Shisui motions to his teammates to take up positions in the trees. Their quarry is approaching. Shisui's team is investigating a report one of Danzo's people brought back about increased Mist ninja presence on the border between the Land of Fire and the Land of Water.
A small team of Mist ninjas approaches cautiously, scanning the terrain for any sign of enemy shinobi.
Shisui makes signs to his team to observe until further notice.
Carefully, the Mist ninjas advance, and just as carefully the leaf ninjas tail them. Then, without any warning at all, one of the Mist shinobi turns and sends a volley of kunai in Shisui's direction. Faster that the speed of light, Shisui shunshins into the middle of the enemy.
The Mist ninjas scatter, and Shisui's own team engages them. One of the enemy tries to attack Shisui, who simply shunshin's behind him and kills him quickly.
One by one the Mist ninjas fall to the Leaf.
"Well, that was anti-climatic," jokes Shisui.
His teammates groan and search the bodys for anything that might reveal their purpose. Then they seal the bodies into scrolls and head back to the Leaf to report what they found.
Hinata kneels down in the grass and drops the contents of her pockets on the ground. Felt tip pens and permanent markers spill out across the grass along with a bag containing a white powder and another bag with round tablets in it.
"What are those pills?" asks Naruto. "And that powder?"
"It's sleeping powder I pinched from the cupboard in the bathroom at my house," explains Hinata.
"Ohhh!" Naruto stares at it with wide eyes. "Won't you get in trouble?"
Hinata giggles. "I'll just blame it on the oni."
"Are onis real?"
"I don't know!" Hinata giggles again. "I also took all the felts and vivids I could find in case some don't work on Uchiha skin."
Naruto picks up a pink felt. "We should use the different colours to make pretty patterns to cheer up the policemen."
"Like free face-painting!"
"Yeah!"
"You take half, and I'll take half," says Hinata, gathering up some markers. "That way we can cover more ground."
Naruto starts stuffing markers into his pockets. "How are we gonna get them to eat the sleeping stuff?" he asks.
Hinata grins. "We'll just put it in their lunch boxes and coffee cups. Then once they are all asleep after they have their lunch, we can draw on their faces."
"Okay!" Naruto grins. "But how much do we use?"
"Well," says Hinata. "We just need to sprinkle some powder in their lunch and put a tablet in each cup." She hands the bag of tablets to Naruto. "You are in charge of the drinks. Make sure they don't see you - and trust me, they are VERY good at seeing."
"Yes, commander!" salutes Naruto, then starts giggling.
"Let's move out, soldier!" commands Hinata, pointing up into the air. Then she turns and marches off with much purpose. Naruto follows, marching in time with Hinata.
They reach the police headquarters in record time and sneak inside. Hands over their mouths to stop themselves from giggling, they sneak into the locker room to find the policemen's lunches.
Naruto tries to open one of the lockers. "Aw, it's locked!"
"I'll take care of things here," says Hinata. "You sneak into the main building amd get those pills into their drinks!"
"Yes commander!" Naruto whispers and sneaks out of the room.
Outside the locker room, the police station seems cold and empty. Naruto sneaks from room to room, avoiding notice by pretending he is meant to be there. In each room he finds a cup and drops a pill in it when the owner isn't looking.
One of the officers sees him wandering around. "What are you up to, boy?" she demands with her hands on her hips.
"I'm lost," says Naruto, screwing his face up and sticking his bottom lip out while pretending to cry. "I can't find the nice police chief-man."
The police lady smiles. "And why are you looking for the chief?" she asks.
"I wanna ask him something and this is the only place I knew ta find him, since I dunno where his house is." Naruto adorns his face with the most innocent, guileless expression in his arsenal.
The police lady looks surprised. "I guess I better take you to see the chief, then," she says. Then she grabs Naruto by the wrist and forcefully leads him upstairs to a door labeled 'Police Chief'.
"Hey chief!" the lady knock on the door. "You got a visitor!"
"I'm busy!" floats back through the door.
"So am I," counters the lady. "And since the kid wants you, you can deal with him!" She opens the door and shoves Naruto through it. Then she shuts the door behind him. Naruto hears her footsteps clumping away.
Naruto turns to see the police chief. "Hi!" he says, smiling winningly.
The police chief gazes at Naruto for the longest while. Then he says, "What do you want?"
Naruto sets his sights on the police chief's cup of tea and makes a beeline for the desk. "Well," he says, leaning on the desk and pulling himself up so he can see over the top. His feet barely touch the floor. "I heard that you have a kid my age, and I've never seen her around but I wanna meet her. Can you introduce me to her? I really like making new friends, and Hinata does too!" Naruto drops back to the floor and trots around the desk. He can just about reach the cup from here. The policeman is just staring at him. "What are you doing?" Naruto pretends to be interested in the chief's paperwork. "Is it interesting? I bet it's really important. What is all that paper for?" he peers at the paper, leaning forward so that his body is between the chief and his cup. Then he subtly slips in a sleeping pill.
The police chief gently pushing Naruto away from his paperwork.
Naruto continues his talking, too nervous to stop. "What's your daughter like? Is she nice? When are you gonna let me meet her? Is she older or younger than me-"
"Do you have ADHD, or something, kid?"
"What's ADHD?" asks Naruto. "Is it a type of food?"
The police chief bangs his head down on the table and groans. "Damn Uzumaki genes!" he mumbles.
"But I'm not wearing jeans!"
Fugaku, looking rather pale, picks up his cup of tea and downs it in one gulp. Then the cup falls to the floor and Fugaku passes out across his desk.
Naruto looks down at his hands. It seems in his nervousness he accidently put in five tablets instead of one. Oops.
Oh well. Face-drawing time!
Naruto pulls on the back of the Fugaku's shirt so he can get at his face. After some tugging and a lot of effort, Naruto's effort is rewarded and Fugaku falls undignified into a sitting position with his head lolling over the back of the chair. Naruto climbs onto Fugaku's lap so he can reach his face and pulls out a black pen. Then he draws a mustache as carefully as he can. All that practice drawing mustaches with Hinata pays off and the mustache turns out pretty well. Pleased with his handiwork, Naruto climbs down and walks out of the door like he just finished an appointment instead of a prank.
Grinning, Naruto strolls into the nearest room to see sleepy policemen yawning and falling asleep left right and center. He scampers off to find Hinata. She is in the locker room hiding in a corner while a small group of police eat their lunch. Soon the policemen are yawning a mumbling about taking a nap, then lying down and falling asleep.
Once they are all knocked out, Hinata and Naruto advance with markers in their hands. Mustaches and monobrows are the order of the day, with a few added whiskers and a goatee.
Naruto giggles as he gives the most serious looking of the group a rainbow on his cheek.
The two children run out of the locker room and into the hallway.
"Where to next?" asks Hinata.
"I already got the chief!" giggles Naruto. "And while I was at it I asked if we could meet his daughter who's our age!"
"Wow, I didn't know boys could multitask!" Hinata grins. "Let's see if the guys in that room are knocked out yet!"
"We better check we didn't miss any!" whispers Naruto. "I don't wanna get caught."
"And why not?" asks a voice from behind them. "Are you doing something you shouldn't be?"