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Killer-Sangwoo: Sasuke isn't weak it's just that she hasn't learned everything that she did in the actual show because she didn't go to train with Orochimaru yet.

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Demon Bro the 14th: Naruto is only 4 years older than Sasuke so it isn't much especially in the ninja world. I did it because I wanted Naruto to have a bond with Itachi which will be explained later on more in the story.

lara5170: Minato had his reasons for choosing Itachi over Naruto which will be talked about later on in the story. There are three reasons why he didn't choose Naruto but it will all come out. I didn't honestly think about him being a teenager considering everyone in the ninja world grows up so fast.

Enjoy the chapter.

Naruto hasn't spoken to Sasuke since they left the village a few hours ago, he was still very upset about the mission that was presented to him. He really didn't want to be there. They left the village at seven it's around nine or ten now.

"Kit, why don't we train her starting tomorrow on are next break point." Kurama suggested.

"No way in hell will I train that troublesome girl." Naruto said irritated that Kurama even suggested that as an option.

"Kit, stop being stubborn or I will take over by force and train her myself." Kurama said getting agitated by his host and friend. "And you must have forgotten how troublesome it was for all of us to train you when you were her age. You know and have a lot of abilities, plus a lot of forbidden jutsus from Tobirama's stash you can at least give her a scroll and let her figure one out. How about shadow clone jutsu? You have the scroll of seals with you, I know you do so don't try to deny it." Kurama ranted.

"Fine I will, starting tomorrow." Naruto complained.

"Naruto, I sense someone coming toward us and they are coming quickly." Sasuke said breaking Naruto out of his conversation that he was having with Kurama.

"I can sense it too and I can hear them. Get behind something really quick so I can distract them." Naruto said pushing Sasuke behind a tree.

Sasuke didn't really want to hide but she felt like Naruto had his reasons to want her to hide so just did it. That's when two ninjas appeared, Sasuke noticed one didn't have a chakra signature so she wouldn't have sensed him if not for Naruto saying them.

"Konoha ninja? A famous one at that, Shurei." The known chakra signature said to the silent one.

"Step away from me, I'm not in the mood to play practice with some trivial nuke-nin." Naruto said not the least bit shocked that they knew who he was.

Naruto knew he was well-known outside his village. He was basically a legend at such a young age. The Fourth Hokage's son and the Fifth Hokage's best friend who rivaled his power but had more. Naruto even got trained by the legendary Sannin themselves all but one to say the least. The Third Hokage even trained with Naruto from time to time. The nineteen year old who could go in Sage mode by the time he was nine. The keeper of the Scroll of Seals for Forbidden Jutsus of the hidden leaf. And last but not least the Jinchuriki of the strongest demon force, the nine tail fox Kurama.

Mind you Sasuke didn't know all the legends that circled Naruto were true or not because she always doubted him. But they were all true.

"So you know who we are?" The guy said stepping forward for Naruto to not move an inch.

Naruto didn't really know who they were seeing as they didn't have headbands but he could just tell they were ninjas and probably most likely ninja for hire. The weird guy Sasuke known his name from the other Shurei all of a sudden looked in the direction she was at and she automatically froze. The teen's eyes were cold and for some unknown reason shook Sasuke to the core.

"Errie, he is hiding someone over there." Shurei said gently but all heard pointing toward where Sasuke was.

Errie decided to listen to his friend and started walking into the direction his friend told him to go only to stop when he heard a growl that sounded to much like an animal for him to ignore. But when he turned around it was Naruto with red eyes, teeth elongated, his nails turning into claws, and his red chakra was swishing around wildly.

(By Itachi)

"Naruto," Itachi said rather loudly jumping up, he knew that chakra.

He knew Naruto's chakra better than his own family members sometimes. It felt like Naruto was a part of his own chakra.

"What is it?" Kakashi asked sitting in the Hokage's office with Minato.

Minato just glanced up not seeming the least bit concerned but also feeling the chakra.

"Naruto is angry. I can feel Kurama's chakra rising." Itachi said not really explaining anything.

"Naruto and Kurama always battle together so it's normal." Minato said waving it off.

