Chapter 2: The Masked Ninjas

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Naruto and Kakashi paired up and went one way while Sakura and Sasuke went the other. They were to meet back with any of their findings at the tree with the jonin sign in an hour.

"So Sasuke, how are you?" Asked Sakura in her lovey-dovey mode. Sasuke grunted something about focusing on the mission. That shut Sakura up. Inner Sakura was laughing her head off.

"Oh shut up!" Sakura thought at her inner self.

"What? Mad 'cause you little "boyfriend" is more focused on the work than on you." Sakura's inner self sneered.

"I'm blocking you out la, la, laaa!" Sakura said in a babyish way.

"What?" Said Sasuke.

"Oh…nothing just talking to myself." Said an embarrassed Sakura.

"Oh." Said Sasuke focusing back on his work.

"I'm hungry." Commented Naruto.

"We've only been searching for 10 minutes!" exclaimed Kakashi.

"Yeah but we've been walking since six. It's ten-thirty according to the sun." Naruto said continuing to nag.

"I guess I'll let you eat." Kakashi sighed. Then he realized that the ninjas had taken the food along with the weapons.

"Uh, Naruto…the ninjas got the food too." Kakashi said.

"What?" Yelled Naruto.

"They got the food." Repeated Kakashi.

"Okay, they can take my weapons, but nobody and I mean nobody takes Naruto Uzamaki's FOOD!" Naruto exclaimed. Then he started sniffing the ground.

"Yup, the came this way." He said as he continued to sniff the ground. They followed Naruto's nose all the way back to the meeting place.

Err… oops." Naruto said.

"You spent the whole hour sniffing the wrong way!" Kakashi yelled.

"No, look what I found." He held up a ninja-like mask that they had overlooked the fist time.

"Sniff it maybe you'll find something." Kakashi encouraged. Sniff Sniiifffff… "This way!" Naruto said and they set out going Far East, way off course.

"It's been an hour and we haven't found anything, I think we should report back." Sakura said.

"Alright, I'm getting kind of hungry anyway." Sasuke said, though you could tell he wanted to keep searching. They headed back to find that neither Naruto nor Kakashi were there. There were a set of tracks in what seemed liked a four-legged creature and a human. So they decided to follow them.

"Hey I think I see Naruto and sensei!" Sakura said.

"Let's catch up with them." She added.

They caught up and found out that the ninjas took the food along with the weapons. They set out once again searching for the ninjas.

"Everybody, be on guard." Kakashi warned.

"Remember they could be anywhere." Reminded Sakura, as they got further into a darker part of the woods. Suddenly as if out of nowhere the masked ninjas surrounded them. They also seem real, really real to Naruto.

"Aaw crap," he said as he looked around. "I can't fight on an empty stomach."

"That's all you think about food, food, food!" said Sakura.

"Focus you guys. If we don't we're dead as dead can be!" Kakashi exclaimed as the ninjas pulled out throwing knives and shuriken.

"Everybody use dopple ganger!" yelled Kakashi. There were suddenly 3 of everybody including the ninjas.

"Naruto since your Shadow Clone jutsu produces real clones make more…and do it fast." Called Kakashi again.

"But I'm hungry." Moaned Naruto.

"Um…imagine you're in a room full of ramen." Sakura said.

The Naruto clones tripled.

"And, um…it's all free!" she added excitedly. The Naruto's were everywhere, crawling out of trees, and destroying the fake and real ninjas just as fast as they appeared. Soon there was just one ninja left standing.

"Where's our food!" Naruto yelled, now hungrier than ever.
"I…I don't have any of it." Said the ninja cowardly.

"I don't care whether you have it stashed up somebody's butt, I want food and I want it now." Naruto said viciously.

"Alright, uh—I'll take you our domain. I must warn you though you won't be welcome.

"Yeah, yeah whatever. Get me food NOW!" Yelled Naruto .