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Chapter 10: It's the Day to mess with Sasuke!

Recently ANBU Black Ops have recovered intel on recent Cloud village activity; it was suspected that a group of rogue Cloud Village ninja have set their eyes to obtain the byakugan. With security heightened Hiding Naruto will be near impossible.

(Streets of Konohagakure)

Hinata looked around frantically trying to find somebody. Hinata finally finds the person she was looking for.

"Sakura! Over here." Yelled Hinata waving towards her.

"Oh hey Hinata, what's up?" Asked Sakura with a straight forward look.

"I need you to watch Naruto for the day." Said Hinata holding out Naruto.

Sakura just stared at Naruto, Naruto tilted his head slightly. Sakura turn slightly red and quickly turned away.

"Well I was going to see if Sasuke would go out with me, but I guess having Naruto

around won't be so bad." Sakura paused 'What did I just say!' Said Sakura's inner self.

"So why do need me to watch him anyways, you seem to be holding your own."

"Well lately, there were was report of rogue Cloud ninja might be making an attempt to obtain the byakugan. In response of that my father has heightened security. I was able to sneak out of the complex with Naruto, but I am not sure how much longer I can stay out before somebody notices." Hinata explained

"Wow that sounds serious, I suppose if it is to keep the secret from getting out, I really can't refuse." Said Sakura

Hinata's eyes lit with relief "Thank you so much, I will find a way to repay you." Said Hinata.

Hinata bowed and quickly ran back to the Hyuuga Complex, leaving Sakura to wonder around taking care of Naruto. "Well there goes the rest of my day off." Said Sakura letting out a sigh of disappointment. Sakura began to walk around the village trying to find something to do. Naruto was being unusually quiet, but began to whine when his stomach began to growl "I guess I can go find a place for lun..." Sakura paused hearing a group of girls her age gossiping.

"Did you hear?" Said one of the girls

"What! Spill it!" Answered the other girl

"I heard that Sasuke like girls who like animals."

"No way, I have to find pet as fast as possible."

Sakura had a gleam in her eye as she looked down at Naruto with a rather ominous stare. Naruto's ear drooped down in fear. "Since you are here I mind as well use you to my advantage."

Sakura began to look around the village trying to find Sasuke. It finally dawned on her that she would find him in the one place Sasuke always spends his time almost everyday. She ran off towards the training grounds just outside of the village.

(Konohagakure Training grounds)

Sakura looked around the training grounds where team 7 had their first exercise. However, to Sakura's surprise Sasuke was nowhere to be found.

"*sigh* I thought for sure Sasuke would be around here."

Just then the sound of thousand shrieking birds rang out.

"Chidori!" Sasuke yelled as his crashed into a nearby rock, the rock ripped apart into many pieces.

'So cool' Sakura thought to herself. Naruto just stared letting an out a small yawn showing his true interest in Sasuke's display of power 'pff big deal' Naruto thought.

Sakura just stared at Sasuke for a minute when she had finally realized why she had gone out to the training grounds.

"Hey Sasuke-kun, notice anything different about me today." Said Sakura with a smile holding onto Naruto closely.

Sasuke just stared at Sakura.

"No, just the same thing, you interrupting my training." Said Sasuke with the usual scowl on his face.

Sakura froze also losing here grip and Naruto leapt out of Sakura's arms. Sakura was so disappointed that she failed to realize that Naruto had escaped from her arms. Sakura slowly turned around and began to make her way back to the village completely unaware of Naruto's escape.

"Well, I guess I shouldn't be surprised, most of the rumors back in the academy were false too. Well I guess I should feed Naruto" 'I still can't believe I am actually saying that.' At that moment Sakura stopped in her tracks. "Eh! I can't believe I actually let Naruto out of my sight!" Said Sakura sprinting back to training camp. Upon her arrival neither Naruto nor Sasuke were there. 'No, Naruto couldn't have possibly followed Sasuke.' Sakura thought to herself.

The sound of footsteps caught Sakura's attention. When Sakura turned around to her surprise it was Hinata.

"Hinata! What are you doing out? I thought the Hyuuga complex was on lockdown." Sakura asked.

"It was, but the lockdown was called off, because my father has deemed that the information was false. So that means I can take Naruto-kun back." Said Hinata. Hinata looked around when she noticed that something was missing. "Where is Naruto-kun?"

