Hey party people! I hope you're ready for another awesome (if I do say so myself) chapter! I am sorry for any future mistakes in writing this chapter and previous chapters. I am only human. Lol.

Please enjoy.

(Naruto and Sasuke)

The duo of Naruto and Sasuke had been running down the large hall for quite some time before reaching their target. The stone was in a bullet proof display case in the middle of the room. Several desks were lined around the stone with papers, files, and pens thrown among them.

Sasuke walked over to a desk and grabbed some random papers in both of hands. "People were studying the stone before they left." He deduced.

Naruto's eyes were tented again. "The heat signatures are low. They left some time ago." He then turned to the glass case, squinting his eyes. "There's an alarm system on the case. If we crack it then the whole place would be on high alert, and guards could be here within seconds."

"This would be the perfect time to have Neji phase his hands through this thing." Sasuke sighed. "Maybe we should call him."

"Nah. I think it would be best if we just take care of this the old fashioned way." Naruto gave Sasuke a foxy grin before dropping his black duffle bag on the ground. He then proceeded to crack his knuckles.

"Don't break the case, Naruto." Sasuke sighed. "Do you want the world to know we're here?"

"What the hell are you talking about?" Naruto asked as he opened the duffle bag. He then pulled out a circular disk. "I was going to give you this so you could open the case without activating the alarm."

Sasuke took the disk from Naruto. "Oh." He said. "Well, what are you going to do?"

"I'm going to take care of some business." Naruto called as he raced out of the room.

After Naruto left, Sasuke looked down at the disk. "… What am I supposed to do with this?"

(With Naruto)

Naruto was now running back to where he and Sasuke had entered through the roof. For him, those heat signatures that he had seen were too suspicious to leave unchecked.

As he turned the last corner, Naruto found their presence again. They were a little more than thirty steps from where he stood. "Proceed with caution." He crossed the gap in one long stride.

Now he was face to face with a large, titanium door and coded lock. "Child's play." Naruto told himself. Cracking his knuckles again, Naruto lunged his fist into the lock. Electricity shot out from the electronic keypad before the device fizzed out. A small beep came from the machine and the metal door slid open.

Naruto praised his work, looking down at the busted machine. "All in a day's work." He smirked, but he didn't notice the large fist sailing towards his face. Nor did he notice the figure shrouded in darkness behind him. Watching.

(With Neji)

In his hands, Neji had finally secured the paperwork he was sent to retrieve. It hadn't taken him more than five minutes to reach the office in which he stood, and even less to find and secure the target of his mission: the documents.

Neji now stood with his ear piece placed into his right ear. Tapping a button on it, he began waltzing casually around the room. While waiting, he stopped every so often to look at certain items that caught his attention.

"Hello?"

"Did you retrieve the stone?" Neji asked as he picked up a stone figurine.

With a small grunt, Sasuke answered, "I'm working on it." Then there was another grunt and a clanking of glass. "Phew! I'm done, no thanks to Naruto."

Putting the figurine down, Neji walked over to the large glass window of the office. The moon sent a sea of light into the room, washing Neji's pale body. "Where is Naruto?"

"I think he went to the bathroom." Sasuke said. There was then ruffling heard on the other end, coupled with the opening of a zipper. "He said he was going to take care of some "business, so I kind of shrugged it off. I mean, it's Naruto we're talking about." The zipper was then closed again.

Sighing, Neji took a step out of the door of the office. He paused for a moment, and then continued walking. "We have about thirty minutes before our ride comes back around."

"Might as well go find Naruto now that we have everything we need to call this mission a success." Sasuke responded. As soon as he finished talking, a large bang erupted in the air. It was followed by a large grunt and crash. "Neji did you-!" A string of whistles followed, cutting Sasuke off again.

"I'm heading there now." Neji said as he quickly rounded the corner. All the while, the same figure that was watching Naruto stared after him. A small smirk broke out on its face.

(With Naruto)

Wobbly, Naruto stood his ground. Being punched through a wall was one thing, but being constantly impaled with some sort of manically engineered machine gun was a totally different story. The bullets to the gun weren't normal. They were made of some alien material that, when shot, emitted a blue spark and magnetic field. The bullets were launched so fast that they made a sharp whistling sound. To say that Naruto was shocked (in more ways than one) would be a huge understatement. So now he stood, back against the wall and being constantly impaled by bullets. Metallic beats, followed by small snaps, would sound as the bullets hit Naruto's blocking arms.

At every opportunity, Naruto would look around. He had gradually noticed that he was being pushed back by the sheer force of the bullets. The wall behind him had given way long ago. It was replaced with a large, gaping hole that was open to the cool night air outside.

Naruto gritted his teeth. "Come on, take it like a man!" Cackled the voice of the large man in front of him. Naruto peeked over his arms. He could finally fully see the man, not just his shape. To his surprise, the man wasn't a man at all. Instead, it was a burly robot that could probably pass for a human if coated in makeup. "If you don't, then I will be forced to drag you out and finish this myself!" Cracking his knuckles, Naruto was pushed to believe that the brute would actually do it.

Naruto tried to walk as the bullets were being shot, but it was no use. Every time he took a step forward the force would increase, causing him to immediately backtrack.

"No wonder there wasn't anyone on guard. Hell, who needs human guards when you can have this guy?" Naruto was now grinding his teeth as the distance between him and the outside world began to close. He knew that the second he was outside, those hidden heat signatures would be on him like a fly on stink. "Tell your buddies to get lost!" He shouted over the barrage of bullets.

