Chapter 14

Prank

Team7 sat outside the Anbu headquarters, or more correctly one of 4 different entrances. They had come up with a plan over the last week and were now about to put it into affect. The first part though was the truly hard part, as they had to get into the headquarters. And if it had been just Naruto this would be easy as he had done it once before, and was only caught when leaving. But now they all had to get in to make this work, and Sakura was by no means a master of stealth.

Naruto looked over at Haku and nodded, there plan to enter was simple. Knock out the guards with the pressure points at the back of their neck, then using a justu Naruto knew they would enter into the base. After that was the easy part of their prank.

Haku seeing Naruto nodded moved forward till she was behind the 3 different guards. Then pulling some senbon out of her sleeve then threw them at the Anbu guards. The senbon hit their targets causing each of the Anbu to fall over as if dead, as the nerves the senbon hit triggered a death state. She moved closer to the Anbu and nodded in satisfaction as she noticed this was not a genjustu or anything else she had actually got them. Looking over to where Naruto was she signaled him with a hand sign to come over.

Naruto and Sakura noticed the signal and came out from hiding and quickly moved over to where Haku stood waiting. Once they had got back together in their team Naruto led them into the house that the Anbu were guarding and stopped by a bare wall with no noticeable markings. Naruto quickly did some hand signs before channeling some charka into the wall causing a door to appear and slide out of the way noiselessly. Neither Sakura nor Haku was overly surprised since Naruto had already explained about the entrance to the Anbu headquarters.

There were 5 ways into the underground headquarters, 4 around the town and one in the center. The four around the edge of the town looked to be no more than safe or guard houses, but were really made to get into the tunnels system that leading back the main headquarters. They always had 3 guards on duty outside the house making it possible to enter and sneak in if you knew the correct hand signs. One could also enter at the Main headquarters, but that was more heavily watch and even Naruto could not sneak by since a Hyuga was always on watch.

As the door finished sliding out the way fully Naruto, Haku, and Sakura entered into the tunnels to begin phase two of their plan. Which was very simple, they brought out some tags made by Naruto for his pranking days and set to work. Phase two was simply, move down the corridors to the main base and set the tags along the way and in the main base, and then leave the base and leave through the way they came. They had only 31 minutes at max until the Anbu guard woke up and alerted the base to the invasion.

They quickly moved throughout the tunnels setting up the explosive tags before Naruto moved on into the main base. The only reason he did this was because he knew his way around and was the only one that could sneak in and get out. And thanks to the help of some of his clones he set the tags in under 20 minutes before he returned to the meeting spot where Sakura and Haku stood waiting after setting some tags in the other tunnels leading to the main base. After that they fled back done the tunnel they quickly reentered into the safe house then looks outside.

Naruto smiled the guards where still out cold thanks to Haku senbon. Naruto nodded at Haku and Sakura letting them know it was okay to leave. As they left Haku made sure to grab the senbon then they fled quickly back to Naruto house to await the craziness to come. Now that they were free they started to talk again.

Sakura looked over at Naruto and smiled, "So you think this will work?"

Naruto nodded pulling out a piece of paper with a seal on it, "Yes it will work better then you will believe then we must get to the Hokage's office after this."

Haku looked at the paper, "So that paper sets off those paint bombs you set off, right?"

Naruto nodded, "Yep I was able to copy and change the seal to how I needed them thanks to some help from some friends of mine. And after linking the papers bombs to this seal I have full control of them. But there is one flaw with this and that is they will sense my charka all around them right before the paint bombs go off. At which time you two will head to the Hokage while the Anbu chase me, after about probably a 30 minute chase I will head to the Hokage's tower and our mission set by Kakashi will be complete."

"So should we head off now or after you set off the seal," wondered Haku.

