Saa... here we are :). We get to meet Team 8 this chapter, and Ill take a moment to say that Kiba fans will hate me. Lets say Kiba is a lot more... headstrong, this time around. Shino and Hinata are reletively the same though, i think. Ahh we'll see :). A lot of fans are going to hate me throughout this story, so Id better get used to it... -sigh- Lol. I will tell you most characters that seem a little off in the begining, get better later, mostly.

Disclaimer: I own nothing...

Thanks to Impersonating-an-entity for betaing!

Legend:

"Ramen!" - Aloud speech

'Damn!' - Thinking/ Thought speech

'Fool.' - Kyuubi thought speech

"Hark!" - Kyuubi Speaking

"Eh?" -Fox/misc speech

Without further a do...

Fortune's Fool

Chapter 4-Wicked Comings

By Mirazhe1

Naruto and Kyuubi sighed in unison, both equally bored. Kyuubi, stretched out on his side on the worn down bridge growled softly at his 'sensei's' absence. Naruto, who was also stretched out, only on his back, joined him in growling soon after as he carefully carved a wooden kunai (with none other than the regular steal kunai). Sasuke, who was on the other side of the rickety bridge, furrowed his eyebrows in mounting anger, glancing slowly at the foxy pair. Sakura, nuzzling ever closer at his side, saw this and quickly joined in in the glaring at Naruto and his partner, not exactly knowing why.

Over the past few weeks, after Naruto's test, Team Seven had been participating in mission after mission, of all difficulties due to the lack of shinobi help in the village. Kakashi-sensei would pop up, with varying degrees of lateness, with an uncaring "Yo", explain their mission, accomplish it, and head home (or to training, in Naruto's case). However, today their sensei must have been setting a record, for it had been long after his latest time and he was still no where to be found.

Naruto quickly lifted himself to a sitting position, having finished his wooden kunai, and chucked it powerfully in Sasuke's direction. With quite a crack, it embedded itself into the rotting bridge railing, looking as solid and durable as ever. Sasuke, who had not moved in the entire ordeal, though was glancing at the wooden weapon with a twitch in his eye, looked to Naruto proudly.

"Dope, can't even hit your target," He said arrogantly. Naruto snorted calmly as Kyuubi, now standing, growled softly. Sakura was stunned for a moment, but then gathered her wits.

"Yeah dead last! You could've hit Sasuke-kun!"

"Who said I was aiming at anything, bastard?" The vessel asked, ignoring Sakura. Sasuke glared.

"Dead last... I don't know why I put up with the likes of you."

"Ch, yeah, yeah, asses are made to bear and so are you," Naruto answered in an annoyed manner with a wave of his hand. As he said this though, he glanced away from Sasuke, down the bridge, to a figure making his way toward them. He walked quickly, with a propose, but void of emotion as the collar of his coat rose to cover half of his face, and a pair of dark shades obscuring the other.

"Team Seven?" The boy asked, receiving either wondrous, annoyed, or calm nods from the team. "Godaime-sama summons you." With that, he turned and without looking back made his way to Hokage tower. Naruto shrugged and followed with a "Wonder what the Old Hag wants.." As Kyuubi hopped onto his shoulder with a thought of warning. Sasuke followed only a moment after, grudgingly, and Sakura followed Sasuke.

As they arrived at Tsunade's office, the silent boy still leading, boisterous yelling could be heard from within. As the office door opened, the yelling only became more loud and arrogant, hurting poor Naruto and Kyuubi's ears. Inside, a rather feral looking boy was objecting to some nonsense, and a small fearful looking girl and disgruntled dog stood in the corner. Tsunade, chin placed haphazardly in the palm of her hand as she leaned on it, looked rather bored and used to this.

"I WILL NOT LOWER MYSELF TO BE ON A MISSION WITH SUCH -SUCH..."

"Incompetence," Tsunade offered lazily, not really listening to the feral boy's rant.

