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"Give me my headband back!"

Naruto was thoroughly disgruntled. First he had failed to replicate the Flying Thunder God technique, something he didn't even want to do (Naruto was far from being a fan of fuinjutsu, what with it being, in Naruto's opinion, a slightly more advanced version of calligraphy. And what kind of man needed to learn calligraphy? Not Naruto, that was for sure). Next, the weird seal that he created had drained himself of nearly all his chakra (while seemingly doing nothing at all) and caused him to pass out. When he woke up his chakra had barely recovered, and he had found his hands bound in some weird white chains while some red head chick stared at him. To make matters worse the red head acted extremely hostile towards him, even though she was a leaf kunoichi, and she even took off his headband and forced him to follow her after shouting out some threats and claiming he was a spy. She also somehow created another chain that attached to the ones wrapped around Naruto's wrists, making something of a pseudo-leash, which she would tug periodically.

After some consideration, Naruto realised that the chains on his hands were not normal. Since the girl had materialized some from nowhere it was probably a jutsu and he could not break out of them. Escape jutsus seemed to not work on the chains and Naruto really did not have enough chakra to do anything more than the most basic jutsus. So he, against his will, had to follow the kunoichi.

"No way you imposter! I know you're not a leaf ninja." Naruto wanted to face plant at the girl's accusation. What nonsense was this bitch spouting?

"What the hell? I'm Naruto Uzumaki how could you not know me?" Naruto wasn't prepared for the girl to suddenly stop in her tracks and he ended up slamming his nose on the back of her head.

"Itaiii, what are you doing?" Naruto couldn't even rub his sore nose. The girl turned around and glared at the blonde ninja. Naruto quickly glanced over her features, trying to identify the ninja. She was about half a head shorter than himself and look about the same age. She had short red hair that framed her face and accentuated her emerald eyes, which were currently fixated on him with an icy cold stare. She wore a standard long sleeved black shirt with a flak jacket on top and standard black pants. Her headband was displayed proudly on her forehead, portraying the Konoha leaf symbol.

Naruto also noticed that she had a few nicks on her face and hands. He could see that she was dirtied and somewhat tired. The smell of sweat and a tang of blood surrounded her. The kunoichi had probably just came back from a mission. Since she was alone and she had probably been involved in some sort of combat, she was either a genin whose team went ahead of her or were killed (probably very unlikely) or she was ranked chunin or higher.

Finally, not that it really mattered, Naruto found the girl quite pretty.

The girl finally spoke, her voice harsh, "You fucker. You think you can infiltrate Konoha by pretending to be a member of my clan? I should castrate you right now. But don't worry, the interrogation unit will have you singing like a canary." The girl was struggling to contain herself from striking Naruto and her body was visibly shaking in her repressed rage. Naruto, on the other hand, was beyond confused. The girl began to walk again pulling Naruto along.

"Your clan? What are you talking about? I'm the only Uzumaki s'far as I know. And you think I'm a spy or something? Is that a fucking joke? I've lived in Konoha my whole life. I've never seen you around before. Maybe you're a spy!" Naruto nearly stumbled as the girl stopped again. The girl once again turned around and stared at Naruto. While Naruto probably should have been thinking about how to escape or of how to convince her he was a Leaf ninja, he instead decided to check out the redhead again.

In his defense this was the type of thing ero-sennin did all the time.

Naruto's head reeled to the side as the kunoichi's struck him across the face.

"Who's the spy asshole?" The girl seriously wanted to trounce the dumb looking blonde but since she had already captured him it would be against the Konoha code. It would be up to the interrogation unit to decide what to do with him.

Still no one would say anything about a little love tap.

"Bitch." The boy glared at the girl as he spat blood at her feet. Satisfied with the blow and the frustrated look on the blonde, the kunoichi turned around and walked again, harshly tugging on the chains to get the other ninja to follow.