"Now. I am not sure how fast the Anbu will be able to react. Also I am sure the Anbu at the gate have woken up by now so time to get started." As Naruto finished speaking both Sakura and Haku nodded and took off away from Naruto apartment home and to the Hokage's tower. Naruto smiled and sent a large amount of Charka into the seal, and for a few seconds nothing seemed to happen. Then the paper turned blue from the charka and then sent it out in a pulse of charka that could be felt for up to a half mile away setting off all that tags that Naruto, Sakura, and Haku had set at once.

Sakura and Haku could not help but laughs as they passed by the Anbu headquarters on the way. They noticed 5 Anbu run out of it at top speed all painted colors of Orange or Pink. They quickly renew their speed and got to the tower as fast as they could. As they came in the saw a Chuunin sitting at the desk, walking over Sakura spoke up. "Excuse me sir but we need to speak with the Hokage at once."

The Chuunin looked at each of them then spoke, "Okay you may head in as he is not in a meeting at the moment."

Sakura and Haku entered into the room seeing the Hokage meditating a little bit, and as they got closer he spoke. "Yes how may I help you two today, and may I ask where Naruto is?"

"Well Hokage-sama we need to speak to you about a mission Kakashi gave us a mission," Sakura started before explaining everything.

At this time Naruto was sitting on the room of the Apartment he lived at and noticed 10 Anbu appear around him. He knew now was the time for him to start running but he could not help but talk first to make them possibly mad, "Well what is everyone here for? I might also ask what is with the new colors on your uniforms."

"You know very well why we are here Naruto. It is because you set paint bombs all over our headquarters," an Anbu said with a Crow mask.

"Well that is a big thing to say. But I don't see how I could, after all shouldn't your headquarter be impossible to get into," Naruto said not caring that it was very possible since he had just done it.

"Yes it should but somehow you did it and now we need to know how you did it. So you must tell us or else we will force you too," The Crow Anbu said speaking again for the group.

"Again how could it be me," Naruto asked?

"It was your charka that triggered the bombs and you have snuck in once before, so you are the only person that could have done it," another one of the Anbu stated simply.

"Well I guess you got me then, but there is just one problem with that," Naruto said his foxy grin firmly in place.

"Oh what is that," asked the same Anbu who had just spoken before.

"I am not the real Naruto," with that the clone went up in a puff of smoke.

Up in the sky all the while Cynder, Spyro, and Toothless flew about making sure to let Naruto know where the Anbu were moving. Naruto at this current point in time was sitting just outside the Hyuga clan compound waiting quietly for the Anbu to come. He ended up waiting about 5 minutes before the Anbu spotted him. After that he took off and the chase was on. At first they chased him down but just like any other time someone had chased him it seemed he was just too fast, or at least until they got Might Guy to join in.

It had been another 10 minutes by then. Naruto was barely even getting a work out when suddenly through the mind link he heard Spyro yell at him to dodge left now. And doing as he was told he dodged a green blur that slowed to a stop a few roof tops down. Naruto at once knew he would have to start using his abilities, since while he was fast he could not outrun Might Guy. Naruto at once took off running, and heard the sound whooshing air as Guy started moving towards him. Naruto knew he could not outrun Guy but that was not his plan as he stepped fully into a shadow and vanished. This caused Guy to stare at where Naruto had been in shock causing Guy to crash headlong into a brick wall.

Naruto reappeared on the other side of town near the old Uchiha clan district. He smiled noticing that no one was around at the moment, but this was changed as he heard a lot crashing sound. He spun around realizing the sound was coming from inside the Uchiha district. Naruto looked around once more and seeing no one at all decided to check it out. So quickly he moved over and climbed the wall to see Sasuke practicing his ninja skills. But there was something different then from before when Naruto had last been by here.

Naruto walked for a minute while a clone kept an idea out for anyone coming his way. And as he want Sasuke move though the fighting style Naruto realized what was so different. Sasuke was moving smoothly rather than with small jerks. Naruto knew that only happened when you have an opponent to fight, since no matter how much you trained it still did not fit together unless one really had another person to fight. Naruto then realized that meant Sasuke was getting training, but he was not allowed to think on this as some Anbu appeared forcing Naruto to flee or risk being caught.

