Let's keep going on this.

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"Naruto," Sasuke whispered "you need to keep the perimeter clear. Anybody appears that you don't know, for a fact, is one of us, you need to keep them moving but do not get caught out."

Naruto nodded, professional determination in his eyes.

Sasuke nodded and then moved down through the skylight.

He looked down in surprise to see the majority of the building's interior submerged in water.

'The Water Nation's security system is a lot different then the Fire Nation's,' Sasuke realised 'even the Wind Nation wasn't this tight. Could it be the theft in the Suna made the Kiri tighten everything?'

Sasuke had to consider his next move. Sasuke picked up a kunai from his bag and threw into the water.

He then picked up the seemingly invisible string and brought it back up to the surface for an inspection.

The knife had pretty much eroded to a short, grey stick.

"Hmm," Sasuke narrowed his eyes, taking out another kunai "chidori stream."

The kunai glowed an electric blue aura. Sasuke then fired that kunai into the water, after waiting a moment, he removed the same kunai.

No effect.

Sasuke realised what he had to do. He surrounded himself in his signature attack. He decided the risk was necessary and dived into the water. As Sasuke hit the surface, the water lit up with the power of the electrical energy.

'The sapphire should be around here somewhere,' Sasuke realised 'near the back, the shiniest sapphire on the right hand side.'

Sasuke scanned the area. Being a ninja provided he could hold his breath for a long time, but he was only human.

'Perhaps I can sense the chakra,' Sasuke though 'sharingan!'

The shapes of many chakras appeared. There were squares and circles in the paintings. Triangle and other random shapes in the modern art.

'Heart, heart, heart,' Sasuke repeated in his search 'oh?'

There was surprisingly large, heart-shaped chakra emanating from the right hand side.

Sasuke was wary of the size, but decided to take a look. Sasuke was so concerned with the possibility of finding the target that he'd forgotten about Oxygen.

His sharingan disappeared and his regular vision began to blur.

Next he saw black.

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Sasuke's conscience slowly came back to him. He heard a seemingly familiar voice talking to an unfamiliar one.

"His chakra's stabilizing, sorry for the wait," the familiar voice said "thanks again Utakata."

"Not a problem, I haven't had much to do recently, this was nice challenge," the new voice, Utakata, responded "besides, the 9 of us have gotta stick together. At least, that's what B says."

"Fool, ya fool," the first voice chuckled warmly with Utakata.

"Anyways, good luck with your mission," Utakata said "good luck with the sapphire too."

Utakata's voice disappeared as the first voice made a shocked sound.

Sasuke got up and looked at the man in front of him.

He was clad all in black, with straight brunette hair and donned a lower facemask like Kakashi's.

"Good to see you're Ok, I was almost beginning to worry," he said, you couldn't tell but he sounded like he was smiling.

"Thank you for rescuing me," Sasuke said "but now I'd like to know who you are and why you saved me."

"My own interest," the man said "anyways, I didn't really save you. It was my friend, but enough about that. You have a mission here don't you?"

Sasuke said nothing.

"A mission to steal the Heart of Eternity," the voice continued.

"You're a guard," Sasuke accused. The man chuckled.

"No, but I am not allowing you to complete your mission," the man said, as he said this he held up a blue sapphire in the shape of a heart.

The Heart of Eternity.

"Give that back, I'm on a mission to get that," Sasuke said.

"No," the voice said.

"And why not?" Sasuke asked, collecting chakra for a chidori.

The man held the sapphire next to his face.

"This one matches my eyes."

On that sentence, Sasuke activated chidori and began to charge towards the man in black - ;) – but he seemed to know the plan and merely snapped his fingers.

The chakra bubble, that had kept them out of the water, disappeared. Many bubbles scattered in it's place. Sasuke had managed to spread the chidori around his body in time to survive, but the other man had disappeared.

Sasuke tugged on the wire and was pulled back up to the surface.

Sasuke jumped up through the skylight, where Naruto made sure he was alright.

"Did you get the sapphire?" Naruto asked excitedly.

"No," Sasuke shook his head "somebody beat me to it."

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"The mission was interrupted?" Tsunade slammed her fist on the table "do you know what village he was from?"

