Well hello there everyone. Sorry for the wait for the next chapter. We have repeatedly flogged ourselves with dental floss (Oh the pain! Oh the horror!). Now that that is out of the way, we don't own Naruto. If we ever hit the right lottery numbers though that might change.

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Rodney couldn't help himself, he screamed like a little girl," eeeeeee!" before he could finish his screaming a powerful hand clamped itself over his mouth. In the hanger the Wraith guards glanced up. In the distance more faint wails could be heard echoing throughout the ship. At the sound of the screaming the guards returned to their positions.

"Be quiet idiot! Are you trying to get us caught?" hissed the owner of the hand.

Rodney stared at the tattooed young man who was now holding him firmly against the wall. Looking over his shoulder he could see that the young man, no more like a teenager thought Rodney idly, had a small group of companions in tow. They all looked rather worse for wear.

From what he could see there were four girls, three of the girls looked like they were barley aware of what was happening. They were being helped by a set of blond twins, no wait triplets. The other girl reminded him of Teyla in a way. She had that same sense of quiet, peaceful calm that Teyla had flavored with just a hint of menace lurking just behind the calm exterior.

"Who are you?" asked the tattooed teen, Rodney just stared at him. "I asked you who you are, answer me." His hand squeezed even tighter, Rodney could feel the pain starting to build. Suddenly Rodney heard a growling sound, glancing down he say a huge white dog. "Oh great! Dogs too."

"Kiba-kun… Kiba-kun he can't answer you with your hand over his mouth."

Kiba looked at Hinata for a moment and then with a slightly embarrassed smile took his hand off of the man's mouth. "Not a sound out of you! Now who are you?"

"Is he always this stupid or did I just catch him on a good day?" asked the man, looking at Hinata.

"Kiba-kun" Hinata said, stopping Kiba from smacking the man. "Don't call Kiba-kun stupid." Hinata ordered the stranger. She studied him closely. He was middle aged, with a slight belly and brown hair. While he was clearly frightened he was still studying his surroundings very carefully. Hinata could tell that he was very intelligent, but very uncomfortable with the idea of personal danger.

"Are you a prisoner of the Wraith too?" Hinata asked, trying to ease the tension and put everyone at ease.

"What was your first clue? The fact that I was trying to hide from them or… I don't know… maybe the fact that I'm not a Wraith." Rodney shot back.

Kiba smacked the man in the head.

"Ow! What did you do that for?"

"Why do you think I did it Mr. OH so smart!" Kiba shot back.

By this time the rest of the group had formed a tight little huddle. Hinata knew she had to gain control of the situation quickly or they would be discovered. She decided to take a risk and see if the new addition to their group had any ideas.

"Ok, fine you're an escaped prisoner too. The question is do you know of a way to escape?"

"Well if we can get to the Puddle Jumper and outside of the ship I should be able to at least hide us for a while."

"Why only a while?" Hinata asked.

"Well with the Wraith keeping the gate open they can keep us from leaving and the Jumper has limited supplies, we would run out of food sometime."

"So if we get to this Puddle Jumper we can at least buy ourselves some time." Hinata said to herself. "Ok where is this Puddle Jumper?" Hinata stared at the man in the hope that he would take the hint and tell them his name.

"It's in there," Rodney answered the young girl who seemed to be the leader of the group. He was struck by her eyes. They had no pupils, but she was obviously not blind. He noticed that she seemed to be waiting for him to say something. "What?"

Kiba couldn't believe it, this man was more socially dumb than Naruto. Kiba hadn't thought that was even humanly possible. Getting ready to hit the man in the head again Kiba felt a hand on his arm. Looking back along the arm he saw it was Taka. With a shy smile that somehow told him to wait she turned to address the strange, older man.

"My name is Taka, these are my friends Aki, Kitane, Hinata, Kiba, Akamaru, and Naruto," pointing to each in turn.

