Tenchi and Chihiro walked down the hallway together with a handful of the afternoon paperwork for the Hokage. It has been a good three years since the two of them had replaced Izumo and Kotetsu as the assistants. Sometimes they enjoyed their work, and sometimes they dreaded it. As they opened the door to the Hokage's office, all they could do is look at each other with dissatisfaction on their face, knowing this is one of those mornings that they dreaded. For they now had the privilege of waking up Naruto up from his all-nighter.
"It's your turn to wake him up," said Chihiro as she cunningly inched her way back into the hallway.
Tenchi looked over to his partner with an annoyed look on his face, "You remember the last time we woke him up. He wasn't too happy."
Chihiro chortled, "Well, he cheered up quickly enough when we offered to buy him Ramen."
The young Chuunin closed his eyes and nodded in agreement, "Hmm, true enough." Courage now flowed throughout his body, "Okay, I'll do it!" But before he proceeded forward, he looked at his partner and smirked mischievously, "But you're paying for half."
She took a second to think it over and sighed in defeat, "Okay, fine."
They simultaneously moved up to Naruto's desk and quietly placed the papers to the side. Tenshi then walked around the desk, carefully hoping not to run into anything and then took long deep breath as he begin whispering in his leader's ear, "Hokage-Sama, wake up." No response. So he attempted again, and once more, no response. Naruto was obviously in a deep sleep. Tenshi shrugged at Chihiro and she encouraged him for one more try. This time, he placed his hand on Naruto's shoulder to jostle him a little as he whispered, "Hokage-Sa…" Before he finished speaking, Naruto nearly jumped on his chair and knocked the young Chuunin flat on his rear. Tenshi's face was white with fear as if he was about to breath his last.
His heart racing, Naruto looked around and saw Tenchi on the ground then he started cracking a smile, and then started laughing at him. Naruto was confused, "Huh, what's so funny?" He turned his head to ask Chihiro, and she started cracking up as well, but retained enough composure as she pointed to her cheek. The Rokudaime Hokage then realized that the map he was reading a few hours ago was stuck to his cheek. He pulled it off and joined in the laughter.
Numerous kunai with explosive notes flew into the air impacts in the side of a giant leg, then they simultaneously explode, doing no damage to the massive object. "Gah, nothing," says Tenten.
Neji lands next to his teammate, "We must buy a few more minutes for the Genins to finish evacuating that village."
Frustration begins to show on Tenten's face, "But we aren't putting a dent in that thing!"
Rock Lee declares out loud, "We must! And we will!" Then he begins a renewed sprint towards the behemoth.
Tenten summoned a couple of high-explosive bombs from her special arsenal and threw them at the giant, "Too bad Sasuke-kun had to return to the village. We could use his help about now."
"It doesn't matter, he isn't here. Concentrate on the now, Tenten," replies Neji as he quickly analyzes with his Byakugan and noticed something new that he missed before. "What the… It can't be….."
Standing on the shoulder of the great Demon, stood an all too familiar person. "Your attacks are pointless. No matter what you do, you cannot defeat the great Demon of Hell, "said Kabuto as he laughed maniacally. As he said that, the nine eyes of the Demon converged to where Team Hyuuga stood and it slowly opened it's giant mouth to reveal a powerful beam of light shot that shot forth and penetrated deep into the ground ahead of them.
Neji slid to a stop as rocks from the explosion landed around him, "That was close!"
Kabuto vindictively grinned, "That is your only warning. Tell Naruto-kun that my Master looks forward to meeting him."
The radio crackles to life in Neji's ear and one of the Genin teams reports that the village is now clear, "Lee, Tenten, let's go!"
Lee enthusiastically replied, "Right!" Then the three Jounin disappeared in a cloud of smoke bombs.
The giant demon came to a stop at the outskirts of the small farming village and spoke with a booming voice, "Kabuto, find Sasuke Uchiha and eliminate him. He will interfere with my plan in regaining the Kyuubi no Youko."
Kabuto faced the demon and bowed, "Of course." Then he disappears in a cloud of smoke.
Back in Konoha, it was soon approaching noon and Naruto had just completed the piles of paperwork that he been working on all morning. Chihiro poked her head in the door, "Sir, wasn't you supposed to have lunch at Lady Hinata's residence today?"
Naruto had forgotten about the plans and quickly stood up, "Ah, that's right!" He quickly grabbed his hat and started hastened out of his office. But suddenly he stopped next to his assistant, "Chihiro, alert me if news arrive."
"Aye," said the young assistant as she watched the Rokudaime Hokage begin his travel to the Hyuuga compound, for his appointment.
