Naruto woke up only to find himself inside a cave. He looked around seeing only candles and the slightly familiar bed he was on. Naruto tried to remember what happened and he did. Naruto got up and was about to search for Itachi when to his surprise Itachi came in front of him. Naruto felt angry at Itachi everything was going so perfectly well for him until he interrupted. Naruto couldn't help himself but start yelling at Itachi.
"Why did you have to do that to me? Everything was going fine"
"Well Naruto if people now your true idendity then the mission is ruined and besides if you stayed much longer like that you would've been ambushed or killed eventually"
"No your wrong they would never do that"
"Youll see Naruto."
Meanwhile the Chuunin exams finished ans Sakura Sasuke and Kakashi were asked to visit the Hokage immediately. They were in the small office staring at the old man waiting for a reply or some request. He stood up and finally began to talk.
"We know that Takimaru is Naruto and a member of Akatsuki and with his sudden disappearance I believe we should take some course of action."
"Look I know that Naruto is but… it doesn't mean that we can just hunt him down." Sakura replied.
"Why not Sakura if we don't hunt him down then he will come back and obviously just cause trouble for us all theres nothing we can do to change that." Kakashi announced.
"But still…"
"Sakura we have no choice. Im guessing you want us to hunt him down then."
"Well not exactly just to locate him and try to negotiate and if that doesn't work immediately call for backup" The Hokage announced
"Will do Hokage" Kakashi replied.
"But we cant go to just kill him then its kind of like betraying him it would be like"
"If you ask me Sakura it sounds more like your defending him." Everyone turned towards Sasuke. The memory of the fair flashed through her mind she wasn't defending him she just felt the need to defend him. Or maybe it was something else.
Meanwhile back a Aakatsuki base…
"They wouldn't kill me they wouldn't!" Naruto screamed this over and over again at Itachi hoping that by repeating it. This would all somehow come true.
"Naruto think about it logically if they know your real identity would they really not seek you out."
"No Sakura would never…"
"Honestly love is to distracting for a ninja so get over your feelings."
"Im not in love!"
"Well it doesn't matter just do your job and stay low for awhile hopefully they wont find us for a long enough time so we can be fully prepared."
"This isn't fair at all!"
Naruto stormed back into his bed and waited until Itachi left. He needed time to himself. He couldn't stop thinking about the time at the festival, how nice Sakura was. Would she really turn on him just like that? Despite what Itachi told him Naruto decided to use the transformation jutsu and began heading towards Konoha village.
