Aggressive Action

Can't We All Just Get Along?

Not quite two steps into his journey, Naruto was set upon by kikaichu bugs. The Aburame's parasitic servants swarmed around him in a loose cloud, hundreds of insects preparing to dive-bomb him and suck out his chakra. Not knowing about their connection with Shino, Naruto simply assumed that they were part of the test. As they circled him, eyeing the jinchuriki malevolently, one of them darted out to land on his body. A small wave of sand rippled across Naruto's skin in retaliation, crushing the insect to a mushy pulp.

What really caught Naruto's attention was the fact that the sand which touched the insect went inert, his rage-chakra no longer able to hold it up. The hurricane of kikachu buzzed angrily, and a few hundred thousand coalesced into the form of Shino Aburame, who was uncharacteristically angry.

"I will destroy you," the bug user hissed, arranging his symbiotic weapons into an organized array. A few hand gestures later and a group of the insects the size of a fist detached from the rest and dived at Naruto. As he'd expected, the sand rose up to engulf them in a ball, but as it did so a second group of insects arose to fly around the sand. Shino's ploy hid the action for a few seconds, but as the bugs retreated Naruto was dismayed to find that they were all still alive. The sand fell to the ground, useless.

"As I suspected," Shino said conversationally. "Your ninjutsu is weak against my own. This is because my kikaichu can absorb the chakra from your sand, and without that you are disarmed. Surrender, because you cannot win." His dark sunglasses glinted maliciously in the light.

The red chakra from Naruto's seal reached out cautiously, recapturing the sand in a dark cocoon and lifting it back into the air. An alien feeling emanated from the seal, one that Naruto didn't recognize as his own. Whatever had given him the sand, it was nervous. Feeling exceptionally silly, Naruto looked down at his own stomach. "Listen up," he snapped, "this is nothing. What do you want me to do, lie down and give up?" Immediately, he felt the being inside the seal calm, the chakra filled with renewed power and confidence.

"Are you well?" asked a puzzled Shino. "We can end the test and have a medic look at you, if that is what you need."

Naruto smiled. "Nope!" he replied, and charged. The insects formed a physical barrier to his progress, but Naruto's sand formed long fingers that reached ahead and shoved the insects aside. It cost chakra, and even as the insects grew stronger Naruto could feel his passenger lose power. It wasn't enough, however, because whatever was powering the sand had more chakra than the average jonin. There were only a few meters separating the two genin.

Kunai in hand, Naruto slashed down at Shino. The taller boy spun out of the way and backhanded Naruto in the gut. He doubled over, wheezing, but the sand blocked the following two strikes to the face and side. Shino frowned behind his collar. Naruto's sand evidently operated as a shield without needing a directing will. A nearby tendril snaked out and tried to encircle Shino's ankle, but one of his insects sapped it of chakra before the noose could tighten.

Still sputtering, Naruto internally cursed that the sand hadn't blocked Shino's first attack. Unbidden, a vision of a red-haired woman sticking her tongue out insolently came to mind. He growled, straightening and facing his lone adversary.

'All right, that's enough. I don't know who you are or why you're inside me, but you're on my side, right?' The being was listening, like a god listens to the prayer of a devout. 'Umm, there has to be something I can do for you if you'll help me! What do you want? Blood sacrifice, my soul, anything?'

A picture formed in his head. At first, Naruto didn't know that it was the price for aid, because it was something he thought about all the time. When it persisted, he almost burst into laughter.

'Ramen? Ha! I can do that!' Naruto crowed in his mind. 'Shake on it?'

Bizarre as it was, a slender, feminine hand made of sand burst from his abdomen.

XXX

Neji arrived just in time to see Shino bite the dust. A sweat-soaked Naruto had lanced him through the gut with a hand gesture, sending a few grains of sand all the way through Shino's belly. A splatter of blood landed behind him, and with an agonized cry the Aburame hit the floor.

"That was a bit harsh," Naruto told... nobody, as far as he could see, and that was pretty far. The orange-clad ninja casually stepped over Shino's body and walked on.

"Stop," Neji ordered. Naruto looked up at him, and his face broke into a wide grin. "Hey!" he exclaimed, "round two! Maybe this'll be a challenge after all!"

Neji really would have liked to say that Naruto was destined to fail, but he knew next to nothing about the guy other than that his teammates were apparently doing rather well against their own adversaries. Hinata broke into the communication, directing Lee and Gai to Sakura, who had apparently taken out the much faster Kiba without even trying.

