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It had been a little over twenty minutes and the Konoha Nin had begun to travel down the path. Kisame followed completely quiet and out of sight, masking his presence.

Not really knowing if Itachi was done with his task, Kisame started to debate on what to do.

I wonder if Itachi is done yet… Kisame thought. Should I delay them…? Kisame's thoughts were interrupted by cawing. He looked up to see a black bird tilt its head to glance down at him in mid-flight; the Kiri Nin observed as the bird landed ten yards away from him and cawed again.

Kisame showed his toothy jaws, "So, you want me to follow you, huh?" He said with an evil smirk. "Guess that means he's done with his jutsu."

0o0o0

Sasuke stared unable to take his red eyes off of the little blond head that was a lot bigger just a few seconds ago. The tiny body did not stay still; little arms started to poke out of the shirt's head-hole trying to remove the heavy clothing. Sasuke suddenly realized what he was doing and glanced around, making sure he was alone.

There was no one.

Sasuke hopped from limb to limb until he landed in a tree bordering the clearing, trying to get a better look. 'That can not be Naruto…' He allowed the thought to pass through his mind. Glancing around, 'Where'd Itachi run off to?' He mused, scanning the trees, trying to get his mind back on his most important task.

"Look! There's Naruto's clothes!" A female voice suddenly called, snapping Sasuke's attention back to Naruto.

0o0o0

Naruto looked around, wondering why there was black and orange cloth over his face. Reaching his arms in the air the cloth quickly slid away, uncovering his head. Everything looked so weird; so big. Realizing this must be Itachi's genjutsu, he lifted his arms to get them free from the cloth, and then tried to make a hand sign to cancel out the genjutsu, but his fingers wouldn't make the sign his brain was telling them to make…

"Look! There's Naruto's clothes!"

Sakura? Naruto turned his head and spotted Sakura, along with everyone else, running towards him. He also spotted something else in the trees just behind Sakura, a dark spot; Naruto looked closer and realized it was Sasuke!

Naruto reached his hands towards Sasuke and tried to yell at Sakura, 'There he is! There's Sasuke!' A sudden excited squeal surprised Naruto, but he ignored it; he had finally found Sasuke! He continued to yell at Sakura but she didn't turn around like Naruto expected. Instead, she focused on him and an expression that he couldn't recognize plastered itself to her face.

Naruto was bewildered, 'why is she looking at me like that,' he thought with concern, 'and why won't she look at Sasuke?'

He looked at all his teammates, 'Why won't you look at him?' Naruto demanded. A gurgling 'kah' noise expressed itself.

"What happened…?" Yamato queered, worry pinned on his face.

"Is that really Naruto?" Sakura asked almost scared.

Sai, who didn't seem quite as mystified as the others, said, "Well, look at that. Naruto's been turned into a baby."

All heads snapped toward Sai for a fraction of a second before a choked out squeak brought all attention back on Naruto.

'I'm a WHAT?' Naruto repeated. 'I couldn't have been turned into a baby! Itachi never got close to— ITACHI!' The baby noises were back, and getting on Naruto's nerves. 'Itachi was here jus—'

"In any case," Kakashi interrupted Naruto, and the screeching sounds. "We should get Naruto back to Konoha, maybe Lady Tsunade will be able to find a way to undo what's been done."

'Go back? But-!' The screeching sound was starting to make Naruto loose his concentration. Kakashi bent down and, to Naruto's surprise, picked him up. Naruto took a few seconds to look at his body still wrapped up in his own shirt; he was small, short, stubby, and—

'What about Sasuke?' Naruto demanded, twisting around and reaching in the direction he had seen Sasuke: behind Sakura.

"Looks like he wants Sakura to carry him," Sai noted.

Normally Naruto would have had had something to say about that comment, but at the moment he was focused on Sasuke's team showing up. It looked like they asked Sasuke a couple of questions, then they all disappeared.

'NO!' Naruto cried. The sudden scream caused Kakashi to jolt. 'We have to go after Sasuke!'

"Hah hah,"

The small laugh made Naruto look over at the owner of the voice. "Looks like Naruto doesn't want Sakura to carry him after all," Sai giggled.

Naruto glanced back at Sakura. He was expecting her to be mad, but she just stared at Naruto and said nothing, almost as if she hadn't heard Sai's comment. Naruto quickly looked back to where Sasuke had been but he was nowhere to be seen. A screechy crying now filled Naruto's ears.

"Is he alright?" Yamato asked worriedly. Everyone glanced at each other, "I have no experience with babies." He stated.

"Nor do I," Sai conquered.

"Let's focus on getting him back to Konoha," Kakashi suggested.

