well here it is.
i dont own naruto.
Naruto saw that it wasn't raw speed in which she moved to get above the post, but an altered version of the shunshin. It used much less chakra, but it had a shorter range, but for what she used it for, it was perfect.
Naruto ran over to where Hinata was crouched and helped her up, "Are you ok Hinata?" he asked.
She nodded, "Yes, I'm fine thank you Naruto." she replied with a blush.
"Wow Hinata, that was great!" Naruto said.
"Yea, I didn't know you could do that." Choji said between mouthfuls of chips, although they seemed to be different this time.
"So, what do we do now, I mean its only around 7:30?" Ino asked everyone.
After thinking on it for a minute, "Why don't we just hang out, I'm sure there's someplace around here we can go." Sakura said.
"Sure, sounds good to me." Kiba replied. They then all took off to find a place to hang out, they eventually found a small clearing in the woods, and they all sat down as Naruto and Sasuke gathered some firewood and started a fire.
After they made random chit chat Shikamaru asked, "So Naruto, whats been with you today?"
"What do you mean?" Naruto replied, although he was fairly sure he new what he meant.
"Well, I remember when we were in the academy you were always loud, obnoxious, and never shut up." there were a few chuckles at this, "And tonight you have been quiet, thoughtful, and haven't said much." Shikamaru finished.
Everyone looked expectantly at Naruto. "I need to give some kind of answer, and a believable one. Everyone else would believe a lot, but Shikamaru is smart, no not smart, a genius. So it has to be believable." Naruto thought to himself.
"Well, I guess its just the missions, seeing what the real world is like. Or maybe its just that I actually made genin. I'm not really sure I just feel different." Naruto said, although a little weakly.
They all thought about it for a second, had they changed to? After thinking over it they decided they had all changed since the academy, albeit not as much as Naruto, but they had changed none the less.
"Oh ok, I guess we've all changed at least a little since the academy." Ino said. Getting nods or 'yea's of agreement from everyone.
Shikamaru just looked at Naruto, something was off. He couldn't quite put his finger on it, but something about Naruto was off. Even though he did admit they had all changed since they were in the academy, none of them changed as much as Naruto, it just wasn't normal for someone to change that much in just over a month, it just didn't add up. But deciding he couldn't really investigate right now, he let it slip to the back of his mind, while he enjoyed hanging out with his old friends.
Around they time the campfire started to go out a few decided it was time to head home, it was getting a little late, around 8:30 or 9:00. So Kiba, Shino, Ino, Sakura, Choji, and Hinata all left.
Naruto, Sasuke and Shikamaru talked for a little while longer before also heading home.
Team seven had today off, but Naruto was reporting to the Hokage for a mission. He had created his usual army of clones and set them to training, then went to go get a mission.
Naruto, dressed in his full ANBU attire, walked up to the secretary, who kept doing her work, wither not noticing him, or not caring. "Hello ma'am is the Hokage busy?" he asked politely.
She looked up and jumped a little, not at the fact that a ANBU was standing in front of her, no they were in here quite often. No she jumped because the ANBU in front of her was dressed in all white, not the usual dark stealthy colors of ANBU.
After composing herself, "No, he is not busy, you can go in." she said.
"Thank you." he said as he walked into the Hokage's office. Sarutobi looked up when the door opened. He was a little confused at why Naruto would be here already requesting a mission, but this was Naruto. "Hello dragon, what can I do for you?" he asked using the name they came up with for Naruto, as even though his mask was blank, and didn't resemble a dragon at all, he had to be called something. And they didn't have a dragon mask in service so that's what they picked.
Naruto stood in front of the Hokage at attention, in a very ANBU like way, "I am here to request a mission sir."
"Ok, what rank you would like?" Sarutobi said as he lit his pipe.
"something high ranking, but I need to be back in the village by tomorrow morning, if its not to much trouble." Naruto said in a very respectful way, something Sarutobi was sire would disappear is he were to send his guards away.
