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Chapter 8

At the Hokage Tower

Tsunade was holding a folder containing a recent and not to mention dangerously high mission. She was scanning the contents of the folder, "This is bad," she muttered to herself.

She was about to call for Shizune when the raven haired woman came bursting in the office. "Ah, Shizune I was about to call you," the blonde woman said, placing the folder down and looking up to her former apprentice.

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The Gondaime noticed that Shizune was panting and was sweating, "What's wrong Shizune?" she asked, worried about her former apprentice's condition. The raven haired woman took in a deep breath, "It's N-Naruto-kun," she breathed out. This statement only worried Tsunade more.

"What about him?" Tsunade asked cautiously, feeling somewhat afraid of Shizune's answer. Shizune took in another big breath, "Akatsuki," she managed to say before collapsing on the floor. Tsunade immediately rushed over to her former apprentice, called a Jounin then instructed the Jounin to take care of Shizune then disappeared in a puff of smoke.

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Tsunade reappeared near the usual training grounds of Naruto; she was expecting uprooted trees and debris everywhere but found the area completely empty. She was about to turn around when an explosion was heard in the inner part of the forest. The blonde Hokage raced towards where smoke began to appear.

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She arrived at the place where the smoke was at its thickest. She wasn't nearly as shocked about her surroundings than what she saw. It was Naruto, in his kyuubi form, with five tails. Tsunade cursed under her breath and did some hand seals. Once she did the last seal another shadow clone of her appeared.

"Go back to the village and call Yamato and Kakashi," the real Tsunade said. The clone Tsunade nodded and started tree hopping back to the village.

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A raven haired teen looked up, "Tch. That dobe," Sasuke muttered when he saw the smoke from the forests near by the old team seven training grounds. "What did he do this time?" he asked to no one in particular as he started walking casually over the place where the smoke is erupting.

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A girl with pink hair zoomed past the young Uchiha, "What the?!" he thought to himself, regaining his balance. "Sakura; wait up!" Ino shouted running after her friend, the other girls also zoomed past the young Uchiha running after their pink haired friend.

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Sasuke stuck out a hand and was able to catch two of the four running girls. "Sasuke-san!" the two shouted as they were pulled back. "Let us go!" Michiko shouted; Hinata decided to keep quiet. Sasuke let Hinata down but still had Michiko up. This resulted to Michiko thrashing about; demanding the young Uchiha to let her down, but was ignored.

"Why are you after Sakura?" he asked the calm violet haired girl. "S-Sakura-chan and the rest o-of us were w-walking a-around the v-village th-then she s-started t-to run t-towards the forest," the Hyuuga heiress replied shyly. The raven-haired teen gave a curt nod and put the furious looking Michiko down.

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"Me, Sakura-chan and Hina-chan had a gut feeling that Naruto's was in trouble," Michiko huffed out. "As soon as she heard Naruto's name accompanied by "trouble" she started sprinting towards the forest," she added. Sasuke felt an unfamiliar feeling at the pit of his stomach; was he jealous? Or was he worried or was it something else?

He shook his head; he'll have time to figure it out later. When he looked back to where the smoke was coming from he also noticed that the two girls by his side had started to sprint towards the forest. He didn't have a choice but to follow them, seeing that he was going there anyways.

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Pink appeared from a bush near the clearing, "Naruto!" Sakura exclaimed as she entered the clearing where she presumed the blonde boy was. Ino and Tenten were able to enter the clearing as well, "Forehead!" Ino shouted catching up to her pink haired friend, with Tenten near. Soon Hinata and Michiko also came into the clearing, as well as Sasuke.

Nobody dared say a word or make anymore movements. The smoke was clearing up and they were beginning to see figures, a bit fuzzy, but they knew it wasn't Naruto.

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Once the smoke cleared they all gasped, except for Sasuke and Michiko. "Deidara!" they all exclaimed, this time except for Sasuke. The blonde Akatsuki looked up, a smrik plastered on his face.

"It's so good to see you again, yeah!" he exclaimed, sarcasm dripping in every word he said. "Where's Naruto/Naruto-kun?!" the rest demanded. Deidara snorted, "Like I'll tell you, yeah!" he mused.

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"Where is he?" Sakura demanded, the others decided to keep quiet. Hinata activated her Byakuugan and searched the rest of the clearing. Sasuke activated his Sharingan and also began searching for his best friend/rival.

"He's at least 23 miles away from us," both teens announced, loud enough for just the group to hear.

"Sakura, go find Naruto," Ino said, "Me and Ino will handle this," Tenten added. Sakura was a bit hesitant at first but trusted the girls that they'll come out victorious. She nodded and signaled the other two girls to follow her. Sasuke trailed behind.

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"Where are they?" Tsunade asked to herself irritably as she hopped to yet another tree. The blonde woman was following a good distance away from the Kyuubi vessel. "At this rate, the whole forest will crumble to ashes," she thought again, taking a glance at the destruction Naruto was creating around the area.

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Naruto, in his Kyuubi form, stopped dead at his tracks. Tsunade also stopped and began analyzing the situation more intensely. Currently Naruto was at his fifth tail, signs showing that his sixth tail will appear soon made Tsunade fear the safety of the village even more. "Naruto, what on earth made you this way?" she asked herself quietly.

Naruto started sniffing the area for a scent of the thing or person he was looking for. He narrowed his eyes and saw Tsunade not to far from him; Tsunade noticed this and froze. The Kyuubi boy paid no heed to Tsunade's presence and started dashing through the forest grounds in search for whatever he was looking for.

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The blonde haired Hokage sighed out, "He must have learned how to control his self in this sort of situations," Tsunade thought, thinking about the time when Naruto, in his Kyuubi form, hurt Sakura on a mission.

Tsunade looked back to the direction she came from then started tree hopping again to where Naruto dashed off to.

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Sakura, Hinata, Michiko and Sasuke were in the same path both Tsunade and the blonde haired Chuunin went through. "Why on earth would Naruto react this way?" Sakura asked to no one in particular. "I'm guessing it was Akatsuki," Michiko answered, a serious look on her face. Hinata remained quiet and kept alert while Sasuke decided not to say anything after the word Akatsuki.

Sasuke unconsciously clenched his fists but still remained his cool façade. He followed the three girls as the four of them sprint towards the direction they guessed where Naruto was.

"I-I hope n-not," Hinata managed to whisper to herself.

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The clone, that Tsunade made, was able to successfully reach the two assigned Jounins and informed that what she knows and what the real Tsunade wanted done.

The two Jounins nodded then the clone disappeared. "Looks like we have a mission to do," Kakashi sighed, closing his little orange book and placing it inside his pouch then signaling for him and his comrade towards the forest where the action was taking place. "Hai, Kakashi-sempai," Yamato said as they both disappeared to their destination.

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A/N: Onee-chan and Onii-chan should send a review after reading!!

Chapter 8 is finally up! turns to chibi then started dancing

Chapter 9 will be made as soon as possible!!