"-INCOMPETENCE! TO DO A MISSION WITH ANOTHER TEAM IS LIKE SAYING MY TEAM IS WORTHLESS! I -"

"OI, ASSHOLE!" Naruto shouted, his own voice easily overpowering the others as it's owner stood stunned. "Your voice is annoying when you talk all arrogant like that. Shut the hell up." The dog-nin blinked in wonder. "Hey Old Hag, whats going on?" Naruto asked more calmly now.

"Im assigning Teams Seven and Eight a mission, but it seems Kiba here objects," Tsunade answered, obviously relieved for it to be quite again.

"Of coarse I fucking object. Like hell I'd want to be paired with such a weakling team," The boy, Kiba, said with a snort. Sasuke frowned.

"Che. All I see on your team is a weakling, a mute, and a mutt," Sasuke said with a snort. Then directing his speech to Tsunade, "Why can't Team Seven do it alone, without them."

Tsunade sighed, massaging the bridge of her nose for the on coming headache. "Because," She said forcefully, "This is a low B-Rank mission, so no Rookie Genin Team," She glared meaningfully at the two boys, "Could take this mission alone without their Jounin instructors." At the confused look at the occupants in the room (save, it seemed, Naruto and Kyuubi), she sighed. "Yes, your Jounin instructors won't accompany you; Their off on their own missions at the moment." Their reactions were predictable, as Sasuke smirked evilly, Kiba doing the same, but more arrogant than evil. Sakura looked just as, if not more in her own way, evil and anxious. The girl, Hinata, and the dog, Akamaru looked slightly fearful for different reasons, and Naruto and Kyuubi looked excited to be traveling again, if just for a short while. Scooting a folder in Kiba's general direction, she said, "This is the mission outline and information. Kiba is assigned team Leader. Now get out of my office."

They all left quite hastily at the tone of her voice.

For the forty-second (not that he was counting) time that day, Naruto sighed. He was, once again, carving another wooden Kunai to add to his collection, though, since he had finished it hours ago, was now adding little dancing fox carvings into the side. He glanced about the forest they trekked through, for lack of anything better to do and saw Sakura trying to strike a conversation about some plan to the silent Sasuke behind him. Akamaru followed behind the near marching-with-arrogance Kiba (who had yet to explain their mission to in detail to them), sighing his little doggy sigh just as much, if not more, than Naruto. Hinata was trailing close behind Kiba, eyes carefully plastered to the ground ahead, and Shino walked behind, staring intently at Kiba's behind for all Naruto knew. The vessel sighed again.

'End this annoying noise, it tries my ears.' Kyuubi said irritably from below Naruto, trotting beside him. Naruto rolled his eyes, and mocked the fox aloud quietly, then flipped him off. Hinata, the only one to hear the mocking (or perhaps the only one that even cared), blinked away from staring at the ground and looked behind her to the vessel. As Naruto vision fixed on her from the sudden movement, the shy girl started and quickly fixated her sight on the ground again, blushing red. With a shrug, Naruto quickened his pace to walk beside Hinata. Kyuubi, growling at being left behind, rolled his little red eyes and moved forward to walk beside Akamaru.

"Hey, whats so interesting on the ground?" Naruto asked the Hyuuga suddenly, staring at the ground along with her. Hinata started once again, and looked up, carefully adverting her eyes from Naruto.

"Oh... n-nothing, s-sorry," She said quietly, poking her fingers together.

"What are you apologizing for? There's nothing to say sorry about," Naruto replied, squinting his eyes shut and hooking his fingers behind his head.

"Sorry, I g-guess your right," She said with a small smile, then a blush. Naruto said nothing, and they walked in a easy silence for a short while.

"So you're a Hyuuga? That's pretty neat, coming from such a powerful clan," The vessel said, striking at a conversation once again. Hinata blinked at the speech out of the blue, and then nodded uneasily.

"I.. I guess so," She answered unsurely. Naruto grinned a foxy grin.

"So you know that Gentle Fist fighting style? You must be real good at it, being in the main family."

"Not.. Really," Hinata replied, idley wondering how he knew about the Hyuuga fighting style and how she was in the main family. "Im no good compared to a lot of the others." The vessel rose an eyebrow.

