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Chapter 4

"How long is the trip going to take?"

Thinking that over a bit Kakashi figured that it would take five days to a week to get there and another to get back, so about two weeks. After telling them that, he sent his team home to pack and come back in one hour so they could leave.

BREAK

An hour later Team 7 met at the North gate to find their client waiting for them already.

A few minutes late Kakashi arrived, so they could go. When they were all there they introduced each other, the person they were escorting to Hidden Stone was a merchant who was afraid of being attacked by rouge ninjas and bandits, and he wanted the company.

Team 7 got to Hidden Stone with no trouble but did not take the chance of going into the village because of the grudge they held against them since the Great War. After they dropped of their client Team 7 started to head back to Konoha.

The night after they left their client Itachi and Kisame had found out about Naruto had another mission out of Konoha.

Coming out of the brushes they were in "Naruto come with us. We have more to offer you than Konoha will ever be able to offer you." Itachi spoke in his usual emotionless voice.

Kakashi turned in surprise to see Itachi and Kisame standing to the side of them. When Sasuke had heard Itachi's voice and saw him, started to charge up a Chidori to try and kill him. Sakura, who didn't really know him, only by reputation, looked to Kakashi, who had lifted his hitae-ate revealing the Sharingan, for instructions. Naruto who had sensed them pretended to by scared then also looked to Kakashi for what to do, only to see that he was restraining Sasuke from attacking Itachi.

Naruto was starting to worry now, Akatsuki had once again tried to get him to join them. Neither Jiraiya nor Tsunade were here to help them out. And if worst comes to worst he may have to reveal himself to his team that he was an ANBU captain. Something he really didn't want to do, so he had to come up with a plan fast before something bad happened.

"Oi, Itachi can I just chop off one of his legs, it's not like he's going to need 'em when we get 'im to come with us." said a bored Kisame.

Looking at his partner Itachi shook his head and turned back to Naruto who was thinking of some way out of this situation. "Naruto come with us we can give you what you never had in Konoha, friends, family anything you want, we can give you."

Looking as if he was considering the option of going with them Naruto looked back at them and flicked them off before saying "Go to Hell." and turning back to Kakashi.

Enraged that he was flicked off and told to go to Hell, Kisame charged at Naruto with his sword, Samehada, in his hand.

Naruto, still pretending to be the 'Dobe' moved but only just in time. Kakashi seeing that Naruto was being attacked went to help him but was stopped by Itachi.

"Well since Kisame is busy with him I'll be your opponent" Itachi stated calmly before moving slightly, showing that he was about to attack.

Kakashi seeing that got into a stance of his own. While neither shinobi moved a moment later both were moving at an incredibly fast pace.

Sakura and Sasuke stood on the side, neither knowing what to do at the moment. Both looked at each situation and saw that Naruto needed their 'help' in defeating Kisame. Looking at each other once and then nodding both ran to help their team mate.

Out of the corner of his eye Naruto saw Sasuke and Sakura running into the battle to try and help him. But what neither of them knew was that Samehada could suck in any chakra when it could.

Not knowing this important information Sasuke started doing hand seals for a Goukakyuu no Jutsu. After he finished the seals and launched his attack on Kisame, he was surprised that nothing had happened, and that the sword was glowing.

Sakura also saw this and was as surprised as Sasuke. Before either knew it Kisame came at them, but this time without his sword. The only person who saw the attack was Naruto. Running as fast as he could Naruto intercepted Kisame with a punch to his back, throwing off his momentum.

Right before Kisame was about to land on his face he pushed and did a front flip and landed in back of Sasuke and Sakura, knocking both of them out with a simple flick of his hand.

Kakashi was not fairing well either, he was using his Sharingan for too long, at the rate he was going he would collapse from chakra depletion. Weighing his options he tried for another attack.

Itachi hadn't even broken a sweat yet. He was getting bored, he saw Kakashi preparing for another attack. Knowing the strain it had on him while using the eye for so long, Itachi had merely played with Kakashi knowing that he needn't worry about going al out on him.

As Kakashi rushed at him with a Chidori, Itachi waited until the last moment before he launched into a set of hand seals. Finishing the hand seals quickly Itachi performed Doton Doryuu Heki.

When Kakashi saw Itachi create the hand seals he knew he had lost, looking at his team he saw that only Naruto was still fighting, while the other two were knocked out. With most of his chakra drained Kakashi collapsed to the ground.

Seeing that Kakashi was down for the count as well as Sakura and Sasuke, Naruto decided that now would be a good time to stop holding back. Dropping into the stance that he was most comfortable with Naruto attacked both Itachi and Kisame.