Sakura's face went pale.

"You're joking me! You let Naruto-kun get loose!" Said Hinata in a mass panic.

"I know, I know, but look panicking over this won't get anything done. Naruto couldn't have possibly gotten too far. It is best if we split up, we will have a better chance of finding him. Take this radio com, if one of us gets a visual report in."

Hinata knew that there was no window of time to become any angrier, because finding Naruto was a higher priority now. The two Kunoichi made their way towards the village, Hinata taking the west province of the village while Sakura took towards the east section of the village.

(Streets of Konohagakure)

Sasuke walked down the main street of Konohagakure to find Kakashi to learn some new jutsu, but could not shake the feeling that he was being followed. Naruto was not far behind from Sasuke, for reasons beyond Naruto's comprehension he felt compelled to follow his prey, in order to annoy him. Naruto began to feel excited with the pranks that he was going to attempt. At that moment a shiver shot up Sasuke's spine.

'I can't shake this feeling that I am being watched.' Sasuke thought to himself. Sasuke looked around, observing his surroundings; nothing seemed to be out of the ordinary, or so it seemed. Sasuke then continued walking; unaware of the present "danger".

Naruto looked around 'what would be the best thing to use' Naruto thought. Naruto spotted a nearby water drip line up ahead over the Yamanaka Flower Shop about a block ahead of Sasuke, so he took the rooftops towards his first prank. Naruto readied his incisor teeth into position. Sasuke approached into position. Naruto clamped his teeth severing the line, however no water came out. Confused, Naruto peeked into the tube, Ino turned on the sprinklers, water sprayed into Naruto face; completely soaked, Naruto was a little irritated to say the least. 'I don't know why but I will not stop until I prank you' Naruto thought to himself

Naruto once again treaded ahead past Sasuke to scout out any potential mischief he could cause. Up ahead Naruto spotted a great opportunity. A painter was applying coats of orange paint to an old building (I never would do orange paint). Naruto perched himself on a dry patch of paint and easily blends in without even alerting the painter. Sasuke soon approached towards the target area. As soon as Sasuke reached the target area, Naruto pushed the paint can over the ledge; Naruto looked in content as the paint can headed towards Sasuke. Just then Sasuke disappeared. Naruto looked around in the confusion and before he knew it, he was suspended in mid-air. He was being held by Sasuke from the back.

"So you are the one who has been following me, and by the looks of it you were trying to knock paint on me." Said Sasuke who just glaring at Naruto.

Naruto just stared giving his best sad face, anything to get away from Sasuke, but he knew there was no chance of him getting away.

Sasuke looked around for a "proper" punishment for the mischievous little fox; that is when Sasuke noticed a group of nearby children playing. Sasuke looked back towards Naruto with a rather uneasy unsettling smile. Sasuke walked towards the group of playing children.

"Hey, you want to play my pet fox." Said Sasuke

Naruto began to struggle trying to get free. Unfortunately the children got to Naruto first and immediately started pinch his cheeks and pulling on his tail. Naruto was yipping in the commotion.

"*hmph* serves ya right." Said Sasuke as began to walk away.

*splat* (I will leave the sound to your imagination :P)

Sasuke stopped immediately after that step.

'Hehehe, just when you think you got me beat; I am always one step ahead of you' though Naruto as the kids stopped harassing him to laugh at Sasuke.

Sasuke slowly turned around and stared at Naruto with an ominous glare of killer intent. "I think I have a strange craving for a fox pelt."

'Oh, S***' Naruto thought to himself as he broke the grip of the children. Naruto then bolted as fast as he could; with Sasuke closely behind him. Naruto saw that Sasuke was close to catching up, and unknowingly redirected chakra to his feet and started running at an incredible rate leaving lingering essence of red and blue chakra behind.

'What was that?' Sasuke had thought to himself in his confusion 'that is no ordinary fox.'

(meanwhile in other parts of the village)

Hinata and Sakura were still looking separately for any sign of Naruto, but there was not a single trace of him and all seemed lost. A feint sound of villagers screaming. "What was that huge orange rat!" They shrieked

Immediately both Sakura and Hinata knew that had to be Naruto. They began to converge to the point of the disturbance. They both arrived at the same time, When they looked around the dust had not settled. Hinata went up to a nearby villager.

