Hehehe! Chapter 5. It was my B-Day yesterday (April 3) and I got a cell phone. Yay! Anyway, Im still writing ahead on Fortune's Fool and Im getting close to the ending. Unfortuneatly, Ive never been very good with stretching out stories to epic lengths so it will probably only be 11 chapters. Sorry guys. Ill try to stretch it to eleven and a half with the epilogue, but no promises. Sigh. That means you guys are about halfway through it. It makes me sad.

But not to worry! I have another story idea in mind. It's going to be called either King Kitsune or King Kyuubi, I have yet to decide. It will not be your ordenary Naruto fiction. Winkwink nudgenudge. Cough. See if you can find the relation of the title with what I have in mind/ the story/ another title from something different/COUGH. But SHHH! Don't say it in a review, its a surprise. Privately PM me and if you get it right Ill let you in with whats going down. Winkwink. Lol.

Ahh that and Im contemplating continuing Inari's Bane...

THANK YOU Impersonating-an-entity! Awesome betaness.

Disclaimer: I own nothing.

Legend:

"Ramen!" - Aloud speech

'Damn!' - Thinking/ Thought speech

'Fool.' - Kyuubi thought speech

"Hark!" - Kyuubi Speaking

"Eh?" -Fox/misc speech

Fortune's Fool

B.O.S.N.I.A

By Mirazhe1

The smoke, white and near solid looking as it had a shimmering quality, cleared slowly and many of the group slowed their coughing. For a few though, such as the Dog, Fox, and Bug nins, continued coughing or squirming slightly.

"Damn," Kiba managed to curse with a sneeze, "Some shit was in that smoke... Killin' my sense of smell..." A sneeze. "Damn it.." He rubbed his poor nose vigorously, as Akamaru miserably rubbed his nose in the dirt to rid the sent. Shino stood off a ways, slightly more composed but his hands squirmed uncomfortably in his pockets as a few bugs darted from him, flying in a disoriented way.

"It was chakra charged," He commented dryly, talking for the first time in his discomfort. His brows furrowed behind his glasses as a few more bugs flew about, confused by the recent burst of chakra that seemed to still hang in the air.

Naruto was frowning, nose scrunched sharply, as he kneeled next to Kyuubi on the ground. The small fox demon was snorting every so often.

'Chakra charged indeed. It hangs in the air like a plague, confusing the silent one's insects. The smoke itself has killed the senses. Tracking this King of Whites shall be nigh impossible.' Kyuubi thought to Naruto with a snort, struggling to compose himself as he attempted to clear his nose. Naruto straightened with a nod, and looked to the rest of his teammates. Hinata and Sakura looked worried as Sasuke gazed at the group coldly.

"The blast must have been a distraction. The Whites guy couldn't have gone far but our senses are shot," Naruto informed them, scrunching up his nose a bit more, twitching uncomfortably. "Hinata, do you think you can find a trail of some kind?" Hinata blinked for a moment, then began poking her fingers as she hunched over, her shoulders nearly touching her ears.

"I... d-don't know, Naruto-k-kun..." She averted her eyes to the ground. "I-I'm not very good w-with my Byakug-gan.." Sasuke scoffed loudly and Kiba frowned but amazingly remained silent. Naruto merely cocked his head and gave a foxy smile after a moment.

"Says who?" Hinata blinked, looked away and began to answer, but paused. She remembered. "Who says you're no good?" He had said, not even a day ago. Her eyes hardened after a moment, becoming determined.

"Ok, Naruto-kun." Performing the necessary seals, her eyes powered up and she looked about. Chakra seemed to hang in the air, still charging what was left of the smoke. Soon she found a trail of chakra hanging in the air, where the smoke had stuck to the caravan as it escaped and left a trail. With a nod to the others, she followed it, jumping from tree branch to branch.

Sasuke scoffed as he followed, obviously displeased he was following a 'weakling'. "We'll loose the trail soon; this inept couldn't follow a road," he said aloud, seemingly to himself. Sakura seemed to agree with him. Naruto frowned but said nothing, Kiba running beside him. The vessel quickly noticed the far away look in the dog nin's eyes and large blue eyes blinked.

"What are you looking at?" Naruto asked him, blinking again as Kyuubi snorted knowingly on his shoulder. He closed his eyes in an arrogant way, turning his head away as he snorted also.

"I never noticed Hinata had such a B.O.S.N.I.A." He answered, looking back with a mischievous grin. Akamaru, riding atop the dog nin's head, whined quietly with disapproval.

"B.O.S.N.I.A?"

"Big Ol' Standard Ninja Issue Ass." Naruto frowned at him.