"Perhaps you are a worthy foe," the Hyuga mused, "but I am rather confident in my own ability. It seems fate will decide the winner in this contest."

"Bring it," the jinchuriki growled. His sand jumped up behind him, roaring forward to engulf Neji with sand.

Despite his fanatical training regimen, Neji hadn't yet been able to use the Main House chakra expulsion techniques without using nearly all of his chakra in the process. A full kaiten was next to useless, as it would leave him too drained to stand. The next best thing was a partial shield, and that he could do. Drawing on his reserves of chakra, a blue field surrounded Neji's hands, and the disruptive technique easily repelled Naruto's sand.

Naruto drew forward and thrust with one hand, a pillar of sand driving at Neji, who dodged and moved around the sand until they were face to face. A few strikes revealed that the sand could block faster than Naruto could, but that his Gentle Fist was enough to dismantle the defence. He only got in two featherlight taps past the sand, but it was enough.

"Cool," said Naruto, "but why not use a kunai? I barely felt those punches." Then his arms fell to his sides, the tenketsu blocked. No chakra flowed in, none out, and scratching his nose would now be at least three times as hard.

"This is the Hyuga's kata: the Gentle Fist," Neji gloated. "With it, I have disabled your arms for a number of hours by injecting chakra into your body, jamming your chakra network open and disrupting your fine motor control."

"Again, wouldn't it be more effective if you used a knife?" Naruto asked.

"Had I targeted your heart, you would not be asking that," Neji replied. He really didn't expect Naruto to give up, but there was no way he could seal all of his chakra without killing him. Hopefully the arms would at least slow him down.

Thirty seconds later, Neji went down, the sand having picked up a comically large branch and smashed him viciously over the head with it. He raised his arms to block it, but the force behind the blow was hard enough to plow through his right ulna, shattering it. Neji only had time to reinforce his skull with an aura of chakra before he became acquainted once again with the ground.

Naruto sighed, looking down at his arms and wondering if Neji's cousin, What's-Her-Face Hyuga could fix whatever he'd done to him. The shy girl didn't seem forthcoming, so instead he soldiered on without aid of arms. A cursory look at Shino showed that the large boy was breathing rhythmically, down but not out. A few kikaichu were crawling desperately across his face, their antennae rubbing over his nose and mouth.

'Creepy,' thought Naruto. 'At least they're not in his mouth.'

Neji was in a bit worse condition. Maybe hitting him with a makeshift club had been a bit over the top, but the look on the serious guy's face was totally worth it. The being in control of his sand seemed to think so as well, as gay laughter was echoing through his subconscious. Nevertheless, Naruto crouched down by his side to check if he was still alive. Without arms he couldn't check his pulse or feel for his breath, so instead he stared at Neji's chest until he could pick out the faint rise and fall.

"You killed him?" asked an astonished, fearful voice. Naruto looked up sharply at the speaker, who he recognized as the Chinese kunoichi from before.

"I think he's still breathing," Naruto muttered, just before the sand was forced to intercept a thin metal spear aimed for his shoulder. The kunoichi growled, despite the obvious fear shining through her eyes, and threw an exploding tag into his face. The sand wrapped itself tightly around the device, but the smoke did it's job in blinding him. Naruto stumbled back, stumbling and shaking his torso ineffectively to ward off incoming attacks.

Instead, the girl waited a few meters away for him to get his bearings. Naruto paused, watching her watch him. She wasn't scared anymore, he noticed. Now, her face looked confident and assured, and a small smile played at her lips.

"What?" he asked, confused.

Her eyes flickered, almost on purpose, and with agonizing slowness Naruto spun around, ordering the sand to protect him from ninjutsu or weapons on the ground. Whatever trap she'd set up while he couldn't see, the sand could protect him. Why was he turning his back to her? The voice was screaming at him to get on guard, back up towards the girl, but he ignored it.

A tall, muscular man with a serious expression and a hidden chakra signature opened his left hand and chopped him hard across the neck. The jugular vein squeezed close, and Naruto was out like a light.

XXX

Asuma Sarutobi slung Naruto over his shoulder and stood up, the limp boy swinging back and forth. Tenten nodded in satisfaction after checking that her teammate was still breathing, happy that her friend hadn't died in a training exercise.

