Chapter Ten: A Tiny Problem
Meanwhile Naruto and Sasuke were busy making their way through the woods when this time they ran into a little girl about Sachi's age with black hair, brown eyes, and dark skin. "Anata wa daredesuka, doko kara kismashita ka?" Sasuke questioned her.
"Huh?" the little girl questioned him back while making a face as Sasuke heaved a sigh and turned to look back at Naruto.
"Umm,.. I speak a little bit of English, perhaps I can help you." He began. "I'm Naruto Uzumaki and this is my brother Sasuke and he was just wondering who you were and where you came from." He translated.
"Oh. Well tell him that my name is Lilo Pelekai and I'm actually from Kauai. I'm just vacationing here with my sister Nani and the rest of my ohana." She explained as she smiled at them and Naruto translated for Sasuke before turning back to face her.
"Say have you seen a tiny blue creature around here that was chasing a tiny purple glob?" he wondered while realizing just how ridiculous he sounded.
"Stitch and Shrink!" Lilo exclaimed.
"So I take it you know them then." Sasuke said as Naruto and Lilo both stared at him in astonishment with their jaws dropped down and open wide. "What? I know a little bit of English, I'm just not very good with it." He explained.
"Oh. Well yeah anyways they're my,.. umm,.. dogs." She lied.
"Dogs? Stitch said that they were genetic experiments or something." Naruto told her while crossing his arms.
"He did? Oh." She replied.
"He also said that he was originally designed to be a monster before he found you guys, but he never told us what Shrink was designed to do." Naruto said.
"Isn't it obvious? He shrinks stuff!" Lilo exclaimed frantically as Naruto blushed.
"Right, I knew that." He lied.
"Now come on we have to find them before Shrink starts shrinking everything in the village!" Lilo cried before she ran away.
"Now what do we do!?" Naruto cried.
"We follow her. If we find Stitch and Shrink maybe they'll lead back us into the village and we'll find Sakura and everybody else in the process." Sasuke told him before he chased after Lilo.
"Damn it!" Naruto snapped. "Come on Sasuke wait up!" he cried.
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Meanwhile Keiko anxiously paced the floor of her bedroom. That's when suddenly Konohamaru entered the room. Keiko gasped and as she looked up at him her eyes turned pink. "Hey toots, supper's ready." He said and then realized that her eyes were pink. "That's odd, I've never seen your eyes turn that color before." He added as she gasped again and blushed before her eyes slowly went back blue and she quickly turned her head away from him.
"Yeah,.. I didn't know that they could. I mean, I don't even know what that means." She lied.
"Well that makes two of us." He began. "Maybe we can figure it out together over supper."
"No, I'm not hungry." She replied.
"What's wrong? Are you still worried about Naruto and Sasuke?" he asked her.
"Of course I am and that's why I'm going after them." She replied.
"What!? No you can't! It's too dangerous!" he cried.
"Do you think I care!? Sasuke's my big brother I have to go after him! Sakura, Sachi, and Sasame are counting on me to bring him back home!" she exclaimed. "Please don't tell anybody where I went and cover for me." she pleaded before kissing him on the cheek. "I'll be alright I promise." She reassured him before she opened the window and escaped outside of it leaving Konohamaru all alone.
"Hey, where did Keiko go?" Sakura wondered as she entered the bedroom.
"Uh she had to go to the bathroom." Konohamaru lied.
"Really?" Sakura began while raising a questioning eyebrow at him. "I just passed by the door and nobody was in there." She told him.
"That's because she had to go to the other bathroom upstairs." He replied.
"Well why didn't she just go to this one it's closer." Sakura pointed out.
"She wanted to get her exercise." He responded quickly. "And I think she's going to be in there awhile so we might as well forget about her and get something to eat." He told her.
"Really? I sure hope that she's okay." Sakura began with a sad sigh. "She's probably worried about Sasuke." She realized.
"I think that's a safe bet, but I'm sure she'll be fine now come on let's go." He told her as he turned around and started pushing her out of the room.
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"Well, are we any closer in finding them?" Sasuke wondered as he continued running alongside Naruto through the tops of the trees and that's when they came to a sudden stop and Naruto pointed down at the ground in front of them.
"There! I see them!" he cried before they quickly leapt to the ground startling Shrink making him gasp and shoot a green laser out from his eyes at them before he turned around and scampered away. That's when suddenly to both Naruto's and Sasuke's horror they started shrinking down in size until they were no more than a quarter of an inch tall.
"Well, that went well." Naruto said sarcastically.
"What the!? What did that thing do to us!?" he hollered.
"Apparently he shrunk us." Naruto began. "Hey! It's just like in that Disney movie where the kids get shrunk!" he realized before Sasuke started chasing after him.
"I'm going to murder you Naruto!" he shouted as Lilo and Stitch simply just looked at each other.
"I wondered what scared Shrink like that to make him run off." Lilo began. "Wait a minute, weren't Naruto and Sasuke just here?" she questioned her friend as Stitch nodded.
"Ih!" he cried while Lilo's eyes widened in complete and utter horror and astonishment.
"Oh no, you don't think that Shrink shrunk them do you? Come on we have to find him before something terrible happens to them!" she exclaimed.
"Ih!" Stitch replied before they both darted off into the distance.