"No," Sasuke said "he didn't wear anything that related to any particular Nation, but he managed to create a chakra bubble inside the Mist's security system so it might be good to assume he uses Water and/or Wind Release."

"Water and Wind," Tsunade murmured "that could easily make him closer to the Water Nation, the other presumption would put us in the Wind Nation. What did he look like?"

"Average male height, straight brunette hair, blue eyes," Sasuke described "but I kept a mental record of his chakra signature, I can have Inoichi copy it."

"Well, we don't want to get too many people involved, I think you should continue with your missions, but if he shows up again we'll need to pursue him," Tsunade explained.

"Understood," Sasuke nodded.

"You may retire Sasuke," Tsunade nodded him off.

"Thank you Lady Hokage," Sasuke nodded and disappeared.

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Sasuke walked down the corridor, annoyed by the intervention. As Sasuke was walking he met another boom coming from down the corridor, Sasuke activated his sharingan, he rushed towards the door and prepared to intervene again, but as he was about to call upon his Mangekyou, he stopped.

The figure on the floor stood up and spread his arms wide.

The evil red chakra stopped moving, it began to lose power. It wasn't as human as it'd seemed before, much more animalistic.

The red chakra displayed itself to have 4 legs. It raised it's hind legs in an offensive position and from the muffled sounds coming through the wall it seemed to be growling.

Sasuke's eyes widened as the beast's defining features became apparent.

'Impossible,' Sasuke thought 'you were sealed inside someone! But if you're here then does that mean you've been released? No! Tsunade would never agree to that!'

As Sasuke went over his thoughts the body connected to the beast was weaving hand signs, before his chakra changed. The colour of regular chakra is blue but this chakra became orange

The creature's tails began to move, calmly at first, apparently under restriction, then more violently.

The rage grew, the chakra levels rising. There was more chakra being drawn from the orange body, blue chakra was being removed, but as it made it's journey to the beast it became red.

"Sasuke!" Neji called "what's going on?"

"Something's happening!" Sasuke yelled "it's all happening in this room."

Neji ran over to where Sasuke was and activated his byakugan. He was shocked, using the byakugan, he could see clean through the wall and see what was happening in perfect detail.

"Sasuke," Neji said quietly "do you know of Naruto Uzumaki? He's the new recruit of the Stealth Division."

Sasuke nodded, waiting for the news.

"That same Naruto is currently trying to subdue the very thing that ravaged this village, bringing it to the brink of destruction," Neji looked at Sasuke gravely "he's battling the Kyuubi, the 9 tailed fox."

"…" Sasuke had to find the right words "why…do you always make things so much more dramatic?"

Neji face-planted the ground in that classic anime way.

"He's tying to contain the 9 tailed fox!" Neji yelled "it's as dramatic as it's going to get!"

Sasuke stopped and looked inside the room.

The Kyuubi had raised 4 of it's tails.

Naruto raised his hand and forced it against the Kyuubi's forehead. The legendary beast stopped moving, it was then sucked into Naruto's palm.

'Has he done it?' Sasuke wondered 'has he subdued the 9 tails? No. He stopped 4 tails, but he doesn't yet have the power to stop it at full power.'

"He's done," Sasuke stated to Neji "let's go. We should pretend nothing's happened. They probably wanted to keep this a secret. Although, I'm sure people have noticed."

Neji silently agreed, stood up and they both walked away.

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Naruto walked out of the room where he'd battled with the Kyuubi.

'Hmm,' Naruto thought 'I was hoping to seal at least 6 tails, but I guess I need the other one.'

Naruto took out of his pocket what he'd actually used to seal the Kyuubi.

A blue sapphire in the shape of a heart.

'Sasuke's going on another mission to get the other one back from Takiga,' Naruto realised 'if I can get that one too, I'll only have to deal with one tail, provided it carried the same amount of power as the sapphire. If not, I'll just have to take the emerald.'

Naruto smiled as he jogged to get ready for drinks with Kiba and Gaara.

Though, there was another, a shadowy figure watched from the distance. He watched with an emotionless face, the figure was plotting. Plotting something that involved the 9 tails Jinchuuriki.

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