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Chapter 3: "Forever Interlude"

The hokage coughed and the woman smirked as she sat on the armrest of the chair next of the famous copy-cat ninja. Kakashi for his part, looked a little uncomfortable. "Bet you never thought you'd see me again?" laughing she crossed her legs while still seated on the thin armrest. She was two years younger then Kakashi but looked even younger. She was wearing a light grey cloak over a black tank top and black skin tight shorts. She also had her left arm completely bandaged along with her right hand. Brushing back a stray strand of inky black hair she looked at the man who she knew to be the hokage.

"You really need to post guards out there, it was far too easy to get in here and I'm even wearing Hidden Rock's forehead protector." shaking her head she looked directly at the hokage. "I'm assuming there is a reason that you would take this big of a risk...?" Nodding her head at the Hokage's question she closed her eyes.

"Problems have begun with the Kyuubi's container, correct?" Not waiting for them to answer she continued. "These problems will only get worse, and unless he can get a better grip over his mind things will easily spiral out of control."

"How do you know so much? And why now of all times?" Kakashi stated quietly. Hopping off of the armrest she shrugged off the cloak she was wearing and laid it upon the chair. Taking hold of the top left portion of her shirt she pulled it down a little to reveal an intricate black seal. "This is where the Rokubi no Ookami is resting at the moment. There is a rather dangerous flaw in most of the sealing techniques that humans have used on the biju thus far." The Hokage's eyes widened.

"But the Yondaime's sealing was nearly perfect, if not perfect." Kakashi muttered form his chair. "Nearly perfect is the problem, most only take into account the biju forcefully taking control or some outside force causing it to take control."

"What way is there to take control of the container other then forcefully?" the hokage said while lighting his pipe in thought. "With the help of the jinchuuriki themselves of course." two pairs of eyes stared at her and she knew it was going to take a while to explain everything.

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Blinking his eyes open naruto rolled off of his bed and yawned. Scratching his stomach he shook off the drowsiness. 'Hey kyuubi you were right all I needed was a little rest.' the Kitsune made a noise of agreement but otherwise remained silent. Looking at the clock Naruto noticed he had only been asleep for about an hour and a half.

'I wonder I f I just didn't get enough sleep last night?' shrugging off his own question naruto readied himself and was out the door before he had even thought about it. 'I should go see if Sasuke-teme wants to train with me...'

Walking down the street silently lost in his own thought he didn't see the person come towards him or call his name. "Naruto! I have been trying to get your attention for a while now, is there something bothering you?" a ponytailed chuunin asked him.

"Can I help you with something?" Naruto mumbled quietly. The man looked confused for a moment before smiling. "Are you still half asleep Naruto? You know what I told you about-" Naruto cut the man off before he could continue. "Look I don't know you so can you leave me alone?" Shaking off an almost painful nagging feeling in the back of his mind naruto started to walk off.

"What do you mean you don't know me?!" the man yelled. "I told you I do not know who you are!" More and more people were starting to pay attention to the escalating voices of the two among them stood two genin.

"Sakura-chan, Sasuke teme!" running over to his team naruto hid himself partially behind sakura. "Sakura do I know that guy? He keeps telling me I do but I don't remember him."

Both Sasuke and Sakura look at Naruto carefully. "Naruto, you know Iruka-sensei..."

Inner Sakura: Is he really that stupid or is there something else going on...Whatever it is it's cutting into my time with Sasuke!

"Not you too Sakura..." Naruto shoulders sank and he frowned. "Naruto..." Iruka said quietly while reaching out to grab a hold of his arm. Naruto's eyes widened and he backed away from the outstretched hand. 'Whatever is going on I have had enough, time to leave...'

Just as naruto had started to run a different arm grabbed him and he was left too look into three confused sets of eyes before he vanished into thin air.

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"If the jinchuuriki's mind is weak or unstable it can be very easy for the biju to take hold and eventually take over. I almost made that mistake when i was younger." Pausing she glanced down at the floor silently wishing for this to just be over already.

"When I met you, you didn't even have the seal never mind being weak minded..." she inwardly smirked at Kakashi's comment. 'Yes...when you 'met' me.' sighing she continued. "The seal was hidden obviously, it wouldn't be good if information on my biju got out now would it, especially with the Akatsuki running around. And as I stated before the incident occurred when I was younger. I was treated much like Naruto in my own village, however I didn't love my village i despised it."

Letting her hands fall to her lap her eyes drifted to the window. "But enough of that. The information you require has nothing to do with it. The problem is within the seal. I've seen it twice before not including my own. I need to see that boys seal."

