A/N: Okay dokay, next chapter up! If Naruto seems a little more serious I'm so sorry but that is how he will be from now on, it started because he's been in the company of Sasuke, which has dampened his happiness. Oh, and he will gradually get stronger. Hope you like it!!

Enemy in the Village

Previous Chapter… It was times like these Naruto truly felt one with nature. It was times like these he could forget about being human. What would make this truly perfect is if Father was here. I wish so much he was here. Considering Kitsune live forever, Naruto was definitely considered a very young kit. Naruto sniffed the clean air and rest his head on his paws.

"What is so important about this boy, Pein?" Itachi asked.

Pein smiled. "He is the Kyuubi's son."

His ear twitched at the sound of someone rustling in the tents. His brain identified it. Just someone moving in their tent. No danger. His ear twitched again at the sound of a tent flap unzipping, but he was in the trance where he was definitely aware of his surroundings but wouldn't react to anything unless necessary. Just someone getting out of their tent. No danger. Then-

"AHH, OH MY GOD!!!!"

The horrendous screeching reached his sensitive ears, filling them with pain. Naruto jumped, yelping with pain and surprise and flew towards the human responsible. He clamped his jaws onto the person's neck, making them both fall onto the ground. He could feel the vibrations in his tongue from the victim's strangled cry. Just as he was about to end the human's life, a whistling sound instinctively made him leap back, narrowly missing the swipe of a kunai.

Naruto landed on his feet, getting ready to launch again when he saw the human's faces. It was his companions.

Shibuki had been sleeping soundly when a sudden screech woke him up. He scrambled out, having slept with his ninja gear on into the open. He was very surprised to see Sakura on the ground getting back up shakily, Kakashi standing in front of her holding a kunai, Sasuke standing in front of his tent looking surprised, and a red fox with black feet and black tipped tail facing them. The fox snarled.

"What the," he spluttered, "What stupid person sent a dumb animal to kill me?"

The fox's head instantly whipped towards him, throwing killer intent so thick he couldn't breathe. Eyes never left his sweating face, even when the fox was suddenly covered in a thick cloak of red chakra making them unable to see the fox anymore. The chakra grew taller and thinner, soon disappearing altogether to reveal a very angry Naruto still glaring at him. Naruto had sharp claws on his hands, his whisker marks thicker and his blue eyes had slit pupils. Then he turned his attention to Sakura.

"What the hell, Sakura?! If Kakashi-sensei didn't attack me I would have snapped your neck! What is wrong with you?" He shouted, throwing his arms in the air.

"I didn't mean to, it just came out." She replied rather pathetically.

Naruto rubbed his head and sighed. "Ok, but never, ever do that again cause Kakashi-sensei might not be there to save you, got it?" She nodded her head furiously. Shibuki finally found his voice.

"Hey, since when could you turn into an animal?"

Naruto turned his head towards Shibuki again. Well this is a problem. He glanced at Kakashi, who gave him a meaningful look. He looked at Shibuki and replied, "I have a bloodline limit, where I can transform into an animal." He lied. Shibuki thought for a moment.

"Oh, ok. Can you turn into anything else?" Stupid mortal.

"No, just the fox." Gullible dumbass. He mentally rubbed his fingers to his temples and sighed at how shallow mortals could be sometimes.

"Wow." While Shibuki tried to comprehend that the genin he thought was useless could transform into an animal, the rest of the company, try as they might, were holding in there amused smiles. Well except for Kakashi, who was smiling but no one would notice.

"Ok, team, pack up the tents and be ready to go in 10 minutes." Kakashi ordered.

A while later the group were ready to go, so off they went. According to Kakashi, they were about halfway to Waterfall village. The rest of the trip ran reasonably smoothly, though a few times, when something rustled a bush, Shibuki would hide behind Kakashi like a frightened bunny and stutter out "Protect me!" Naruto found it amusing and annoying at the same time, Sakura was looking at Shibuki wondering if he was fit to be a leader, Sasuke was thinking how worthless he was and Kakashi… well, he was a bit annoyed that he would always hide behind him.