"No, this is different he is angry and Kurama seems to be taking over like before they got along. He is upset." Itachi explained better biting his lip.

"Have faith that Naruto is not battling your sister and is just fighting an enemy." Minato said.

Itachi knew Naruto wouldn't get that angry at Sasuke no matter how mad he got he would never let Kurama take control. As much as Naruto is full of anger when he looks at Sasuke he would never unleash something Sasuke couldn't handle. This is the exact reason why he was worried.

(Back to Naruto)

"Get away from there." Naruto growled sounding like Kurama but still it was Naruto.

"KIT, calm down. You won't be able to see straight if you let the rage get to you too much." Kurama said screaming because Naruto always saw red especially when it came to the Uchiha's.

Naruto growled, then closed his eyes to calm himself to a point where he wouldn't lose focus and control. The moment he opened his eyes Naruto was in Sage mode flashing out of sight, grabbing Sasuke and moving across the forest he knew so well. He knew the two were following him but he didn't care because he needed to get away. The damn silent one was very perceptive. The one to talk, Errie was his name didn't notice Sasuke's chakra until Shurei the silent one said something.

"Naruto, they're coming." Sasuke said gently in his neck because he was carrying her like she was a baby with her legs wrapped around him.

She didn't understand why she was in his hands instead of running with him. But she wasn't going to deny the fact that she felt completely comfortable where she was at.

"I know," Naruto said sounding gentle to Sasuke which shocked her because she never got that voice from him ever a day in her life.

"What are we going to do?" Sasuke asked seeing goosebumps go up Naruto's neck as she asked the question.

Naruto has never had contact with a girl like this before, he always trained and didn't bother to date so having a girl wrapped around his chest and talking into his neck got him nervous. He didn't realize how sensitive he was on his neck until this very moment. But he just ignored the tingling sensation he got from her talking into his neck to respond to her.

"We aren't doing anything. My clones are." Naruto said gently pushing her by a tree to form a bunch of clones at least twenty.

Some had Sasuke's chakra signature and some had only Naruto's signature.

"Okay," Sasuke grumbled really wanting to fight.

Naruto first rolled his eyes knowing exactly why Sasuke was grumbling. Naruto glanced at her seeming to check for anything unnecessary on her then picked her up once again this time throwing her over his shoulders like a sack of potatoes, which pissed Sasuke off.

"What the hell Naruto?" Sasuke grumbled but he heard her.

Naruto chuckled a little giving her a warm smile and jumping to the next tree.

"Naruto, we really can't do this. My head is going to hit something." Sasuke said to him knowing he could hear her.

Naruto pulled her up to how she was before accept they were now face to face. He looked at her giving her a small glare and a sort of side smirk like he had an inside joke with himself.

"Better?" Naruto asked tilting his head.

The moment Sasuke was going to speak Naruto dodged out of the way from a kunai hitting either one of them.

"Not a good time to be making out, Naruto Uzumaki. Right Shurei?" Errie said looking at his companion who had all the kunai in his hands.

Naruto growled a low growl in the back of his throat that Sasuke actually liked hearing not that she will ever admit that. Naruto let out a low breath before setting Sasuke down again.

"You can handle yourself enough for me to fight silence over there, right?" Naruto asked his head tilting to the side.

Sasuke nodded her head, she was honestly not sure if she could beat the other guy. But as Sasuke was contemplating that Naruto was putting on a headband to block his hair out his face that made the little strands stick out more and some come over the band but not blocking his eyes. Sasuke thought he looked good that way and that maybe he should do that a lot more with his hair. She actually didn't notice how long Naruto's hair was becoming. She also noticed that there was two clan signs on Naruto's headband one being his and one being hers.

"Are you ready?" Naruto asked Sasuke.

Sasuke once again nodded not ready at all but it was now or never. Naruto was gone in a flash before anyone could see him, even the silent guy had a problem finding Naruto which didn't seem to be a problem before.

'Or maybe it was me that he could track.' Sasuke thought and then all you saw was the silent teen flying across the forest.

"SHUREI!" Errie screamed getting ready to run over there only to get stopped by Sasuke.

"Get out of my way." Was all he said then charged at her with a kunai only to get kicked the opposite direction farther than the other boy.