"You understand that I can't just let you see him, even if what you say is true, because of the way you came here?" she really wanted to pull out her hair in frustration. "Ignore the policies for now! There is a real problem or I wouldn't have risked imprisonment or death !" she practically snarled. Taking a deep breath she closed her eyes again. She could feel the Ookami stir within her, brushing against her mind seeking the weak spots. She ignored him.

"If anything goes wrong I will take responsibility over her." to hear that come form the copy-cat ninjas mouth surprised her, especially after their last departure. That had been around five years ago. Suppressing a sigh she fought the urge to think back on those times with him.

"I hope everything goes well then, Kakashi. The consequences will not be mild if she is lying. Take her to look at Naruto's seal." Nodding the pair of them silently left the room. Once out side however the silence was short lived.

"Yayoi-" stopping at hearing her name Yayoi turned to Kakashi. "Don't. Just don't. I already know what you would say. This is strictly business and nothing more." walking on ahead Yayoi's eyes narrowed. 'You made that perfectly clear on our last meeting.' She pointedly ignored Kakashi even though she had no idea where anything was. 'This has to stop... I shouldn't think of the past..' her hand gathered into a fist as she stomped on her thoughts that were causing her to remember her time with him. This all went unnoticed as her facial expression hadn't changed, and her hand was beneath the cloak.

They were walking on one of the main streets of the village; it was crowded and noisy. But even with all the noise, the sounds of an ongoing dispute rose clear over everything else.

A boy with orange hair was yelling at a chuunin while standing somewhat behind a pink haired girl. 'That's him.'

Watching as the drama unfolded she did nothing until the Naruto decided to run. Grabbing his arm before he could go anywhere she looked down at him. "You will be going with me." With a quick glance over to Kakashi the three of them disappeared.

Sakura and Iruka looked at each other with mirrored expressions of shock. Sasuke looked impassive, but if one were to look at his eyes they would tell you or the worry he was feeling for his blond haired friend.

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Looking around Yayoi realized they were in one of the training grounds; which was thankfully unoccupied for the moment. "Who the heck are you?! Where are we?" naruto struggled within her grasp but was not rewarded with being dropped. She ignored his previous questions and asked "Are you going to let me look at the seal on your stomach?"

"Hell no! You just want to tamper with it! I'm not going to let you-" Yayoi does a few quick hand seals and naruto eyes flutter before slowly closing; his body going limp in her arms.

Kakashi walks over from the tree line and watches as she carefully lays the now unconscious boy on the grass. "A sleep jutsu. He wasn't about to let me to this while he was awake." Gently she lifts Naruto's shirt to expose the intricate swirls of the seal that lay across his belly.

Her eyes expertly start tracing the lines of the Kyuubi's seal, searching for even the smallest of errors. 'Where is it? I know it's here...' biting her lip in concentration her hand unconsciously begins to move along the seal, her fingertips just barely brushing the soft skin.

Kakashi sits quietly off to the side and watches Yayoi. Her eyes glide across the seal and look at nothing else. He watches a piece of her black hair falls just between her eyes and brushes against her pale skin. Her nose twitches but she otherwise ignores it. Her lips are pressed into a fine line as though she is mentally debating something with herself.

Moments later her eyes break away form naruto with a sigh. "The seal is very well made. I haven't seen anything like it." She pulls naruto shirt back over his stomach. The moment she said those words Kakashi knew there was going to be a 'however' involved in her explanation.

"There is however, a small flaw. So small I almost didn't even notice it. But it's there." Kakashi closed his visible eye and nodded his head. "I suggest we let Naruto be for now and not tell him what we found, I suspect the hokage will want us to relay this information before we can do anything anyway." Not waiting for an answer she releases her jutsu.

Blue eyes snap open and with a small groan naruto sits up. Getting off of the ground Yayoi turns to naruto. "Everything is fine with the seal, sorry to have bothered you." Yayoi bows and walks away in the general direction of the hokage tower.

"Naruto, why don't you go on home and rest. You've had a long day, and I'm sure the hokage will want to see you tomorrow."

As naruto watches the man disappear into a puff of smoke he frowns a little. "Just how exactly did I get here?" crossing his arms he closes his clue eyes. 'I remember being with Sakura-chan and Sasuke-teme. Then that weird lady grabbed my arm and...what? Hey Kyuubi do you know what happened after that?' Naruto questioned mentally.

'I was asleep. Now stop bothering me.' the deep voice of the Kitsune growled from within him. 'Ok sheesh, no need to get cranky...' Standing up on slightly shaking legs naruto decides to listen to the silver haired pervert and go home, only he can't remember why exactly the man is a pervert.

