Sasuke stared at the taller man in shock. Take his case? Nobody took Sasuke Uchiha's case! Especially with such a ridiculous sounding excuse!
"Look, I don't know who you think you are to be able to come in with such a fake excuse and try to take my case, but we cops don't normally let crazy people try to steal our cases. Especially when they come in with a fake 'department'!"
Naruto pouted. "Oh, and I hoped it wouldn't have to come to this either. Tsunade!"
It was then Sasuke noticed the group behind the blond. A rather feral looking man with upside-down red triangles tattooed on his cheeks, a sleepy-looking brunette with a spiky ponytail, a maniacally grinning blonde-haired woman with her hair in four spiky buns, a stoic redhead with thick eyeliner and no eyebrows with some Japanese kanji tattooed on his forehead, and another blonde with her long hair in a ponytail and blue eyes. But scariest of all, with her long blonde hair in her normal pigtails and gigantic boobs was his superior and quite scary boss, Tsunade.
"It's true, Sasuke they're here to take over the case. And yes, their department does exist. You will be reassigned to another case, don't worry."
"But Tsunade! No disrespect intended, but I want to work on this case!" It was true, he did. Whoever- or whatever, according to these 'supernatural' guys- had done this had truly disgusted him, and he wanted to catch this guy before he did this to anymore innocent people.
"I know Sasuke. You have never given up on a case before, even when the odds are almost all against you. But this is out of our hands. The commissioner put these people on the case and-"
But here she was cut off by Naruto. "Hmm, I don't know. I have read your file-"
"You read my file?"
"Why yes I have. You do have a lot of experience, and you're very qualified. Maybe we can set up a kind of partnership? Work on this case together, your team and mine?"
That was when the blonde with the long hair spoke up. "Is that even allowed, Naruto! To expose other people…"
"It's been done before, Ino." The blonde replied nonchalantly. "We just have to ask the old perv Jiraiya, and if he gives the ok, they can join us."
She looked a bit miffed, but backed off. What could she do? Naruto was her superior; there was really nothing she could say.
"Okie-dokie? Alright then, Sasuke Uchiha, welcome to the Department of Supernatural Criminal Investigations." He hummed, making a pensive face. "Actually, we should welcome your entire team, shouldn't we?"
Sasuke was spluttering, mouth making a vague interpretation of a fish. "You can't be serious!" He finally shouted out. "'Supernatural'? This has to be some kind of joke!" He turned to his boss Tsunade. "Mrs. Tsunade! Don't tell me you believe this-this bullshit!"
She sighed and shrugged her shoulder. She knew this was going to go well with cool, calculating, realistic Sasuke. "There are some things that just can't be explained, Sasuke."
Sasuke's eyes widened and he shook his head. Was everyone crazy? But what he didn't notice was that while they were having their conversation, everybody but his team and theirs were being filed out by the menacing redhead and the canine-looking brunette.
"I guess we'll just have to prove it…" sighed Naruto as he took off his coat and let it fall to floor. "What we should tell you is that while we work in supernatural investigations, we're also quite, well, supernatural ourselves."
"Huh?" Sasuke mentally berated himself at the stupid response but, seriously, what did he mean?
He was momentarily distracted by the blonde as he took his shirt off. He was by no means a bodybuilder, but muscles were prominent on his tan skin. Sasuke wondered where else that tan reached…
He mentally shook himself for getting distracted, and snapped his thoughts back to the matter at hand. "What are you doing?" he cried, furiously blushing at his lack of shame.
"I don't know, but please let him continue." Sasuke's head snapped to Sakura, he almost forgot she was here, what with his argument with the tanned man before him.
Naruto smiled charmingly at Sakura. Sasuke felt a little flare of jealousy in his chest at that. He almost slapped himself for that feeling. What was he to be jealous for? It's not like the blonde was his.
"We as a team," Naruto continued from where he left off, "All are a bit… different you could say. Gaara here"- he pointed towards the redhead with the tattoo-"can control sand. Ino"-he pointed towards the blonde girl-"has a…well, a way with plants. Kiba"-to the feral brunette this time-"can communicate with dogs.
"I could keep going, saying Shikamaru is a certified genius, Temari can move air currents, we have a few more special friends at home, blah blah blah, but then I wouldn't be able to show you my ability." He had a smug smile on his face as he continued. "I, the great Uzumaki Naruto," Almost all of his friends rolled their eyes at that, "am a shape shifter."
With that, he crouched down, and began to morph into a…fox? No, it was too big, almost the size of a male buck (1). It was red and-and it had nine tails!
Naruto morphed back. "See! Do you believe me now?" Sasuke started to shakily nod his head, before his eyes rolled back and he fainted. Luckily, before he hit the ground, Nauto's quick reflexes allowed him to grab him before he hit the ground and injured himself.
"Well," he said, "he took it better than I expected."