Itachi was the type of person that didn't like surprises, so when Naruto started to attack both Kisame and himself he was not happy. Dodging most of Naruto's attacks he quickly tried to knock him out, which he soon found futile. Thinking over the situation Itachi thought it would be a good idea to retreat and tell the rest of Akatsuki that Naruto was stronger than he seemed. Signaling that they were to retreat Itachi and Kisame jumped back and out of sight.

Sighing, Naruto looked at his team mates and sensei. Thinking up a quick plan he quickly made four Kage bushin's to help him carry his team. Since the were still a few days away, Naruto walked leisurely with his clones carrying the load they were given, not worrying about being attacked.

A few hours after the battle Sakura awoke with a start, looking around wildly for Kisame or Itachi. Only relaxing when she saw Kakashi and Sasuke close by, looking at her with some concern. Looking around carefully this time she noticed someone had made a camp for them, also noticing that Naruto was not with them either.

Looking at Kakashi she asked "Sensei where's Naruto, and who made camp?"

Both Kakashi and Sasuke looked at Sakura with a troubled expression before Kakashi spoke up. "We don't know who made this camp, I only woke up a few minutes before Sasuke, and I haven't seen Naruto anywhere." Answering both her question until someone spoke up in an oddly familiar voice.

"Oh! Kakashi-sensei, Sakura-chan, Sasuke-teme I didn't know you were up. Here's some water and I just caught some fish from a stream nearby so it'll be awhile before I'm done cooking it. So make yourselves comfortable or you can go to the stream and clean up a bit."

A clone was behind Naruto, holding four canteens full of water, and passing it out to each of them except for Naruto. Another clone came out except it was carrying wood for a fire. While the real Naruto had the fish and started to clean and gut the fish he caught.

Kakashi looked over Naruto, something was wrong. He looked over his other students that were tired and had cuts all over themselves. Kakashi knew that the Kyuubi gave Naruto fast healing abilities, but he didn't look tired and his clothes had no cut marks that said he had fought. Putting this information away for later, Kakashi pulled out his book and started to read, receiving sweat drops from his team.

Sasuke looked at Naruto and glared, thinking of how Itachi had come for him and not even looking or even acknowledged that he was there until he tried to power up a Chidori. Sasuke then turned his attention to Kakashi and glared a bit at him as well for stopping him.

Sakura looked around confused for a second until she focused her attention on Naruto. There was something wrong, wanted to know what but didn't know what exactly what to do, so she did what she usually did, she focused all her frustration and anger and blew up in his face.

Normally this would work, but not this time. This time Naruto was still on edge and sensed Sakura coming at him. Using instinct alone, Naruto turned and grabbed her and slammed her against the ground.

Kakashi and Sasuke looked on in amaze at what they had just seen. Naruto the 'idiot' had just slammed his crush into the ground, without even looking to see who it was.

Sakura was still on the ground with Naruto holding her down. She was too surprised to even think properly she lay there frozen in shock.

Naruto had finally come to his senses and looked down to see who he was holding down. He cursed himself for not having better control over himself. But could not fully blame him self since he was still on his guard for any more attacks.

Before anyone could do anything else three ANBU came out and interrupted everyone's thoughts.

The ANBU with the snake masked looked around before setting her sights onto Kakashi, signaling that they had to talk.

Looking around at his team his eyes rested on Naruto, reminding himself that he had to talk to the Hokage about his behavior.

Just before he followed the ANBU out off the others hearing range he said "I'll be right back." and once again following the ANBU.

When they had walked far enough the ANBU turned and looked at Kakashi. "We are here to escort Team 7 back to Konoha, but one of us will be taking Uzumaki Naruto separately."

Looking troubled Kakashi asked "Why?"

The ANBU replied "The Hokage wishes to talk to him right away."

Looking skeptical about it, Kakashi nodded slowly and asked "Which of you will be taking him back to the village?"

The ANBU just pointed to herself and asked in an irritated tone "I will be taking him because I am the fastest of the three of us here.

Walking right past Kakashi the ANBU walked back to the camp with Kakashi following.

When they reached the camp the ANBU walked over to Naruto and told him the plan. Nodding in acceptance, he packed up to leave before Sasuke stopped him and demanded "Where are you going?"

Sighing Naruto answered "I'm going back to Konoha, Tsunade-baasan wants to talk to me right away." Turning back to the ANBU he nodded and they left, leaving the rest of Team 7 and the other two ANBU members.