DUM DUM DUM DUM DAAAHHHH! I figured out that theres two moar chapters ((not including this one)) that i had typed up! YAY! enough o fmy ranting and start reading...why are you stil lreading this....the long-awaited chapter is just below....im going back to school on Tuesday ya know...schools boring...are you still reading this...you must be REALLY bored...

~Firewolfpup

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XxXxChapter 6XxXx

"Sasuke!"

"Go…away…Karin." Sasuke growled, tightening his arms around Sakura's waist.

What do you think you are doing?!" Karin shrilled, anger thick in her voice.

"Thinking whether I should kill you now or just let Naruto kill you."

Karin laughed harshly, "I don't think this "Naruto" can kill me. I'm almost as strong as you."

"You honestly think that-" A feral and animalistic voice growled behind Karin. He gave a short barking laugh before finishing, "I can't kill you?"

Karin spun on her heels to be faced with Naruto in his three-tailed form. He stood tall with his arms crossed, growling softly but viciously. His hair was vigorously tousled, his eyes her a blood red with a thin black slit for a pupil, fangs protruding from his mouth, and a thick red veil of Kyuubi's chakra surrounded him dangerously.

He smiled threateningly as his three red chakra tails whipped from side-to-side dangerously.

"Naruto don't…" Sakura murmured as she gazed softly at Naruto with slightly narrowed eyes.

Sasuke slowly got to his feet and helped Sakura up as she never took her eyes off Naruto.

"W-what are you?" Karin stuttered as her knees started to feel weak.

"I am Namikaze Naruto, ANBU captain and an S-Class assassin, Konoha's pride and joy. I'm The 9-Tailed Fox Demon or as many call me The Rouge Fox." Naruto announced.

"No way…You're only a myth! You died years ago along with the Kyuubi and your father!" Karin retorted.

Naruto arched a delicate golden eyebrow in question, "Who made that lie up? My father and the Kyuubi still lives. My father lives inside me and as for the Kyuubi…you're talking to him at this moment."

"Then where's Naruto?" Karin asked before she could think.

Naruto growled viciously, "Do you ever shut your mouth girl?! You talk too much! It's a surprise you're still alive!"

Sasuke and Sakura laughed quietly at Kyuubi's rudeness towards Karin.

Karin turned around and looked at Sasuke, "You're just gunna let him stand there and let him do this to me?"

Sasuke wrapped his arm around Sakura's waist and puller her close to him. He tilted his head up in mock thought, "Nope I mean this isn't Naruto but this is the Kyuubi you're talking to so you better stay quiet unless you want to die."

Karin opened her mouth to retort but quickly closed it and slowly turned to look at Naruto. Naruto stood there for a minute to agitate the girl and laughed quietly. He turned to look at Sasuke and Sakura.

"I've got some…business to take care of Sasuke. I'll back in a few hours…and in that time…try not to kill the girl."

Sasuke tilted his head. "Why not?"

Naruto grinned at this, "Because I want to." Karin gasped, "Anyway, take care of Sakura or it's your head. "

Sasuke rolled his eyes, "Of course."

Naruto flipped his hair backwards to reveal his eyes and gave his old Naruto grin. He waved for a few seconds and then disappeared.

Karin fell to the ground in a heap and clutching her heart as if she had a heart attack.

She suddenly looked at Sasuke in anger, "Why didn't you stop him?! He was going to kill me!"

"Correction…he is going to kill you. Naruto doesn't go back on his word." Sasuke growled.

"And you're just going to let him?!"

"I can't stop him when he sets his mind to something. The truth is…I don't like you very much." Sasuke answered truthfully.

Sasuke and Sakura started to walk in tune with each other.

"How can you be so cold-hearted?" Karin muttered.

"Because I was raised to be cold and am expected to stay like that."

Karin pushed her glasses back onto the bridge of her nose and she remembered Sakura.

"Who is she and what is she doing here" Karin growled as she said "she" with a certain personal hatred.

"Sakura Haruno and my teammate." Sasuke answered before Sakura could.

'And…Sakura is not going to take you away from me. You were mine before she showed up.' Karin thought menacingly as she observed Sakura.

"Is Naruto really going to kill Karin?" Sakura murmured, not sure whether she was out of ear-shot of the red-head.

"Who knows…you know who Naruto is. You can never guess what he's going to do next." Sasuke replied gently.

"Hmm…true." Sakura murmured. "How did Karin come to be on your team?"

"Well one she was trained by Orochimaru and two…she can kill somebody in a matter of seconds."

"How?"

"By talking them to death." Sasuke half-way laughed.

Sakura shuddered, "Naruto was right…that can get her killed."

Sasuke nodded, "Naruto doesn't lie to his friends."

Sakura looked towards the sun, "Can you believe it's still before noon?"

For the first time in months Sasuke looked at the rising sun, "It's seems like the afternoon."

Sakura giggled softly as she watched two butterflies dance in the sunlight. Sasuke looked at Sakura in question but decided not to ask. Sasuke tilted his head to the left to looks at the woods. He saw and unusually black and dark orange wolf padding through the forest undergrowth.

'I wonder what he's up to…' Sasuke thought absent-mindedly as he felt Sakura begin to lean on him.

Sasuke heard Naruto suddenly grunt as he stepped in a small and not-so-deep hole in the ground.

'You're an idiot Naruto.' Sasuke thought as he slung his right arm around Sakura's shoulder.

A soft splash sounded as Naruto kicked a small stone into a near-by river. Sakura looked towards the sky and looked for familiar shapes in the clouds.

'Such a quiet and peaceful day…' Sakura hummed in her head.

