Hey guys, Murayama Tsuru here. As promised, I'm updating this story today as well. Yeah, two stories in one day…bleh, I'm running out of creative energy…well, here's the chapter.
"Are you sure that this is going work?" Naruto whispered to Sasuke as they pretended to follow Obito. It was pretend because that was their plan and Kakashi, clearly not really caring about the plan at the moment, was walking with Obito, chatting about times long passed with his former comrade.
Sasuke shrugged, "Probably, those two do have more experience in things like this."
"Yeah, but the way they're talking makes it really obvious that that Obito guy is leading us to Madara's hideout."
"Well if Madara shows up out of nowhere," Sasuke said with a raised eyebrow, "we can adlib. We are Ninja after all, so we have to be flexible so the plan will work even if something goes wrong."
"Says the guy who wears the purple bow," Naruto grumbled, "I mean, seriously, if you wanted to send out anymore pheromones then why don't you just walk around naked? Why the hell are you still wearing that thin anyway? It's not like you're allied with Orochimaru anymore."
"And you're so subtle, mister orange jumpsuit?" Sasuke retorted, "At least I have come natural charm to go on. You've just got the 'I'm-so-idiotic-you-can-help-but-think-I'm-cute" thing going, but that's only gotten you the shy girl who can't express her feelings at all."
"At least my outfit became better than it was before! You used to actually look cool and then you got a purple bow and your coolness factor went down to zero."
"Why do you care about what I wear? It's not like I'm around for people to gawk at."
"Oh, you don't know the half of it." Naruto groaned, "I mean seriously. When we got back from that first mission to find you, I swear, Sakura went on for hours about what you looked like to Ino. That was the most boring conversation me, Shikamaru, and Chouji ever had to sit through." Naruto shuddered at the memory
Sasuke, an annoyed look appearing on his face, was about to say something when Kakashi decided to make his reappearance by saying, "Alright you two, that's enough arguing over outfits. If you ask me, you both look pretty weird. I mean, nothing the people on this show wear seems to blend in with the forest…but, you can blame the author for that."
"Yup," Naruto agreed, "And you're one of the weirdest of them all Sensei. No one but you has his forehead protector over one eye."
Kakashi scowled but ignored Naruto's comment, "Anyway, it's time to put the plan into action. You guys remember what you're supposed to do right?"
Naruto and Sasuke nodded and then the three began pretending to follow Obito for real. As they were walking along, Naruto whispered to Sasuke, "How did Sensei know what we were talking about anyway, he seemed really wrapped up in talking to Obito."
Sasuke chuckled, "That says more about you than it does about Kakashi. If you had been paying attention, like I was, you would know that they were talking about how were reminded those two of themselves. Which, if you ask me, is completely ridiculous; Obito and I are nothing alike."
"Other than the fact that the two of you would do anything for revenge." Naruto mumbled
"Yes," Kakashi cut in again, making the two jump just a little, "You and Uchiha Obito have little in common other than the fact that you're both Uchiha. Naruto and Obito on the other hand…"
Before Kakashi could continue his sentence, Obito turned around and put a finger to his lips signaling that they were almost at the base and that everyone should be quiet now. As everyone approached the hideout, Obito seemed to pause for a minute, making Naruto just a little nervous.
After a few seconds, though, Obito said completely calmly, "Ah, Madara did you capture the girl?"
Madara must have nodded, because there was a lull in the conversation. Then the older Uchiha said, "Did you come alone Obito?"
"Yes," Obito said without hesitation, "I managed to break out of the water prison Kakashi put me in and came straight back here."
There was a narrow pause, and Naruto had a sinking feeling that Madara knew that Obito was helping the other side now, for the time being at least. Naruto's thoughts were confirmed when he heard Madara say, his voice thick with anger, "Why are you lying to me Obito? I thought you wanted what I wanted."
Before the scarred Uchiha could answer Uchiha Madara's accusation, there was rumbling noise accompanied by a small earthquake. Naruto could feel the anger emanating off of Uchiha Madara as he said, "I will deal with you later. It seems that my guest has decided to cause some trouble despite my numerous warnings to her."
And with that, Madara was gone, leaving the other four standing outside the entrance to the Akatsuki's underground hideout wondering what was going on. After some strained silence, Naruto was the first to ask, "What just happened?"
Obito, not sounding very happy with the answer, said, "Your friend, Rinrin Kouryu, is what happened. I think she may have done something that we will all regret."
Then, the group of four began their descent into the hideout, Naruto wondering what Kouryu could have done that would make Madara more angry than he already was. The only thing that Naruto could guess was that she had, somehow, managed to release the Bijuu spirits from the Gedo statue or something along those lines.
But before they could go deeper into the lair, Obito stopped them saying, "Be careful, there's a trap here that will suck out all your Chakra if you step on the wrong square."
Upon further examining of this trap, Naruto saw what looked like a giant rainbow colored checkerboard. The pattern, if there was one, looked to be more like there were squares just placed in random order. With annoyance in his voice, Naruto heard Sasuke ask, "There's no pattern to this is there? How are we supposed to get across?"
"Well," Obito said, "normally I'd just say scale the walls. But I'm pretty sure that Madara made it so that if you did that, all your chakra would be sucked out no matter where you stepped. And since Madara and I usually just teleported through this with my Kamui I don't actually remember what the pattern is."
Naruto, getting an idea said, "then why don't we just use your and Sensei's Kamui to teleport ourselves past here?"
"Yes," Kakashi agreed, "that would probably save us some time. Though, you will probably have to tell me how to use the transportation part of our shared Sharingan."
Obito seemed to think about it for a minute, "That would probably work…" he trailed off thinking a little longer, "But, instead of teaching you how to teleport people, I think I'll just transfer you into the other dimension and then teleport all of us over there instead."
The other three nodded, and Kakashi said, "Yes, that would be faster. And because we don't know what's happening with Kouryu and Madara at the moment, it would be best if we hurried."
Obito seemed to agree with that and the next thing Naruto knew he, Kakashi, and Sasuke were inside a strange dark world. Sasuke, sensing Naruto's confusion said, "I've been here once before. We are, for lack of a better way to put it, inside Uchiha Obito at the moment."
Naruto, not really liking that idea very much, didn't have time to complain about it as, after a few minutes, they were all out of Obito's dimension in a room that seemed to be falling apart. When Naruto finally felt stable enough to examine his surroundings, he was amazed by what he saw. The Gedo statue had a large crack in it, hopefully rendering it useless.
But his hopes were shattered as he heard Madara sneer, "I'm afraid you've arrived too late. But, you've come just in time to see the ten-tails be resurrected."
And that is the end of this chapter. I think, maybe, I'm going to try and wrap this story up with a nice even thirty chapters. But, I'm not actually sure that that's going to happen as whenever I say I'm going to end this story, it just seems to want to keep itself going. Well, we'll see what happens as we get closer to chapter 30. As always, if you'd like please leave a review I love to know what you guys think. See you next Friday then guys.
-Murayama Tsuru
