9am Konoha northern gate

"Hmmph," said Saberu who was trying his best to be patient with the giant white dog that was trying to lick his over sized canine.

Naruto observed what was happening between the dog and his ninja cat "Inuzaku, your dog is about to die." Kibas turned around and noticed that his dog was messing with the demons cat who was visibly annoyed.

"Akamaru come here boy." Yelled Kiba and obediently the giant dog went to its master but on his way to Kiba he accidentally stepped on Saberus tail causing the cat to get up and growl at the dog while releasing large amounts of chakra that felt exactly like Narutos.

Akamaru whimpered and hid behind an equally afraid Kiba who looked at Naruto for help.

"Saberu calm down, save your anger for later."

The menacing chakra slowly receded back into Saberu but the cat didn't go back to sleep like he normally would, he was too angry so instead he laid down by Naruto and glared at the ninja dog. Naruto shook his head then looked at the three ninja he would be spending the next two weeks with and said "You three need to know something about Saberu; he is not a ordinary ninja animal. I found him as a fossil but Kyubi recognized him as one of his past lives so we resurrected him using Kyubis chakra. Why did I tell you this, because he also has the same anger problem as the Kyubi and his strength is that of a double A ranked Jonin."

The three took a quick look at Saberu then turned away not wanting to make him angry. Saberu looked at Naruto and questioned his involvement "Why am I here, you could have used Aka or Ao but you chose me, why?"

"I could have but you have the greatest combat abilities out of the three and I could use combination attacks with you which could prove to be invaluable" replied Naruto.

Saberu was right through the lie "Your strong by yourself, no single ninja could take you one so why take me?"

Naruto leaned in close to Saberus ear and whispered "I think the Hokage is trying to kill me, I'll tell you the details later."

Saberu nodded and found a comfortable flat rock to lay on while the ninjas waited for the Hokage to arrive. The Hokage finally showed his face 10 minutes later and said "Good you four are here, let me signal the gate captain." Konohamaru waved his hand to a figure standing on top of the gate, a few seconds later the gate opened and revealed the mountainous forest area Fire Country was known for. Konohamaru shook the hands of the ninja, excluding Naruto, and set them off but Naruto thought he saw the Hokage give something to Kiba.

Team Kiba took off into the trees with Naruto and Saberu following shortly behind and out of ear shot. Naruto looked at Saberu and spoke "Don't you think it's funny, the Hokage sending two squads of B rank jonin and me to take care of a couple of Orochimarus bases when a squad of Jonin and Chunin would be more than enough?"

Saberu thought about it for a moment then said "Maybe they are expecting Orochimaru to be in one of the bases."

"But we know that he isn't, the intelligence confirmed it when they saw him last week in Kumo."

"Then that is suspicious, but how would they kill you? Two squads of Jonin aren't nearly enough to take you down."

"I think I saw the Hokage give something to the Inuzaku, I need you to sniff around and see what you can pick up."

"I'll do it tonight on your watch shift, you said the Hokage gave it to the Inuzaku but that could be tricky considering the dog. You might have to neutralize it for me to get close enough."

"I could use a dart but I can't kill it, it would attract too much attention if a dog was to be killed on my watch without me noticing."

"Fine, but just get it out of my way so I can get close."

Naruto nodded and continued his running, it's been a good 10 hours and the sun was going down so they would set up camp soon. Kiba, the team leader also noticed this and was scouting out a good place to set up. He finally settled under the roots of a giant tree which looked like it was used in the third great shinobi war. Naruto put himself down in an isolated corner of the root system so he could be away from the other ninja, Saberu sat next to Naruto and went to sleep before he had to sniff out Kibas tent. Akamaru slept outside of Kibas tent and looked asleep while Hinata took first watch

Naruto had to wait 2 hours until his shift started then an additional thirty minutes to make sure all the ninjas we asleep, this was a very risky maneuver because he was in a tent full of sensory type ninja. Naruto woke up Saberu then took out a bamboo pipe and a brown dart, he carefully took aim at the dog and shot hitting the dog right in chest. Akamarus head went up then straight back down but Saberu didn't move, Naruto looked over at him who was looking at the ground in front of him. Naruto went to look and saw a beetle sitting there, Saberu whispered to Naruto "I know where they all are, use the Demon Style: One Way Cage and let me take care of the aiming."

Naruto nodded and put his hand on Saberus back then channeled Chakra into the cat, a pulse of purple light went through the camp and all the bugs were caught in a clear cage that wasn't seeable with the human eye. Saberu slowly walked up to the tent and started to sniff around then came back a few minutes later, with the brown dart and whispered to Naruto "There is something he has, it smells like a poison or a paralyzing herb but I can't say for certain, I also can't say it was intended for you in the first place but if the Hokage gave it to Kiba then we can safely assume it was meant for you."

Naruto nodded and waited for the Aburame to take the watch, after a long hour the Aburame woke up and relieved Naruto from his duty. Naruto went back to his corner and fell asleep for the next four hours before they had to move out again. Naruto was awaken by someone gently tugging on his shirt, when he opened his eyes he expected to see Saberu slapping him with his paw but instead he saw Hinata who was about a foot away from him and no poisoned needles up her sleeve.

"What is it Hyuga?" Naruto said with the coldness in his voice still evident.

"W-we are a-a-about to l-leave soon" she stuttered.

Naruto nodded and got up, he didn't bring a bag because he didn't have one so he was already ready, but he was hungry. Naruto was about to go out to hunt his own food but was stopped by Hinatas voice "Naruto-Kun, w-where are y-you going?"

"To get my own food" Naruto said.

"I already made food; it's over there by Kiba and Shino."

Naruto didn't want to eat food cooked by the other three ninjas but he also didn't want to look suspicious by not eating their food either. He sat down and took a bowl then filled it up with the soup Hinata made, it smelled good but it could also be poisoned, he took a spoonful but stopped midway then said to Hinata "This looks a bit discolored Hinata, could you try it for me?."

To Shinos and Kibas horror Hinata said yes and was about to gulp down a spoonful but was stopped by Akamaru who ran past and knocked the spoon and bowl out of Hinatas hands. Shino and Kiba were relieved beyond belief. "Well that looked like the last bowl of soup you had made, looks like I'm going to have to find my own food."

Naruto woke up Saberu and they left the camp together to hunt, Saberu looked at Naruto and asked "Did they try to poison you?"

"I'm 85 percent sure."

"Hmm, I thought they would have waited until the mission was over but I guess not" Saberu concluded the short conversation and they continued their hunt.

Naruto caught a deer with Saberus help and cut off some tough muscle which was his favorite part then gave the rest to Saberu who devoured the deer. Naruto cooked the muscle then inhaled it before meeting with Team Kiba, today was supposed to be the day they met up with the intelligence team.