Eventually, though Naruto was first, they heard the loud sound of a waterfall. Then when they emerged from the foliage, they lay their eyes on a giant waterfall, with white water rushing down and spraying everywhere as it met the clear pool below.

"Shibuki!" The group weren't really surprised since they already sensed non-threatening people come near. Two small children, one boy and one girl, ran out from behind some trees. They were carrying sacks.

"Shibuki, you're back!" the boy yelled.

"Kentaro, Hikara, what are you doing outside the village?" Shibuki asked.

"We're here to get the rubbish from the river. But the river is so fast, it's a bit dangerous. Won't you help us?" Kentaro pleaded.

"Uh, sorry I can't, I can't do it right now, yeah, so sorry."

"Please? I'm scared of the water." Hikara said.

He looked around nervously, than spotted the ninja and smiled. Oh he better not-

"These are ninja from the Hidden Leaf village. I hired them to protect me. They'll do it." Said ninja's eyes narrowed in hate.

"Excuse me? We ain't gonna do some chore, our mission clearly stated to escort and protect you until we reach the Waterfall village. We are here, mission accomplished." Naruto said.

"Aww, please. I'll give you money for it."

"N-"

"Quiet, Naruto. Well do it."

"What? You mean we do it while you read your perverted book."

He replied with a shrug. "For the money, Naruto. Konoha needs it."

"Needs it my ass, Konoha can do fine without 50 Ryo."

--

"I hate you."

"I love you too, Naruto."

Naruto mumbled under his breath as he continued to pick up a can from the river and put it in the sack the girl held out. Sasuke was also picking up rubbish with the boy, and Sakura was carrying a bag to the large boulder where Kakashi sat with his orange book and Shibuki looking at them with mock sympathy.

Lucky for Naruto, he was able to bear being in water. Since Naruto had started training to walk on water, he realised he would have to get wet sooner than later, so now water was bearable, but still he would avoid it unless absolutely necessary. Apparently picking up garbage was absolutely necessary.

A screech from above brought the attention of the group. A large golden eagle floated down and landed gracefully onto Kakashi's outstretched arm. While Kakashi took of the message strapped to the birds leg, the other three in the team were looking at the pathetically shaking Shibuki crouched on the ground and the two kids asking if he was alright.

Once he realised there wasn't any danger, he picked himself up.

"Ah, right. It's just a bird."

Kakashi unravelled the note, reading it while setting the bird free.

"Sorry, but there is an urgent meeting for jonins I must go to. Naruto, Sakura and Sasuke can stay here and finish, ok?"

"What? How dare you leave us here?"

"Come back to the Konoha when you're done, hmm." And quickly leapt off into the forest out of sight.

"Stupid damn sensei leaving us here to pick up the damn rubbish…" mumbled Naruto.

A little while later the team finally finished picking up the rubbish. Either the people in the village hadn't cleaned the river in years or their favoured rubbish dump. I swear every single piece of trash the villagers got their hands on, the first chance they got, here's a handy river beside our village, why not use it as a dump cause we don't give a damn what it could cause in the economy. Seriously. Naruto thought viciously.

Shibuki turned to them. "Thank you so much for your help. Here's the money, no go away!" the last sentence was more of a command. The three genin felt their eyebrows raise in confusion and suspicion.

"Hey, we did your chore. Why are you so abrupt?" questioned Sakura. How dare he talk to us like that? Cha!

"It's cause he doesn't want us to see the way into the village." Naruto said. He turned to Shibuki. "Aren't our villages allied? Why are you being so secretive?"

"You can never trust anyone, why should I trust you with such important information?"

"Let me think about it, cause our villages are allied, cause why the hell would we want to invade such a lowly village, and cause I already know the way into the village."

"You-"

A gasp sounded behind them, then, "Mother!" Hikara cried.

The group turned to see a reasonably old woman stagger towards them.

"They came, out of, nowhere. It was over, so fast. Help us, Shibuki." After that she collapsed into an undignified heap.

The group ran over to the woman. Sakura checked over the kunai wound in her back. "She's gonna be ok, just a little rest."

"Mother!" Hikara cried again.

"Don't cry, Hikara. You heard her, she's gonna be alright." Kentaro said comfortingly. Naruto turned to Shibuki.