'Lecherous mutt. Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind,' Kyuubi commented dryly. Naruto blinked, wondering when Kyuubi gave advice on love.

"You do know Hinata can hear you, right?" Naruto growled. Kiba shrugged nonchalantly, sparing a glance at Hinata who now had her hands in front of her from their view (most likely poking her fingers together), and her ears bright red, but diligently still following the trail.

"Who cares? Keh, that weakling couldn't do anything to me," Kiba retorted arrogantly.

"For all you know," Naruto's frown deepened, glanced at Kyuubi, and relayed to Kiba, "Thou callest me a dog before thou hast cause. But since I am a dog, beware my fangs." And with a snort in unison with Kyuubi, he sped up to run at Hinata's side. Kiba merely blinked at the fox nin, stunned by the rather ironic analogy.

They continued for a long while but inevitably they had to rest as Hinata's eyes were pushed to the limit. Not bothering to set up any kind of camp (the terrain below the trees was much too rough), Teams 7 and 8 merely bunkered down in the trees' oversized branches. Hinata, exhausted, promptly went to sleep, despite the sun just lowering on the horizon. Fortunately, Shino was courteous enough to unpack her blanket for her and cover her with it. The rest of the Teams also unpacked the bare necessities such as rations and blankets and began to hunker down.

"It's useless. At this rate, we'll never find the caravan." Naruto's slightly pointed ears perked at the sound of Sasuke's discriminating voice a few branches away, as he handed part of his rations to Kyuubi.

Akamaru wined softly nearby. "That weakling is probably leading us in circles." The vessel soon heard, much to his distaste, Kiba's approval.

"I wonder sometimes why she's still a ninja... Would make a better house wife." For the second time that mission, Kiba was knocked backward by the force of Naruto's punch. He was knocked off the branch as Naruto stole the place he was standing on, but the dog-nin grabbed another branch as he flew, hauling himself onto that one. "B-Bastard! Again! Why the hell'd you do that for!"

"You're a part of a team, if you haven't noticed, Ass-hole," Naruto growled, standing firm. Kyuubi clung to his shoulder, snarling silently. "You're not the only one on it, and the rest of the members are just as valuable as you are, if not more."

"Hey, you got a problem how I run this team," Kiba retorted, "then why don't you run it?" the dog nin growled back at Naruto for a moment, blinked, then smirked arrogantly. Akamaru crouched at his feet worriedly, tail lowered and looking up at his master uncertainly. "I'll make you a deal, Fox-spit. How bout we fight and if you win you can run this team. If I win then you have to shut up for the rest of the mission and give me all of your pay for the next month." Naruto frowned; he had no desire to be team leader, but if it meant better team efficiency he would do it. He voiced his approval. Kiba's smirk widened.

"Fine then," Kiba said, as he activated his jutsu with a "Shikyaku no Jutsu!" and leapt forward. "Akamaru!" The nin-dog hesitated, if only for a moment, and jumped forward to his master. He swallowed the pill thrown at him, and poofed into a copy of Kiba at the sound of "Jujin Bunshin!" The two flew toward Naruto, side by side with claws outstretched. Naruto deftly hopped to another branch, noticing out of the corner of his eye as Sasuke used the distraction replace himself with a simple bunshin and slowly sneak away. He nodded to Kyuubi as he jumped from his shoulder. Kyuubi nodded back as his vessel threw a scroll to him and caught it in his mouth. The fox demon bound off through the branches to follow Sasuke as Naruto quickly activated a jutsu.

Unfortunately, while doing this, the vessel had no time to dodge as Kiba and Akamaru attached from both sides, claws shredding through parts of his open, weighted vest, black shirt (and, unfortunately, through the dark orange spiral clan symbol, Naruto sadly noted), and skin. Naruto quickly bounded to a branch, favoring his wounds as Kiba took a minute to gloat.

"Che, little Fox-spit; seems your partner abandoned you," the real Kiba called out, hands on his hips in a mocking way. Naruto merely chuckled as he stood.

"Dumb Ass, my partner never leaves me," the vessel answered, idly placing his hand on his thankfully-still-clothed belly. "I, at least, don't hide behind my partners and let them do the work. But... if you want to play it that way…" Drifting off, Naruto's hands went through familiar seals, and quietly called the words "Kitsune Kage Bunshin no Jutsu." In an instant, a small army of identical foxes the size of large dogs poofed into existence, filling the trees. Kiba laughed at them.

