Naruto and his team crept carefully through the undergrowth of the forest. Well, Naruto and Sakura didn't do so much sneaking because they were blindfolded, bound and gagged. Naruto let out a loud groan and shifted his weight.
"Naruto, stop moving," Kakashi whispered. "You're making it impossible for me to carry you." Naruto was fidgeting and trying to remove his gag.
"Remind me why we have to do this." Naruto whimpered.
"Because," said Yamato who was carrying Sakura. "We can't just waltz right in. We need a purpose. We are going to pretend that you are our captives and that you know something so important about Saskue that the council has to know right away."
"Yes," Kakashi continued. "That's when we undo your binds and let you try to talk Danzo and the Kages into calling off the order to have Sasuke killed."
"What if Danzo recognizes Naruto and we get caught?"
"Don't worry Sakura." Kakashi stated sarcastically. "We'll only go to jail and be executed. Nothing serious."
"What!!!" Naruto and Sakura screamed in unison.
"Oh calm down. The Fourth Hokage said he believed in Naruto. When I died, I saw my father. He also said he had faith in me. If anyone's right, it's the Fourth!"
"That's all we're relying on?!" Sakura exclaimed.
"Yup."
meanwhile
Sasuke leapt from tree to tree on his way to the meeting.
"We have visitors." warned Zetsu. He started making strange hand signs but Sasuke stopped him in the middle.
"Wait," Sasuke breathed. "There is something I want to try out." A gang of twelve rouge shinobi materialized on a large branch. The biggest one had a wide grin that soon changed to shock.
"Huh? You're not a Kag-"
"Amaterasu"
Black flames engulfed the rouges who cried out in agony. Sasuke drew back the flames and where the ninja once were was nothing. The flames had demolished any traces of their existence!
"You're getting good at that." Zetsu smirked. "Good thing it leaves no evidence of our being here or our plan to kill all the Kages."
"I'm afraid you're wrong." said a mysterious voice. "Are you ready to die, Sasuke?"
Back to Naruto
Naruto was going on and on about how he knew they would succeed.
"We'll do it for sure! I promised Sakura that I would get Sasuke back safely and the Fourth Hokage believes in me and Danzo's a rotten old skunk and, hey, I even told Tazuna the bridge builder that Sasuke would be coming back!" Yamato dropped Sakura, leapt over to Naruto and jammed a wooden cork into Naruto's mouth.
"Mmph mph mmmmmmmmmph!" Naruto complained, spitting out the cork. "Hey guys. I think I have a name for our team. We will be called Team Sasuke!
