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A Rasengan formed in her hand, a small one since she didn't want to hurt him too bad, just get him to leave her alone, before she launched it at his stomach. He quickly let go of her wrist as he was sent flying a few feet away.

"Do not follow me." With that as her last words she left Konoha and Sai behind as she went to go find Sasuke.

Chapter 2: Usagi

It's been months since Naruto left the village, at first everything was going ok with traveling under her own name, but then she had to change it when she heard people asking around for a blonde haired, blue eyed female, by the name of Naruto with whiskers on her face. So she changed her appearance with henge, she would only have to worry about it if she got injured or her energy was depleted. So her hair was now black and short, she changed her eyes to green, and left the whiskers off her face. The name she had chosen for herself was Usagi, she always thought bunnies were cute, so why not.

The first couple of months had gone by pretty fast compared to the later ones. She seemed to have hit a few good leads at first and traveled pretty far pretty fast. But for the last three months things slowed down. No one seemed to know much, or they were just trying to swindle money from her.

She had been staying in this small village outside the Land of Water for almost two weeks after having to leave the last one. People had come around asking about her again, and to be on the safe side she just decided to leave. She didn't know how they seemed to show up in the same villages as her all the time, and frankly she didn't care. She only had one goal in mind, find any information on Sasuke.

Right now she was in the marketplace getting some food for her room at the local inn, and she was going to be checking up on a source that claimed to be able to tell you what you were looking for. Now normally she wasn't the superstitious type who believed such nonsense, but lately her luck at hearing anything was running low. So she was willing to try anything. A few people who had heard her description of Sasuke when she would ask about him in bars and inns, had tried to help her but they never really knew much.

A couple of times she had gotten really strange looks from some other ninja. And once a man came up to her asking why she was looking for the missing Uchiha, and began asking her all sorts of questions like who she was and what Sasuke was to her. Naruto just assumed that he was someone that had a run in with Sasuke and didn't tell him much besides her 'name' and that she was looking for him because she needed a favor from him, before leaving with a smile.

But at this point something was better than nothing.

The gentleman who was willing to try and help her today only wanted some fruit in exchange for his help and she didn't think that was too much to ask for. Everything had a price after all. So she got him a couple of bananas, a mango, and a few apples. For herself she just mostly got things she could make fast and easy. Like instant ramen, granted it wasn't as good as Ichiraku's, but it was still technically ramen.

She wandered around the market looking at some of the other things that people were selling, sometimes someone would have a good deal on one thing or one town she found new clothes for a steal since she needed to get new ones anyway to complete her disguise. She no longer wore anything resembling a jumpsuit, having gotten rid of that at her first chance. Though she mourned the loss of all the useful pockets. Instead she wore mostly black, wearing some short black denim shorts with fishnets that stopped at her calves. Her top was cropped at her belly with net-tee-top over it. She still wore her blue sandals not wanting to get rid of everything from home, but she kept her headband hidden in the bottom of her pack. Naruto didn't wear her weapons pouch but she wasn't planning on killing anyone so she figured her jutsu would be enough either way.

Since she was so focused on what she was doing that she didn't notice that six people were keeping tabs on her, following her through the crowds. They didn't let her get too far ahead of them before moving closer but keeping far enough away as not to cause her to run.

Not paying much attention to what she was doing with her mind wandering off on other things, Naruto was surprised to find herself no longer in the market but in the woods. She looked around not seeing anyone and that the busy market was about three hundred yards behind her. Shrugging her shoulders she continued down the path that led to the man's house carrying the fruit she promised him.

A twig snapping behind her was the only warning that she got that someone was there. Spinning around on her toes Naruto realized she was surrounded. They were dressed from head to toe in black excluding their eyes. They wore headbands with slashed cloud symbols, labeling them as rouge ninja. each had a different weapon strapped some where on there body from katana to giant shuriken to simple throwing kuni. Cursing to herself not paying attention and for not wearing her pouch she relaxed her posture, maybe she could get them to leave without force.

"Is there something I can help you with?" she asked looking at the man who was in front of her but keeping her senses open to the other five.

The one in front of her took a step forward. "We want what you have in your belly."

'My belly? What could-' Naruto narrowed her eyes at the realization of wha they were talking about. "I don't know what you're talking about."

"You can drop the act. We know you're the host to the Nine Tailed Fox. It's not hard to follow someone who's looking for something." He shrugged his shoulders as though it was an easy task. "I have to admit though you gave us the slip for a few weeks there when you first changed your appearance. Smart move that one. Changing your name was smart too." The guy crossed his arms over his chest. "Now you can either come with us quietly and we won't have to hurt you, or you can put up a fight."

Naruto stared at the man like he was stupid and cocked her head to the side slightly confused. "You think I'm just going to go with you?" She held her hand out at her side palm up slowly gathering chakra in the center. "You obviously have no idea who you're dealing with."

With a fully formed rasengan in her hand she charged forward causing them to each draw their weapons, but they didn't move otherwise. She made contact with the man in front of her when the person behind her sprinted towards her from behind and the others attacked following their lead. Her attention was brought back to the man in front when he began to stand up after being thrown into a tree behind him. He brought his katana back up and came racing back as she dodged an attack from the side.

