Summary: A series of one-shots featuring Uchiha Itachi babysitting the Hyuuga Heiress.
It was a particularly pleasant day in Konoha.
The sun was shining and although the weather was a tad warmer than usual, Konoha was particularly breezy today.
Uchiha Itachi, clad in his ANBU gear, and porcelain mask was silent and unnoticeable as he tailed Uzumaki Naruto.
After a particularly nasty incident which Itachi didn't like to recall, surveillance of Naruto became an occasional side duty of ANBU.
Especially following up a few days after the rare mob incidences.
This was the third time a mob attempted to bring harm to eight year old Uzumaki Naruto.
While neither he nor his parents shunned the Jinchuriki, neither did they actively seek the boy out for friendship, though there was a time he remembered his mother being friends with the Kyuubi Jinchuriki, Uzumaki Kushina.
However, those were days of the past, before the village began alienating the Uchiha, they were suspicious of his clan after the Kyuubi attack and then rumors of the Sharingan being able to control Bijuu began to surface.
Talks of a coup d'état were starting to begin forming during the clan meeting rooms.
Back to the situation at hand:
Uzumaki Naruto exited the academy with a distinct frown.
Itachi had watched the boy in class and wasn't particularly happy to note that the boy had the penchant for rabble rousing and aggravating and baiting Sasuke.
He was slightly annoyed that Sasuke rised to Naruto's bait and made a note to work on Sasuke's temper when he had free time.
The orange clad ninja mumbled complaints about Sasuke as he walked to his own apartment.
Eventually, Itachi noticed a suspiciously short shadow behind an electricity pole and decided to check up on it discreetly.
Before his eyes was a red faced Hyuuga Hinata who seemed to be tailing after Uzumaki Naruto.
Itachi frowned and wondered what business she had to follow the loud mouthed blonde, especially so "secretively."
After the blonde got home, Itachi paid note to Hinata who paced to Naruto's apartment door, before turning a brighter shade of red (if that were possible) before running back to her hiding place behind the electricity pole.
It was almost cute how painfully shy she was.
Itachi, however, was also slightly creeped out about how her infatuation of Naruto seemed to be nearing stalkerish.
At sunset, a man called Ko had arrived and took Hinata home and Itachi switched shifts with another ANBU operative who had a distinctive shade of silver hair.