Sarutobi pulled out a few scrolls and looked through them until he found one. "I think I have something that might work, it's A-rank intelligence, and possible elimination, its in a town not to far away, around four hours travel." Sarutobi said as he rolled the scroll up.
"That sounds good sir." Naruto replied.
"Good, your mission is to investigate a couple of people, there have been reports of two men that have been searching for something, asking questions that don't seem to relate until you put them all together. So whoever they are know how not to get caught, I have already sent one jounin team but they couldn't dig up anything. Apparently they wear black cloaks with red clouds…" "Akatsuki." "…and are searching for information on where the shukaku is, although it is unknown why. Here is all the details." Sarutobi finished as he handed Naruto a scroll.
Naruto bowed slightly, then shunshined out. He was already packed for the mission so he headed straight for the gate.
Being an ANBU he didn't have to check out of the village at the gate like most ninja, so he just went over the wall, then continued on his way.
After traveling for a few hours he came within sight of the town. He dropped down from the trees and henged into a civilian, then walked through the gates. "No guards at all? I know it isn't a shinobi village but still, there should be someone guarding the gate." Naruto thought to himself.
He walked around for a little while until he spotted a guy dressed in all black, wearing a ski mask steal a woman's purse. "Help, he just stole my purse!" the woman screamed as she pointed at the man who was running through the crowd.
Naruto sighed, then took off after him, it only took a second for him to catch up, "This guy is pretty fast." Naruto though absentmindedly. "Hey you, give me the purse back and ill forget this ever happened." Naruto said as he ran beside the man.
He scoffed, "Yea righ, get lost buddy." he said then shot off into an alley. Naruto on his heels. He new he made a mistake when he came to a dead end. He turned to leave but was met with a man dressed in solid white, wearing a mask.
He threw the purse on the ground beside him and got into a fighting stance. Naruto almost laughed, but controlled himself. "Seriously, give me the purse and I'll let you walk, if you don't lets just say you wont be to happy." Naruto gave him one last chance.
The man shook his head, "Not going to be that easy." he said as he charged towards Naruto, who just shook his head. When he was about 5 feet away, Naruto blurred into action, he lifted the man up, tied him up with ninja wire, the threw him against one of the walls.
"Hmm, under three seconds, not bad if I do say so myself." Naruto said. As he bent over and picked up the purse, he henged into the same person as before and sprinted back to the lady, "Here you go ma'am, this is yours I think." he said as he handed her the purse. She had a look of gratitude on her face, "Thank you so much." she said. "It's no problem at all, have a good day now." Naruto said, then turned around and went back to where he left the man.
"Stealing from a lady? What should we do about that?" Naruto asked with a smirk, although the man couldn't see it do to his mask. Naruto picked him up, "Let me go!" he screamed. Naruto just ignored him and shunshined to a rooftop, then dropped him off it.
The man screamed, but then realized that the wire he was tied up with had caught on a sign. Naruto just jumped down to the ground and henged back into the civilian and continued on his way.
After searching through the city, and questioning a few people, he determined that these two people had left the city around two days ago, and were headed for Suna.
Naruto knowing he only had a short amount of time, set off after them immediately. After traveling for a couple hours, he came across them. They were in no apparent rush they were walking at a relatively slow speed, even by civilian standards.
Naruto watched them for a while but they didn't say anything about what they were doing, Naruto of course already knew, so it didn't really matter. They didn't say much, other then the complaining of Deidara, and sasori telling him to shut up. After tailing them for a little while, Naruto was trying to decide if he should attack them. He knew he could take one out without alerting anyone that wasn't close, he knew he could beat both of them. But could he beat both of them without drawing attention? He didn't know. So after careful planning, he decided he would take out, or at least wound Deidara first, while Sasori was more dangerous, Deidara's explosions attracted a lot of attention.
So after preparing for his ambush he attacked.
ok so i know its not very long, and its has been a while since my last update, but im suffering from writers block.
thanks to all my reviewers.
special thanks to deathmvp, and ranmacat.
i know its not the best, but tell me what you think.