Naruto woke up late in the afternoon after the hectic night he was a part of last night. He was inching closer to finding Sasuke, but still couldn't pinpoint where he was exactly.
He yawned and stretched as the midday sun leaked into his window.
"I better get up before people come looking for me" Naruto muttered to himself.
Leaping out of bed, Naruto walked down the hall into his shower and started to clean up himself for the day with post haste.
Naruto walked straight into the Hokage's tower as he knew she was expecting him after the fiasco last night. As he entered the room he spotted Shizune and the rest of jonin who were involved in the safe chase last night.
"Naruto, I'm glad you're here! We could really use your help on closing the case on the safe thief" Tsunade said out loud with a bit of weariness in her voice.
"Didn't Shizune give you my report?" Naruto response as he looked over at Shizune. He noticed she was staring at him and blushing. He pushed it to the back of his mind.
"She did, but we're at dead ends here Naruto, anything could be useful" sighed out Tsunade.
"I didn't get to see his face and he didn't exhibit any traits worth extra notice. I don't know what else I can say" shrugged Naruto.
"It's fine, don't worry about it." said Tsunade "We're going to do patrols around the village to see if we can find out any extra info. Here" reported Tsunade as she threw an earpiece towards Naruto. "It's a two-way radio Naruto, keep in touch"
"Hai Hokage" saluted Naruto as he left the building.
Naruto left the building and began hopping along the rooftops towards the perimeter of the village. It was lucky so far no one had pinned him to the theft of the money from the safe, but that probably wouldn't be that way forever.
As he reached the edge of the village his earpiece flicked on.
"Naruto! Naruto do you read me? The prison was broken into and some criminals might have escaped. We need you to check out the area you are in." the voice behind the notice said.
"Roger" Naruto responded.
As Naruto began scanning the bushes around where he was, he noticed some crows fly out from behind a large group of bushes that didn't look natural.
Naruto's mind began to race a mile a minute. Could Itachi be back in the village, he was one of the few people who uses crows. "Who escaped from the prison?!" Naruto screamed to the operator on the other side of the radio. He couldn't fight Itachi now, there was no one he could finish unscathed.
A single crow shot out of the bushes silencing any other questions Naruto had for the receiving end of the radio. Grows all around Naruto began to caw rapidly and time slowed down to a crawl.
The crows became deafeningly loud as a scarecrow with a scythe teleported on top of Naruto. The last thing Naruto remembered was his first criminal he caught staring over his body before he blacked out and his earpiece fell out.
The voice from the operator crackled to life as the radio hit the ground.
"Fiddlesticks MIA"
Naruto awoke slowly in his bed. Was it a dream? His bed suddenly jolted up, dropping him back down into it. No, he was in the back of a Konoha Ambulance.
"W-what happened?" Naruto asked wearily. "You were ambushed, one of the fugitives who was caught in the explosion, an ex-subordinate of Orochimaru known as Fiddlesticks. He hid in the bushes until you got close, and flashed out, draining your naturally high chakra reserves to increase his own. During his time some say he was so powerful he could defeat some of the lesser-tailed beasts single handedly using that Jutsu.
"But who caused the explosion?" Naruto inquired "And why now?"
"We're not sure, but they claimed that they saw another masked individual and a hooded man who weren't inmates leaving the scene" Naruto's eyes widened. Could this be the next part of the mysterious man's plan? Was he with Sasuke even now? "Do they know where the two went dattebayo?"
"We're not sure yet, but we have 3 members of the Inuzuka clan tracking them now by differentiating their scent from that of the known inmates. Kiba, Tsume, and Hana are on it now."
"Great!" Naruto said, sitting up and clutching at his side "Damn dattebayo,"
"Naruto lie back down, let the others handle this, you're in no condition to leave right now, you almost gave first blood"
"I know but this is something I have to do, if I don't do this then my friends won't love me and I love my friends because they are the strength that I get from my friends. Dattebayo" Naruto replied, instantly convincing all of the expert medical ninjas that he should leave. "You're right, go, but take some of my chakra, they could be dangerous" Said a familiar voice.
"Shizune-chan?" Naruto turned surprised, he hadn't noticed her and she had been quiet, even still, he should have been able to smell her at least. "Naruto, be safe" Shizune said, as he groped her breasts. "I will, thank you for the chakra dattebayo." He sat up, kicking the ambulance doors open while it was still moving and headed off to where he could sense the 3 members of the Inuzuka clan were tracking the man who was probably with Sasuke.
Naruto closed his eyes and breathed in the dank city air, the pain of his gaping wound hardly bothering him now. He opened his eyes, and glared into the sky. Sasuke would pay, but fiddlesticks would pay first. Naruto summoned his chakra and yelled, pounding his chest and leaped into the air, he did a 360 and observed the sky around him, he span in time as a murder of crows flooded him "GLLARAFGGHLAFPHSPGLA" muttered Naruto as crows flew into his face and lower body. The crows passed him leaving him bloodied and semi-naked, his oiled-body gleaming in the sunlight, "They'll take me to where Fiddlesticks is hiding." said Naruto hopping after the crows.
Naruto landed on an ice-covered lake near the city, scanning his surroundings. Naruto felt a surge of worry shiver up his spine directly from his balls, and instantly felt the need to dodge, he dove to left and looked up. He looked into Fiddlesticks handsome face, "This ends now!" Naruto launched himself at Fiddlesticks, the two exchanged blows, Fiddlesticks scythe a whirl of wood and steel, Naruto kicked out and missed, caught off balance as fiddlesticks tackled him onto the ice and began pounding him with his wooden arms, each blow crushing Naruto's face, over and over.
Naruto began to blackout, unable to move Fiddlesticks weight. "NARUTO!" suddenly Chōji Akimichi rolled out the bushes and began tumbling his way towards Fiddlesticks, Fiddlsticks quickly jumped off Naruto and grabbed his scythe from the ground, Chōji's balled mass lost momentum meters before hitting Fiddlesticks, who grabbed his scythe and cooly slayed the waste of a man.
"Chōji!" Naruto yelled launching teeth from his mouth, "NOW YOU DIE!" Naruto ran at Fiddlesticks ducking under his scythe swing, and uppercutted his handsome face, knocked hay and blood from his mouth. Fiddlesticks attempted a weak counter attack but Naruto dodged, swept his leg, and put Fiddlesticks in an arm-bar "CRITICAL STRIKE!" Yelled Naruto breaking Fiddlestick's arm like a twig. Fiddlesticks tried crawling away, but Naruto grabbed him by his thick locks of hair and dragged him to Chōji's lifeless mass "LOOK INTO THE FACE OF THE MAN YOU KILLED BEFORE YOU DIE!" Naruto screamed. "You haven't killed me, you sacrificed short-footing for a killing blow." and tapped the ground under Naruto's feet, causing the ice to crack. Naruto let out a yell as he fell into the icy water below.