The two walked in silence for a while, both stewing in their own thoughts. The kunoichi was surprised by the authenticity of the Leaf headband the boy had. To her eye it looked as legitimate as they come. Either the creator was amazing at forgeries or it was an actual Konoha headband that someone had stolen, maybe from a dead Konoha-nin body. She contemplated where the boy could have came from. Iwa? Kiri? Maybe Kumo, she heard blonde hair was semi-common there.

She let a frown cross her face as the thought that he may be an actual Konoha shinobi passed her mind, but there was absolutely no way. Since she wanted to be Hokage, or at least help Minato become Hokage, she had decided to memorize as many faces of Konoha-nin as she could and she thought she did a damn good job.

She quickly glanced back at the boy behind her. At the very least there was no way she wouldn't know a shinobi who looked as similar (although not as handsome, she thought with a smirk) as Minato. Also he had the audacity of claiming he was from the Uzumaki clan, and she damn well knew there was no one by the name of Naruto Uzumaki in her clan, let alone anyone in her clan that looked like this boy. So she was absolutely certain that this was some imposter or spy trying to invade Konoha. Oh once Minato heard about her capture of an enemy spy he would surely see how awesome she was and ask her out on a date!

With the lull between them, Naruto had been able to clear his mind and ponder about his situation. First he realised he was somehow in the Fire Country and, specifically, headed towards Konoha. He did not understand this as he and Jiraiya were near Yuga, the village of hot water. How on earth had he ended up near Konoha? Possibly the Thunder God had worked and somehow had displaced him all the way near Konoha. Considering his drought of chakra and the fact that Jiraiya had told him before that there were still some Thunder God seals scattered around Konoha's vicinity, this might actually be a strong possibility. But then who was this girl and why didn't she know who he was?

Perhaps he was under a genjutsu? Yuga was relatively peaceful area and Naruto always kept some random shadow clones in hiding while he was training, just in case he got ambushed. But he couldn't strike out the possibility that he was trapped in a genjutsu. The biggest factor that went against this being a genjutsu was how amazingly visceral everything was. It was too realistic to be a genjutsu, even Kurenai-sensei couldn't pull something like this off. Maybe Itachi could but Naruto doubted this was his style. Also if it was Itachi, Naruto would probably either be dead, captured or saved by Jiraiya, so he doubted Itachi would need to keep him in a genjutsu for so long.

Whatever the case may be, he had somehow ended up in Konoha, or what appeared to be Konoha.

Since had sorted out his thoughts he decided there was no point staying silent when he could be poaching information from the kunoichi in front of him.

"Oi," Naruto's jaw still stung a bit but he ignored it, "what's your name?" The girl didn't even glance at him. Naruto clucked his tongue. "Oi, don't be like that. We're both Konoha-nin."

The girl shook her head and snorted. "If it'll shut you up, imposter, then my name is Kushina Uzumaki. So don't you dare try and call yourself an Uzumaki again."

Naruto frowned, this was just way too weird. However as he saw Konoha's gates come into sight he knew he would get answers soon. "Kushina, Kushina." Naruto rolled the name around in his mouth. It was quite nice. "Nice name, it's pretty."

Maybe he had hung around ero-sennin too much because, for a brief moment, he contemplated trying to seduce the kunoichi to try and get his answers. He squashed that idea almost as soon as he thought of it.

The red head, however, just snorted again.

"So Kushina-chan why do you think I'm an imposter?" He could see the redhead twitch at his comment.

"Don't call me Kushina-chan! And why would I tell you? You think I'm dumb or something? I know you're trying to bait me." Naruto didn't reply. Things were never easy for him, were they?

"Say these chains are pretty neat." Naruto made a show of jangling his chains, "Made'em from chakra right? Maybe you could teach me how to do it as well, as compensation, when you find out I'm actually from the Leaf."

"Even if you are somehow a Leaf ninja, which you're not, I couldn't teach you it. That jutsu is unique to me and everyone in Konoha knows it. So thanks for convincing me you're an imposter." The girl turned and gave the blonde a smirk causing the shinobi's eyebrows to twitch in annoyance.