"Did you two get the point yet? I haven't even used any of my chakra yet so you want to get seriously injured or do you want to leave us alone?" Naruto asked. "I will even forgive you for trying to attack Sasuke. But remember this is a one time offer, take it or leave it." Naruto said looking down at both teen boys that were just getting up.

The silent one seemed completely outraged that he was struck and almost knocked out in a flat second. He didn't like the concept of getting knocked on his ass. But neither did the other teen.

They both charged at Naruto and with the whisk of air that blew past Sasuke she knew Naruto was past her in a second and grabbed both of the teens her age by the throat slamming them each against a tree and holding them there.

"Do you want to try that again?" Naruto growled out with his eyes going back to being red.

Sasuke missed Naruto's bright blue eyes, she didn't really like the thought of Naruto having red eyes. She knew that was a bit hypocritical seeing as she had red eyes at times too. But with him it just seemed so wrong.

"Stop Naruto," Sasuke said walking up to the two teen boys that seemed to be her age.

Naruto growled at her making her flinch back but she still wanted to stand her ground.

"We should at least find out what they want." Sasuke snapped back at him.

"Fine," Naruto said dropping them but also going to the ground with them and making Hashirama's wooden style cages

It was a smaller version of the wood release: four-pillar prison technique. Sasuke wondered when Naruto actually learned that technique and how long it took for him to learn and thought she would question him later about it. Naruto was definitely an extraordinary shinobi she could give him that but would never say it out loud to anyone especially her brother or Naruto.

"Why are you after her?" Naruto asked Shurei.

"Not your business man," Errie said for the silent one.

"I could kill you two right here where you stand and not lose any sleep for it. Tell me now..." Naruto growled his eyes going red and also making Sasuke's go red too.

"Kit, I think you have an admirer." Kurama said.

Naruto turned to look at Sasuke to see her turned away and trying to avoid his gaze at all cost. Sasuke didn't want to admit that it actually turned her on to see Naruto sticking up for her.

"I think you turned her on, her eyes turned red and everything. The moment you got aggressive with those two her eyes turned red." Kurama said chuckling with delight.

Naruto growled making all three ninja look at him curious to why he was growling. Naruto was angry, he wanted Kurama to stop it with the mate shit involving Sasuke. He didn't want her, but the fox seemed to want to put the dirty images in his head anyway making him angry and turned on.

"I will be contacting Itachi." Naruto said abruptly rising from the crouched position he was in as he talked to the captives.

"NO! Don't do that," Errie screamed not wanting to be trapped in a Genjutsu.

"Why?" Naruto asked with a raised eyebrow but still summoning a toad and writing out a message.

"We will tell you why we were going after her." Errie said but the other one didn't seem to be on the same page as him resisting was the best option.

"If you lie to me you will experience something worse than Itachi's genjutsu." Naruto growled making both teens shrink back.

"We were paid to kidnap her from you, but we weren't going to go through with it. We need a village to go back to and we don't have that anymore. We just wanted to make peace with the Hokage by saving his little sister from being kidnapped. Someone is out to get her and put you down." Errie said not lying.

Someone was trying to kill Naruto and has been for the past couple months that's probably the reason for Itachi wanting to send him out instead of anyone else. Naruto was about to explode his red chakra roaring around him in irritation. He couldn't help but feel irritated by all this. Itachi sending him out the village so no one tries to kill him. Like seriously he was one of the strongest ninja's in the village hell the whole Shinobi group be serious. Itachi would be trying to keep him safe while still putting him in the stronghold of things by protecting his little sister.

"How would you like to join and go to the sound village with us?" Naruto asked calming down.

"Sound village? Where the Sannin lives? I don't know... Shurei is pretty rare with his kekkei genkai. He won't try to experiment on him, will he?" Errie asked looking at the other ninja with worry in his eyes.

"What are you going to do to us if we don't?" Shurei asked.

"Well I can kill you both right now... but what will that solve? I am giving you an option. So decide before I change my mind. I'm not particularly a patient person." Naruto said sending his toad away.

"Can we talk about this alone with each other?" Errie asked.

"I don't care, Sasuke come on." Naruto said jumping into the trees with Sasuke following.

