Kakashi soon found out. Naruto sparred with several Kage bushins, waiting for the team to get together. Kakashi watched as Naruto used a kunai to beat one that had attacked from behind. Well this is interesting, Naruto does need to work on Taijutsu, I'll have to remeber that. Wish I could read, this is getting boring. WHere was I in my book anyway? Naruto's clones suddenly disapeared. Sasuke had arrived.
Sasuke did a double take as he stepped into the clearing, the dobe wasn't wearing orange, and there was a wolf lying nearby, Sasue briefly checked the area for other signs of an apocalypse, main one being Sakura not interested in him.
"Sasuke-kun!" No such luck.
"Hey guys!" Naruto grinned like he normally did, but he also looked smaller somehow.
"Naru-to . . ." Sakura had been about to yell at him, and had frozen, looking at her blonde teamate. "WHy aren't you wearing that orange jumpsuit?"
"Huh? Oh, it got ripped up last night while I was training, I haven't gotten around to sewing it up." Naruto gave an embarrased smile.
What's with the cover up? Kakashi glanced up at Naruto and the other two. Okay, he doesn't look that bad, why are you two staring? Kakashi barked/growled as he sat up. Gaining the attention of Sakura and Sasuke.
"Naruto, where'd you get the dog . . . is it hurt?" Sakura looked at Kakashi.
"Yeah, dog pack attacked it, I was able to get him to Inuzuka Hana. He's pretty tame."
"Kawaii!!!" Naruto, Sasuke and Kakashi all sweatdropped (The two boys covered their ears and Kakashi flattened his ears, she had definetly hit a new high note in the fan girl voice) as Sakura hugged him. Kakashi looked up at Naruto who flashed him an apolgetic look. Sasuke was expressionless. "His fur's real nice." Sakura scratched a spot behind his ear, and Kakashi's head cocked to lean into the scratching, his ears went in different directions, and his uninjured back leg began thumping on the ground. Sakura and Naruto laughed. Sasuke's lips twitched.
I'm never going to live this down, ever. Kakashi sent a plea that none of the jounin instructors found out, or any one else, for that matter. It feels real good, though. He was in ectasy, it felt so good.
"Hey, can either of you keep him? My apartment complex doesn't allow pets, and he's pretty hard to hide."
"I'd have to ask my parents . . . Does he have a name?" Sakura hadn't stopped petting him.
"I've been calling him Fang, and he responds to it. Sasuke you'd probably be able to take care of him without much trouble."
"Hn." Sasuke studdied Naruto for a second. The dobe was looking tense, and hadn't called him teme, maybe he was developing a brain? What's up with him? Sasuke didn't give it much thought. Naruto had joined Sakura.
"You know, you could probably tell your parents it's a D-rank mission, they won't argue with that." Naruto rubbed 'Fang's' ears. That caused the other three in the clearing to stare at him. He noticed, and shrank away slightly. "What?"
"That's actually a good idea."
"Occasionally I do have one." Naruto shrugged. "So . . . who's gonna take him?"
"I'll do it!" Sakura scratched another spot.
Kami, please oh please do not let anyone find out about this, I'll be on time to meetings, I swear, please do not let anyone find out about this!
Sakura walked away with the dog, They had waited four hours for team ten's instructor to show up, apologise that Kakashi hadn't returned from a mission, and dismissed them. Four hours of playing with the wolf/dog, and deciding (on her part) Naruto wasn't as much of an idiot as she thought.
Kakashi glanced at where Naruto, who had disapeared pretty quick, had been. Okay, I'd prefer to have gone with Sasuke, but this works. I'll have to assume Naruto's going to Ichariku's again. Sasuke probably went to train, and I'm following Sakura . . . Hopefully Nothing will too bad will happen. I wonder what skeletons Sakura has.
Okay, moving right along, I'm sorry for the slow updates, but this is only a side story, and I'm really more focused on Belief than the this right now. Thanks to all those that've reviewed, and I hope you'll stick with this story! For those that want to, go to my profile and see some of the other stories I have up, and what I've been working on, I also have some stories in my favorites that you might like if you enjoyed this story, or any of my other ones. Please Review!