"I'm Rodney…Rodney McKay. Hey what's with you guys only having one name?" Rodney pointed to Naruto and his two remaining clones.

"Let's not worry about that now," said Kiba. "Let's just take out the guards, grab this Jumper thing and get out of here." Kiba stood up and got ready to go through the door.

"No," hissed Rodney. He grabbed Kiba's jacket and yanked him back. "The ship's damaged we have to get to it without the guards seeing us so I can fix it."

"Hey leave that to me," said Naruto joining the conversation for the first time. "You guys just be ready. Kage Bushin no Jutsu." Suddenly there were a dozen more Naruto clones.

Rodney just stared in slack jawed disbelief. What in the hell had the kid just done?

"Everyone we'll lead the guards off and then you guys run to the Puddle Jumper." Naruto moved to the front of his clones prepairing to charge out into the large room.

"No, Naruto just let your clones do it we need you to be here in case he gets this thing of his running, we don't want to have to wait for you if we have a chance to make a break for it." Kiba said. Naruto looked defiant.

"P…P…Please Naruto-kun, listen to Kiba." Hinata couldn't believe herself. She was telling her precious Naruto-kun what to do. This was heady stuff, no wonder those girls she had overheard one day at the bath house had liked it so much. She couldn't quite remember what they had called it. It had just been some letters. S and…what was that other letter?

Naruto watched Hinata as she seemed to drift off to somewhere else. For some reason Hinata's cheeks had a red glow to them. "Ok Hinata, whatever you say." Naruto felt strangely happy to be doing what Hinata had asked of him.

Turning his attention back to his clones Naruto began issuing orders. Within moments his clones began their mission of distraction. Leaping through the door the twelve clones rushed across the distance separating them from the guards. The guards reacted with surprising speed. One guard managed to get off several shots with his weapon. Both shots hit clones and caused them to disappear in puffs of smoke. The smoke however, let the rest of the clones close in on the guards. The clones began to swarm over the four guards, kunai flashing as they stabbed repeatedly into the Wraith. Within moments all but one of the guards was down.

As the last guard battled the remaining clones, Rodney led everyone towards the Puddle Jumper trying to stay out of sight as much as possible. They quickly reached what looked to be the back of a long, green tube. Without a moment's hesitation Rodney touched a pad located about half way up the side, as soon as his hand touched it the back of the tube opened up.

"Everyone inside," ordered Rodney, waving to everyone frantically.

As they piled into the Jumper Naruto took a moment to complete the final part of his plan. "Kage Bushin no Jutsu!" Suddenly the whole hanger was filled with Naruto clones. The final guard had just enough time to be surprised before the clones finished him off.

"Ok you guys go kill these guys," Naruto shouted at one side of the room as he pointed towards one of the doors leading out. Turning, he pointed to the door they had just come through and shouted, "You guys go kill those guys!" As soon as the sound of his voice died away the army of clones leapt into motion, clawing and fighting among themselves as they jostled each other in the doorway.

Naruto turned and casually walked up the ramp into the back of their new hiding place. Something was bothering him, but he couldn't put his finger on it. Urgent and angry voices drew his attention to the front of the Jumper. He saw Rodney holding a metallic object in his hands.

"What do you mean we can't go anywhere!" Screamed Kiba at Rodney. "I thought you said you could get us out of here!"

" I can you twit, but not before I fix this," Rodney brandished the cloaking device at the tattooed brat in front of him. "The Wraith ripped this out and until I can fix it all we would be is target practice for them."

"How long will it take?" asked Hinata.

"Maybe a couple of hours," snarled Rodney. He turned the cloaking device over in his hands doing a hurried inspection for any signs of damage.

"The treasure chest!" Naruto yelled at the top of his voice. Grabbing Hinata's shoulders Naruto yelled "The treasure chest, Hinata-chan we lost the treasure chest!" Letting her go Naruto spun around and sprinted back the way he had came, only to run into the closed hatch of the Jumper at full speed.

Everyone including Rodney winced