"Tenten, sensei, return to base," Shikamaru instructed over the radio.

"Give us a minute to bind Naruto," Asuma replied.

"No, bring him too," the genius ordered. "We have a new plan."

"This ought to be good," said Tenten. "I'll stabilize Shino and Neji. Asuma has Naruto."

Hinata's voice broke in. "Kurenai is losing control over Sasuke, and Sakura has taken out all three of her pursuers."

"Even Might?" gasped Shikamaru. "Tenten, do not engage Sakura. Sensei, hurry back with Naruto!"

XXX

With a final, sharp crack of chakra, Sasuke broke the most powerful illusion that had ever been used on him. It took over quite a while before he realized that it was even a genjutsu to begin with, but even though he knew that Kakashi wasn't really there, his Chidori still hurt like a bitch. Furthermore, his sharingan wasn't helping, either to cancel the genjutsu or copy the fearsome array of techniques the jonin were throwing at him.

When the genjutsu shattered, he was annoyed to find that Kurenai had taken her leave, and he was now alone in the area. The tower was easy enough to find, but just in case Sasuke made the handseal and said "Kai!" to check. Seeing as it wasn't another genjutsu, he got up and walked away. When it came to his attention that his arm was fractured from having landed on it, Sasuke deliberated before deciding that winning with a debilitating injury would be that much sweeter.

Thus, cradling his arm to his chest, Sasuke set off again. This time, something far more welcoming interrupted him.

"Heeeey, Sasuke!"called Sakura. She was holding the unconscious body of Rock Lee to her chest with one arm, her bloody scythe strapped to her back, and her robes mostly blood-free, except for a stain under her collar. Also, one arm was missing. Sasuke decided that it was probably still regenerating, but felt a little cheated that his injury had been shown up.

"Sakura," he replied politely. The strange boy on her chest didn't appear to be breathing, but Sasuke had faith that she wouldn't kill people when more powerful people had threatened to figure out a way to kill her. Hmm... it sounded more impressive when it was a jonin saying it.

"Who is that?" he finally said, gesturing at Lee.

"Well, he calls himself the Blue Beast of Konoha," Sakura mused, "but obviously he isn't blue. He's blue like Naruto is f***ing pink. Therefore, I will rechristen him the Cerulean Beast of Konoha!"

Sasuke blinked. "Why?"

"Well, that way he can still be 'blue', but if anyone asks they'll interpret it as green! It's f***ing genius!" The psychopathic girl beamed.

The old Sakura was a bit less enthusiastic about sharing her bright ideas, but this certainly had her fingerprints on it. Her inane, completely uninteresting fingerprints. It seemed there was still only one way to get rid of a fangirl.

"Shut the f*** up."

"Make me!"

"Go f*** yourself."

"CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!"

Sasuke shut his eyes, opened them again, and used Amaterasu to cauterize Sakura's shoulder stump. Lee writhed in his sleep, trying to get away from the unholy heat, but Sakura just smiled at him angelically. "If you're into that," she whispered, "that's swell... I love pain!"

"Does your depravity know no end?" Sasuke asked rhetorically, satisfied that she wouldn't be regrowing the arm for the foreseeable future.

"Depends," Sakura replied. "I just turned a snappy nickname into a laughable tongue twister, and before that I tried to kill a genin by throwing a jonin at him, and before that I won a fight by smashing my face into the ground. Speaking of which, I might have missed a kunai. Mind taking this out for me?" She turned slightly, thrusting her posterior out to show the metal knife stuck into her lower back. "I can't reach my a** right now."

Sasuke desperately wanted to refuse, but it occurred to him that leaving an ally with a weapon in their butt would be rather counterproductive. Thus, while tugging on the kunai, he tried to ignore the sickly pops of her flesh relinquishing the blade and the way she was moaning his name seductively.

"Hurry up," the Uchiha grunted, tossing Gai's kunai on the ground and moving on.

Sakura put Lee down to pick the 'souvenir' up, and only then did Hinata give the order to blow the ground up in her face.

XXX

The small bluff beneath the tower was shrouded in shadow. Shikamaru lay back on a lawn chair just in front of the door, his eyes closed and body relaxed. Next to him, Hinata relayed that Sakura was only mildly annoyed that her new kunai was scorched black by the exploding tag, and Ino was fretting that her hair was too casual for a fight. Tenten irately ripped a senbon out of her hands, saying that they weren't f***ing bobby pins, damnit!