"Idiot! You stick out like a sore thumb!" Shaking his head with a small smirk, Naruto backed up along his branch and his image melted into that of a fox, the same as his 'Kitsune Bunshin'. Blinking for a moment, the dog-nin regained his composure and began to sniff out the vessel with what little sense of smell he had, Akamaru helping him. He was unsuccessful however, as all of the foxes and Naruto, being in the middle of summoning them, smelled of bunshin smoke. He could hear chuckling, which seemed to be coming from all around him.

"I developed this jutsu just for this type of situation. Probably only a Hyuuga could find me now…" With that the foxes began to dance about, bounding from branch to branch. Every so often they would attack with a scratch or bite, which was easily deflected by either Kiba or Akamaru, but sheer numbers began to overwhelm, and cuts and bruises began to accumulate. Finally fed up, Kiba bellowed a command to Akamaru and they attacked.

"Gatsuga!"

"Y-you," King of the Whites managed to stammer out, scooting backward in his throne. The figure before him merely nodded. "But y-you're with that band of shinobi! You're here to kill me... Aren't you?" The figure shook his head.

"It's a shame anyone could ever mistake me as a shinobi for... THAT village," the figure said, with a snort. "I was the one to warn you of our coming earlier... Under a Henge, of course. I come to warn you that we're after you again. I'll try to dissuade them as much I can, but it's only a matter of time before they arrive." King of the Whites looked at the figure for a moment before smirking evilly.

"Disloyal to your village, eh? Good trait for this business. I suppose you want payment for your troubles?" King of the Whites leaned forward and steepled his fingers, his middle-aged shoulders square and business-like.

"Of course. All I want is for you to give a message to the organization you hire. Tell them the last true Sharingan wants out of Konoha gakure... Oh, and make sure not to recognize me when my team comes." Red Sharingan eyes flashed dangerously and King of the Whites was squirming in his seat once again. Unnoticed by both, slitted eyes more red and dangerous than Sharingan shone in the back of the dark hall.

Leaves and bark flew through the air as Kiba and Akamaru performed Gatsuga between (and in some cases, through) the trees, taking out dozens of foxes in poofs of smoke as they did. They flew forward, a spinning drill aimed for one of the last groups of Kitsune clones. They heard a cry of "Hari Jizo!" and dog duo were stunned by the impact, and backwards, both cut and bleeding, by a yellow, spiky mass. The last remaining clones bit down on conveniently equipped smoke bombs (which had been unnoticed by Kiba and Akamaru) and the area went up in smoke. As the air cleared, Kiba found himself suspended by his hood, a Kunai pressed firmly to his throat by Naruto. He looked about to see Akamaru not far off, held by the nape of his neck by the last Kistune clone. He looked back up to Naruto, who was smiling foxily.

"Fine... You win."

This was the image Sasuke returned to, silently dispelling his bunshin to take its place. He frowned. It seems the dead last (as he had started to refer to Naruto, gaining the habit from Sakura) was the team leader now. How annoying. His personal mission would be tons harder now, but he couldn't challenge the fox-nin just yet. It was still too early and he was still too much of a mystery. No, it would be best to just sit back and analyze for a while. It would be worth it in the end.

Naruto finally set Kiba down on the branch and the Kitsune clone was dispelled, letting Akamaru down also. Naruto looked back at the group, after using a jutsu to repair his clothes, and saw Kyuubi sitting patiently with them, scroll in his mouth. With a smile, the vessel took the scroll, stored it and let the fox demon hop onto his shoulder.

'A Kunai. He hast given our lives for a Kunai,' Was all Kyuubi muttered in the back of Naruto's mind. The vessel quickly saw the analogy and mentally frowned.

"Now then," Naruto announced to the group as the last of the sun dipped over the horizon, "We continue in the morning. Get a good night's sleep."

When morning came, Naruto, Kiba, and their partners' noses were clear and healed enough to track again. They followed the trail through the rough terrain, unable to pick up the sent from above and Naruto mentally noted that Sasuke's sent, faint and covered, followed the caravan's path. However, he stayed silent.

The Teams finally spotted the King of the Whites' base, carefully hidden in the valley between two large, tree-covered hills. It was similar to Konoha: the buildings were just as packed and crowded, and nearly all of them had balconies extending to nowhere. Unlike Konoha, however, the buildings, so packed, were rammed up against the hills, piled on top of each other. Wooden pathways wound up the hills to access the buildings higher up, and openings in the hills spoke of a network of caves. And there, at the far end of the valley, was a tall building rivaling the size of a mansion, built and shaped right in the hill.

"His sent leads to the mansion," Kiba declared, though not in his loud and arrogant tone this time. Naruto silently agreed with a nod.

