A short chapter to get me going again. I don't know how many times I have rewritten this chapter, at some point I was up to 6k words and deleted it all because it was all crap. Next chapter will be longer and better.

"Talking"

'Thinking'

"Jutsu/Kurama Talking"

Chapter 21

Sarutobi Hiruzen sat in his office with a letter in front of him. The letter was an explanation letter from Suna (Sand) village with information about there kazekage being found dead and that they had been deceived by Orochimaru from the start. It was still very important that Konoha and Suna remained allies for both villages and that meant that Hiruzen and his advisers would have a meeting with the people in charge in Suna soon.

Something else that bothered Hiruzen and made him hate his job even more was that the spy that Naruto had mentioned in his report, Yakushi Kabuto had left Konoha yesterday without any traces. Who knew what kind of information he had on Konoha? Now Hiruzen would have to change up a lot of things concerning their security.

But all of that would have to wait for tomorrow, now Hiruzen had more interesting things to do as he readied his glass ball to spy at Naruto. Hiruzen was interested in how Naruto would fair in this, what Hiruzen thought was a brilliant training exercise that Anko came up with.

With Team Naruto (Team 4)

After splitting up from the rest Naruto, Hinata and Chouji were walking down a narrow path in a forest area.

"Ano w-what's the.. h-how are we" Hinata began asking but could not finish before Chouji did it for her "What's the plan?"

Naruto grinned and said "I don't know about you two but.. I'll be drinking some beer and sake and then pass out. Hopefully wake up once this is over"

Chouji sweatdropped and said "Great"

Earlier Chouji had thought that Naruto would have been a great replacement for Shikamaru who did all the thinking for him. But it turns out he might be as if not even more lazy than Shikamaru.

Naruto raised an eyebrow as he saw Chouji's reaction "Oh?" he responded "You don't like the sound of that, Chakka?" Naruto asked as he unsealed a scroll and took a beer from it.

"Ano N-Naruto-kun" Hinata stammered and got his attention as he snapped his head towards her "Yeah?"

Hinata blushed as Naruto stared at her "T-The G-Goal is to get the flags from the other t-teams.." she said in a low tone almost a whisper.

"That's right, you can rest after that" Chouji added then decided to hide behind Hinata due to the expression Naruto wore "EEEP!" Hinata screamed and jumped to hide behind Naruto to get away from Chouji.

Naruto stopped glaring at Chouji then put a hand to his chin in thought then after a moment said "So if I gather all the flags, I can rest?" Naruto asked slowly which Chouji answered to with a nod.

"I see" Naruto said taking Hinata's hand away from him as she had hugged his stomach from behind "Then this is what we'll do" Naruto then began explaining his plan to his temporary teammates.

With Team Sasuke (Team 1)

Sasuke, Shikamaru and Shino had already decided who to target. Sasuke and Shino would go after Team 3 with Kiba, Hanabi and Sakura in it. Shikamaru had kindly offered to go after the team 2, the team with only girls in it. If Sasuke and Shino knew Shikamaru better than that they would have never agreed to it because for Shikamaru there would be nothing more troublesome then having to fight three girls at the same time. Shikamaru's plan was to climb a large tree to hide and stare at the clouds, hopefully until the three days were over.

"Hn" Sasuke said with a smirk "We will meet here again once we are done"

"Alright" Shikamaru answered with a yawn waving to them as they left.

'Sweet' Shikamaru thought as he turned around and walked up to the largest tree he could see.

'If only I could fly so I wouldn't have to use chakra to walk up this tree' Shikamaru thought as he gathered some chakra and began walking.

"That's one" was all Shikamaru heard before everything he could see was darkness due to something covering his eyes.

Sasuke and Shino got the same treatment. They had not gotten far from where they split up with Shikamaru earlier as someone covered their eyes and carried them off.

"Thats three"

"Troublesome" Shikamaru muttered knowing exactly who it was that had captured him and his teammates.