"Who says your no good? I don't see any other Hyuuga going on B-Ranked missions," Naruto said skeptically, looking around them to prove his point.

"Yeah.. But.." Naruto glanced at her, and she hunched her shoulders up defensively, once again poking her fingers together. "But, my father says.. And Kiba-kun..." She trailed off, already knowing it was a pathetically weak argument.

"So you believe everything your father and Kiba says? Sometimes people can be wrong, including me. But I know your strong, because I know you train a lot." Hinata blinked, her head tilting in confusion. "Your hands have a lot of scars on them," He answered knowingly. Sure enough, Hinata's palms, knuckles and fingertips were badly scared, permanently discoloured for the rest of her days. "With as tough as your hands are, you should be really strong, but you let other people's words get to you. Don't let them do that."

Hinata, stunned, smiled a small smile, and nodded. "Ok, Naruto-kun."

Then as if picking the right moment, a large battle worn fox bound at them from the underbrush, then adjusted it's pace to walk at Naruto's side. It's head came clear up to his mid thigh, though considering how short Naruto was, wasn't that high.

"Sire, the enemy has made camp half a day ahead at this speed." It said, sounding like a series of yips and growls to Hinata. The Hyuuga ideally wondered if Naruto's ears had always been pointed like that and why she hadn't noticed. "They plan to break camp at dawn, and even if thou sleeps through the night, and take to the trees the next day, their capture shall be easy."

"My thanks Niccelo." Naruto turned his gaze from the large fox ahead to Kiba, slowing to a stop. "Oi, Kiba," He cried out, and the dog-nin grudgingly gave a rumbling "What!" to the vessel. Naruto relayed the information the fox had given to the speculative Kiba.

"Ch, Dumbass! How the hell would you know that!" Kiba barked a reply, looking back at the vessel as he also stopped. His eyes caught on the large fox, who was now purring under the rubbing of Hinata's hand. She giggled softly. At seeing this, Kiba snorted in an annoyed way (and judging from the "Che" from behind Naruto, Sasuke was equally annoyed) and looked away.

Naruto looked to the fox again. "Niccelo, your dismissed.. Unless you'd like to stay with the lovely Hinata-chan." The Hyuuga blushed at this.

"As I would love to," the fox broke off into a long purr as Hinata rubbed his ears gently, "I cannot. Mine mate and kittlings need food as of yet."

"I understand. Good luck with hunting, and if it helps, I spotted an old blind raven back down the road from here." The fox nodded and with a bow, leapt off into the forest. Hinata looked rather put off that the fox had left so suddenly, and Naruto was sorry that he had.

'Worry not kittling.' Thought Kyuubi to his cage with a smile, as his body trotted over to the Hyuuga. 'I shall keep this Goddess of Caresses company.' Naruto laughed, and Hinata looked at him oddly as Kyuubi nudged her hand.

"Tenko says that he'll keep you company now." At this, Kyuubi yipped aloud, and managed to nudge Hinata's hand onto his head. She laughed softly.

Teams Seven and Eight found a good camp sight not a long while later and Kiba promptly began to bellow out orders, as the rest gathered wood and put up tents or such. Only then, when they all had all finished their assigned duties (grudgingly, mind you) and sat around a small fire, did Kiba go into detail about their mission.

"Ok, shut up, shut up," The dog-nin said impaciently, though it was already quiet. "Y'all know this is a search and destroy mission right?" Naruto and Hinata nodded, as Sasuke rolled his eyes and Sakura followed suit. Shino merely sat quitely. "Yeah, well apparently the guy we're sposed to find is some kind of small time drug lord who calls himself King of the Whites. Godaime-sama," He stressed -sama, and Naruto frowned, "Is overly suspisous and thinks this Whites guy is giving his earnings to some missing-nin to eliminate compitition. Apparenly the missing-nin he hired have been known for attacking Konoha, and Godaime-sama wants to cut off their earnings to hurt them as much as possible."

"And so she want's us to kill the drug lord so the missing-nin won't have the strength to attack Konoha anymore," Sasuke cut in, talking in an icy tone.