"I keep telling you I'm from the Leaf goddamit. And I've never seen you in my life either. Once baa-chan finds out about this she'll relieve you from active duty, eh? If you let me go and bow down to me and call me Naruto-sama for the rest of your life I'll ask her to forgive you. And give me back my headband!"

At this point Kushina made a decision to start ignoring the other ninja, since he was spewing out nonsense. Naruto continued to talk, trying his best both to extract information about what was going on as well as convince her that this was a huge mistake, but to no avail. The emerald eyed girl remained mute.

After sometime the pair passed through the Konoha gate checkpoint, where Naruto noted the he did not know who the two ninja on duty were, but that those two knew the girl who held him as a prisoner. Before Naruto even had time to scan the area around him, a glaring error in logic hit him in the face.

"Oi Kushina-chan why are there only three heads on the mountain?! Where are the other two?!" Naruto could not believe what was happening. This had to be a genjutsu. Or maybe he was drugged? Or maybe this was a weird dream?

While the Kushina knew the blonde boy was speaking nonsense, probably trying to confuse her (his deception techniques were terrible, she thought), he sounded so unbelievably sincere and confused that she decided to answer his stupid question.

"Listen, baka, there have only been three Hokage. If you're gonna try and infiltrate us, at least know that, yeah?" The blonde gave the girl the most ridiculous expression she had ever seen. As if she had told him babies came from storks or something. Just as she was about to pull the dumfounded boy towards the interrogation building, a voice called out to her.

"Kushina-san, back from your mission already?" Kushina felt the back of her neck heat up as her crush waved at her. The young man looked as handsome as ever. Even though she found it unsettling, looking at Minato just reinforced the similarities between the imposter and her crush. They had striking differences as well but they could have been brothers, or at least cousins.

"Oh, Minato, what's up? I was ju-"

"Minato?! As in Minato Namikaze?!" Naruto stared at the other blonde with his eyes stretched so wide they could have possibly popped out of his head.

"Shut up you imposter! And don't interrupt me!" Kushina gave Naruto a swift kick to the knee but the blonde did not even flinch, his entire being fixated on the other blonde.

"Uh don't do that Kushina-san...um yes I'm Minato Namikaze. I'm don't think I know who you are though?" Minato eyed the stranger in front of him, not sure what to make of his outburst.

"Minato, this guy had a leaf headband but have you ever seen him be-"

"This is a fucking genjutsu." Naruto voice sounded distraught. With a shake of his head, Naruto dug into the last dregs of his chakra, the small amount still enough to display a physical manifestation outside of his body. The other two ninja tensed up at the blonde's unexpected usage of chakra. Kushina especially so as she had found Naruto letting out only an extremely light chakra signature when she had stumbled upon him.

"I knew he was a spy!" Kushina growled as she moved to intercept Naruto in the middle of his technique, but Naruto already released the chakra. The redhead stumbled back from the force of the chakra that was released, confused as to why the boy had not released an offensive jutsu. Minato was startled by the fact the boy had released enough raw chakra to physically blow back Kushina a little bit. And Naruto was straight up dumbfounded.

"It...it's not...a genju..." Naruto couldn't finish his sentence as he fell over, forced unconscious by the strain of chakra exhaustion.

Minato and Kushina stared at the unmoving body for a brief moment. Kushina finally went up to Naruto and gave him a kick in the arm.

"Kushina-san!"

Kushina ignored Minato's protest. "Looks like he's knocked out. We should take him to interrogation."

"Maybe we should take him to the hospital? He seems to have suffered from chakra exhaustion." Kushina stared at Minato blankly.

"Why should we do that Minato? He's obviously a spy or something! Besides he tried to use a jutsu on me!"

"Kushina-san, his hands were bound there was no way he would have been able to form any jutsu that could have hurt you. Besides-"

"Don't get soft Minato! This is war time, he could be a real threat!"

The two continued to bicker as Naruto took a reprieve from his absurd situation.

It would be a brief one.

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