"Oh, so what the doctor says about you is true!" The robot man laughed. It was now more of a manufactured laugh than that of his earlier one. "You can see heat signatures! My, he truly is a genius!"

"What's so funny, metal mouth?!" Sasuke's voice was like music to Naruto's ears. Said man had just thrown a kick at the robot man, sending him sailing (much like Naruto had been) into the next room. The bullets aimed at Naruto finally stopped.

Allowing his defense to drop momentarily, Naruto fell to his knees. "They don't make weapons like they used to." He weakly laughed at his own joke.

Sasuke helped him to his feet. "How could you let that guy pin you against the wall like that?"

"As you can probably tell," Naruto sarcastically motioned to the broken wall, "there is no wall!"

Before a quarrel could start between the two, Neji stepped between them. "I think this would be the perfect time to get out of here. We've got what we've come for and the jet should be making its way here in a matter of minutes."

"We can't go yet." Naruto said, pointing behind his shoulder. "There are more waiting for us outside."

There was silence. "Naruto, can you still fly?" Neji asked. Naruto nodded immediately. "We better mount up, Sasuke." Sasuke gave a large grin before jumping onto Naruto's back. Neji latched himself securely onto Naruto's right arm.

Naruto stared quizzically at his friends. "I know you guys love me and all, but do you really think now is the best time to-"

"Yah little pony!" Sasuke ordered as he tugged Naruto's hair forcefully. Neji just rolled his eyes as Naruto shouted in pain, firmly planted on the ground. "I said YAH!" Now Sasuke pulled his hair more forcefully.

"What the hell, dude?!" Naruto roared.

Seeing that Naruto wasn't getting the picture, Neji just simply kicked Naruto in the back of his leg. "Fly!"

There was silence before Naruto said, "Oh…" Finally getting what Sasuke and Neji were getting at, Naruto ran out of the base with the two happily mounted. He then gave one big jump before soaring into the air. A hail of bullets escaped from down below, lighting the night sky like fireworks.

(After the trio had left the base...)

None noticed rubble falling to the ground as the robot man stood, an angry smile playing on his face. The figure that had been following the three men stepped next to the robot. "They took the bait." He said.

Another metallic cackle escaped the robot's mouth. "Everything's going as planned then." Walking back to his room, the man opened the large doors wide, revealing several pods lining the walls. Each pod contained a child. "He suspected something. We're going to have to be more careful with him and those eyes around."

"Him, sir?" The shadowed figure asked.

"The blond one… Naruto." He answered. He walked over to the pods and the children inside. "He could detect their heat signatures, and those of the men outside."

"Then that means that things are progressing better than we had hoped." Another man stepped into the room. This one bore long, almost purple black hair that flowed freely in the air. His high cheekbones structured his masculine face, and those slit eyes provided another reason to fear the man without knowing his name. The man wore thick glasses and a white lab coat with a clipboard in his right hand with a pen in the other.

Both men prior to his entrance immediately fell to their knees and bowed. "Dr. Orochimaru!" They exclaimed.

"Tell me, how long has there been a heat present in my creations?" The doctor asked, amused.

"We don't know, sir!" The robotic man hurriedly responded. "We just recently found out when Naruto Uzamaki-!"

Orochimaru cut him off by raising his hand to his glass creations. "Naruto was here?" Both men nodded their heads urgently. Orochimaru let out a low, skin crawling laugh. A wicked smiled was permanently etched onto his face. "This is magnificent! Just magnificent!"

"Sir?" Both men questioned.

Like the crack of a whip, Orochimaru had both men bleeding on the ground; one from oil and the other from pure blood. "Didn't I say never to question me?" He growled out. He then turned back to his creations. Their small bodies were constantly growing, and before long they would be about the same age as his former specimen.

Orochimaru hurriedly wrote something onto his clip board before pulling out a radio. "Send in two new guards and a Seeker. This room has to be guarded and locked before the sunlight seeps in, so have them here immediately." A voice on the other end formally agreed before the line went dead. (1)

Glancing once more at his prized creations, Orochimaru let another laugh escape him and then fade away as he exited the room. All according to plan.

(With Tenten)

Tenten silently shifted her weight on the bed to look at her alarm clock. It was 3:00am. About two hours ago Tenten had finally decided to shut her body down for some rest; the kind of rest without any more of those unwanted dreams. Now here she was, rolling back over to answer the phone. One of these days she swore she would rip the thing out of the wall. "Hello?"

"Hey Tenten, are you awake?" The voice on the other end of the phone asked.

"Dammit Sakura! It's three in the morning and you want to know if I'm asleep?!" Irritated, Tenten made a motion to put the phone back on the receiver, but thought better of it. "You had better have more to say other than 'Are you awake?'!"

"Jeez Tenten, calm down. It's not like it's the end of the world or anything." Sakura spoke. Then she added, "At least not yet, anyway."

"Point being?"

"There's a mandatory meeting at the warehouse in thirty minutes." Sakura said. "Be there or be square." With that, Sakura hung up the phone, leaving a very pissed off Tenten in the cold.

"I hate Mondays." Tenten sighed as she rested her head back on her pillow.

Hey guys! I hope you liked this chapter. I know I did. Naruto can be a really funny character when you make him be. XD Even Sasuke. But anyway, I am working on another chapter as we speak. This one wil be focused on some of the other characters. Namely Tenten and the other girls (aside from Temari). I hope you all stick around to see it.

1: So I guess you already know that Orochimaru is the mysterious doctor. Very scary. He can kill people with one hand. *shudders* BTW! He has a very powerful ... "love" for science. Oh, and a Seeker... yeah. You will find out what they are probably next chapter. No promises.

~Thank you!