A/N: Oh yeah… Sasuke's sword is a white version of his sword from the manga, in case I wasn't clear enough/ you had trouble visualizing it.

XXXI: Interference

Unaware of the trouble brewing behind them, Naruto and Hinata walked hand in hand down the road.

"Um…Naruto-kun, Ichiraku ramen is the other way."

"I know, but we're not going there today." Naruto said with a smile. "There's a really nice restaurant down here."

"I thought Ichiraku's was your favorite place…"

"It is, and they're the only place that doesn't overcharge me for the food. But I wanted to take you somewhere really nice."

Hanabi and Fu followed a close distance behind, trying to stay out of sight, but still within earshot.

"That's…that's a nice restaurant…" Hanabi observed when the couple finally reached their destination. "How can a Genin afford a meal there?"

"I overheard heard their Jonin-sensei, they just made a lot of money on their last mission."

"Wait…" Hanabi said, "They're on the same team?" She frowned, "There has to be a rule about that!"

"They're going inside, what do we do now?"

"There's a balcony in the back maybe we can sneak in through there?"

"How do you know that?"

"My father has taken us here before." Hanabi answered, "It's really expensive."

The two of them circled around the building. On the other side they found a large balcony, surrounded by trees.

"Careful," Fu whispered to Hanabi as they climbed a tree, "we don't want to get caught."

However, just as Fu was about to jump onto the currently deserted balcony the door into the restaurant opened and out walked Naruto and Hinata, led by a waiter. "I'm terribly sorry," The waiter said, "but this is the only available dining area."

"But we walked pats a dozen empty tables inside!" Naruto complained.

"I'm terribly sorry," The waiter repeated in an incredibly insincere voice, "But those tables are reserved."

Naruto rolled his eyes, "Whatever, which table is ours?"

The waiter gave Naruto an almost genuine smile, "Whichever one you want, we have no reservations for outside today."

Naruto and Hinata sat at a small table in the far corner of the balcony, and began leafing through the menus.

"Do you think they can see us?" Fu asked.

Hanabi shook her head, "The angle's all wrong for the blond, and my sister is terrible with her Byakugan."

"Good." Fu slung the large cloth wrapped object off of her shoulder and braced it against a tree branch.

"What's that?" Hanabi asked the older ninja.

Fu removed the red and white cover, revealing an odd layered chest. "My supplies." Fu answered as snapped the clasp open causing the chest to fan out, making each compartment individually accessible.

Bottles and jars were crammed into most of the compartments. Each bottle contained a different substance. Some were full of liquid others had metallic looking dust, a few had viscous gel.

A long thin rod was strapped to the lid, along with several flat boxes while Coiled in the bottom of the case lay a large whip, nestled in velvet lined depressions were a dozen hooked rings, each shaped like a scorpion's stinger, as well as a pair of blackened iron claws.

Fu unstrapped the rod and opened one of the flat boxes. Inside were a dozen tiny needles threaded with red fluff.

"A blowdart?" Hanabi asked when she realized what the rod was, "What kind of Ninja uses a weapon like that?"

"A stealthy one." Fu answered, while she carefully coated the tiny needle with a blue gel.

"What are you going to do?"

"Just put him to sleep for a little while." Fu took careful aim and shot Naruto in the neck with a dart. He absentmindedly swatted at his neck knocking the dart loose. "Any second now..." Fu muttered, "any second now…"

"It's not working." Hanabi glared at Fu.

Fu scratched her face, "That should have been enough to knock a dozen people out…" She selected another dart and coated it with the same blue gel. "Well, let's see how your sister handles a little soporific."

Fu took aim once more and fired at Hinata this time. But before the dart reached its target it was intercepted by a thin silver flash that knocked the dart out of the sky.

"Who did that?" Hanabi was surprised to see someone hit such a small moving target with such accuracy.

Fu glared at a distant tree, "Haku…"

Sure enough Haku was crouched on a branch directly opposite them. She winked at Fu while she twirled a Senbon around the fingers of one hand.

"Who's that?" Hanabi asked.

"Just someone I know." Fu glared at the girl in the tree opposite her. "This is going to be much harder with her in the way…"

While Fu was plotting her next move the waiter returned to take their order.

"I think the Kitchens are under the balcony." Hanabi said, "Maybe one of us could do something to their food?"

"That's a good idea." Fu rummaged around her chest and pulled a box of throwing darts out. "Take these," She said while coating the darts with the blue soporific, "And use them to keep Haku busy."

"How?"

"Throw them at her or Naruto, or your sister or something." Fu shrugged, "It doesn't matter if you hit them just keep Haku from following me." Fu grabbed her blow gun and tucked a case of darts into her belt, after a moment's hesitation she strapped the claws onto her forearms and grabbed her whip as well. "If anything happens to my chest while I'm gone…"

Hanabi gulped, "Don't worry I'll keep it safe."

Fu slid down the tree and crept up to the windows under the balcony. She carefully peeked into one, 'There's the kitchen,' she thought, 'now how to get in….'

She slunk around the building until she found the employees' exit. She waited in the shadow of a dumpster for someone to open the door and snuck in behind them when they re-entered the kitchen. From there it was the simple matter of staying out of sight while she tracked down Naruto's waiter.