0o0o0

Itachi and Kisame looked on as team Kakashi discovered their, now smaller, teammate.

"Itachi, shouldn't we have taken the jinchuuriki with us?" Kisame asked puzzled as to why his partner would just leave their prize where Kakashi and the rest of his squad could easily find the nine-tails.

"Not yet."

Kisame looked at his companion and wondered just what was going through that head of his.

"Let's focus on getting him back to Konoha."

Hearing the voice Kisame looked back at the group of people and stood by as they departed for Konoha.

"Let's go." Itachi said simply.

Kisame looked at him curiously.

"Are we going to follow them?"

"No, we know where they're going."

0o0o0

One whole minute had passed since they had embarked on the trip back towards Konoha, and Naruto's wailing was starting to wear on everyone's nerves.

"Will someone quiet Naruto!" Yamato was the first to complain.

"It's only been a minute and you're already grumbling?" Kakashi asked with a smile in his voice. Yamato's expression said –don't go there– while Kakashi simply eye-smiled.

Sai walked over to Kakashi and Naruto, "It's ok, Naruto, we'll have those small—"

Naruto's sudden screaming outburst cut Sai off.

Sakura decided to try and settle him down, "Naruto," she said calmly and quietly. She was still shaken from the initial shock of finding her teammate in this state, but she couldn't ignore him any longer. "We don't know what's wrong. We know that you are unhappy, but we don't know what to do." Naruto stopped crying to listen, still gurgling out hiccups. "Your constant crying is making us unhappy as well. Until we get you back to normal, do you think you can quiet down?"

To everyone's surprise, Naruto looked at them all in turn and gave something that looked almost like a nod; almost.

A few seconds later, Naruto continued to make gurgling hiccup-y noises. He still sounded quite sad, but at least these sounds were tolerable.

0o0o0

"Sasuke!" Karin cried. Jugo and Suigetsu both whirled and faced a collapsed Sasuke.

"What happened!" Jugo anxiously asked anyone who knew the answer.

"I don't know!" Karin exclaimed, her voice thick with worry. "All of a sudden he just crumpled to the ground!"

"Can't you just have him bite you and then he will get better?" Suigetsu asked with some annoyance.

"No I can't!" Karin spat back "I can only heal wounds!"

Jugo looked from Suigetsu to Karin, who had already looked back at the raven-haired ninja's pained face. "Can you tell what's wrong with him?" Jugo asked awkwardly.

Karin started studying Sasuke intently. "There's a thin layer of chakra surrounding his body, and it seems to be stretching out like a thread; as if it's connected to something." She said while turning her head to find the direction of the chakra string.

"So all we have to do is find out where the chakra is coming from and force the caster to undo this strange jutsu." Suigetsu said almost sarcastically.

Karin glared at the white-haired ninja but was unable to argue. For the next couple of seconds the trio stared at their leader trying to figure out what they should do.

"All right then," Suigetsu sneered. "Jugo, carry him; Karin, keep your eyes on that line."

"Who made you leader!" Karin shouted.

"I did, just now." Suigetsu scoffed.

"Guys, if we don't get going, I don't think Sasuke will—" Jugo interjected while pulling an ill Sasuke on his back, interrupting himself with a grunt of effort.

"Well which direction?" Suigetsu inquired, not waiting for Jugo to finish.

Karin's eyes fallowed the string of chakra. "That way," she pointed.

"But, that's…" Jugo trailed off.

"Yeah," Karin said. "It looks like we're heading straight for Konohagakure."

0o0o0

Sasuke felt his body going numb not long after leaving with his three teammates to find Itachi. He had said nothing of the baby-Naruto jutsu. After a few minutes of searching for leads in the forest, the nuke-nin began to feel sick. Sasuke looked over at Jugo, Karin, and Suigetsu and realized that his vision was blurring and his head swirled. He jumped to land on the ground instead of a tree branch and faltered.

Suddenly, all chakra control seemed lost, the Uchiha tried to keep his balance, but his stomach didn't want to hang onto his lunch; he couldn't focus on both. Sasuke decided not to throw up and let himself crumble to the ground. He made little noise, though his mind was whirring: 'Ugh, what in the world…? What's wrong with me…?'

"Sasuke!" Karin's voice sounded so far away. "Wha hapen'!" "I 'on't kno-!" The voices were fading, he could still hear them but they sounded like they were underwater.

A little while later, or maybe it was an hour, Sasuke felt a tug on his body and allowed himself to be hoisted up onto someone's back. He futilely tried to open his eyes, 'Just… figure it out soon…' He wordlessly told his team.

A/N: We're evil little writers: we've discovered the joys cliffhangers *diabolical grins*

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