"Did you see what came through here?" Asked Hinata frantically

"It looked like a huge orange rat." The villager replied in confusion.

Hinata turned towards Sakura; they both nodded to each other.

"Do you know which direction it was headed?" Hinata questioned

"If I had to say, it looked like it was headed towards the village gates." The villager replied

"Thank you" said Hinata as she bowed, both Sakura and Hinata bolted towards the village gate. They both split up to cover a larger range of area; however, they were completely unaware that Sasuke had overheard the villager as well and made a hasty sprint towards the gate.

(Konohagakure training grounds)

Naruto stopped to catch his breath near the three wooden posts. Suddenly Sasuke appeared out of no where.

"It's time for a little payback." Said Sasuke cracking his knuckles

Just as Sasuke was about to grab Naruto; Hinata swooped in and grabbed Naruto.

"Don't you dare lay a finger on him." Said Hinata boldly.

"Is that rodent yours?" Asked Sasuke

"He is not a rodent, and yes he belongs to me." Said Hinata

Sasuke just gave a cold a stare at Hinata and Naruto.

"*hmph* Whatever, I wasted to much time chasing the pest anyways." Said Sasuke as he turned around to walk away. When Sasuke began to walk he froze in place.

'What is this? I can't move.' Sasuke thought to himself.

A crackling laugh came from a nearby tree line. Suddenly a Cloud ninja had revealed himself.

"It seems my paralysis genjutsu worked" Said the Cloud ninja "It seems my patience has finally paid off; I have myself a little Hyuuga. The byakugan is as good as mine."

Hinata realized the danger and she quickly made her way to Sasuke to try to break him out of the Genjutsu. Just as she was about to break the genjutsu the Cloud Ninja appeared in her path.

"Now, now, why don't you just come quietly while I take those eyes of yours." Said the ninja

Naruto growled at the enemy ninja.

"Oh, so tough." The ninja said laughing.

Naruto managed to wiggle his way out of Hinata arms and took a defensive stance to protect Hinata. 'You will never lay a finger on her, you here me!' Thought Naruto. Naruto's tail began swirl around, as his tail swirled the wind followed as well.

"What the..." The Rogue ninja said

A mix of red and blue Chakra began to encircle Naruto creating a vermillion casing around Naruto. Naruto then bolted towards the ninja at an extreme speed. Naruto leapt in the air and began to spin violently, Naruto curled in to a ball in mid-air becoming an almost exact duplicate of a rasengan. The Rogue Cloud ninja had no time to react to the Jutsu and was nailed in the stomach the chakra then released all its energy causing the Sound ninja to be launched backwards into the skies.

'And don't you ever come back!' Thought Naruto as he turned and ran back into Hinata's arms

Both Hinata and Sasuke couldn't believe what they just saw. But Sasuke finally pieced together what happened.

"So tell me, how long has Naruto been in that form?" Sasuke asked.

Hinata was surprised the question "W-w-what this isn't Naruto."

"You don't need to lie to me. It is obvious, Naruto has been gone for quite awhile, and plus there is only one person that I know that can do a move like that." Said Sasuke.

"Its been awhile now." Said Hinata. Hinata went on to explain the story.

"I see, well anyway you had better report what happened here to the Hokage." Said Sasuke.

Hinata knew that he was right, this was a definite change in Naruto that Tsunade needed to be informed about, so she left immediately.

(Hokage Mansion)

"Thank you Hinata for bringing this information to me, you are excused." Said Tsunade.

Hinata left and began her trip back home.

Shizune was standing by Tsunade. "What do you think this means?" Shizune asked

"Well, it could mean anything, but Naruto Could be subconsciously causing this. In any case this confirms one thing." Said Tsunade.

"What is that?" asked Shizune

"Naruto is becoming mission capable." Tsunade said with a small smile " I will let them rest for a small bit, this was a trying day for them."

End Chapter

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*Holy Crap I finally finished this chapter. Please forgive me, I had a writers block for the longest time. I really hope everybody likes this chapter. I want to take a small adventure with this new development. Tell me your thoughts if I should. So read, review, and subscribe. Thank you to my regular readers ;)