"What do you think they're going to do? Do you think what they said was true?" Sasuke asked.

"I don't know what they're going to do but it would be smart to stay with us. As for what they said it makes sense to help the Hokage's sister to get in favor with him but it doesn't make sense because they would have to fight me to get you. I am assuming they thought all the tales about me were legends." Naruto said confidently.

"Naruto..." Sasuke said about to reach out to him but got pulled to the side again by another attack from the opposite direction.

"Damn it, they pulled a distraction." Naruto said grabbing her again and jumping from the trees to see Errie trying to get out along with Shurei.

"Let us out, come on we weren't lying. We can sense them coming." Shurei said completely shaken.

That was the first time Shurei talked since being captured so he knew they were pretty scared but Naruto didn't want to risk it.

"Not my problem," Naruto said shocking Sasuke and heading straight past them.

"PLEASE! We want to go with you." Shurei said freaked out.

Errie was absolutely terrified.

"Naruto... we should help them. They said they want to go with us." Sasuke said looking directly in Naruto's eyes.

Naruto just looked at her for a second and sighed in irritation. Then groaned in defeat setting her down and doing the hand signs to let them out. They ran to him immediately frightened. He didn't know what cynical control the Uchiha's had over him but it was serious.

"You better not make me regret this." Naruto said picking Sasuke up again with them holding his arms and flashing somewhere on the outskirts of the forest by the water.

Naruto was panting when they stopped letting them all go.

"Kit, you good? You transferred three people with you. That drained a lot of your chakra, let's hope these idiots are trustworthy. Sasuke seems to believe them." Kurama said.

Naruto growled at the thought of Sasuke trusting the two teens. He wasn't jealous by no means but he didn't like the thought of them having her trust when even he didn't have it.

"We should have proper introductions." Errie said holding out his hand to Naruto who ignored it for it to be grabbed by Sasuke.

"My name is Sasuke Uchiha." Sasuke said then turned to point at Naruto pulling him to her side. "And this is Naruto Uzumaki." Sasuke said with a strained smile.

Naruto growled at the contact but didn't move away from it and neither did Sasuke. She actually liked the contact of being near him, it made her feel safe.

"My name is Errie and this is my brother Shurei." Errie said with a smile.

Shurei just nodded at both of them but kept staring at Sasuke.

"It seems like he has something for our mate." Kurama said chuckling making Naruto irritated.

Naruto was completely irritated pulling his arm away from Sasuke and walking to a tree wondering what Itachi thought of his message. The other three just watched while he got comfortable then turned back to each other.

"Is he always like that?" Errie asked.

"Pretty much, unless it's my brother." Sasuke said bitterly which both boy caught.

"Jealous much?" Errie asked with a raised eyebrow.

"NO!" Sasuke screamed making Naruto jump to them in a flash.

"What happened?" Naruto asked looking around with his kunai out.

All three teens were shocked how fast he moved.

Sasuke bit her lip, "nothing is wrong," Sasuke said slowly.

Naruto turned to her glaring at her. "Then why would you scream like that?" Naruto questioned still glaring making her step back.

"We wanted to see how fast you would get here if something went wrong." Shurei said for Sasuke.

Naruto growled making the boys move back and then turned back to Sasuke. "Is that true?" Naruto asked.

Sasuke didn't want to agree but she knew it was better than telling him what they actually were talking about. She knew he would be mad either way so going with the lie didn't seem that bad so she nodded her head.

"Don't do it again," Naruto said walking away putting his kunai away.

The three teens watched him walk away again.

(By Itachi)

The toad popped up in front of Itachi in the middle of his paperwork.

"Naruto sent me to give this you." The toad said.

"Thanks," Itachi said expecting the toad to leave.

"He told me he wanted an immediate reply so that I should wait to get it from you then go back to him." The toad said.

"Oh," Itachi said opening the letter.

Itachi,

I wanted to let you know we got attacked and they told me some things that make me want to punch you. Your sister and I are okay. We didn't get no damage. That brings me to my next question... why did you really send me out with your sister? I honestly think I should come back after what I heard. Is there really someone after me?