"Hinata, can you look and see if he's in there," Naruto asked, looking back at the Hyuuga. She nodded, now determined, and activated her Byakugan. After a long moment of searching she spoke up.

"He's in the throne room," She said, eyes still intent and staring into space. "But he's heavily guarded; he has anything from thugs to... low-ranking nin, I think, scattered through the castle." Hinata's eyes finally relaxed, the bulging veins shrinking to their normal size. Naruto sat silent for a moment, the Teams waiting for his command.

"Ok, this is what we're gonna do..."

The King of the Whites was, to be put quite frankly, becoming irritated. He had had that wonderful little tip for him, that the Ninja were going to come today, but geez! They could at least be on time; it was many hours after mid-day by now. He had followed his end of the deal, already sending his message to the missing-nin, and he was expecting his tip to be accurate. The King of the Whites frowned, glancing about his throne room at the numerous guards standing watch. None had so much as sneezed for hours now so it was no wonder he was so bored. He sighed, leaning back into his throne.

He toppled out of it however, as his mansion quaked beneath him. He scrambled to his feet, looking about at his guards.

"What's going on! Get me a report." The guards merely blinked at him, and all poofed up in smoke. A single one was left, pink haired and smiling mischievously. Pulling her eye-lid down with her finger in an insulting manner, she stuck her tongue out at him. More poofs filled the hall, and the rest of the two Teams appeared. "H-how! How did you get in!" King of the Whites cried wildly, eyes wide. "My tip!" His fear filled eyes darted to Sasuke. "Your t-"

He would never finish though, as said Shinobi drew a Kunai and deftly flicked it at the drug lord. It found home in King of the Whites neck, and he fell back, gurgling uselessly. The rest of the Teams looked at Sasuke in either fear, amazement, or disgust. He scoffed.

"He is no use to us now," was his justification. Naruto frowned.

"Are the guards eliminated and evacuated?" The vessel asked the group, and Sasuke and Shino confirmed silently. "The explosive tags?" Kiba and Hinata nodded. Naruto's frown grew to a smirk, outstretching his arm so Kyuubi could jump from the floor to his arm and crawl up to his shoulder. "Then let's get the hell outta here!"

The Teams quickly evacuated and positioned themselves in the trees, a few tied and unconscious guards below. "Who would like to do the honors?" Naruto finally asked, looking at his Teams once more. Shino, in a rare display of outgoingness, silently volunteered by making a seal. Then, as if on a roll, he apparently decided to make the situation ironic…

"Boom."

The afternoon sky lit up with oranges and yellows from the explosion.

The trip back to Konoha gakure was a short one, despite lugging back the ex-guards for interrogation. With little a word, the Teams separated and went on their way, going home, or in Naruto's case, to the Hokage for his mission report. He took the usual route, via wall, ceiling, and hall, and was soon standing in front of Tsunade, whose hands were steepled beneath her chin while looking icily at Naruto.

"I do believe I gave the role of Team leader to Kiba," She said calmly, though not in an angry calm. Naruto concluded it was more of a resigned, faint annoyance.

"Kiba was inefficient as Team leader. We fought for the position and I won it." Godaime sighed and massaged the bridge of her nose.

"I was expecting that." She frowned. "And anything on our little traitor?" Naruto smirked, dug a scroll out of his supplies pouch and unrolled it on one of the small clear areas of her desk. The scroll was blank, but after a few seals, colored ink seeped to the surface, creating a picture which began to move. It showed Sasuke's back mostly, but moved to different angles every so often, as if the imaginary cameraman moved about. They watched as Sasuke arrived at King of the Whites base, creating a deal with him.

"The traitor failed to notice me throughout. Fool," Kyuubi stated from his perch atop a tall stack of papers on Tsunade's desk, conveniently just above the scroll.

"He snuck away while Kiba and I fought," Naruto explained, "I activated a Jutsu that would record everything Kyuubi saw onto a scroll and sent him after the traitor." Godaime nodded approvingly.

"This is good evidence, but we're going to need more." She looked up to the vessel's questioning look. "This could be easily forged with a Henge, but backed with more, we could have a case." Naruto smiled foxily, Kyuubi matching with an actual fox grin.

"Then we'll find some more evidence."

Oohhh look at that. All done. I had someone guess where the fog scene was from in Chapter 3 (Fire Bringer, by David Clement Davis) and they got nearly all the plot to this story, and what the next project is more specificly, Lol. That what you get for being smart.

But stick around and read through chapter six when Naruto has to team up with the Ino-Shika-Cho and a nasty secret is discovered about Sasuke...

'azhe out.