Disclaimer: Dont own, stop asking me if i do! Ask me again when i take over the world.
A/N- okay, so here's chapter 2, cause i sort of decided to continue the story...reviews would be really helpful though.
Naruto set out sleeping bag, sprawling out on it comfortably. Kiba mimicked his motions, while Ino and Lee dug through their packs for the food they packed. Deciding to forgo the fire, meant dried rations, not that he was complaining of course. He was too excited to care.
Finally a mission and one to retrieve Sasuke at that! He grinned, watching as Shino suddenly appeared next to Kiba, surprising the other ANBU slightly, even after all these years.
"Anything?" Ino asked, taking a bite out of a protein bar. Shino shook his head silently, sitting next to Kiba on the other teen's bedroll. So they weren't being followed, that was good. Shino had gone off to patrol the area close to an hour ago, but it was probably just an excuse to get away from them all for a while.
"Maa, I can't wait till we reach the first village!" Naruto exclaimed loudly, his fox mask sitting next to him on the ground, as he stretched lazily.
"Why is that Naruto?" Lee asked, pausing with his own meal.
"Raaammeeennnn!" He grinned widely.
"You had to ask him." Kiba mock groaned, hiding his face in the crook of Shino's neck.
"They have the best ramen there, or so Iruka-sensei tells me. With over 20 new different flavours!" The blond continued, not put off in the slightest. "I can't wait to get there! We'll have to show Sasuke on the way back!" At his words, the grin faded off the teen's face, before being replaced, with an even brighter smile. "Just you wait!"
Ino merely offered a small smile, pulling a small notebook out of her pack, while Rock Lee stood, finding a sturdy tree to work on his training. Shino moved to set out his own bedroll, but was promptly tackled to the ground by Kiba and the two spent the next few minutes wrestling on the forest floor.
Naruto sighed, sitting up, content to just watch his friends, as the darkness settled. He would not of chosen a different set of people to go on this mission with.
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The air was cold around him, pressing in on him, making his breath come out in short, quick gasps. He couldn't understand this cold; he could see the sun shining down on him, warming everything else, so where did the ice that filled his veins come from?
He gasped as a pain shot through his arm, then his leg. He tried to tilt his head, but found he could not move, his body frozen in place.
Struggling, he tried desperately to lift his arms, succeeding in raising his left, so he could just see it. Pale arms were uncovered, showing strange black lines, forming something he could only assume to be another language.
Pain lanced through him, as he dropped his arms back to the ground. Tears of frustration made its way to his eyes as he realised he could not move.
The world around him seemed to tilt, and then he was standing, surveying his surroundings, but how did he move? As an answer he felt his hand grip a kunai from his holster, but he didn't do that. His body was moving on it's own!
Across from him stood his teammates, smiling, laughing. He tried to stop, tried to hold his body back as the kunai was driven into his first friend's chest.
Tears poured down his face as he moved with frightening speed, plunging the bloody kunai into each of his friends, until they all lay unmoving on the ground, blank eyes staring up at the sky.
What had he done? The kunai slipped from his wet grip, as he realised that he had control of his body again. The black lines on his left arm, mirrored by his right and legs were fading, turning crimson, before fading into his pale skin.
A figure stood off to the side, wide grin in place. "Very good." Came a raspy voice. "That was easier then I thought."
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Shino bolted upright, in his sleeping bag. Cold sweat trickled down his back, that dream had seemed so real. He lifted his left arm, squinting through the darkness, as he pulled up his sleeve. Nothing. Not a mark on the pale skin.
He sighed in relief, lying back down. Hundreds of stars twinkled down at him from through the treetops. It was just a dream, of no significance. So why did he feel like that if he forgot this something bad would happen?
"Hey, Shino, you okay?" Dark eyes peered at him from the sleeping bag approximately foot from his own. Leave it to Kiba to be the only one to sense his moods. No, he wasn't okay. That dream had rattled him more then he'd ever admit. He paused, and then nodded, more to reassure the other teen then anything else.
He could hear Kiba snort in disbelief, then get out of his own sleeping bag. Warm fingers brushed against him, giving him barely anytime to think before his own sleeping bag was being undone, then a minute later zipped up. Except it seemed to of grown.
"Zipped the bags together." Kiba explained, climbing in next to him, slightly cooler, then his fingers had originally been. "It's not like the others will care." He curled up against Shino, resting his head in the crook of his neck, like earlier that night.
Warm breath puffed against his neck; helping him relax as he wrapped his arms around the other teen, sleep already back, waiting to claim him. It was just a dream and if he kept repeating that mantra to himself, then maybe he would believe it.
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Lunchtime found them at their first stop, a small village, made up of no more then a hundred people. It also found Naruto at the nearest ramen shop, slurping greedily at the hot noodles.
"Iruka-sensei was right! This is really good ramen!" He exclaimed, in between bites.
"I have to agree with Iruka-sensei, I will have to bring some back for Gai-sensei!" Lee added, voice easily matching Naruto's in volume.
"Why don't we have this flavour in Konoha?" Kiba asked, slurping on his own noodles.
"Dunno, but we'll have to bring the recipe back for them! Oi, shop keeper, another here please!" The blond teen called. Ino and Shino merely watched, a mixture of shock and surprise on their faces as all three teens finished their fifth bowl of ramen.
"They're not going to have any money left for the rest of the trip if they keep this up." Ino predicted, resting her head on her hands.
"Hn." Shino agreed, slightly disgusted with the display before them.
"Might I ask the name of my new best customer?" The old man in charge of the store smiled at them, looking at Naruto, who was currently on his sixth bowl.
"My names Uzumaki Naruto!" The blond grinned, already pushing forward his bowl for another.
"Hmmm, Uzumaki…uzumaki…seems to me another man by that name came through here not that long ago. He was around your age too." A pair of startled blue eyes stared at the man. Kiba's chopsticks had fallen out of his fingers, Lee's mouth had dropped open and while Shino showed no outer emotions, Ino looked as though the man in front of them held the answers to the universe.
"Wha-what do you mean?" Naruto stuttered, confusion and disbelief written on his face.
"How is that possible?" Ino asked, suspicion creeping it's way into her mind.
"Yeah, he was a little taller then you, pale too…wasn't wearing bright orange or that symbol on your forehead either." He said gesturing at Naruto's headband.
"What was his name old man?" Kiba growled. Naruto was an orphan, which could only mean that someone was using his identity.
"Hmmm." He scratched his grey-white hair, thinking. "I believe he said his name was Uzumaki…Sasuke."