Sakura's shoulder-length hair whipped around her shoulders as a light breeze blew. She quickly caught scent of a wood burning in a small campfire. Sasuke took a short, shallow sniff and confirmed his thought.

"We're nearing the Team camp." Sasuke mumbled ungratefully.

Sasuke looked into the woods to see that Naruto was nowhere in sight. He unwillingly pulled his arm off Sakura and swiftly took off his ANBU jacket. Sakura recognized what he was doing and just merely unzipped her duffel bag and pulled out her Akatsuki jacket.

Sasuke grunted as he pulled his jacket out of his bag.

"No wonder my bag was so heavy." Sasuke slipped on his jacket and he opened his jacket to pull out a 200 lb weight. "Naruto put extra weights in my jacket."

Sakura giggled softly as she quietly un-tucked her scarf from her jacket. Sasuke smirked affectionately at her as he sealed his weight in a spare scroll. Sasuke sealed both of their bags into the same scroll that contained his extra weight.

As if on cue Suigetsu appeared, "Hey Sasuke! You're back! Thank Kami! That little red-headed girl was getting on my nerves." He flipped his head back in Karins direction, "Where did you go this time boss?"

Sasuke's head tilted slightly to look at Sakura, "I went back to Konoha to get my old teammates."

Suigetsu's head tilted in confusion, "Teammates? There's another one? Who?" Suigetsu looked at Sakura for a few moments and looked back at Sasuke.

Sasuke opened his mouth to speak but Sakura beat him to it, "Namikaze Naruto AKA The 9-tailed Fox Demon."

Suigetsu's mouth dropped into an o, "The Fox Demon? The one who killed hundreds with no remorse?"

A hand appeared on Suigetsu's head, "I prefer Naruto."

Suigetsu's body froze with shock and fright.

Naruto frowned at this reaction, "That doesn't mean you have to be scared of me. It hurts my feelings when a teammate is scared of me." Naruto murmured in mock-hurt.

Suigetsu turned around to see Naruto grinning wildly with his hair tousled violently. Sakura smiled largely as Sasuke slung his left arm around Naruto playfully. Naruto looked at Sasuke in surprise but Sasuke only grinned back.

Sakura remembered her Akatsuki cloak and glanced at Naruto only to find that he had his on as well. She breathed a sigh of relief as she remembered that Naruto wasn't the same forgetful idiot he was.

A click went off in Suigetsus head, "Oh yeah…" he turned to Sakura," Who are you?"

"Haruno Sakura." She replied absent-mindedly with a grin.

Suigetsus eyes went wide with shock and admiration, "Wow! You're even more beautiful then they said you looked like."

Sasuke and Naruto growled deep in their throats as Sakura smiled sheepishly.

Suigetsu thought a moment and gasped, "I wasn't thinking that! I was just saying she was prettier than they said she was! No need to get offensive."

Sasuke relaxed a little but Naruto didn't let his guard down.

"I'll be back soon…I feel like hunting with the pack." Naruto growled as he walked silently into the woods.

Suigetsu blinked, "What does he mean by 'hunting with the pack'?"

Sakura frowned slightly, "Naruto likes to henge into a wolf a lot and over time he formed a ninken wolf pack, but…when he says 'hunting' he means he's going on a blood spree."

"How violent." Suigetsu murmured.

Not a second later a wolf howl rang throughout the woods; shaking the trees to their roots with a haunting but beautiful hunting song.

Sakura smiled slightly, "I always had liked Naruto's howl…gentle yet…dangerous."

"Mmmhmm." Sasuke murmured.

Suigetsu put his hands on his hips and he looked at the sky, "Well…we better start heading back to camp." He turned to look back at Sasuke, his silver hair gleaming in the sunshine.

Sasuke looked at Sakura and nodded slightly. Sakura blinked slowly and rubbed her eye.

Suigetsu didn't let this go unnoticed, "Tired?"

Sakura coughed quietly, "No."

Suigetsu shrugged and started to walk slowly back to camp. Sasuke didn't buy Sakuras excuse.

He smirked, "I think you're letting yourself suffer more than needed." Sasuke grinned as he sweeped Sakura into his arms. "Such a selfless girl." He laughed quietly.

She yawned softly, "I'm not tired."

"We don't have to go to camp if you don't want to. We can find a spot out in the woods." Sasuke murmured.

Sakura blinked heavily, "Ok…"

Sasuke chuckled quietly and kissed Sakura on her forehead. He started to walk into the woods when an over-sized wolf with a dark brown coat and 4 thick, silver bracelets on his right forearm stepped out of the woods.

Sasuke tilted his head when he saw that the wolf had blood on his muzzle.

"Toboe." Sasuke greeted.

"Sasuke." Toboe replied.

"I see that Naruto had no mercy." Sasuke noted.

Toboe barked a throaty, deep wolf-laugh, "It was quite relaxing. Relieves stress easily without hurting a pack member or choppin' down a tree." He held up a blood stained paw and wiggled his toes.

"It must be tough being a wolf."

"Eh depends on what's goin' on in life." Toboe explained.

Sasuke looked down at Sakura to see why she was so quiet and found out that she was already asleep.

"Sakura's asleep huh?" Toboe asked obviously.

"Hn…" Sasuke murmured as he brushed a piece of stray hair from Sakuras face.

"You can sleep with the pack, including me and Naruto, tonight and whenever else you need to place to stay warm." Toboe grinned wolfishly.

Sasuke nodded and turned to look at Sakura again. Toboe sighed and loped back into the woods. Sasuke followed Toboe through an unknown path in the woods before appearing in a clearing.


Crazy People.... XD

~Firewolfpup