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Pinky and the big bad shinobi world

The Big Bad Shinobi World Arc

Chapter Eleven: Changes

With Deidara and Naruto:

Everything is serene above the ocean. Bellow is the water in all of its infinity and above is the cloudless skies. Such a picture would make anyone calmer and yet it failed to do that to a curtain blonde.

After a chase, courtesy of hunter nins of all of the shinobi villages, it had been enough for the group. They had agreed to separate. So now he had to watch over a very sad blonde child that hadn't smiled in weeks.

He didn't mind taking Naruto in the beginning. The boy's sense of humor was great and he had to admit that the boy appreciating his art also won him some brownie points. And there lay the problem. Ever since he had been separated from his two friends Naruto hadn't been the same.

It pained Deidara to see the ball of energy like this. Still there was nothing to be done. They both looked alike and could pass as brothers. And Naruto wasn't noticed yet as much as his friends.

Hunter nins, mostly from Kumo, tried restlessly to kidnap Sasuke for his sharingan. It had gotten so bad the black haired boy started to jump at every sound. To top it all off Satoshi had disappeared somewhere. It had happened during an attack on the camp in the dead of night. By the time they had even the idea of what hit them Satoshi was gone, no trails were left behind.

They had searched as much as time had allowed but they knew that they couldn't stay at the campsite for long. They had been found out already and it was dangerous. It had been Naruto's idea to go their separate ways in the hopes they might find each other again someday. That didn't mean it was easy to leave his friend so soon after Satoshi's disappearance but the blonde had pulled it off.

As soon as they had flown out of site the small blonde had started crying. The only thing that Deidara could do was to hug him, and he had done just that, murmuring words of comfort and not being entirely sure if he was comforting the child or himself.

He had trained Naruto as best as he could while they weren't in the air but their time was always cut short. Somehow the hunter nins always found them no matter where they were. On a brighter note he had managed to get Naruto to prank again, which might have been horrible for the boy's victims but it lifted his mood for a while.

Whit a heavy sight the blonde patted his charge's head and looked down bellow the bird again. Life as a missing ninja had been great before he had met the rag tag group but somehow he couldn't help but not regret it.

With Kabuto and Sasuke:

Sasuke walked a little bit behind Kabuto clutching Bandit. Bandit, the raccoon, wasn't happy about being clutched but Sasuke didn't care. Right now everything wasn't as fun as it used to, they were separated and it hurt.

So far he had came up with dead ends when he tried to plan their reunion. He had tried to prank bounty collectors to the point of hysterics for information on Satoshi. He had searched the newspapers for terrorist attacks that may tell him where Deidara and Naruto were. He had even tried finding his brother, a defense mechanism from his days as a happy child.

It had all been for nothing. Satoshi was still missing, Deidara was quiet and instead of Itachi he had found a shark guy who kept calling him pipsqueak. But did he even consider giving up? No! As Kabuto and he walked he tried to remember where was the nearest bounty station and if he had terrified its supervisor into running for the hills yet.

He smiled as he didn't exactly know the town they were in. This was a good thing. A new town meant a new opportunity to get information. He just had to wait for Kabuto to finish his questioning of the information brokers and then he would visit them during the night and use his sharingan to show them horrible things.

Sasuke had to admit that the illusion of the pink T-rex singing for twenty four hours was a little extreme but his friends were gone and without them he was sinking into his dark side…with cookies.

He noticed someone spying them and immediately activated his sharingan. Sasuke didn't know who it was but judging by the sort of people that usually trailed them he was not a good person and he deserved what he got.

A sound of something falling on the ground was heard and Kabuto only facepalmed while Sasuke pulled a cookie out of his bag and gave half to Bandit, blissfully eating the other half. It was fortunate that they were entering a town indeed for he ate half a cookie every time he put someone under a genjutsu and out of his 200 cookies now only five remained, including the one he was eating.

