Title- Awaken Me From My Day Dream

Chapter title- let me leave with the necklace that bears my soul.

Disclaimer: Don't own Naruto

With Tsunade

Tsunade sat in her office and waited for the revised team 7 to arrive. It was currently 5:15 and she was already shifting anxiously around the room. She was even trying to occupy herself by doing her paperwork, an unusual feat for the blonde Godaime.

"Tsunade-sama." a voice broke her out of her newest sheet of paper.

She was greeted with a horrible looking blond ninja equipped with a backpack, that held the possessions that he desperately needed, and a pure white ANBU mask. The bags under his eyes made it seem like he hadn't slept in 4 days and he was acting just that way, completely opposite from his normal energetic self.

"What is it Naruto? You told them didn't you? How did they take it? Are you sure you're OK?" The Hokage bombarded the blond boy with questions until he put up his hand in order to silence her.

"Yes I told them, Sakura took it fine, and despite being close to Sasuke for my entire life I'm not to sure on how he took it...OK that's a lie but what ever...I'm positive that I'm not OK but I will still proceed with this mission. Actually that's why I've come earlier. I came here to request me leaving earlier, now to be exact. There is still enough time for me to leave without the others showing up." Naruto explained in almost perfect monotone.

"I have something that you would be able to travel with right now, but you must know that you cannot run away from your problems forever Naruto. You will see them in about 10 minutes whether you leave now or with them."

"Yes, But a few more seconds could make a world of a difference to me. Please?"

Tsunade sighed in defeat. "Fine brat, But I swear if you stay like this throughout the entire mission and I get another damned monotone 'Uchiha' report form you, like hell you're becoming the next Hokage!"

"I'll deal with it, I promise, But uh...did you really mean that Tsunade-sama?"

"You bet kid. If you keep your promise and not send me a robot-like report for the rest of this mission we'll start your training as soon as you get back. Oh and I swear, you'd better stop calling me Tsunade-sama, it's starting to creep me out."

Naruto's eyes brightened somewhat before nodding and smiling a gorgeous smile that no one ever saw. "Then it's a deal Tsunade-baa-chan!"

Tsunade nodded before she threw him a necklace with a black shadow-like fox on its circular pendant "Put on your mask, equip that necklace and you'll be on your way. Now send me weekly reports via this scroll." She tossed him a rather large scroll, much like the one Jiraiya always has with him with the symbol for both the 5th and the 6th Hokage on the outside of it. "Only you can use it or read it. Now go, and stay safe." Tsunade waved as Naruto nodded and slipped on his mask.

"I will, Tsunade-baa-chan. And I'll make it back alive. Say goodbye to everyone for me." Naruto smiled beneath his mask. "And don't get too drunk and lose too much money now ya hear?" with that he slipped on the necklace and vanished out of the Hokage's office with a hook like feeling at the back of his navel, the echo of his name being shouted by the busty woman still ringing in his sensitive ears.

With Itachi

Itachi woke up the next morning to find out that he had fallen asleep on the couch. Luckily he had packed his bags for the mission the night before. He made his way to the kitchen to get some food and to see what time it was. Once there, he noted that it was only 3:50 and had a great deal of time before the trip out of the village. And this is how Itachi came to making breakfast for himself and Sasuke, a very long and involved breakfast that would fill up the majority of time he had left until the mission. That and he would still need to serve the food, wake Sasuke up, eat the food, and see that he did indeed have everything that he would need for the mission.

With Sakura

After the interesting night with Naruto and Sasuke, she had gone home and packed all her desired items. This left a vast amount of time left until she wanted to sleep so she decided to mull over the newest known fact about Naruto; he was an ANBU member.

"I'm the Hokage's apprentice and I didn't even know, how sad is that?" Sakura scolded herself. She was apparently the one on the team with the best observation skills. Well not anymore.

Sakura sighed. Naruto was still Naruto even as an ANBU right? Ok so he didn't like ramen that much. One major thing about Naruto that she thought she knew was that he liked ramen. Now that was gone. "Hm. So no ramen, what else?" Sakura thought for a while longer, "He's not obsessed with the color orange either, OK." She continued to list things about Naruto that she knew, what she thought was still true and what had been proven false.

Her lists had reached a number of 38 before she decided to write them down and by the time the longest one was at 672 she decided to stop for it was almost midnight and she would need some sleep for tomorrow. But before her dreamless sleep could capture her she decided that no matter what, she would accept Naruto, after all, he was one of the only real friends she had.