Kakashi was hiding in the tower. Icha Icha Paradise was open in front of his face, but his eyes weren't reading the words they were seeing.

"They're here," announced Hinata. Immediately, Kurenai grabbed Ino and Tenten by their collars and dragged them back to the wall of the tower, creating a genjutsu to hide the three of them. Shikamaru nodded to no one in particular.

Sasuke opened the final fight with Amaterasu, drawing a ring of black flame around himself and the tower. Sakura dumped Lee off outside the fire, then stepped quickly through the last gap in the wall before Sasuke closed it.

"Congratulations," Shikamaru yawned, not deigning to look at them. "I always knew you two were prodigies."

"Where are Tenten and Kurenai?" asked Sasuke.

"It would be far too troublesome to fight you myself," Shikamaru went on, "so I won't."

"Bring on Kakashi then, or f***ing Asuma or whoever."

"Sure thing," offered the Hokage's son, approaching the two from behind. "I think–"

Sasuke formed six handseals without turning around, and a wind bullet blasted Asuma off his feet. As he struggled to get up, Asuma readied a cloud of ash to blanket the field, but a strike from the butt end of the scythe put an end to that.

A mop of silver hair poked out over the top or the tower. Kakashi's sharingan picked out the softest part of the ground below, and promptly threw Naruto's body at it. The sand cushioned his fall, reacting the the most perilous circumstances even without consciousness, but Asuma was less lucky.

Ino winced at the crunch, but she had the sense to remember her job. The Yamanaka readied her signature technique, aimed the modified bird seal at Naruto's unmoving form, and fired. There was a moment of incredible dizziness, like the world had been turned upside-down and squeezed until the colours ran like wet paint, and her body dropped like a sack of flour. Tenten shot out an arm and caught Ino by the arm, her eyes on the action.

Naruto shuddered and stood up, the infusion of chakra jolting his system back to life. Sakura watched him suspiciously, moving back to a safe distance before daring to send a questioning glance at Shikamaru.

"Hurry up, Ino," the bored Nara drawled. 'Naruto' shot the boy a dirty look, then looked down at 'his' hands.

"How do I use this stuff, exactly?" 'he' asked.

"I think it reacts to your environment," Shikamaru replied. "Just get them to attack you."

Ino dragged her new body over to the entrance of the tower, ignoring Sasuke and Sakura's amused expressions. The worst that could happen was they beat their stupid teammate up, so it was okay to be a little reckless.

"Bring it!" she growled. The remaining members of Team Seven burst into laughter, doubled over and wheezing. Everyone was mutually confused, until the sand moulded itself into a sphere around her, trapping her inside. In the back of his mind, Naruto giggled at the sand's response, and Kushina laughed maniacally.

"Wha-? What is this?" Ino groused, only for Sakura to simply roll the ball out of the doorway.

Kurenai's earpiece buzzed. "If any of you think you can stop them at this point, feel free to spend six weeks in the hospital. Shikamaru out."

Hinata waited until they were directly before her, standing her ground with determination scrawled over her face... and promptly and politely opened the door for them. Sasuke nodded at her as he passed, and Sakura stuck out her tongue.

"Don't mind me," Kakashi squeaked, shuffling further back into a corner.

"Go up," Sasuke told Sakura, surveying the ground floor. She raised an eyebrow, but nevertheless ambled over to the stairs and started the climb for victory. When she was gone, Sasuke quickly searched the room in greater detail until he found it: the control panel for the exploding tags.

Above it was a map, with charcoal markings encircling the places where unconscious ninja were lying in the woods. Sasuke located all of the switches for these parts, as well as the ones for the self-destruct under the tower. These he ripped out. Then, he flipped the rest with one grand sweep, and pretended to listen to the glorious sound of nineteen hundred explosives sizzling devilishly.

There was a very big boom.

Gai was shocked out of his slumber by a sound like cannon fire. He jumped straight to his feet, happy demeanour gone, and surveyed the place. The trees limited sight to a few meters, but at least Kiba was alive. Akamaru was jumping around frantically, and Kiba was trying to calm the dog down. Lee was nowhere to be seen. Immediately jumping to a worst-case scenario, Gai forced himself to assume that the she-demon Sakura had already killed him and was filleting the meat from his bones. Trying to ignore the way his heart was pounding, he went past the frantic Inuzuka and wandered out of the clearing. Everywhere, as far as the eye could see, was destroyed. The copse where Sakura had left him and his team was a green island in a sea of brown, rocky destruction. Black scorch marks dotted the earth, and jagged spikes of bedrock stood up from the ground. A little ways away, a metal pillar stood out of the ground, a support unearthed by some cataclysm. An apocalypse.

