The next day, Naruto and Red were walking through Viridian Forest. Kurama was sleeping inside Naruto's jacket while Kunai was riding on his shoulder. Red was asking him about being a ninja and where exactly he had come from.

"So, you don't remember what happened and you just woke up here?" Red asked him, wanting to clarify his story.

"Yep, pretty much." Naruto said, "Somehow, I don't think Konahagakure no Sato is anywhere closeby."

"No," Red shook her head,"I've never heard of it before, and I've been studying up on different towns and geographical landmarks since I was six."

Naruto sighed,"I'm just wondering how all of my friends are doing back home."

(-)

Meanwhile in Konaha...

Things were getting wierd. There were strange creatures roaming around outside - and inside - the city. They seemed friendly, but there were a few hostile ones mixed in there as well. Kakashi sighed, trying to ignore the thing that had been following him around ever since he had walked outside the city five days ago. All the Jonin had just been called to a meeting by the Hokage. They were trying to figure out where these creatures had come from. Kakashi had a feeling that it was somehow linked to the dissapearance of his student, Naruto Uzumaki.

Kakashi reached Hokage Tower and made his way inside. He knew that he was atleast twenty minutes late for this meeting, but he knew that Lady Tsunade would probably have waited until he got there, she'd been doing that as of late.

Kakashi walked into the meeting hall where many Jonin were waiting impatiently. He noticed that quite a few of them had creatures following them as well. The creatures came in many different forms and colors. The one following Kakashi around closely resembled a dog, which he didn't mind one bit.

"Okay," Lady Tsunade started,"Now that everyone has arrived," she looked pointedly at Kakashi,"We'll begin this meeting."

"So," She said,"As you all know, there have been creatures that appeared within the village five days ago. This meeting is to determine what they are and where they've come from."

The Jonin in the room waited for her to continue, all of them having no clue of what they were or what they were doing there.

Lady Tsunade waited for a moment, then cleared her throat and continued talking,"Well, if no one has any ideas, will everyone that has one of the creatures following them tell us about their habits and what they do?"

Neji raised his hand and Lady Tsunade nodded at him for him to speak," Well, so far the creature that has attached itself to me," he gestured at his left shoulder where a small gray thing with creepily round and wide purple eyes perched,"Hasn't really done anything, it only will get off my shoulder if there's food available, and believe me, if it doesn't want to get off, it won't." He glared at the creature, and it laughed a little bit and said something that sounded like,"Esp, Esp!"

After that, people started telling everyone about their creature and what it did. Soon, it was Kakashi's turn to speak.

"Well, it resembles a dog, its intelleigence isn't as high as a ninja hound, but it seems to be higher than a normal dog. It doesn't seem to be dangerous at all, it just kind of follows me around everywhere. Also, I believe that the sudden appearence of all the creatures could be directly linked to the dissapearance of Naruto Uzumaki."

He looked up at the Hokage, wondering if he should continue his theory. She nodded at him, so he continued, a few days before, they'd discussed this together. "Well, the dissapearance of Naruto happened at the exact same time as these creatures appeared, I think that if we can find Naruto, we can find out exactly where these creatures come from."

Lady Tsunade nodded her thanks for bringing up the topic, then started up talking again.

(-)

"Well, I'm sure that they're probably going about their daily life - whatever that may be for a ninja - and trying to find you." Red replied to Naruto.

"Yeah, I'm sure you're right," Naruto said, still wondering exactly what was happening. But deciding that he shouldn't worry about it, he place the thought at the back of his mind, and continued chattering away to Red as she listened to him.

(...)

Thank you for reading this chapter. I'm sorry that I haven't gotten a chaptter up in a while. I'm blaming it on school and the fact that I had quite a bit of writer's block. I know that this chapter is really short, but hey, I'm trying, and every sentence of this was troublesome to write, I just couldn't really think of anything to happen, although now I think I should be good, ideas are starting to form in my mind. So anyway, thank you for reading, and I'll try to get another (longer) chapter up soon.