With Team Kiba (Team 3)

Kiba, Hanabi and Sakura all had different thoughts on which team they would target first. Hanabi wanted to go after Sasuke and his team due to what happened earlier with him insulting her and Midori. Kiba wanted to go after Naruto due to him being the strongest, he wanted a to prove that he was in fact the strongest genin around. Also the fact that Kiba's sister, Hana, keeps bothering him about Naruto all the time might have something to do with it.

Sakura's choice was to go after "Ino-pig" and her team since that was clearly the weakest team from the ones they could choose. In the end they decided to listen to Sakura after she had screamed and threatened to flatten them both to the ground if they did not listen.

Due to them arguing so much they left their starting position ten minutes later than Sasuke and his team did. That gave the person that captured team Sasuke enough time to find Team Kiba before they could move.

The mysterious person wobbled out of the forest into their eye sight. He had a beer in each hand and they could clearly see that he was not in best shape.

"Damn I should really stop running around while I drink" Naruto said taking heavy breaths.

Kiba pointed at him "Now that the bastard is here, we have no choice!"

Hanabi smiled as she saw Naruto "Naruto-kun!" she greeted in a happy voice.

Sakura greeted in her own way "Are you drunk?" she asked with a disapproving look on her face.

When Naruto had caught his breath he nodded and said "You three are coming with me, if not.." Naruto did a one-handed hand sign "Ninpo: Kage Bunshin No Jutsu" (Shadow Clone Technique)

"Then we.."

"Fight!" the clones ended in chorus.

Meanwhile with Hinata and Chouji and three angry genins currently tied to a tree

"Sorry Shikamaru, Naruto's idea" Chouji explained to his friend who answered with a yawn which Chouji took as "I don't care"

"Good" Chouji answered.

"Ano Chouji-san" Hinata said while holding a stick that Naruto had given her earlier, she poked Chouji in the stomach after getting his attention "Naruto-kun told us not to speak to the prisoners"

"Ouch!" Chouji whined holding his stomach "Calm down Hinata, they are our friends after all"

Hinata nodded then glared at Chouji as she spoke "Yes but an order is an order, do you have a problem with Naruto-kun's orders?"

Chouji started sweating as he shook his head slowly. After that Naruto came back while dragging Kiba with him holding his feet. Behind him were Hanabi and Sakura who had surrendered after a very short one-sided battle between Naruto and Kiba.

With Team Tayuya (Team 2)

This was a team that worked together well so far. They had agreed to go after Sasuke and his team due to both Midori and Tayuya wanting to beat him up. Midori's reason was obvious due to the way Sasuke treated her over the years. Tayuya wanted to fight Sasuke and take the title as the strongest genin in Konoha, or second strongest if you count Naruto.

Ino on the other hand wanted to fight Shikamaru and take the title of the strongest in her genin team. Little did she know, if they were to fight, Shikamaru would just give up before the fight even started.

But going after other teams and getting their flags had to wait because of their recent discovery. They had found an onsen (hot springs) located behind a mountain and all three of them agreed to take a bath. As the girls stripped out of their clothes, only leaving their underwear on, they noticed that there was already two people using the onsen, sitting furthest away from them, grinning at them.

"You!" Tayuya and Ino screamed at the same time and pointed at Kurenai who was sitting next to Anko. Kurenai was wearing a red bikini while Anko was fully naked.

"A-Anko-sensei?" Midori asked not expecting to seeing her teacher bathing naked out in the open.

Anko laughed and said "Get in girls!"

"Whats the matter, you two? Scared of a little water?" Kurenai said to Tayuya and Ino just to further annoy them.

"Tch" was Tayuya's answer as she got in with the others following "Fuck you bitch" she said as she sat down. Just as the girls had sat down Naruto ran up to the edge of the onsen and stared with wide eyes, mostly at Anko but he ended up not being able to decide who to stare at.

"Naruto-kun!" Kurenai said as she stood up and slowly walked over to him "Did you miss me that much?" she said and put and arm under her chest to press her breasts together, successfully gaining Naruto attention.

"I.." Naruto began "T-The flags.. I"

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