"Well? What are you waiting for? Show us the way into the village so we can beat whoever did this." Naruto shouted.

"Hey, I'm not gonna show you. And didn't you say you already knew the way?"

He paused. "Oh yeah!" he shouted and started running onto the water towards the waterfall. Suddenly 5 ninjas with a scratch in their headbands signally missing nin came out of the waterfall and charged him. Naruto, having already knew they were there since stepping onto the water jumped and threw shurikans at them. They all dodged, except they all dodged into the waiting fist of Naruto's Kage Bushin. They were all knocked into the air where Sasuke cooked all except one into corpses. The one that escaped jumped back into the waterfall.

"Now that that's taken care of, let's go. Sakura, you stay here and protect the lady and the kids." Naruto said and beckoned Shibuki and Sasuke to get over there.

"How do you know the way into the village?" Shibuki asked.

"Nuh uh, that's a secret I can't tell." He replied and jumped into the raging torrent of water, to his utmost disgust, followed by his companions.

The three emerged into a large cave. They hid behind a rock, checking to make sure there was no enemy in the cave with them.

"Careful, Sasuke, don't die on this mission."

"I was about to say the same thing to you, dobe."

"Me? Die? That's funny, teme."

He stayed silent. Once they were certain there was no danger, Shibuki confidently walked up to a random opening of water and dived in. Sasuke followed, then, with a look of disdain, Naruto dived in after them.

The three emerged to find them selves facing the buildings of the village. Naruto turned to Shibuki.

"Dude, this village is as crappy as 14 years ago. Do you really think this load of nothing will conquer our village?"

He was about to reply angrily, but suddenly processed what he said.

"14? Aren't you, like, 12 years old or something?"

"Or something." He replied with a wink.

Naruto and Sasuke got out of the water. They realised something with a frown. There was no sound. Absolutely nothing could be heard. There wasn't a single villager in sight. Weird… Unbeknownst to the pair, Shibuki, seeing something wrong, quietly slunk of into the water towards a very large tree.

Sasuke pushed Naruto back into the water. He gave a yelp of surprise before sinking into the water. He came back up to yell at him but sensed ninja coming. Instead he hissed, "You could have warned me."

"Just go find Shibuki, ok?" he said as he dodged a strike from an aerial attack.

"Fine." He said and swam off into the water where he followed Sibuki's chakra trail. He followed it to the roots of the giant tree, where he found an opening through the roots. Without a sound, he followed the trail and saw Shibuki retrieve a small gourd, half-filled with blue liquid, from a small shed.

--

"There, all done. She will be fine now." Sakura said as she finished wrapping a bandage on the woman's wound. Hikara began to cry.

"Don't worry, Sakura will protect us." Kentaro said to her.

"I wouldn't be so sure." A foreign male voice said behind Sakura. She realised too late when he gave a swift chop to he neck, effectively knocking her unconscious.

"Reactions a little slow. Are you sure she's a ninja?"

"What did you do to her?" Kentaro cried.

"Hehe, don't worry, she ain't dead, yet. We still need her as leverage. As well as you." At that he started towards the cowering children.

--

Sasuke had just dodged the strike of a leg and flashed through a set of seals.

"Fire Style: Grand Fireball Jutsu!" The large ball of fire caught the 5 ninjas who attacked him. Sasuke stood, smirking, until some sort of blue rope caught him.

"Ohhh, he's good. Should we kill him?" A young woman on one side of the rope said.

"No, well need al the leverage we can get." A man standing a little ways off said.

They're good, I didn't even sense them. I've got to-

His train of thought halted as electricity tore into his body from the rope. He gave a strangled cry before dropping to the ground unconscious.

The man laughed. "Hmm, soon Shibuki, You are gonna have to come out sooner or later."

A/N: I would like to know if you would like me to rewrite the first few chapters I did poorly on. Please don't think I'd be offended if you do, because frankly I think they sucked myself but since I'm kinda new here I don't really know if I should change it. So give me a review, ok? I've also deleted my first story for Clamp cause that really sucked, it was kinda a practice and I'm defiantly not gonna finish it.

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