"Idiot, don't interupt me... but yeah. It's pretty stupid, the missing-nin will just find a new income and attack Konoha even harder out of vengance. Stupid. We should just bomb the mission, it'll be a failure anyway. Their's no hope for Konoha no matter what she does-"

-Kiba was cut off though, as Naruto's rock hard fist met the dog-nin's face. He went flying off the log he had been sitting on from the sheer force of it, landed with a thud in the dirt. Naruto straightened, and looked down on the dog-nin as he fought to scramble to his feet.

"Fool. If you won't complete missions for your village, you don't deserve to be called a ninja," The vessel said coldly as Kiba rubbed his aching jaw. With this said, Naruto turned on heel and made his way into the small tent not far away, Kyuubi close behind. This gave many of the Team something to think about.

No one noticed Sasuke sneak away from camp that night.

Camp was broken at dawn, and the Teams took to the trees, and caught up with the drug lord's traveling party in literal leaps and bounds. The party consisted of a small caravan with horses and oxen pulling heavy (and rather suspisiously covered) wagons. Servents in bulky clothes and wrapped bandages to hide their identites scuttled about to obediantly follow King of the Whites' orders as Teams Seven and Eight looked down at their target from their hideout in the trees.

"I say we just jump down there and give 'em a good ass kickin'," Kiba said quitely to the group as Akamaru shook his head in disagreement with a yip. "Che, what do you know?"

"Akamaru's right," Naruto put in, as he listened to Kyuubi's mental translation of Akamaru's speech. "A full out battle will get us nowhere and this guy has been known for disappearing when trouble brews. It would be better if some one henged and sabotoged the caravan so they can't get away without at least loosing their profit. In all of the mess, we can take out the King of the Whites quick and clean. Soo.. Who should go?" As no one vollenteered or rose their voice, Naruto sighed and a foxish scoff was heard from Kyuubi on his shoulder. "How about Shino? His bugs can take out a bunch of servents while he sabotages the caravan. Do you mind?"

Shino, having not spoken a word on the trip so far and not about to break this record, shook his head in a negative, and preformed the necesary handseals for a henge. With a poof and a leap, he hit the ground a new boy, looking just like all of the other servents, and dashed off to the caravan. The Teams quickly lost sight of him in the large crowd, but were sure he was doing his job as servent after servent dropped to the ground before they could even make a sound. Soon after a two of the wagons groaned then tipped over before any of the remaining servents could save them, suddenly missing one or more wheel. Small swarms of chakra eating bugs could be seen flying close to the ground as they went for another group of servents (obviously wondering why their comrads were falling), but never made it as a fire jutsu incenerated them as they flew. Seeing their plan go to the dogs (no pun intended), Teams Seven and the rest of Eight lept from their hideout to the ground below, dashing off to help Shino.

Just as they found him (fortunately unharmed) however, a slow clapping filled the air, coming from King of the Whites as he looked down on the group from atop his own personal wagon.

"Maa, maa, look at this, look at this. I was expecting a sabotage but a few scraggly weakling shinobi trying to destroy my buisness? It's laughable. And when I had such a nice little tip that shinobi were coming, this is obserd. Now we can't let you go about and destroy my profits, now can we?"

"How did you know we were coming!" Kiba growled loudly. King of the Whites just chuckled as a middle aged man might do with a naive child.

"Why, I just told you, silly mutt." Kiba's growling became louder and many of the Teams frowned. "I had a tip."

Finally fed up, the dog-nin bellowed a command to either Akamaru or the Teams, it was never known, and charged forward toward the King of the Whites. But with an arrogant smile, and a snap of his fingers, a bang was heard and the entire area went up in foul smelling smoke. As it cleared, the caravan, servents, and the King of the Whites were gone.

Ohhhh evil King of the Whites. Aren't I witty, couldnt think of a name for a drug lord so I use a name of a flower instead. Totally awesome. Lol.

Anyway, Kiba sure is a jerk, isnt he? Well he'll be put into place, don't worry. See how Naruto does it in Chapter five (were he will actually fight! -collective gasp- we get to see some of the stuff he can do!)

'azhe out.