Title: Awaken me from my Daydream

Disclaimer: Don't own Naruto.

Chapter Title: Blink Blink

A/N: Pairings have been decided. Thanks to the long awaited decision of AnimeFreak4261!! The pairings are...

After curfew for the students, the ninja all assembled together on the roof of the main school building to talk things over.

"So the three of us are all in different classes. This is a good start but it won't help us protect the students in Hufflepuff. And on top of that, we have the issue of you two." Naruto started glancing at the brothers as he said the last part.

Both Uchiha's looked at Naruto before locking eyes with the other one; and on Sasuke's part, looking away almost immediately, causing the elder to stare at him with curiosity.

"And by that I mean your names. It'd be strange if you two were actually brothers for this mission, the resemblance between you two has always been a little overboard but I never thought it'd end up putting a mission in dan..." The Kyuubi vessel stopped talking as his eyes became distant and unfocused.

'Hey kit. Most people have seen you three right? Well no one has seen me yet.'

'What are you getting at Kyu?'

Mentally rolling his eyes Kyuubi continued; 'So if I come as a new transfer student or late arrival, and I'm purposefully set in Hufflepuff that would solve the not-all-the-students-are-protected problem.'

'You know, that's not such a bad idea Kyu. You gain 300 intellect points!'

'...'

'Don't ask. Just don't...'

"Naruto!" The blond ninja was brought back to the roof top when the pink haired kunoichi connected her fist with his face.

Naruto rubbed his cheek absentmindedly, "Yes, Sakura?"

She blinked a couple times before stammering out her reply, "You sort of...zoned out...so I just..."

She was cut off by the two ANBU ninja's synced laughter.

"Ah! Sakura! Sorry, sorry! I forgot you didn't know." Naruto cleared his throat and whipped an invisible tear from his eye, "I was simply talking to Kyu; he had an idea on how to help us. Here, I'll let him explain himself."

Sasuke and Sakura's faces were both confused but no one bothered to explain what Naruto was doing as their leader stood up and focused an aura of chakra around him. Sakura's jaw dropped as it spiralled off of the blond and whirled around beside him instead.

"Yo." The newly formed red head greeted the three other members of the squad.

"Sasuke, Sakura, this is the Kyuubi no Kitsune...'s human form. Kyu, you know everyone." Naruto introduced the demon to his comrades in a nonchalant matter.

Sasuke held out his hand in his own form of greeting and had it shaken by the eager demon. "Kyuubi."

"Uchiha." Kyuubi over-dramatized Sasuke's monotone voice. "Just Kyu will do." He finished in his normal voice.

Sakura coughed to get Kyuubi's attention, who spun on his heels to face her as she removed her hand from her mouth.

"And 'Hello' to you too, Miss Haruno." The bijuu did a mock bow causing Naruto to laugh and attempt to cover it up with a cough as Sakura huffed in annoyance.

Itachi smirked and waved to Kyuubi's grinning face and in turn he ran up and jumped Itachi into a hug. Itachi, wide eyed, bashed Kyuubi over the head, causing the demon boy to sink to the ground at the Uchiha's feet and whimper jokingly.

"Get up. You're here for a reason other than harassment." Itachi growled and pushed Kyuubi's body away from his with his foot for emphasis.

Pulling himself together, Kyuubi hopped to his feet; reminding two members of team 7 of the old, fake, Naruto; and explained the idea of him posing as a student in the Hufflepuff house.

For half of the night, the five of them made strategies and scenario's which they would use if the need for them ever arose. When Naruto caught Sakura yawning and seemingly attempting to make him spontaneously combust with her eyes (which weren't doing a very good job of it) he called for everyone to switch places with their clones and sleep the rest of the night. After all, they would need it if anything decided to happen tomorrow, no matter how unlikely that seemed.

After everyone left Naruto and Kyuubi fused together again and made their way back to the Gryffindor common room discussing what they would tell Dumbledore tomorrow and what he, in turn, would tell their new peers about the late transfer student, Kyuubi.

A/N:

Sorry for the short chapter people! I've got a bit of unrelenting writers block, so I'll try to update even while this is going.

This story's beta is AnimeFreak4261. Don't kill her for her decisions.

Hope you are still enjoying this story.

-WAC