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Chapter 8: The Calm after the Storm

Naruto woke up, stretched his arms, and checked outside the window.

Below him was the beautiful town of Sooga, with all of its wonderful inhabitants. He saw people of all kinds, from kids with dark hair, kids with blue hair….and….a horde of ninjas coming this way?

It was Tobei! He must have come back to kidnap the authoress!

Naruto jumped out of the window to confront the "ninja" leader.

"You come back for round two?!" Naruto assumed a fighting stance.

Tobei took a look around before answering. "Yes, I did blonde ninja. And, it would seem you are outnumbered by my men, and without your precious authoress to protect you, you have no hope of defeating me!" He laughed evilly.

Naruto rolled his eyes, and formed a handsign. "Henge!"

Seven more Narutos appeared. "How's that for even odds? You were saying?"

Tobei began to stutter. "H-h-h-h….how….?"

Naruto stared at him with a confused look on his face. "You can't do Jutsu? Whoa, you and Bushy Brow have a lot in common…."

He shrugged, looked at his clones, who shrugged as well, and decided to quit talking and start with the action!

Meanwhile, some of Tobei's men had discovered where the authoress was sleeping, and had her tied up and gagged before anything could happen.

The last one out had grabbed her laptop, made sure no one saw that, and closed the door behind him.

Jiraiya had just broken up the fight between Naruto and Tobei, and had went to go wake up the authoress.

He opened the door, with breakfast on a tray.

J: Wait…you're kidding right?

SF15: ….I'm the authoress. You will do as I command! *throws finger up in the air for dramatic effect*

Upon seeing her room empty, and no sign of her, Jiraiya turned to Naruto, who had gone back to his training.

"Did you see the authoress leave this morning?"

"Hmm…no…why?"

"Because she's not in her room, and there's no sign of her."

"Hey! Pervy Sage! There's a note on the floor!" He ran over and picked up the (badly written) note.

"If you want the authoress back, I demand a duel between the blonde haired ninja and me, Tobei! Meet me in the woods in two hours, or she'll never be seen again!"

Naruto didn't seem worried, but Jiraiya did.

"We do have to be careful…this guy may be an idiot, but he has the authoress on his side now...willingly or not."

SF15: Sorry. I had to cut it off there….I just needed to do a quick update…