Gai swallowed, steadying his nerves. The chunin handbook had a chapter on what to do if the village was in mortal peril. He'd loved that book, read it verbatim to Kurenai and Asuma and his Youthful Rival, and now he would never impart its lessons to his protégé...

Might Gai sobbed, just once, mourning the death of everyone he knew and loved, and then switched back to stern, unyielding jonin of the Leaf. He'd survived the Third Shinobi World War, he'd survived the brutal lessons of Kondo Yuhi, and he'd survived Hizashi Hyuga's collection of classical records (in the name of Youth!), he could damn well face up to the truth. The truth that three genin had somehow called down armageddon on Konoha, and maybe even the Elemental Nations. He spared a moment to admire the inferno of their youth. Hellfire, that is. Brimstone and foul sulphur riding on currents of air, as a demonic Naruto Uzumaki stood over a dead Tenten, a massive claw reminiscent of the kyuubi's planted in her back, and Sasuke duelling with a losing Neji, and Sakura-f***ing-Haruno whispering poison in Lee's ear as the boy was crucified on a training post...

He snapped himself out of his imaginings. There was no good done in mourning, he'd learned that long ago. Now there was only action. Gai returned to Kiba, who was lying flat on his back in the clearing, staring at the sky. Akamaru lay on his chest, panting heavily and whining on occasion. He surveyed them, boy and dog, for about a minute. Nobody knows what through his head in that minute, and nobody will ever know.

Gai sat down next to Kiba's head and looked the feral ninja in the eye.

"Do you want me to teach you?" he asked.

XXX

Shino felt fortunate that he was blind, because if he had sight to see the explosion that rocked the world he would have gone blind. When the ringing in his ears subsided and he could stand without his stomach lurching unpleasantly, his kikaichu located the tower, which remained conspicuously standing, and went that way. His longcoat left a torrent of leftover sand in his wake.

Meanwhile, Choji slept the sleep of the innocent. Not even a 4-gigajoule explosion could wake him up when he was tired.

XXX

"So, who wants to go for ramen?" Naruto proposed in a whisper. The three of them were hiding in a dumpster behind Yakiniku Q, waiting for the ANBU patrols sweeping Konoha to give up looking for them. It was tight, smell, and Sasuke could swear that Sakura's face was buried in his chest on purpose.

"Imbecile," Sasuke ground out. "Ichiraku is the first place they looked for us!"

"Oh, but the ANBU will never find us," Naruto promised, wiggling his left leg to get some room for it. It brushed against Sakura's stump, which still hadn't healed, and she cursed quietly.

"Hn."

"Sure! I've been pulling pranks around this village for seven years and ANBU had never caught me!"

"Yeah, let's go for ramen," Sakura added. They both stopped, and would have stared at her if there wasn't trash blocking their vision.

"What? It tastes like s***, but I'm hungry enough to eat anything right around now," she justified to Sasuke's ribcage.

"I'll overlook that part about ramen if you go on a date with me!" Naruto squealed.

"You just kicked my ear," Sasuke informed him.

Naruto, then Sakura and Sasuke extricated themselves from the tangled embrace of filth before following Naruto to the end of the alley. The master prankster looked around, his senses straining to find someone with Asuma-level stealth creeping up on them. With nobody in the vicinity, he allowed himself a small chuckle.

"Watch carefully," he said, forming the dog, boar and ram seals, then adding an extra ram when his chakra was flowing nicely. Sasuke recorded the technique, and chuckled when Naruto transformed into a naked woman disguised by a few well-placed smoke clouds.

"Daaaaamn!" Sakura whistled appreciatively. "Nice curves, blondie. Make the tits bigger next time, change the clouds to a bathing suit and you're golden."

"Not the point I was trying to make," Naruto muttered, snapping his/her fingers to banish the transformation. "If you use an extra ram seal at the end, your polymorph is focused a bit more. It's virtually impossible to see through.

"And naturally you used this ground-breaking new ninjutsu to turn into a nude girl," said Sasuke. "Why does that surprise me?"

