Waiiiiiiiiiiiiiii! I'm soo happy! I finally get to post a fic. The idea actually came from one of my friends Emi. We developed the plot together, then she drew a picture. It's so KAWAII!

Shiko: ... I hope people like this fic. Otherwise Bara's gonna be moping for a week, if not more...

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DISCLAIMER: There is no way I own the characters in Naruto. I deffinatly wouldn't be writting a fanfic if I did. I would be out puttting my ideas in the story-plot-thing!

Chapter 1 - Meeting the Team
"Itai!"

Anybody crazy enough to be out walking at 7:45 on a Saturday morning would have sworn that the person who just yelled was female. And Konoha, being a ninja village, had quite a few people crazy enough to be out walking that early on a Saturday. The few neighbors around that were still sleeping found themselves rudely awakened from their pleasant dreams. Most assumed that a younger child had turned the volume up to loud on the TV.

The house from which the yell originated was one of the older houses, and had been passed through the family for some time. Stone and mortar made up the framework of the walls, with wooden decorations on windows and doors. The yard was full of trees, shrubs, and all sorts of plants. Most of the vegetation was young, only a few years old, as the earth was just recovering from the destruction wreaked on it not all that long ago. The house and yard, were in general, the perfect sort of house for a ninja couple to raise two young ninja children – which is exactly what the family who lived there was.

The house nearly radiated peacefulness. The aura in the kitchen of the house was a different matter though.

"Dobe, what did you do?" The male speaking was a dark boy. Not evil, just dark. His pale skin was at odds with his dark clothes, hair, and eyes. He looked roughly fifteen.

He also looked downright pissed.

Standing next to him was a girl of about the same age. And while the boy was dark, she was … pink. Everything about her was pink from her hair to her clothes.

She looked even more pissed then the dark boy, AND she was glaring.

The subject of her glare was sitting on the floor rubbing the bump forming on his head.

The bump was courtesy of the girl in pink.

This boy would defiantly stand out in a crowd. The eye-blinding orange jumpsuit made sure of that. Though, the whisker marks on each cheek, and spiky blond hair didn't hurt either.

The last of the group was an older man. Silver hair slanted to the right in a gravity-defying sort of way. The eye not covered by the man's hitai-ate looked rather bored.

"Naruto! Sasuke asked you a question!"

"You don't hafta yell, Sakura. I can hear you just fine." Naruto answered getting up from the floor and rubbing his now offended ear.

"Then answer, dobe." Sasuke stated coldly, while crossing his arms.

Naruto glared at the Uchiha, and took up a stance that exactly resembled the other boy's. Bright blue eyes met black. The staring match lasted only a few minutes before Kakashi decided that he didn't like waiting for two teenage boys full of hormones to decide who was the top dog.

"Naruto…."

Heaving a sigh at having to withdraw from the match, the blond turned to face his instructor. "Look, I don't know any more about what happened then Sasuke-teme over there."

:Flashback:

"There are eight guards of varying rank and skill Kakashi-sensei. What do you want us to do?" whispered Sakura, short, pink hair flaring slightly as she turned to face her sensei.

"What does the team think? You've been on more then enough missions now to be able to make such a decision without my guidance. So, what should Team 7 do?" He answered.

"Sensei, you and I should be in charge of the guards, while Sakura watches Naruto's back. Naruto should be in charge of getting the scroll." This time it was Sasuke who responded.

"Nani? Why should I be in charge of getting the scroll? And why would I need someone to protect me?" Demanded Naruto, speaking up for the first time.

"Actually, Naruto, Sasuke has a good idea." Sakura stated. Before the blond could demand why, she went on, "I mean, look at the facts. You are the fastest out of all of us, and you have the ability to get out of traps without too much trouble, so it isn't likely that I would have to do all that much when it comes to protecting you. I would mostly be there to make sure the way out is clear for you."

"Alright, I'll give you that. But why don't we all get rid of the guards and then go after the scroll?"

"Because we need to be as quick as possible, and with two, maybe three, of us taking on the guards, the fourth will be free to grab the scroll and get out of here. What if when we're fighting there's one guard that gets away and sounds an alarm? Then none of us may have a chance to get out of here alive. Better that one can get out alive with the scroll then all four of us captured or dead and the scroll still here." Sakura was getting angry now.

Kakashi spoke up before anything more could escalate, "Naruto, we all know you're a perfectly capable fighter, so this is not to keep you out of the fight. Sasuke and I should be able to take the guards easily and if we can't then the two of us also have the Sharingan available. Neither you or Sakura have that."

Naruto huffed, "Fine."

"Right. Sasuke, you and I will take the guards. Try not to use the Sharingan if you can help it."

"Hn."

"Sakura, you watch Naruto's back. Stay hidden if at all possible, adding a fourth member suddenly may throw them off."

"Right."

"And Naruto, as soon as Sasuke and I have distracted the gaurds, you need to get the scroll. Whatever happens concentrate on getting yourself back to the village with the scroll. Sasuke and I will fall in behind you once you have the scroll, and Sakura will follow the three of us while staying hidden."

