Disclaimer- I do not own Naruto; if I did Kisame would have a lot more battle scenes.
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Previously in Vice Versa: A Naruto Tale—
Looking at his katanas he thought of something. He lifted his shirt and looked at his stomach. He created a clone and transformed it into him from two hours ago. He looked at its stomach. Running to the closet he pulled out some black paint, and small paintbrush. He painted a duplicate seal onto his stomach. Letting the clone disappear, Naruto pulled his shirt down.
"It probably would be better If I kept them thinking that I still had the seal on."
said Naruto.
He sighed and went of to bed. Thinking about the past, and wondering about the future.
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Hokage Heads-
Where was the entrance? Sakura looked everywhere on top of the Fourth's head for an entrance to this 'secret room', but she found nothing. When she was about to give up when she saw the same mark that was in the library, on a tree. She pushed some chakra into it and a slip of paper fell out. It said:
Riddle-Pine
Shit. She sucked at riddles. Looking around she saw a pine tree with the mark. Walking over to it, she did the same as before and another slip of paper fell out. It read
Thirty white horses
Upon a red hill;
Now they tramp
Now they tramp
Now they stand still
Sakura scratched her head. This one was kind of hard. Looking at her hand she punched the ground. Thirty white horses. She started tapping her tooth. Then she got it. The average person had 30 teeth. The tramping is the chewing, and the red hill was the tongue.
She jumped down to the teeth of the Yondaime's head and sure enough there was a mark. She did the usual and the front tooth opened. Jumping in, she looked around. She came face to face with a stone toad head. It seemed to be carved into the wall. Suddenly it spoke.
'Who goes there?"
"It is I, Sakura Uchiha the sixth Hokage, and I wish to gain admittance to the secret room of the Yondaime."
'I will allow admittance if you can answer my riddle, do you agree?"
'Yes I agree." said Sakura
"Ok, here it goes:
In a lumpy little house
A fat white baby
Sleeps under a red mosquito net
What is it?"
Sakura thought for a moment. What could it possibly be? What has a mosquito net? White babies. Suddenly the answer came to her.
"Is it a peanut?" she guessed.
'Correct!" said the toad.
It opened its mouth and froze up. Sakura walked inside. There was a flight of stairs going up, and up she went. Reaching the top floor she saw five coffins. Looking at the tombstones she this was the sacred burial ground for the Hokage's. She opened the fourth's tomb and found the scroll. As she was about to touch it she froze. Yondaime.
'Where is he!" she yelled out loud.
The body was gone. There was nothing there. Checking the other bodies she saw that they were missing as well. She punched the wall as hard as she could. Grabbing the scroll she summoned a slug to go bring it to her office, she needed to think. Running out of the secret room.
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Lone Pine Hill-
Sakura sat alone on the hill, her feet hanging over the edge. She couldn't believe that someone had stolen all of the past Hokage's graves from right under her nose. She heard some one coming. It was Sasuke. He walked over and put his arm around her and pulled her closer.
'What's wrong?" he asked.
'Tsunade-sama, Sandaime-sama, even Yondaime-sama's graves were stolen."
Sasuke stiffened. "Do you know who did it?" he asked.
'No, but it was not so long ago." Sakura said. Sasuke seemed to relax.
"I'm going to go home." he said.
'I'll be home soon." Sakura replied.
Sasuke stood up and jumped off. Sakura sighed. It was weird, but ever since Naruto had come back, she felt a feeling of emptiness, even when Sasuke was around. When she was with Naruto she felt complete. Could she be in love with Naruto? No. She shook her head of the nonsense and left the hill.
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Unknown to Sakura, Naruto had been watching the entire time... Jumping to the ground out of his hiding place he looked at his hand. Why did it tremble when Sasuke was near Sakura? Why was it, that when Sasuke even lived near Sakura, he wanted to rip him to shreds? Could he be in love with Sakura again? No he couldn't, it jeopardize the mission.
He jumped of the hill to back to his house. The same two yellow eyes watching him.
'Soon."
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Valley of the End-
An hour late. Naruto had hurried to get his weekly report done and Mizu is an hour late. Suddenly there was a quick bolt of lightning and then nothing. Where the lightning had struck there was a man with blond hair and brown eyes. He had on a familiar black cloak that had the kanji for lightning on it.
'So they sent you, huh Rai?"
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A.N- I re-did the chapter because what I put up, wasn't my planned chapter, it was actually my original one. Sorry. Anyways, I'm a little disappointed that my super long chapter only got 5 reviews so far. Anyway, keep a lookout for my new fic: A NaruxSaku Halloween Special, premiering October 19th. Till next time! (10/6/07)
Ranting Corner:
WARNING SPOILERS BEYOND THIS POINT.
Chapter 374 had a lot of interesting information. It told us where the third member was, and what the statue is for. I think it was awesome because we finally saw what the chameleon summon looked like (the summoning scroll appeared in the filler arc) and we got to see one new one, a lobster. Overall I don't have anything bad to say about this chapter. I have but one more thing to say: I really believe Jiraiya isn't making it out of this one alive.