~Two~

"Let's do this! Believe it!" Naruto cheered, stepping out of the gate and into the outskirts of Konoha. "Sugoi!" He shouted, and Kyuu-San chuckled.

"Geez, Naruto. Your so simple minded." Sakura sighed.

"If only you knew... Although you kinda already do." Naruto inwardly groaned.

"A true ninja looks underneath the underneath." Kyuu-San sighed, and Naruto nodded.

"Speaking of looking underneath stuff, I see a few ninja hiding in the trees. So stupid. They think there so well camouflaged." Naruto thought, and Kyuu-San laughed.

"Gotta remember kit, not everyone has enhanced eyesight and smell like you do." She said, and Naruto nodded. She continued. "I doubt Kakashi has even sensed

them yet."

"Even Kakashi? Isn't that a bit much? I'm sure at least he has sensed them by now..." Naruto muttered under his breath, walking along the path with his team mates. Kakashi slightly heard him, and narrowed his eyes. Who was he talking to? Surely not...

"Hmm?" Kakashi's eyes left Naruto as he noticed a puddle on the ground. Who are they after...? He wondered, glancing at Tazuna, who had been suspiciously quiet compared to yesterday. Tazuna growled.

"What are you looking at?!" He grumbled, and Kakashi was about to defend himself when-

"I wasn't looking at anything!" It was Naruto who replied. Was the bridge builder talking to Naruto? More importantly, Naruto was watching Tazuna as well? That boy was oddly suspicious. He was surprised both Sakura and Sasuke didn't suspect anything of him. Prejudiced genin... Grades aren't everything. He thought, remembering Obito's words once more. He watched Naruto suspiciously.

"Whoo! Puddle!" The boy shouted, jumping on top of the "water." Kakashi sweat dropped. What a weirdo...

"You can come out now. Your not fooling anybody." He glared, smirking. Kakashi almost jumped back when he heard his genin talk to the puddle. His suspicions where proven. There was no way the "dead last" would have realized it hadn't rained in ages...

"Damn it!" The puddle shouted, forming two ninjas. The ninjas dashed at Kakashi holding chains in there arms. Wrapping them around him. Kakashi quickly body flickered out of there, watching his students' reactions to his "death." Sakura looked horrified, but what would you suspect of a ninja that valued love more than skills? Sasuke's eyes widened a bit, before going back to normal. Seems he had noticed.

Naruto's reaction was just scary. He didn't do anything. Not even raise an eyebrow. He merely watched, "blood" splattering on his face. His hands where in his pockets. But not for long. Kakashi watched as his student leaped over Tazuna, and on top of Kakashi's remains, stepping on the chains. The ninja were now immobilized.

"Shadow clone jutsu!" He shouted, gathering chakra. Six more Naruto's appeared surrounding the original. "Henge!" Kakashi practically gasped as his student transformed into a shuriken. The shadow clones turned facing Naruto, fumbling there hands in order to confuse the ninja. From above, Kakashi could see they were passing Naruto around. "What is he planning..." Kakashi thought, as one of the shadow clones sneakily put "Naruto" into his shuriken pouch. They turned to face the ninja.

"Which one of us has Naruto?" They echoed, smirking. "Guess wrong and your dead." The ninjas glared at Naruto.

"Kit, that was a bad idea. Your teammates look like they just saw a caterpillar turn into a gigantic ten tailed beast."

"Che. Like I care. I'll just say I did it in the spur of the moment. I've been needing a good fight since I joined the academy. I'm getting restless." He replied from inside his clone's shuriken holder.

"Let's do this thing!" He yelled, turning to Sakura and Sasuke. "I can't do this by myself ya know!" He shouted, to raise a bit of there suspicions.

"Get your buts over here and help me!"

"SHUT UP! YOUR THE ONE WHO STARTED ACTING WITHOUT US!" Sakura shouted, be raising her fist in the air. All hints of suspicion were gone. On the outside, at least. Center Sakura didn't even have any suspicion in the first place. Inner was raging. Outer was just fawning over the brooding Sasuke. Contrary to many beliefs, Sakura did not have merely two spirits, but three. The third, center, "was out of order." In other words, Sakura didn't even know she was there. Center was Sakura's true personality. Naruto didn't know why Center had disappeared, but currently her two other personality were dominating Sakura. Naruto knew about Center- she had been his best friend. Which is why as much as he hated outer and inner, he would try to find a way to get center to appear.

Kakashi and Sasuke might have given up on Sakura being strong, but Naruto wasn't gonna abandon Center-San.

"Stop thinking about center and get to work, kit. We can help her later." Naruto nodded, waiting for sasuke to reply.

"Dobe." Sasuke grumbled, walking calmly over to Naruto. He quickly took out two kunai, stabbing there chains to the ground, in replace of the original Naruto, who had been holding the chains in place. The two enemy ninja glared at him. The six Naruto's smirked. Surrounding Sasuke. Smartly, Sakura decided it would be best for her to protect the client, and jumped in front of Tazuna.

"Damn brats!" One of the ninjas shouted. "Don't you know who we are? The demon brothers! A few kunai won't stop our chains."

"I don't care if your demon sisters or whatever, but-" Naruto's clone's echoed, before being cut off by the raging brothers.

"ITS BROTHERS, DAMNIT!" There yells were followed with a chorus of 'yeah, whatever's from the clones, and Sasuke sweat dropped in the middle of them. He glared at the ninja before secretly weaving a few hand signs, the clones squeezing together in order to hide him while he prepared his trademark Fire jutsu.

"Tsk, tsk." The Naruto clones replied to the brothers. "Real ninjas shouldnt show emotion~ So calm down and be a good sandbag for us, ne?" Naruto teased the two. In reality, he was just buying time for Sasuke to complete the jutsu, but they needn't know that...

"Katon: Gokaku no jutsu!" Sasuke shouted, he had completed the jutsu. The clones made way for Sasuke to shoot two fire balls toward each of the brothers. They both managed to dodge, and Sasuke growled. Jumping forward, they dashed toward the clones.

"We'll just take you all out!" They yelled, and both yanked there chains out from under sasuke's kunai.

"Damnit Sasuke! You let them take there chains out! Those have poison on them you know!" Naruto's clone's screamed, each weaving handsigns. Kakashi narrowed his eyes at them from in his tree. He wanted to see what Naruto would do, but he needed to end this quickly. Jumping down from his perch, he jumped onto the two ninja's, pinning them to the ground.

"That was quite a show you put on there... Sasuke. Naruto too, surprisingly" He smiled, and Naruto growled.

"KAKASHIIII SENSEI! You ruined the best part!" He whined, sulking. Kakashi grinned a closed eye smile before turning to Tazuna.

"Yeah yeah, Naruto. Anyway, Tazuna? I believe an explanation is needed." He asked, tying up the two daemon brothers and facing Tazuna.

"Why are they after you." He growled. "This better be a good excuse. You put my students in danger."