With Satoshi:

He didn't know how he got into this mess. One minute he was using the Tenrai Yari to play ninja with Sasuke and Naruto and the next someone snatched him. They had yelled something about Orochimaru and vengeance and the Haruno clan, the last he could totally understand, and then they had tied him up and started to carry him.

Where to he never got to know as he had been found by the story telling man and he had freed him. From then it had been an actually joyful journey around the countryside with the story telling man living up to his name and telling him stories all the while.

He liked them all but he liked the one about that time prince Madara and nobleman Haru curled prince Hashirama's hair into gorgeous curls that couldn't go back to normal for a month. The unfortunate prince had been mistaken for a fair princess and had to go on an epic quest to find someone to straighten his hair.

For a while Satoshi didn't mind being separated from the others, as selfish as it sounded he liked having someone's attention only to himself and being pampered. But as the days went on he felt an emptiness grow inside him.

His nostalgia had gotten so bad that he had started to call the story telling man by his friend's names. He could see that it hurt his new friend and tried to call him Toby but when he acted like one of his friends he just couldn't help himself.

So when one day Satoshi woke up to the smell of breakfast with all of his stuff, and quite a bit extra, packed and no Toby in sight he didn't feel betrayed. No, he felt grateful that his friend cared enough for him to let him go to find his group.

Satoshi silently promised himself that no matter what he was going to find Tobi again someday and this time he was going to introduce him to his friends!

Fortunately they had camped near a town and he made his way there. The town had been a big disappointment at first. It didn't even have an inn; it was merely a farmer's town. Still even these farmers had a thing or two to say.

In there he had learned of a demonic boy in a city guarded by raccoons whose eyes could somehow turn yellow. The little baby was not wanted there and they would soon ship him off to a shinobi village.

In fact that was the reason why the people were in town and not out in the fields. The escort, according to what a friend of a friend of a friend of a third cousin of the baker had said, was supposed to pass by.

Satoshi didn't know why but he felt guilty all of a sudden. Then he made his decision. If he was going to travel he was not going to travel alone. He didn't want to let the unfortunate baby be raised in an orphanage; whoever was up there knew he had hated it.

So, using everything he had learned from Haru's book, he had rescued the baby and became an unwanted person in the town. They had even made posters and everything and he had loved the sharp teeth and the horns.

That, however, wasn't really his biggest problem. His problem was the baby who was glaring at him and tried to tug his hair one minute and then was normal the next. The only way to know when the bucket of sunshine was going to make his life miserable was when the boy's eye color changed to yellow.

Satoshi had learned to counter most of the damage by reading to the baby from his uncle's book. The baby would freeze and stare at him blinking from time to time; not really understanding what was being said to him. It calmed it and Satoshi got some reading done so he wasn't complaining.

What he really disliked about his charge was his sleeping habits. He was sure that the baby woke him up right when he fell asleep on purposes. He always had that mad gleam in his eyes when he did and then when Satoshi would check him, diapers and all, he'll find him clean and not hungry with a small amused smile on his cute face.

Satoshi was patient and taking care of cuddly poops, as he had nicknamed the baby, took his mind off the fact that he was in the middle of no where and he still had no clue where his friends were.

One of those many days of complete boredom, spend in a house who's previous occupants had been driven away by a "vengeful spirit", he had picked a name for the baby. Cuddly poop's teeth had started to grow and the baby had started using them for many things, one of which being biting him.

As he watched the boy eat a peach one of the voices in his head was saying "Aw" while the others where plotting vengeance for a rather nasty bite on his left arm acquired during bath time.

With a sinister smile he picked up the baby, who kept eating his peach not really paying him any attention. Then Satoshi brightly announced that from then on he was to be called Momotaro. The baby first dropped his peach in surprise, after that it went through the tearful stage and after that the anger came.

Satoshi would never underestimate cuddly poops again, watching a baby trying to bite your nose off is scary, but he was proud he stood his ground and the name stayed.

TBC

So this is a what happened during time skip chapter. I hope you enjoyed it, please don't forget to review.