Chapter 4
AN I lied, this i totally got up the same day as chapter 3 WoOt go me!
His whole body hurt, he struggled to open his eyes, unaware of the changes that had been made. He remembered what had happened to Gaara when they had put him with the circle a weird feeling started at the base of his neck and went down. 'Am I dead?' he asked himself trying to open his eyes. He slowly opend his eyes, looking around the room bewildered. He was lyign on a bed in a small room, the door was locked on the other side. 'Damn it.' He thought trying to comprehend what had happened.
The village hidden in the leaves was in an uproar. The people hurried to and from their destinations, not wanting to stay out of the protection of their homes for too long. Tsunade stood, watching as the constructions progress stopped, and as the people ran to their homes. The door behind her opened and closed with a creak and Kakashi's voice rang through the room.
"Tsunade sama. You wanted to see me?" Kakashi asked, walking into the room and leaning on the wall by her desk. She turned to look at him, waiting for her to continue.
"You know as well as I do that NAruto has gone missing." she started, Kakashi cut in.
"And you want me and a team to find and retrieve him, before Akatsuki kills him."
"Very clever Kakashi." she stated. "That's exactly what I want you to do." he looked at her.
"Anyone specific?" he asked, leaning forward and taking a step away from the wall.
"Whoever you see fit for this mission." she finished turning to look out the window again. he didn't reply as he left the room. He went outside to call the three he wanted for this mission. On the other side of the village Sakura sat in a field of flowers, laughing with Ino. Sakura looked up at the bird hovering over them.
"Sorry Ino, I've gotta go." she said jumping up and gettign ready to run towards the village. Neji stood sweat pouring off his face, His uncle stood across from him, palms outstretched, ready for anything. Neji stopped, listening to the message the bird relayed to him.
'' Uncle, I have to go." he said befor standing and leaping ino the air. Kiba and Akamaru stood, side by side. Akamaru almost almost as tall as him. The bird relayed the message to them as well. They stood and left heading towards Kakashi. The three of them made it there at the same time, and to their surprise he stood waiting for them.
"Wow, this is new, you've never been on time before, Kakashi-sensei" Sakura stated, moving to stand in front of him. Kiba laughed, and neji smiled.
"Not really the time for jokes, but ok, I admit i'm always late!" he stated, glaring at sakura in the teacher-student way. "Now, the reason I've called you is, have you noticed how quiet the village has been the past two days?" he asked cassually.
"Yeah, actually I have.'' Kiba said, shaking his head at the realization.
"Well, have you figured out why yet?" Kakashi asked proding them.
"Naruto's gone missing..." Neji said actually showing a little surprise.
"Exactly. So the mission is, 'retrieve Naruto before Akatsuki has the chance to extract the Kyubi." kakashi finished.
"Wouldn't this be for ANBU, not us?" Sakura asked, thinking about how quiet it really had been the past few days.
"Well, yes and no. ANBU will be following behind us, to apprihend Akatsuki." Kakashi said, nodding his head.
"Oh." she said, thinking about their chances of getting there in time to save him.
"Any questions? No... lets go then." Kakashi said, leaping as they followed him. After a few minutes Kakashi dropped down to the forest floor. "Kiba does Akamaru smell Naruto?" he asked as Kiba looked at Akamaru.
"Faintly, yeah?" he replied pointing to the north of where they were standing. They took off again, moving at a faster pace then before. "The scent's getting closer." Kiba shouted, moving closer to Kakashi, teling him when to change directions. "It's here!" kiba stated, landing infront of a cave.
"Unlikely place as any." Kakashi said with a chuckle. "no wonder it's so hard to find them."
"Hatake Kakashi... long time no see."A sinister voivce echoed from the inside of the cave. "Well, what do we owe to this great 'honor'?"
"We know you havr Naruto."
"The Kyubi? Of course we have him."
"Why don't you come out and show your self insted of hiding in the cave like... well, there's nothing to explain what you are." Kakashi stated, moving to an offensive stance.
"Well, well, as impatient as ever I see." the voice said moving closer to them from the gloom. A tall figure with what looked like a plant growing from inside his cloak came out to the entrance of the cave. He chuckled at the group assembled before him. "I see you've moved up in the world Kakashi." he said laughing as Kiba, Sakura and Neji glared at him.
"Is Naruto in there? Neji" Kakashi asked as Neji activated the Byakugan and began to scan the cave.
"yeas, he's there... third door on the left side of the corridor." Neji replied as Kakashi and the other ninja stood glaring at each other.
"Well, what are you waiting for?" go get him!" Kakashi yelled as the other nin prepared to strike. the three of them ran past the Akatsuki member into the gloom of the cave. Sakura looked around in awe and a little bit of confusion.
"Wow... they live here..." she said glancing up at the precious gems in the cealing. The three of them walked, unapposed to the door of Naruto's room, the door was a jar, making them suspicious.
"Akamaru, what's up?" Kiba whispered as the fur on akamaru's back stood on end. He growled a reply, and stood closer to Kiba.
"Well? what did he say?" Neji asked, a bad feeling coming unbidden to him.
"He said there's a huge amount of chakra coming from that room..." Kiba stated, shivering at Akamaru's uncomfortableness. They nudged the door open with a foot, and turned quickly into the room. Sakura surpressed a scream. Sitting in front of them was naruto, the foxes chakra swirling around him, the heat of it burning his skin, making him bleed from every pore in his body. On the floor where he was sitting a small pool of blood had begun to form, his eyes had turned redwith black slits, and his whiskers had become more pronounced.
"N...N...Naruto?" Sakura whispered, fear creeping into her heart. "Is... Is that you naruto?" She asked, looking at the swirling fox shaped chakra. Neji and Kibs stood, poised to attack if it was nessisary.
"Sakura... I would be careful if I were you." Neji said, activationg his Byakugan again. He stood staring at the chakra flow of NAruto's body. insted of blue mixed with white Naruto's chakra was pure black, with red outlining it. 'The nine-tails complete chakra.' Neji thought, ready to stop the flow if he had to. Akamaru growled, fur still standing on end, glaring at the figure before him. Naruto growled back, his eyes oddly unfocused. HE stood, ready to punce on Sakura. Akamaru grolwed again, standing infront of the three chuunin, between the fox and the ninja.