A nod from the blond was his only answer.

A couple of minutes later, the guards found themselves fighting two ninja who were quickly beating them. None of them noticed Naruto as he ran quickly and quietly to the box they had been guarding, nor the pink girl doing her best to stay hidden in the scanty covering as well as keeping herself close enough to the blond to be of assistance of he needed it. Whether this was because Naruto and Sakura were doing such a good job as ninjas or the guards were just to distracted by Kakashi and Sasuke remained unclear.

Naruto grabbed the scroll from inside the box, and noticed that the box had no lock or any sort of seal at all. "Idiots, to be guarding something that carefully and not put any locks on it. Even Konohamaru, who hasn't mastered half his ninja skills, would have been able to get the scroll. They must think they're pretty good guards. Heh, Sasuke and Kakashi-sensei are better though."

Sakura kept an eye on Sasuke and Kakashi while watching Naruto head back with the scroll. He rushed past her, pretending not to notice her to keep up the appearance that there was only three of them. She quickly headed after him, keeping out of sight, then taking to the trees as soon as possible, observeing that her sensei and second teammate were flanking Naruto, with herself shadowing above the three of them. What she didn't notice was the faint light emanating from the scroll.

Fortunately, she did notice the ninjas coming at her teammates. She watched as they attacked, forcing Naruto to stop and look around for an opening to get through in the wall of bodies. Sasuke and Kakashi were busy trying to keep their enemies from getting to Naruto. She became more and more concerned as she watched. "Sasuke's activated the Sharingan, and Kakashi-sensei is reaching the end of his abilities without it. I'll have to move soon, if only to give Naruto an opening to get through. Once he's out, he should be able to move faster. I saw a open stretch of land ahead, that should give him a chance to lose any pursuit." Coming back to the present she saw her moment and leapt. The enemy shinobi were surprised to find a fourth member jumping out of the trees and attacking them. Unfortunately, they also had members hidden around them. It took only a few minutes for Team Seven to be surrounded and out of options.

"Heh, you're finished." One of the shinobi said, seeming to believe this to be the truth. "You fight and you're done, you don't fight, you're done anyway. Heh."

"Right, like we're just gonna sit here and let you do whatever you want. I don't think so." Naruto bit out, beginning to concentrate his chakra on his feet.

He didn't get very far before the scroll in his arms started to vibrate and give off an even stronger light. The enemy ninja backed away quickly, while his teammates turned to look at him. In a matter of seconds, the scroll went from vibrating, to sucking in surrounding air, to exploding in a puff of smoke. In their shock Team Seven was unable to escape from these effects. When the smoke cleared, Kakashi, Sasuke, Sakura, and Naruto were gone.

Team Seven had disappeared.

:End Flashback:

"So we know that a) we got the scroll, b) the scroll is somehow connected to why we're here and not there, and c) we have no clue where we are. This is good." The others couldn't tell if Kakashi was being sarcastic or not.

Naruto seemed to be thinking quite hard about something as his sensei said this. "We do know one more thing as well, Kakashi-sensei. The scroll wasn't guarded past the guards and the box it was in. No locks or anything. The scroll didn't do anything until I reached for my chakra to get away from those guys. I think that the scroll responded to my chakra. It's just a hunch, but I'm guessing it's true."

"Naruto has a point. If the scroll had a seal or two on it, we may not have been able to detect them until they were activated." The others looked at Sasuke in mild shock. The Uchiha usually never spoke more then a few words, rarely more then a sentence. And he never, NEVER agreed with Naruto. He raised an eyebrow at them.

While his teammates got over their shock and began to digest all the information, Sasuke looked around the kitchen. 'Why does this place look so familiar? I swear I've seen this area before, but where?' Even activating the Sharingan didn't help.

Team Seven was so occupied with their thoughts that they didn't hear a door down the hallway click open, or the footsteps that followed, nor did they notice when the footsteps stopped for a second, then began again, more slowly and cautiously. Well, Sasuke, Sakura, and Naruto didn't notice. Kakashi did.

"Who are you?" The question made the team jump and spin around to face the boy.

Judging from the looks of him, he was about eight or nine years old. Dark black hair was pulled back from his face in a ponytail at the base of his neck, and Sakura got the distinct impression that he had just gotten up a little while ago since the hair was a bit messy. Dark eyes were glaring at the four of them. The glare and the boy's angry visage were at odds with what he was wearing.

Pajamas. You know the little kid pajamas that look an awful lot like sweatpants and sweatshirts? Yeah, that kind. That's the kind he was wearing. They were black with red whales on them. Sasuke was, for an instant, reminded of what his brother had been wearing when he last fought him. And he had on fox slippers. Why they were foxes, was beyond any of them.

Naruto would have laughed at the sight if the boy hadn't also been carrying two kunai and looking like he would not hesitate to use them.

To be continued...

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