"But I don't have to be," Naruto emphasized. With another expenditure of chakra, Naruto became taller, with bronzed skin and a tattoo of a shuriken crossed by a stylized leaf on his bare shoulder. His pants remained the same, but his shirt was now only a few scraps of clothing held together by stitches.

"Ta-da!"

XXX

Ichiraku Ramen now had three brand-new customers. A man like a Kumo shinobi, a lady with large breasts and a midriff-baring sweatshirt, and a boy of seventeen who looked remarkably like Fugaku Uchiha.

"Nice disguise," said the Uchiha. "Were you going for the town lush or the town whore?"

"I was going for different!" the town lush retorted. "What are you, another Uchiha? In a village where they're all dead? Great, ANBU will never find us now!"

Sensing they were becoming impatient, Ayame stepped in. "Hello there, may I take your order?"

The Cloud ninja opened his mouth to answer, but the girl kicked him under the table. "What's on the menu?" she asked innocently.

Sakura watched Sasuke intently, and when he didn't comment or even react she deduced that his sharingan was off. Not entirely smart, considering she was about to use him against Naruto. She created a quick genjutsu, nothing visual or detectable outright but subtle. Subtlety was the name of the game.

"Hey," Sasuke said, just as their waitress was finishing. "What's your name?"

"Umm, it's Ayame," the girl replied, blushing. Why hadn't she introduced herself?

"My name is Sasuke," he told her. "Sasuke Uchiha. I'll have the pork, and my friends will both have miso, please."

"Maa! Err, coming right up!" Ayame yelped, vanishing into the kitchen so fast Naruto wondered if she'd once been a kunoichi.

"Awww," cooed Naruto, "Sasuke made a fwiend! Isn't she adoowable?"

They said nothing in reply. Sasuke was trapped in his mind's eye, envisionings of a girl dominating his thouts for the first time in years. Sakura was too busy keeping up the genjutsu to say anything. Sasuke was sitting next to her, but weaving thoughts into the mind of a girl in a different room was draining her chakra quickly.

She was sad to give Sasuke up... but if he had to deal with her sleeping around, then fair was fair. Ayame came back with three bowls of ramen. She dished them out, but Sasuke stopped her before she could retreat again.

"You're..." Sasuke began, catching her eye. Ayame bobbled nervously, waiting for the customer to speak his mind.

"Yes?" she prompted.

"... Rather pretty," Sasuke finished, the words sounding both bitter and forced, yet extremely heartfelt.

"Oh!" Ayame exclaimed. "I- um, well, I- er- excuse me, I need to–!"

Naruto snorted with mirth, both at Sasuke's lovestruck gaze and Ayame's flustered disposition. Better yet, Sakura couldn't go after Sasuke if the bastard had a girlfriend! Well, unless she was a homewrecker... Naruto observed her discreetly, wondering how much of a barrier the polite ramen girl really was.

Just when he was about to eat his ramen, it was gone. Naruto sent his teammates a flat look. "Pranks are pranks, sure, but taking my ramen is over the line!" he hissed. "Which one of you did it?"

Sakura looked at him dully, her eyes glazed over with effort. "Whatever," she muttered. "Take mine, it tastes like horseradish and pig s*** anyways."

"Thanks!" Naruto slid the other miso order towards his place at the table, raised a spoon to dig in...

Swells of sand burst from the storage seals on his arms, jumping into the bowl of ramen and absorbing every drop with clinical efficiency. Naruto watched, mesmerized, until every last drop had been wiped away and the sand retreated to his body once more.

"Stupid broad," he wailed, causing Sasuke to shy away from him, "get your own goddamn ramen!"

An image of a petit, redheaded woman formed in an empty seat at the next table. She winked saucily, and when Naruto gave her the finger she burped in his face. Then, silently, Kushina's apparition vanished.

This chapter is somewhat shorter than the others, but you've gathered that already. I don't think it matters too much. Now, about Shino being blind, I should probably explain that it's the conclusion I came to after the first time I read the manga. Dark glasses and all. He's got the beetles, I assume they can see for him. This chapter written, edited and posted from an iPad. That's all I wanted to clarify.

Review if you have any questions, comments, suggestions, whatever.

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Rock Lee wakes up in the hospital, Sakura gets a stalker, and the Hokage decides that Team Seven needs to get out of his village.