"Released"- a naruto fanfic chap. 1

Naruto sighed and looked in the mirror in his small apartment. 4'9", orange jumpsuit, blond hair, bue eyes a regular boy right? Wrong. Naruto sighed again and left his house, walking through the city, trying to block out the glares and whispers of "that's him" and "why doesn't the little freak just die". He just hunched deeper in his jacket and made his way to hokage tower. 20 mins later he made it to hokage tower.

"Naruto I called you here 30 minutes ago, what took you so long!" tsunade practically screamed

"Nothin', sorry grandma tsunade, sorry" he relied in ust below a whisper.

"Okay well you have a mission, I called you here before your team because I knew you'd be late, as you always are"

"It's not my fault everyone in the village hates me!" he yelled

Little did he know, his whole team was outside the door and could clearly hear everything they said.

Sakura quietly knocked on the door and opened it cautiously and peeked in.

"Hokage-sama we're here" she said

"Good, now this mission is special. You three will be securing a forest area. Without kakashi."

"What? Why? We just started training!"

"This will be a sort of... strategy test for you. How well you can survey, secure, and handle a mission on your own."

"Fine when do we leave?"

"As soon as you pack up your things you will meet back here where I will see you off."

"Wait, are we the only team that is doing this?" naruto exclaimed

"Yes, now move!"

They all hurried out of the office and made their way to their homes.

40 minutes later they all met at the hokage tower where tsunade had a few words of wisdom for them.

"Don't die, have fun. Bye!"

"Gee thanks- wait we might die" naruto exclaimed

"Oh no. Well maybe. Probably not though so... carry on."

She strolled on her way into the building. They looked at each other and set out into the forest.

*2 minutes later*

"I'm bored" naruto sighed

"Shut up dobe"

"Yeah naruto, we just started out you can't be bored already"

"But I am"

"Go entertain yourself then"

"Okay I will" and he stomped back in the direction of the village."

"Other way dobe."

"Pshh I knew that"

"Sure you did"

"Hmm"

So naruto stomped in the right direction and abruptly fell in a hole.

"Dammit!"

"What is it?"

"I fell in a hole"

"No seriously"

"I am serious, come and see if you don't believe me."

"Oh, we believe you. Only you would be stupid enough to fall in a hole"

Sakura brightened at sasuke's "we" he's already starting to think of us as a couple! She thought to herself.

"Uuh, still stuck here could you maybe pull me out."

"Maybe."

"Oh you suck! Just pull me out please!"

"You're a ninja, get yourself out"

"Oh just- uuh!"

They heard the gasp and the sound of body hitting soil and hurried to the hole where naruto lay clutching his head and whimpering.

"Naruto!" his eyes snapped open and he shot up, only to fall back to his knees.

"What's wrong are you acting cuz if you are-" the look he gave her showed that he was clearly not acting.

"I-i'm fine I just need to.." he trailed off as he got out of the hole

"What happened?"

"I don't know, I just got a sharp pain in my head and sort of blacked out for a second."

"Oh well are you okay now?"

"Are you worried about me sakura-chan?"

"Pshh as if, I only worry about sasuke-kun" she gave him doe eyes as she said this and he looked at a tree with a blank expression on his face.

"Okay, let's go." naruto shouted as he walked deeper into the woods. Sakura and sasuke looked at each other and shrugged before seting off into the woods.

Unbeknowst to them a figure lurked in the darkness.

"I will see you soon, my precious jinjuriki" he whispered into the darkness.