With Sasuke

After having his little chat with Itachi, Sasuke locked himself in his room. For the rest of the night he pondered over what he should do about Naruto and what he should do about Itachi. So many things that he thought were solid and would always stay the same were deemed false and ripped out of his unsteady grasp. Finally, when Sasuke thought he was going to snap he heard a calming yet hate filled song ring inside his head. It was the song that Sasuke would softly sing to himself as a child in the midst of training. When things got too complicated or he was frustrated, he would sing it and it would always make everything better.

Sasuke calmed down as he started singing out loud to his made up rhyme, and soon he was ready and relaxed enough to fall asleep. After all, he could always pack in the morning. Naruto, Itachi, the mission, everything that was turning his life upside down at the moment could all go screw themselves. Sasuke was at peace and nothing in the world was going to ruin that so long as he was asleep and had his childhood savior. After all, they say that music saves the soul, do they not?

With Tsunade after Naruto has left

Tsunade's wait for the others to show up after Naruto had left was uneventful, save for an astounded and happy Shizune, thanks to Tsunade actually doing her paperwork, and a few tired ANBU reporting to her about things that were going on around the village.

Itachi came into the office with a loud squeak of the doors, followed by an annoyed looking Sasuke and a bow from them both.

"Good morning to both of you too." The Hokage replied while smiling, it was so odd to see both Sasuke and Itachi in the same room, and they seemed to be getting along quite well too.

Sasuke looked about ready to collapse onto the floor, him being up most of the night, then awakened by Itachi. He had to say it was a tiring morning, but he refused to give into his body's need to rest and instead opted for leaning against a wall with his eyes closed, making an outward facade of his sleeping off the hours that he had missed during the night.

"So, Itachi, how does it feel to be back with your little brother again?" Tsunade asked out of lack of anything to say more so than polite conversation or genuine interest.

Itachi just shrugged in response, after all what was he supposed to say? 'My brother won't accept me like I had hoped, he's not even making an effort and its eating me alive?' No way in hell, he was an Uchiha. A male Uchiha, and it was an unwritten rule that male Uchiha's never say anything like that about his emotions or problems to anyone. Yes, the Uchiha clan was indeed strict like that. But who was to stop him? Certainly not Sasuke. But whatever. He would uphold the Uchiha clan's memory by sticking with their customs.

Tsunade ended up giving up small talk after that and opted for attempting sleep until Sakura came. But sadly for her, the pink haired girl came not long after and woke her up from her half sleep state.

"Tsunade-sama! Wake up! We have to leave in less than a minute! Where's Naruto?" The kunoichi asked without even waiting for the blonde to lift her head from her make shift pillow.

Sasuke opened his eyes and looked around, she was right, Naruto was no where to be found. That was odd, normally he would be here on time, if not exceedingly early whenever a mission came around. Sasuke's gaze landed on Itachi, who also looked confused, apparently he knew the Jinchuriki's habits too.

Tsunade groaned in annoyance, "Well, you see..."

"Where is he Tsunade-sama?" Itachi asked, surprising everyone except for the woman he had cut off.

"Well, Uchiha, if you would shut up for more than five seconds I'll tell you. Kami! You're as bad as Sasuke when I was telling him about you!" Tsunade started her rant before taking a few calming breaths and starting on Naruto's whereabouts. "Well as I was saying about Naruto, he came to me earlier and requested an early admittance to the mission. I gave him the OK and he left about 10 minutes before you three came."

This left Sakura in a stupor. Surely Naruto was still going to act like the same old Naruto, wasn't he? Although her list suggested otherwise she still believed that Naruto would still be lovable old Naruto when the day was done, was she wrong? She dismissed the idea and focused on what the Hokage was saying.

"...these necklaces are what are going to be able to let you speak in their language, also it will act as identification to the people who have employed you, and it will be your means to get to your mission destination. Since they also act as identification, they are all symbols of your selves, and because of the lack of preparation time they are highly unoriginal and simple. Enjoy." With these words she tossed them each a necklace and watched as they each examined there own.

All of the necklaces had a silver chain that would hang mid chest on them all, and attached to each one was a flat silver disk with a picture that had something to do with them engraved on it. For Itachi it was a weasel looking over its shoulder, for Sakura it was a cherry blossom blowing in the wind, and for Sasuke it was a black raven soaring through the metallic sky that it was placed in.

"Equip them quickly, it's time to leave. And don't forget to stay safe once you get there. Itachi, you're in charge until you find Naruto. Ja!" Tsunade bid them farewell as they donned their necklaces and disappeared with what felt like a pull from behind their navels.

A/N: Sorry for ending it here, but if you want an update, this is where it's going to be. My beta reader is AnimeFreak4261, she's awesome.

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-WAC