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'Shukaku,' Kyuubi helpfully added.
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'Shukaku, too,' Naruto agreed.
Naruto pretended not to notice the two stares and the glare he was getting. Sakura was annoyed and Kakashi was probably picking up his ego from the floor. Sasuke, who cared about Sasuke, who was most likely throwing an inner hissy fit over the lack of attention. He also noticed a weary edge to all of them. He smirked knowing that they couldn't see him. And innocently started to leak a little of Kyuubi's chakra. Enough so that the others wouldn't notice him, but his eyes still held tints of red. Kyuubi, being the fox he was, loved deceiving and scaring the humans. Naruto slipped on his fake smile, not even bother to make his eyes shine with happiness. He turned around and began walking backwards. They were out of the Konoha gates, and it would take them a while to get even remotely close to a village.
He stared straight at Kakashi when he asked, "What is our mission, Hatake-sensei?"
The other three caught his false politeness, and they couldn't help but stare at the ring of blood red in the Kyuubi vessel's irises.
"We are to go to Suna," He paused here, fighting down his nervousness of what Naruto's reaction would be to his answer. "Naruto, they want you to influence Gaara, the Konoha council think it is for the best."
Here they waited for Naruto to shout or scream. What they did not expect him to do was smirk and turn around, a dark aura looming around him.
'How dare they, treat us nothing more than a… weapon,' he heard Kyuubi mutter something that sounded suspiciously like 'kill' and 'humans'.
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Nightfall
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"I'll go see if I can find a river," Sasuke stated, he then glanced at Naruto. A smirk forming on his face, "Dobe, would you like to help me?"
"Sure why not," Naruto stood up and pointed behind him. "Keep going that way and you'll find a river."
With that being said he sat back down, and continued sharpening one of his kunai. The three stared at him again as if he had grown another head. He looked up at them with a bored expression on his face.
"Naruto," Kakashi started, Naruto raised an eyebrow. He had it all planned out, tomorrow he'd be his happy go lucky, weak self. "Is there something wrong, Hatake-sensei?"
"How did you there was a river there?" Kakashi was trying to be tactful, that wasn't what was really bothering him. Oh but Naruto really did love to mess with people.
"My five senses are for something, Hatake-sensei." Naruto drawled, "I can hear the river, smell it, and hear it."
"Naruto you know that you can talk to us about anything," Sakura started slowly, "Anything at all, we'll be here."
"Thank you." Was all Naruto said, while inwardly smirking. Tomorrow was going to be so fun, and by then they'd probably arrive at Suna.
"Naruto is something wrong," she blurted a minute later. "Throwing away all the tact lessons she had learned.
Kakashi's face hardened; now they wouldn't get an honest answer and Naruto would probably be on edge.
"Perfectly fine, Sakura-san," he watched as Sakura winced. Sasuke shifted uncomfortably.
"Teme, weren't you going to go to the river?" Naruto put away the sharpened kunai. He settled down on his sleeping bad and pretended to be going to sleep. He felt the stares, he felt Sasuke leave and return, he smelled the fish, and he heard Sakura call his name, he felt their uneasiness and wariness, and he felt his own sick and twisted satisfaction. He knew that he would break soon, a few more stares and false concerns and he would snap. He felt them preparing for bed and once in a while glancing at him. He felt when they were pretending to be asleep, waiting for him to move or give away that he wasn't asleep. Naruto felt when Sakura accidentally fell asleep, and the other two seemed to notice this as well. After a while he wondered if they had all fallen asleep.
'They are still awake,' Kyuubi suddenly spoke up in his mind. 'The Uchiha and Hatake'
'Thanks Kyuubi,' all he got in response was a mumbled 'kit'.
Groaning softly he shifted a little, and opened his mouth. He forced a soft, "Ramen" out of his mouth. And felt the other two relax. He heard the softly muttered, "Dobe" and after a while heard their even breathing.
'Kyuubi?'
'They're asleep'
Naruto mentally nodded and felt Kyuubi shift around inside his mind, trying to get himself comfortable for sleep.
Naruto stayed awake, sleeping no longer a necessity. In the middle of the night he looked up and saw a Suna messenger bird heading towards Konoha. Grabbing a nearby rock he flung it up in the air, aiming to strike the air directly in front of the bird. The bird indignantly landed next to Naruto. About to 'coo' Naruto panicked and put a finger to his lips. The bird looked at him for a second before closing its beak. The bird stuck out his left leg holding a scroll, looking at the bird with playful suspicion he took the scroll.
'I'll be waiting for you, Naru' the words were cut off with a
'Kyuu-chan! I love you! –Shukaku'
Naruto chuckled softly, and it stirred the fox demon to look and see what was happening. He grumbled something that sounded suspiciously like, "idiot". Giving the bird a quick apology, it took off. Sitting there Naruto realized he had just talked to a bird, shrugging he plopped down to get sleep.
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Suna Borders
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Naruto watched in amusement as his teammates and teacher eyed him wearily. Just as planned he had spent one day with his mask on and the other with it off. Often resulting in Sakura screaming,
"I'm going crazy!"
"Who are you?"
"What have you done to Naruto?"
"Naruto… Is Sasuke-kun alright?"
The last one had been hilarious as Uchiha had been acting strangely, muttering things to himself and overall paranoid. Sakura had gotten worried and was about to scream at Naruto when Sasuke suddenly screamed.
Coming out of his musings he noticed a figure standing by the Suna entrance. With a shout of joy he raced toward the figure. Once within arms reach Naruto glomped the figure.
"Gaara!"
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