline in Naruto's other pocket.

Naruto chuckled. "Ah, those are the pills I have to take daily." He said, pulling out the box which was vibrantly colored. "No, I'm not ashamed to tell you. No, I don't have mental problems. These are to prevent something. If I stop taking them, I will not die. They're just precautions. Can we go now? Have I satisfied your hunger, you deadly beasts?" He asked sarcastically.

Sakura shrunk as far away from the blonde as possible without leaving the group.

"Alright, come on, I suggest we get going now." Shino suggested heading out, Kiba trailing behind him and jabbering on about something his mother had done.

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"We'll camp here for the night." Kankuro spoke, setting down the large scrolls on his back and sitting down. Temari plopped right down beside him and leaned on his shoulder. For a little brother, he was a big brother.

"I'm hungry! Does anyone have any food!?" The blonde woman yelled, alerting anyone within a half a kilometer radius that Subaku no Temari, was hungry and that if you had any food, bring it to her or thou shall suffer a horrible death (not really).

Naruto stretched and popped his joint in doing so, he cringed at the sound before setting his ramen down on the ground (le gasp). "I'll go get something real quick for the lady. Anyone have any requests that I can get within a ten minute distance?"

"I'll take a rabbit." Neji snickered, totally not expecting Naruto to get it.

"And I want a deer!" Kiba egged the joke on. "Hey, Shino and Hina-chan, wanna split the deer with me?" The two just ignored the Inuzuka, deep within their own conversation. Is it just you, or is Shino very talkative today?

"Me and Sasuke want fish!" Sai asked, ringing his arm around the Uchiha's neck.

Sasuke scowled and narrowed his eyes at the artist. "Like hell!" He hissed.

Naruto looked around before nodding. "M'kay, I'll be back."

The group stared where Naruto had run off to. Was he seriously going to get food? They were just joking! It was supposed to be for their shits and giggles! Sakura ignored the idioticness of them all and set attempting to make her own meal of something that looked terrible. But sure enough after the camp was set up, only twenty-three minutes later, Naruto returned with the required orders. Two rabbits were slung over his shoulder in a makeshift pack, along with the fish, and he was dragging a deer behind him on a makeshift cot of leaves. "Dinner's served! Sasuke, start a fire so we can get this shit cooking!" He yipped, setting it all down and then trying to fend off Temari who was about to eat it all raw.

"Naruto-kun, what is all this?" Hinata asked her old crush, her stuttering problem long since gone. "How did you manage to catch all this?"

Naruto gave a fox-like smile and sat down. "It's two rabbits, a deer, and a bundle of fish… I caught it all myself! See, I can survive in the wild!" He cheered while a fire was lit and Temari began preparing everyone's food. "Well, I'm going to turn in for the night." He spoke, leaping up into one of the surrounding trees and relaxing on a sturdy branch.

The dinner went by without a hitch, everyone chatted with each other (the antisocial people entered in with grunts and small comments), and food was flung occasionally. Sai got up and went to crawl into his tent when he spotted something on the ground. Picking it up, Temari suddenly jerked it out of his hands and announced to everyone that she'd found something.

Everyone gathered and looked through it.

It was a photo book.

There were couple pictures, family pictures, sibling pictures, two pictures where Naruto was surrounded by men, and the last picture terrified Hinata and Sakura. Naruto was surrounded by fully-grown, curved, beautiful faced and bodied women. They draped themselves on him and he grinned in his innocent way as they all seemed to get a touch in.

"Is that my mom?" Sasuke suddenly said, pointing to a woman who looked like the exact replica of his late mother.

"But it can't be, Naruto doesn't look older than sixteen in these pictures." Iruka commented. "But I feel like I've some of these faces, around the village occasionally and about three or four over at my house a lot before my pa- something. And that looks like my mom and dad did nineteen years ago."

Sakura snatched the book and snapped it shut. "We shouldn't be going through his things. So, now we should all get some rest and I will return it to him in the morning." She spoke haughtily, trying to walk into her tent, but the book suddenly disappeared from her grip.

She glanced desperately around before she found Naruto suddenly in front of her with the book in his hands. "You know it's rude to look through people's stuff, right?"

"Well, now, let me ask you something! Who were all those women?" She shrieked.

Naruto sighed and flipped to the picture. "These are my girl friends. Not girlfriends, but friends who are girls. Satisfy you?"

Sakura huffed and shoved the blonde aside and walked inside her tent, zipping it up with harsh movements. When Naruto moved back to the tree he had previously been in, everyone helped put out the fire and go to their tents, hitting the sack for the night.

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Morning came too soon for most of those heavy sleepers, and so, the ones who were up early were drawing straws. For what reason, you may ask? Well, let's find out.

Kakashi (wow!), Naruto, Kiba, Sai, Gaara, and Shino were all awake. Shino held a bunch of straws in his hands, one having a shorter end than the rest, for it signaled you had to wake up the sleepers, and everyone else would hope you were still remotely alive after that.

Kakashi covered his eyes and plucked a straw, everyone following after him. They all held up their straws and low and behold, Kiba held to shortest one.

"Why!? What have I ever done to deserve this!?" He yelled to no one in particular.

Sai and Naruto each gave him a slap on the back to encourage him. "Well, it was nice knowing you pal." Naruto said. "Well, while Kiba wakes them up, let's start breakfast with the leftovers from last night!"

Kiba gulped and looked at the suddenly ominous occupied tents. Going to the first one- the one he figured to be the nicest, he unzipped the tent and stuck his head inside. "Iruka-sensei, it's time to wake up!" He shouted loudly.

Iruka's eyes snapped open with a murderous intent lingering around him. He slowly sat up, his hair dropped on his shoulders, and glared at Kiba, the eyes of the teacher boring holes into his head. "Kiba, I'm giving you two seconds to get out."

Kiba stuttered as Iruka began to count. "But it's- uh, time to get up. We… erm… have to-"

"2…"

"-go to that other camp, and… um find out-"

"1…"

"what they want and… mm…"

"0."

Iruka reached for the kunai he had kept under his pillow and flung it beside Kiba's head and let it rip a hole to scare him off.

And it worked too. Kiba jumped with a screech and ran from the tent, bowling over the other occupied tents in the process and waking up the others.

"KIBA!!"

Kiba squealed when he was grabbed and suddenly beaten within an inch of his life. Oh, woe was Kiba.

"That was a bad choice. Iruka's probably more evil in the mornings than anyone else. I would have woken up Temari first…" Naruto commented, taking a bite of noodles from the ramen cup.

Sai nodded beside the blonde. "That or Sasuke… merciless and finishes the job quickly so you don't suffer."

"True."

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