Naruto led this group on a fast paste chase around the entire village picking up nearly all the Anbu while he was at it until it had been 20 minutes. It was more than long enough and then Naruto made a straight shot for the Hokage's tower. He was a hundred feet away when Naruto heard a shout of "Youth" causing him to dodge to the right to avoid Guys attack again. Knowing very well where this could go he had to act fast. So sinking into his own shadow he reappeared in the shadow made from the Hokage's tower and then quickly slipped inside before anyone could react. He ran up the stairs and skidded to a stop in the Hokage's office not bothering to talk to the Chuunin out front.

Naruto looked around as he stopped moving and smiled. Kakashi, Sakura, Haku, and the Third Hokage were all there. "Well I would say mission complete Kakashi-sensei and I gave the Anbu a run for their money and only had trouble when Might Guy showed up…

Kakashi gave Naruto an eye smile, "Of course Naruto he is after the only one that would make the mission challenging for you. Though he was at least not going full out on you or else you would lose in an instant."

"Yeah I agree," Naruto said moving over by the Hokage's desk as 10 different Anbu entered into the office all glaring at Naruto. Though no one could really tell this since the masks covered their faces.

It was at this point the Hokage spoke up, "Good just the Anbu I was looking for. And before you say anything I know what was going on."

"Sir what do you mean," asked and otter masked Anbu?

"You see Kakashi here set up a test for his students, in short they were to prank the Anbu to test for weaknesses. No I assure you he did not think they would get into the base but he did think they would pull off something. And not only did they pull off something but if they had used real paper bombs and not fake ones we would be without over 100 ninja. So I must ask this now Kakashi are you still going to let them join the exam."

Kakashi took a few moments before replying, "Sir I would actually like to pull my team from the exams. Instead I would like to request they be promoted since they proved they are more than skilled enough to take down the Anbu headquarters."

The Hokage looked at Team seven for a few seconds before nodding, "I agree with this request but it will not go into effect until the third round of the Chuunin Exams. But now we must also fix up the Anbu Headquarters since they all got in we must stop this from happening again. So Naruto please tell us how you got in."

"Well… It was simple actually I have got in that way once before as you know very well. Now everyone in this room knows now that in order to gain access to a side entrance one must know the correct justu to activate the door. But the thing is this justu only works on one of the doors, and it seems that the justu to open the door never changed. So since I knew the justu from a few years back I was able to get in today with the help from Sakura and Haku who were working with me."

"I see well that can be changed simply enough," The Hokage said putting a note down on a pad of paper he hand nearby. "Also there is something else that needs to happen." The Hokage looked over at the Anbu captions in front of him, causing the whole group to shift a little bit from the stern look he was now giving them. "I want all members of Anbu to double their current training since they left a Genin get away. And even if it is Naruto he is still a Genin. And that cannot be happening, and before you grumble at this I will also start training up again too."

It was Sakura who spoke at this time, "Why sir?"

"Because Sakura after seeing what happened today I realized I am getting to lax on a few things and one of them is training," The Hokage said explaining before he turned back to the Anbu Caption, "I will have your new work outs done tonight and have them completely ready for you tomorrow. Now you are dismissed to inform the rest of the Anbu of these changes and what was going on."

There was a resounding "Yes Sir" from the captions before they left. After that the Hokage looked at team seven, "You may all leave as well, but Kakashi I want you to stay here for a little bit."

"Okay see you later Jiji-sama," Naruto said disappearing into a shadow with Sakura and Haku to celebrate a mission well done.

After this the Hokage turned to Kakashi, "Well now we need to punish you for causing all this mess for me."

"Sir?"

"In short Kakashi you should have told me before this happened but you didn't and because of this there could have been some major problems. But since it helped to it will not be overly bad," The Hokage said causing Kakashi to look at him a little fearful.

"You are charged with catching Tora the cat for the next week," The Hokage said.

Kakashi took a few moments to realize what the Hokage had just said. As the words full hit his brain he did the one thing any wise man would do then. He fainted right then and there.