Cross over and I suppose AU---

To Bleach a Fox

ch.1 The hollow of the fox

Time is a funny thing…sometimes it seems to drag on forever while other times it flies past. Today time was being its slow pain in the ass self, man it was just so inferring for the poor kid running around trying his best to get things done. Damn, he had thing to do and time need to freakin' catch up with him; to bad he couldn't hit it or he'd of kicked its ass 2 hours ago. As he jump from a roof top he thought to himself about his "Now" generation, he smiled and braces his body for impact, 'we're not a now generation damn it, it should be there before we get there, we're a before now generation.' He laughed at his thoughts while landing and hoped towards a girl sifting throw scrolls.

"Hay, Sakura-chan have you seen-"

"Naruto you Perv ! My face is up here!"- Sakura jerked his eyes away from her breast so he was actually looking at her.

"But you boobs are funer to watch they kind'v jiggle when you shout at me and-" Poor Naruto had his masculinity seriously damage by Sakura's knee and presided to keel over on to the ground, he wouldn't know subtly if it bit him in the ass. "O my fucking god, it will never work again…" he moaned several parallel sentiments before Sakura kicked him in the stomach for good measure.

"What do you want? I was busy before you came over and interrupted me." She glared down at him.

"Oh' I was wondering if you've seen the dude with the long ass toothpick?" he sat up, forgetting his pain, and look at her hopefully.

"The dude…with the long toothpick…?"

"…or the dango skewer I can't tell which one it is but yeah…what's with that look?" he wasn't so much concerned with her expression but lack-there-of, when Sakura went expressionless it usually meant she was about to beat him over the head. He quickly scooted back across the ground away from her.

"You…can't…remember Gemma's name? You do mission reports with him every Thursday." Well your suppose to but that doesn't mean you show up or do any work, Kakashi is having a negate effete on you, if Sasuke were- no he's not here so I wont think about him.

" Hay, hay, hay, that's not fair I'm bad at remembering the names of people that are weaker than me. But if you know were the dude-" Sakura's lips tightened " - I mean were Gemma is I need to find him and I've already wasted like a day in the missions office asking those morons-" Sakura's eye's narrowed " - those people were he is but nobody knew no that doesn't sound right...knows no that sounds bad too…could tell me yeah that's better."

Sakura interrupted his broken grammar-"Maybe he's at home; it is his day off right?"

"I don't know." Shrugging he spaced out trying to contemplate why he of all people would know if Gemma had the day off; I work Thursdays with him...?

"Well then why don't you go to his house and look for him there?" she was a little exasperated at this point.

"Hay, that's a good idea." He jumped up and turned then stopped "Hay… Sakura, were does he live?"

She shook her head rubbing her temples "He lives near Iruka; two doors down on the right."

"Oh rely, and how would you know exactly were he lives, did he give you some extra curricular training after the Chuunin Exam to help you get to know Chuunin level stamina better?" Sakura punched him dead center in the face, to kill that perverted smirk on your ugly mug, and to think the conversation had been going so well too. Two years training with the old man had not improved Naruto's perverted behavior

Sakura stood there as he soared backwards waiting for Naruto to hit the ground and ether crawl bake to her and apologies or jump up and be on his way. Only problem was…Naruto never hit the grown. He sort of slowed down and just hung there in the air.

"Naruto?" Sakura said apprehensively, what the hell was going on? He just floated there unmoving, she toke some hasty steps towards him before stopping; the shadow Naruto had been casting on the ground had began to grow and consume the green grass around it. "Naruto wake up! Naruto! What's going on?" Then she realize, his eyes were open…and staring at her, he was conscious but he couldn't move; his eyes dart downwards trying to see what was going on underneath him and then darted back at her. He was very plainly telling her to get help; she was gone in an instant toward the Hokage's tower.

Time is indeed a funny thing…for Naruto it had seemly stop all together, everything was still. Dame, he could see the word trebling as his hart pounded so hard it caused his eyes to pulse. Sakura had just disappeared to get help but he was too freaked out to rely care how long shed been gone just when she was going to get bake.

"Hokage-sama!" Sakura jump thro the window of the tower only to be greeted buy 15 kunai to the throat, liver and other import body parts.

"Sakura-" a sliver haired ninja leaning ageist the wall drawled "-its not healthy to interrupt a Jounin meting…especially without your Konoha forehead-protector." By this point the majority of the kunai had been lowered but Sakura didn't care she didn't have time.