Naruto hissed in pain as one of the ninja sliced a blade across her ribs and another along her belly. 'Shit, I'm out of practice.' she lept backwards as the katana swung centimeters from her nose while trying to dodge senbon being thrown from the sides. She managed to evade most of them but a couple landed in her thigh causing her to miss a step.

'Naruto, let me take over.' Kurama's voice echoed in her mind. He usually chose to keep to himself and let her handle thing.

'I have this.' Insisted the blonde as she launched another attack at the ninja to her left knocking him flat on his ass.

'Not with the way you're bleeding. Let me help.'

She glanced down at her wounds noticing for the first time that they were still bleeding. 'That's odd.'

That glance proved to be her undoing as one of the ninja landed a blow to under her jaw and thrusting upwards knocking her out and sending her flying into a tree and landing in a heap.

"She's going to be feeling that when she wakes up." Came a new voice.

The five ninja left standing whirled around to see who was there to be met with three bored looking ninja.

"She didn't even put up much of a fight." protested a red haired ninja wearing glasses. "I don't know why he sent us to retrieve this girl. She seems useless to me. And nosy, asking all sorts of questions. If she hadn't -"

"Shut up Karin." The smaller white haired man sitting on a large boulder of to the right of the trail said. "We follow his orders that's it."

Karin crossed her arms and tossed her head back sticking her nose into the air. " Whatever."

"Jugo, go pick up the girl." The pale one ordered and the big guy grunted moving forward.

"What do you think you are doing?" The leader of the rouge ninja asked as they ignored him and continued to retrieve Naruto. "Hey, that's our prize! Won fair and square!" He yelled moving forward to attack Jugo.

Jugo only swung his arm out making contact with the ninja's head making him drop like a stone.

"Get them!" Two of the other rouge ninja screamed charging the three new comers

"What a waste of time." Suigetsu muttered grabbing the hilt of his sword bringing it around to the front before swinging it in a wide arc decapitating two ninja.

Thinking better of their actions the remaining two Rouge Ninja stopped in their tracks before disappearing in a cloud of smoke.

"Well that was eventful." Karin spat as Jugo came forward with the black haired girl draped over his shoulder. Glaring at the girl she huffed. "Worthless." She grabbed a chunk of the girl's hair lifting her head. "She isn't even pretty. What use is she?" Letting go of her hair she let her head drop back against Jugo's back. "And she's bleeding all over Jugo."

"Shut up Karin." Was all Suigetsu said before withdrawing a scroll from his pocket that would allow them to teleport themselves back to their compound.

When they arrived back they took the unknown girl to the room that they were told to put her in and Suigetsu told Karin to dress the girl's wounds knowing they shouldn't let the girl bleed to death. Muttering the whole time Karin did as she was told making sure the wounds were clean before wrapping bandages around them and leaving.

There wasn't much more she could do anyway until the girl woke up. It wasn't like she was going to undress the girl and look her over, they couldn't pay her to do that. So she just left her and went about her own business.

She walked into the main room where Suigetsu and Jugo were sitting around the table eating. Just as she sat down to join them the side door opened and he walked inside.

He never looked at them as he sat down and looked outside at the gardens. "Did you bring her back with you?"

Suigetsu had run into a girl a while back asking questions about Sasuke's where-a-bouts and at first thought nothing of it. Until he heard that the girl was going from town to town asking anyone for information on the missing ninja. The girl had black hair, green eyes, and pale skin. He has thought she was going to be easy to find, but when he went back to the village to retrieve the girl, she was no where to be found. When she would pop back up he would send them out again. This time it seems they were lucky enough to find the girl.

"Yeah, though I'm not sure what you wanted her for when you have me." Karin huffed taking a bite of a rice ball she had grabbed. "I didn't think you were into the dark haired and fair skinned type. But I guess I was wrong." She took another bite before continuing. "I mean the girl isn't even attractive. She definitely wouldn't stand out in a crowd-" the rest was lost ad Suigetsu told her once again to shut up.

"She's a little beat up from a group of rouge ninja that ambushed her in the forest, but other than that she seemed fine. A weakling but fine." Suigetsu added before focusing on the food in front of him and digging in.

"Hnn." He sat there for a few minutes before getting up and leaving the room. He walked down the hall until he came to the room he had instructed them to place the girl in.

He opened the door and for a second thought they had brought back the wrong person. The girl laying on the bed didn't fit the description that was given. Instead the girl was blonde and had a tan. The complete opposite. She was definitely someone that would stand out in a crowd, especially with those whiskers.

'Whiskers?' Sasuke moved closer to the girl on the bed and stared down as he took in the similarities between this girl and Naruto. 'Impossible. Naruto doesn't have a sister.' As he continued to look the girl over he became more amazed at how much she looked like Naruto. The shade of her hair was the same, she was about the same height he remembered Naruto being the last time he had saw him over two years ago. Hell even her skin was the same color.

Looking at the girl made him miss Naruto and he hated the girl for it. Memories of how he wanted to hold him close or just be by his side came to mind and he looked away. He left the village to get away from Naruto and the feelings he had begun to feel towards the blonde, how dare this girl remind him of them. Just as he was about to storm out of the room in frustration he heard her whisper something in her sleep. Stepping closer he waited for her to speak again.

"S-Sasuke" was whispered from the girl's lips before her eyes began to flutter open and he found himself staring into the only pair of eyes he cared to remember. Tears began to fill those familiar blue eyes as she spoke his name again.

"Naruto?"

Author's note...again.

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