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"So there is a problem with the boy's seal?" Yayoi nods at the hokage. "Yes, it was small but it was there. I can't say for sure how long we have before something big occurs. If we can get his mind stabilized before something worse happens there won't be anything to worry about, but if we can't..." Lowering her head Yayoi allowed her hair to fall across her eyes, shielding them from view.

'He's so young and if he died now... Damn that Kitsune!'

"Yayoi, why don't you go wait outside for a while. I still have things i wish to discuss with Kakashi. He will come and get you when we are finished; you will be staying with him for your duration in this village." Both Kakashi and Yayoi look at the hokage in shock.

'This is not I had planned. I would rather face the kyuubi then stay with him. If it weren't for the problems with the seal I wouldn't have even needed to come here!'

Nodding her head she gets up from the chair she was sitting in and quickly exits the room while silently fuming at the news.

"Now Kakashi, just how exactly do you know her?" Kakashi closes his eye. 'This is going to be a very long conversation.'

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"Kage Bushin no Jutsu" Naruto yelled and five naruto's appeared next to the real one. "Is that all you have?" Sasuke raises an eyebrow. "I'll get you teme!" naruto and his clones charge at Sasuke who just dodges. Throwing a few kunai three of the clones disappear when they are hit, along with one more when Sasuke kicks it into a tree.

"Too easy dobe." Sasuke said while watching the remaining clone. Something grabbed him from behind forcing him to remain stationary. Turning he was not met with blue eyes like he expected, but red ones. Naruto moved his lips closer to Sasuke's ear to whisper almost seductively.

"I'm not that easy." Licking the side of Sasuke's neck Naruto plunged a kunai into his chest. Sasuke's eyes widened almost comically as he tried to form words around the blood in his mouth.

Dropping Sasuke's body to the ground he watched with a smile as dark eyes closed. Laughing he closed his own eyes, everything turning white.

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Naruto eyes opened with a start. "When did I even fall asleep?" looking out his window the sun was about to set casting an eerie red glow to everything the fading light touched.

'Kyuubi, why am I sleeping so much lately? That can't be normal...'

After a few moments with no response he figured the Kitsune was still sleeping. His stomach decided that it was time to eat something and let out a horrendous growl. Shaking his head naruto debated with himself if he should go out or not considering where that had led him earlier on in the day.

But the promise of a few hot bowls of ramen was too good of an opportunity to pass up. Running to his front door he slipped on his shoes and left within a matter of seconds.

With it being so close to dark there weren't really all that many people out and about; the few that were out would either give him dirty looks or ignore him completely. He didn't pay them any mind, when he became Hokage all that would change.

When he was only about twenty feet from Ichiraku's someone called out to him. "Naruto?" a dark haired boy with equally dark eyes and pale skin walked over to him. 'He looks very familiar... I wonder why?'

"Where did that weird woman take you earlier after you diapered with her? Sakura was looking for you earlier, she was worried."

"Sakura-chan was worried about me? How do you know her anyway?" Dark eyes widened a fraction and the boy grabbed naruto arm. "Naruto we are going to go see Kakashi right now. It seems that you have forgotten your teammate as well." he proceeded to try and drag Naruto off in the other direction.

"Are you crazy? I not going anywhere with you!" Naruto shouts and is able to wrench his arm free after a small amount of struggling. "I had enough of this from that weird perverted guy Kakashi and then that chuunin earlier! Why don't you people get that I don't know you?!"

'You should run before he restrains you again.' the Kyuubi's voice floated across his mind for the first time in a few hours. Silently agreeing Naruto bolted down a side street and continued running until he couldn't run any further.

"It...Took forever to lose him. No matter where I went he found me. But I think I finally lost him this time..."

With his hands on his knees naruto catches his breath while and looks around. "I'm in one of the training grounds. I wonder why I ran all the way over here?"

"Maybe I should just stay here and train for a little while to make sure that guy didn't follow me..." he walked a little further into the training grounds, his earlier hunger apparently forgotten.

'Yes kit, go and train. It will solve everything.' Laughing, red eyes watched from inside a dark corner of naruto's mind.

-End Chapter 3-

Shadow: Muwahahaha Another Chapter bites the dust! -dances-

Itachi: It was a stupid place to end it...

Shadow: -pouts- You're just mad because you want to read more.

Deidara: How convenient for Yayoi to turn up just when all the trouble starts, don't you think? Un.

Shadow: Yup :) -looks around- pokes Itachi

Itachi: -glare of doom-

Deidara: Right... Just remember to review this if you like it. It makes Shadow happy. Un. But then again, she gets a little strange when she's 'happy'.

Shadow: -snorts pixie stixs- I'm a little tea pot...

Deidara: -sweat drop-