Chapter 4: The Encounter
'Why does this mission seem like it will never end?' thought a rather agitated blond. 'I mean, it's not like this is the first mission like this that I've had.' These thoughts seemed to plague the boy that is, when his mind was not elsewhere. 'Maybe if I just "accidentally" fell into him…maybe I could get a hand on that tight butt,' his mind referring to the dog nin's butt that had been bouncing in front of him for the past hour, almost taunting him. 'But then again…should I try that? Is it worth it…'
'Oh would you go ahead and hump him for Kami sakes? All these images flashing through your head are starting to get on my nerves even.' intruded Kyuubi. 'I can already tell you he'd like it.' Said the fox with a sly grin as he noticed his plan had worked. Naruto's face was now blood red and his pants tightening didn't help with this fact. 'Looks like someone agrees with me,' Referred the demon.
'SHUT UP! I could…'
"Hey Naruto?" interrupted a familiar male voice that rang to Naruto like angles. "You okay?"
Snapping out of his trance and argument with the fox, Naruto came around to find Kiba standing not two feet away from his face. "Ugh…y-yeah I'm fine."
'He is a horrible liar,' thought Kiba as he noticed his friend's strange behavior. "Okay, just wondering why your face is always so red." He said with a laugh.
'Jerk,' Commented the fox boy even though he knew that he had been blushing more lately. "Hey, I'm not red all the time."
"Hahaha, I never said all the time."
"Ugh…I ah…" 'Damn I slipped on that one,' thought the boy.
"Hey you two, pick up the pace," Shouted Sakura. The boys hadn't notice that they had fallen behind…again.
"Coming," replied both the boy in unison causing them to blush at the moment.
"Hey, now your blushing." Retaliated the blond with the hopes of victory.
"Am not!"
"Oh yes you are." Continued the blond as he stole every ounce of pay back he could. 'He's really cute when he blushes.'
"Am no…wait, so you where blushing before!" countered the dog boy.
'Oh shit,' Thought the now painfully defeated boy.
'Looks like he has your number,' Kyuubi said through laughs.
"So why were you blushing be for? Huh Naru?" pestered the brunet, knowing exactly how to push the other boy.
'What now? He's got me pinned down. I guess I should…'
"Come on little Naru. Why were you blushing huh wh…"
Before Kiba could finish that statement, his nose picked up on a strange scent.
'You smell that master?' commented the small ninja dog sitting on top of Kiba's head. 'What is it?'
"Not sure little buddy, but whatever it is I don't think we need to be this far from the group," answering the dog before turning to Naruto. "Hey let's drop this for now okay. We need to catch up with the group."
'Hmm…looks like your puppy has picked up a scent. By the looks of it he doesn't like what he smells,' commented Kyuubi, noticing Kiba's sudden change in composure. 'Drop this for now and go on ahead to your team Naruto. This doesn't seem to be the best place to have a lover's spat.'
"Fine, but I'm not letting you off the hook for this." Pouted the blond, knowing his brunet wouldn't want it any other way.
After catching up with the group both of the boys were exhausted. They didn't notice just how far away they had gotten from the team. It almost seemed too far.
"H-hey, wait up," huffed Naruto. "Were we really talking for that long?" asked the blond not even noticing the fact that they had to run in order to catch up with their team mates who had been walking the whole time.
"I didn't think we did. They must have ran a ways for us to have to run this far." Kiba knew that the distance and the time it took them to catch up was not possible, unless. "Naruto," Kiba motioned for the other boy to come closer, now in a whisper.
"What?"
"Doesn't it seem odd that we had to run in order to catch up with our own team? Especially since we saw Sakura go over the hill in the road rite before we took off." This made sense to Naruto. He did notice that it had taken them a long time to catch up.
"Now that you mention it, yeah, but you don't think we're in a genjutsu do you?" now spoken in an even smaller voice so not to let anyone close by hear them.
"That's exactly what I think and if we are than that means we have to either find the ninja who's using this genjutsu or find a way to break it."
Back in the group: No one had noticed the boys still hadn't caught up.
"Hey Kurenai,"
"Yes Kakashi?"
"Have you noticed anything off about Kiba lately?" make sure to keep the volume so the other members of the team wouldn't hear them.
"I was going to ask the same of Naruto but yes."
"So you did see it after all. They looked rather…tense, back in the Hokaga's office."
"That's true. I know Kiba isn't one to show such behavior and I'm guessing Naruto is the same way. Do you think it is anything we need to worry about?"
"I wouldn't worry about them really. What goes on in their lives id really none of our concern anyways but, keep an eye on them if you can. We don't need them getting into anything to big." Said Kakashi with a hidden smile, not knowing how much he actually knew of the boys and their big problem at that moment.
'Hmm…I thought those two would be right behind us by now,' thought Sakura, worrying as she does. Turning to find nothing but empty space her heart raced. "Umm, Kakashi sensei, I think we need to wait a little while. Naruto and Kiba still haven't caught up."
The group stopped for a while, not long after that though Kakashi and Kurenai started to worry.
'It shouldn't be taking this long to catch up with us,' thought the half masked ninja. 'This doesn't look good.'
"Kurenai,"
"What now Kakash…" she stopped in mid sentence, noticing the look in Kakashi's eye. "Humph, you're right; it is taking them a long time to get here."
Back with the boys: "Let's just keep walking as if we hadn't noticed a thing," prompted Kiba, knowing that if they had been found out it would not be good.
"Right,"
They continued to walk, not noticing the figure that was inside the jutsu with them.
'Looks like they don't suspect a thing, sad really, I thought this would be more fun than this.'
Just up ahead of the boys was a trap lying in wait. Looks like they had found the scroll thieves, or did they find the boys?