Naruto

"DAMN IT!" Itachi screamed.

He really didn't want Naruto to know someone was after him, well both of them. That's why he did send Naruto out there but never expected his sister to be held in collateral. That is really damaging seeing as they would take them both probably making him chose between the two of them and Itachi wasn't okay with that. Naruto was his best friend and like his brother. But Sasuke was his little sister and he would choose her over everyone even his own parents. He just had to hope that nothing happens.

"Tell him I have nothing to say, aside from I am glad that they are okay." Itachi said the toad disappearing.

Itachi sighed.

"So he knows?" Kakashi asked by the window.

"Yeah, what was the point of protection and sending him away if someone out there was going to tell him. There is so much he doesn't even know. Like the people trying to take all the Jinchuuriki from their host. Shit we have two nine tail host and one is not even in the village." Itachi said completely stressed out.

"Calm down, Itachi. Naruto is the only known host we have technically. No one but certain people know we have two." Kakashi said not making the situation better at all.

"NOT COMFORTING!" Itachi screamed making Kakashi back up because Itachi's eyes were spinning angrily.

"Yeah sorry," Kakashi said.

"Why are you so upset?" Fugaku asked walking straight in.

"Naruto sent me a message saying they were attacked. I can't believe they were attacked a few hours after leaving the village." Itachi said then felt shook because he felt Naruto's chakra spark high again and this time for some reason it felt closer than before.

"What I'm curious about is how they knew they just left the village." Kakashi said making Itachi think there was a mole and he had to find out who.

(By Naruto)

"I AM GOING TO CHOKE HIM!" Naruto screamed making Sasuke run to him.

"What? What's going on?" Sasuke asked trying to calm the irate man.

"YOUR DAMN BROTHER THINKS HE CAN JUST IGNORE ALL MY QUESTIONS! I AM ABOUT TO GO BACK!" Naruto screamed.

"You can't," Sasuke said latching onto him.

"Let go," Naruto said aggressively.

"No, you have to calm down. Do you want me to make you?" Sasuke asked her eyebrow raising.

Naruto had a low growl in his throat while he glared at her. "Let. Me. Go." Naruto said in a voice that was filled with promise to hurt whoever.

"Fine," Sasuke said shaking her head and grabbing Naruto's head and kissing him on the lips making them fall to the floor.

Naruto was shocked, making his eyes turn back to blue. When he got out of his shock he pushed Sasuke away looking at her with wide eyes. The moment they made eye contact Naruto blushed and avoided it. Kurama was leaping for joy for what just happened, he really needed to give her props when he could. Sasuke stood up not seeming to care about what just occurred.

"Are you calm now?" Sasuke asked looking down at him.

Naruto didn't look at her just nodded his head. That made her walk away and him jump into a tree but both were blushing and holding their lips. Plus side was that Sasuke knew how to calm Naruto down now.

(By Itachi)

"That was weird, I expected him to be coming but he isn't here and his chakra is calmer now." Itachi said.

"Maybe someone calmed him," Kakashi said not knowing how right he actually was.

(Back to Naruto)

"Well wasn't expecting to see that." Errie said standing by the other tree.

"Shut up," Sasuke said walking back to create a fire they needed since Naruto said they were going to rest here.

When Sasuke was done she started walking to the water to cool down. Naruto felt the need to make sure she didn't stray to far but stayed in the trees.

"Naruto," Sasuke called from below the tree he was on.

"Yeah?" Naruto said with a slight grunt.

"What are you doing?" Sasuke asked with a smirk.

Yeah Sasuke was embarrassed by what she did but she really did enjoy that she could get him so flustered.

"Making sure no one comes and attacks you." Naruto said shrugging his shoulders though she didn't see.

"Go in for the kiss this time. You have to show her who's boss." Kurama said.

That got no response aside from Naruto shutting off the link.

"I can take care of myself." Sasuke said continuing to walk toward the water.

"Oh yeah?" Naruto said jumping at her and pinning her to the ground.

"Damn it, Naruto. What the hell are you doing?" Sasuke said struggling to get away.

"You want me to train you?" Naruto asked trying to not look down.

"Why? I thought I was too troublesome." Sasuke said repeating his words back to him.