She saw him leave the kitchen with a tray of ramen. 'Gotcha.' She smirked, before nailing the waiter with a sleep dart.

The waiter wobbled. But before he dropped someone slipped out of the shadows and caught the waiter and his tray.

'What the… where did he come from?'

Sasuke winked at Fu as he Henged into the waiter and strolled off with Naruto and Hinata's food.

'That smarmy bastard…' Fu followed Sasuke, sticking to the shadows to avoid being spotted by the restaurants employees.

Sasuke turned a corner so fast Fu almost lost him, by the time she caught up he was climbing the stairs that led to the balcony. She sped up to try to intercept him before he could open the door but as she cleared the sixth step her foot snagged on a ninja wire and she tripped and slid down the stairs.

"Ow…" Fu rubbed her shins, "He's a sneaky bastard too…"

Meanwhile, Hanabi was having major difficulty with Haku. Instead of her keeping Haku busy, it seemed to be the other way around. Haku kept launching barrages of needles every time she so much as peeked over the edge of the tree branch she was hiding behind.

And when the waiter came with Naruto and Hinata's food she could have sworn he smirked at her when he left.

That was when Haku made her move; she used one of her mirrors to practically teleport across the balcony. Haku crashed into her shoulder first, knocking them both out of the tree Hanabi had been standing in.

At first Hanabi was glad; after all she was a genius when it came to Juuken, and this girl seemed to specialize in Senbon. She was confident she could win, and then maybe she could end her sister's date with one of the darts Fu left her.

Of course, this was before Hanabi realized just how fast Haku was. Haku pushed her farther and farther from the restaurant with a dizzying array of punches and kicks. The only person Hanabi had ever fought that could not only beat her but corral her like this was her father. Even Neji would have had to take a few blows to push her this far back.

Back in the restaurant, Fu had managed to finally untangle herself from the trap Sasuke had placed on the stairs when he returned from delivering Naruto and Hinata's food.

"I don't know what you're trying to pull," Sasuke growled, "But I won't let you ruin a relationship seven years in the making." Sasuke's cold black eyes turned blood red, with three red tomoe spinning lazily in each eye. "Prepare yourself." He drew his new chokutō and charged the green haired girl.

'He's fast!'

Fu barely had time to flip her claws down to block his attack before Sasuke had closed the distance between them. Fu didn't expect a Genin to be capable of doing seal-less jutsu, so when Sasuke spat a fireball at her while still pushing against her block, it caught her full in the face and knocked her through an open window and into the decorative garden surrounding the restaurant.

"D-Damn… I didn't expect him to be this strong…"

Sasuke leapt through the window after her; his Sharingan seemed to glow in the fading light as the sun set behind Konoha's walls. "You will regret this."

Hanabi had been pushed so far back that she couldn't even see the restaurant her sister and the blond where eating at. Haku had upped the ante now that they were fighting in a back alley, and her senbon flew fast and furious. Soon Haku had her literally pinned to a wall.

Haku patted the girl on the head, "As much as I would rather it be me with Naruto right now, Naruto made his choice and I want him to be happy. Can you do the same for your sister?"

Hanabi just glared at Haku.

"Oh well." Haku shrugged "You have plenty of time to learn." She gave the younger girl a friendly wave and walked back towards the restaurant. "Think about what I said okay?"

Fu was incredibly embarrassed. Even without her Bijuu cloak, or her more destructive Jutsu she should have been able to beat Sasuke. But he managed to drive her off with nothing but his sword and his wires.

She staggered into an alleyway to hide from the red-eyed terror and found Hanabi silently struggling to pull herself loose from a wall.

"Haku got you, yeah?"

"She's fast…" Hanabi grumbled, "What happened to you?"

"Sasuke got me when I tried to get their waiter." Fu began pulling Senbon out of Hanabi, "Come on, let's get out of here before Sasuke catches up to me again…"

"Too late."

The screams could be heard for miles.

Later That Evening:

Naruto and Hinata stood outside the Hyuuga compound.

"We Sh-Should thank Sasuke and Haku for all their hard work t-today."

"And spoil their fun?"

"G-Good point." Hinata giggled.

"We've got training tomorrow," Naruto said, "we should get some rest."

"I h-had a r-really n-nice time… Th-Thank you…" Naruto had grown a bit since they graduated, but Hinata still had to bend down to give Naruto a kiss. She wobbled a bit, but didn't faint.

"G-G-good N-N-Night." Naruto managed to stutter out before she entered the compound. "I-I-I'll see you tomorrow…"

Location: Unknown. Date: Unknown.

"Wh-where am I?" The man struggled against his chains put the spikes held fast.

There was a rumbling sound and a chunk of wall easily twice the man's size came crashing down. Embedded into the chunk of wall on one side were iron bars as thick around as the man's thigh.

"Do you see what your actions have caused?" A deep voice rumbled.

A/N: Cut! What you thought I tell you what's (or where, or when) going on?

For now, expect updates on Friday or Saturday. Once my buffer grows to six chapters I plan on updating Wednesday and Saturday.

Beta'd By harry copperfield dresden