"Hokage-sama something bad is happing to Naruto he… "This had the same effete as shouting that 200 sound nin were laying siege to the village; instead of letting her finish the Hokage, all the Jounin plus a spiky white haired old man (ware he had come from she had no idea) had stood up/ straitened and shouted almost in unison…

..."Where is he!" before she could think the Hokage had a hold of her arm- "Where is he Sakura, take me to him NOW!"

Somehow Sakura found herself leading the majority of them to Naruto; the Hokage had bellowed something at a couple of the Jounin causing them to scatter in different directions, going out windows and down halls but what ever she had said had not registered with Sakura.

She was going as fast as her body would let her and thin abruptly, more abruptly than she had anticipated they were there, next to him. The shadow had grown 8 feet long and 6 feet wide with Naruto floating above its center. His eyes were back on her, steady…unmoving…locked on to her eyes.

He could see them shouting but he couldn't hear any of it, the total silence was ringing in his ears. Someone's doing hand seals, I've seen them before…? Where? The man's shadow slithered in front of him, ah there it is, that was Shikamaru Jutsu. The shadow tried to connect to the ever darkening one under Naruto. But it couldn't. Every time the shadow was pushed forward it edged away from the bigger shadow; never touching. It looks like what happens when I try and put two magnets together the wrong way.

Something was seriously wrong, Sakura thought, Shikamaru's Shadow-No-Jutsu couldn't touch the other shadow as if…as if the shadow were afraid of it, but that was preposterous, shadows don't get scared. But what was really worrying her were the Summing-Jutsu's. Both Kakashi and Jiraiya have attempted Summing-Jutsu…attempted being the key word, nether had worked. Even Tsunade-sama had tried and failed.

"Get back!" Someone yelled.

Sakura look back a Naruto and felt her world lurch everything seemed so surreal, like being trapped in Orochimaru eyes. Blake arms were lifting up out of the shadow. They had entwined themselves around his waist, leg's and torso; he was struggling and attempting to yell but the only thing that came out of his mouth before it was covered was a high-pitched , raspy intake of air. That sound had more fear, more pain than any sound Sakura had ever heard uttered from his mouth. Finally the hands pressed themselves over his eyes…

…he couldn't hear, couldn't speak, couldn't see; all feeling was gone he was floating in nothingness. He honestly did even comprehend that much, for him, he was nothing but a disembodied conciseness and it was terrifying. He tried in vain to scream and a hint of ripping flesh and straining lungs lingered for a moment but faded entirely in to the black.

They watched helplessly as the hands wound there way around Naruto, puling in to the black shadow. As his body touched its surface he caused the ground to ripple away and pulse with black inky nothingness. Thin vary slowly he was engulf by it and disappeared under the ground. Sakura screamed for him and ran forward the rapidly expanding shadow had suddenly stopped and inverted on itself, disappearing as she grab at the grass ripping it up in vain as she tried to take hold the shadow. As it shrank it contorted horribly as a black writhing mass. Sakura grab it with one hand; as soon as she had done so it paled becoming white. Darkness fell around her as figures crowded around to see what she was holding.

"It's an ANBU mask." Her tone was distant, thoughts flying thro her head; now I've lost them both who am I to call my self a ninja when I can't even protect my own teammates.

"That's no ANBU mask."

The statement by whoever jarred her back to the present; she look at what she was holding and dropped it in confused horror. The mask was more like that of an animal skull than face, with evil silted eyes, sharp fang's and red stripes. It looked uneasily like a sneering fox. She was also duly aware of her hand tingling.

"Get out of my way! Sakura hold sill; no one touch it." The Hokage pulled a Jounin who had reached out for the mask back." No Sakura don't try to get up, your hand is still burning." Tsunade had taken charge; she ran over to her student and tried to stop the progression of burnt skin. It was as if acid has been dowsed on her hand, eating its way up her arm.

"Dame, the mask did that? Why didn't she say anything?" Shikamaru exclaimed as he pushed the others further away from the evil thing.

"3rd degree burns don't hurt."

Far away in some seemingly quit city were ninjas are myth and demons made to frighten small children to bed, the sky began to crack.

TBC nexe chapter : ch.2 The Frog, the Baboon and the Man in the Moon