Naruto deadpanned and looked at her. "Seriously? Do you want me to train you?" Naruto said finally looking in her eyes.

Sasuke bit her lip and looked away quickly not really wanting to make eye contact anymore but she nodded her head telling him she did.

"Okay," Naruto said pulling himself off of her but sitting in front of her.

"What?" Sasuke asked sitting up.

"What do you want to learn? As you know I'm not good at Genjutsu so I can't teach you that. What other stuff do you want to know? We will be starting tomorrow morning before we start moving will have Taijutsu training." Naruto said looking up at the dark sky and moon.

"So... how will I practice my Taijutsu?" Sasuke asked.

"You will fight me and try with all your strength short of killing me so you can learn how to balance on an opponent's strengths and weaknesses. What jutsu do you want to learn first?" Naruto asked.

Sasuke raised her hand to her chin in thought. She had to seriously take this into consideration.

"Can I tell you tomorrow what jutsu I want to learn first?" Sasuke asked with hopeful eyes.

Naruto sighed and nodded his head. He didn't understand why she had a problem just answering now but he let it go.

"We should head back to those two and get some sleep in." Naruto said standing up and helping her.

Sasuke noticed that Naruto never placed his stuff down not even during the fight. She realized there must be a lot of seals on him keeping everything he has.

When they got back Shurei was curled up on the ground balled up into Errie who was against a tree. Naruto was very observant and noticed Shurei was cold despite being next to the fire. That was when he snapped his fingers tapped something on himself and a seal popped out. The seal had supplies from sleeping bags to food. Naruto picked up the sleeping bag and walked to the two. Shurei opened his eyes a bit shocked when he got a sleeping bag tossed on him.

"Get comfortable, you two can share it. It's big enough for two." Naruto said and walked back to Sasuke who was standing there shocked.

Then he handed her a sleeping bag and she looked down noticing there wasn't another one for him.

"What about you?" Sasuke asked.

"I'll be fine," Naruto said sealing everything back up but some chips throwing everyone a bag.

Naruto was being quite generous for someone who was threatening to kill them earlier in the night. Everyone thought it but no one dared voicing in fear of losing the food.

"So you will be sleeping on the hard ground." Sasuke asked shocked.

"No... I will be in the tree above you." Naruto said nonchalantly as he started to walk up the tree.

"Really? Why not just share with me? That sleeping bag was huge and I know this one is. Speaking of which why did you bring two?" Sasuke asked.

She didn't really want to tell him she had her own because she really wanted to share with him and feel his body heat.

"I always bring two, just in case." Naruto said but ignored everything else.

"Just lay by me Naruto." Sasuke said pulling at his arm before he could go farther up.

"...fine." Naruto finally agreed coming off the tree and taking the sleeping bag from her and setting it up.

When they got comfortable she found herself pushing against Naruto to get warmer seeing as Naruto turned off the flames not wanting to get caught by enemy ninja.

"Naruto... are you still awake?" Sasuke whispered turning to face him but got his back instead but she heard him grunt then shuffle to face her.

"What is it?" Naruto asked as he tucked his face inside his pillow more.

"I want to learn the wood style four pillar prison jutsu." Sasuke said gently.

"You have to learn the wood infinity before you can learn that. So stick with what you can learn first then, and only then will I teach you that jutsu." Naruto said slightly shocked that Sasuke asked for that one first.

"Would you like to learn Shadow clone jutsu?" Naruto suggested after seeing her pout and grumble about wanting to learn that one.

Sasuke didn't seem happy about it but she shook her head yes anyway not wanting to reject any training seeing as Naruto would resist training her if she was difficult.

"Okay, I will give you the scroll tomorrow. Just get some sleep." Naruto said putting his hand across her face to close her eyes.

Sasuke grabbed his hand and pulled herself closer to him so she could take his warmth.

"What are you doing?" Naruto asked nervously.

"Trying to be warm, now shut up and go to sleep." Sasuke whispered putting a finger to Naruto's lips.

That was how they fell asleep with Naruto's arm wrapped around her. He didn't realize when it happened or if he did it himself. But they wouldn't wake until the morning anyway so it didn't matter.

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