Arresting

A prequel to the last chapter, explaining what got the group locked up as tightly as they were. I still don't own Naruto. I'm pretty sure of that.

"Sasuke, did I not tell you that Mizuki was supposed to be closely handled, not burned?" the seven year old blond boy in the orange suit with faint whisker marks and blue eyes said, eating some ramen at the stand that permitted him to use it as a base.

"You did," the black haired boy in the black armor admitted.

"The why was he found with his brain boiled?" the blond inquired.

"He was losing his mind during interrogation, and so I had to get Ino to come and have an expedition in there," the brunette explained, "After she was done, I needed to do something to prevent anyone from noticing any residual chakra from the tampering in there."

"Ah," the blond replied, "In that case, she owes you one. As such, I'm going to make you an offer."

"Oh? Do tell..." the brunette prodded.

"I'll take that debt off of your hands in exchange for five more fire-based jutsu from the Scroll of Seals," the blond responded with a grin.

The pyromaniacal brunette regarded the bargain before saying, "That sounds reasonable. We have a deal."

"What sort of deal, boss?" a blonde girl in a purple cloak asked cheerfully, entering the stand.

"I just bought your debt to the Uchiha," the whiskered boy responded, "Another one for my collection."

"Oh," she replied blankly before changing tact, "Did you stop the kidnapper?"

"Yes," the whiskered boy replied, "It took some effort, and my disguise slipped, but no one who saw it is alive at the moment. And what about your assignment? I trust it was discrete."

"It was," she replied, "I doubt that anyone would be able to find a coherent thought in the delegation's mind, let alone my touch."

"Good," the blond said, turning towards the entrance, "Now, Sai, are Danzo and your old friends in ROOT out of the way, yet?"

"Not quite yet, Master," the pale boy in the black trenchcoat who entered admitted, "My pets will finish him off once they get every bit of information out of him."

"Why didn't you tell me you were going to pick his brain!" the girl growled petulantly, "I wanted to be able to tell him why his dreams were meaningless and crush his soul if he believed he was doing everything for a greater good!"

"Calm down Ino," the blond said, the color of his eyes flickering slightly between red and blue, "You know how I feel about being in a hostile environment."

"Sorry, boss," the girl apologized, "I forgot about your little illusion."

"It's alright," the blond waved off, "I trust you and your team didn't have much difficulty, Gaara?"

"It was not very problematic," a brown haired boy with a pair of sunglasses said as a blonde girl with her hair parted in four directions dressed in a leather jacket and a boy in a black officer's uniform who was manipulating a humanoid puppet to walk beside him. Upon entering, the brown haired boy dissolved into sand and reformed into a red haired boy with dark rings around his eyes who said, "As our father is now dead, we're seeking asylum with you."

"Of course," the blond responded cheerily, "You know I'd never turn you and your pets away."

"Step out of the stand and surrender," a voice said from outside.

"Well, I suppose this was inevitable," the blond murmured, "Now, we can't let them think it was too easy, can we?"

Stepping outside, the group acted as if they had no idea what was going on as they were greeted by teams of Anbu.

"What seems to be the problem, Anbu?" the once again brown haired boy asked with fake innocence.

"Sabaku no Gaara," the leader of the assembled Anbu, Dog, said, "Drop the false appearance, as we are well aware of you and have already found the body of that boy. You and your two assistants, Temari and Kankuro are being charged with two counts of murder."

"Anything else," the blonde girl asked, forcing her way into his mind violently, "Ah, Kumo didn't like what I did to their big bad delegates anymore than what the boss did. These fine, upstanding Anbu are the International division. Sasuke, you're also being taken in for questioning for Mizuki's death, and they plan on locking Sai up for killing over one hundred low tier Anbu and the boss is in trouble for getting the head of the Kumo delegation."

"I see," the whiskered blond said, "I suppose that I might as well stop concentrating on this then."

Much to the Anbu's surprise, the boy's eyes turned red with black slits for pupils as nine fox tails flickered into existence behind him. As if on cue, the pale boy removed a scroll from his side and brought some nightmarish creatures into existence by drawing them. The other brunette's eyes turned red and revealed a Mangekyo Sharingan. As the blond boy cackled madly, the blonde with a bang over her eye smiled at a crowd of Anbu, who seemed frozen in place as they screamed in terror about something in their heads.

The brown haired boy once more turned into sand, moving restlessly in a tan wave before the Anbu while the other girl of the group took out her fan and puppets began to spring around the boy in the uniform. As the Anbu regained their senses, a fight ensued.


It was a massacre, to say the least. The Internation Anbu suffered incredible losses but they had managed to capture all but one. The puppeteer was the easiest, as, once they got close enough, the placed chakra suppressing cages on his hands. The blonde with the fan followed shortly, though she had to be rendered unconscious. It took some time to restrain the Uchiha, but, once they bound his hands and blindfolded him, he was unable to continue fighting. The pale boy had fallen when he took the force of a blade to his stomach while protecting the blonde with the bang over her eye, who was rendered unconscious as soon as she attempted to resuscitate the pale boy. The redhead was tricky, but they eventually tricked him into an undamaged glass container that they then sealed him into.

As the leader continued his fight with Dog, the rest of the Anbu moved closer, chakra suppressing chains in thirteen of their hands. While he was distracted by the fight, those with the chains moved in on him and slipped the manacles of the chains on him as quickly as they could before locking them and activating the seals.

"Very clever insects," the only conscious blond jeered, "Your cunning can rival that of ants now."

"You're under arrest for multiple counts of murder, disregard of diplomacy, leading a conspiracy to commit murders, and resisting arrest," Dog said as they dragged the whiskered blond to his bound group, "What do you have to say, Naruto?"

The boy said nothing as he was placed a few feet away from his group. He was already forming a plan, which he knew the others were as well. Feeling a fully conscious Ino reach out for the rest of them with her mind, he mentally said, 'Don't worry. I'm sure you'll have guards to play with. Tell the others that we're playing dead for now.'

When he felt Ino's presence leave his mind, he smirked inwardly. The Anbu, Sharingan Kakashi in particular, thought they could keep his team in cages? He'd been in plenty of cages in his time and only stayed as long as he wanted to. These cages, like any other cage they could think of, would only hold them until he wanted out. He was, after all, the Nine-tailed Fox.