Intermission 4

Sasuke the Movie: Dude, even Naruto is missing!

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Sasuke is in bad mood.

Thankfully, all the sewer cleaning trips with Hotaru had given Sasuke the ability to meld his presence with the sewers. Become one with the sewage, Sasuke, for the Sewer protects those that truly know it.

Seriously, how did I ended up being the only one that didn't get captured?!!

Sasuke is no stranger to C rank missions that randomly turned into S ranks. At this point Sasuke is pretty sure that The Council is just trying to get rid of him with these fake C ranks. Why wouldn't they dont want to get rid of him? He is the last male heir of the mainline Uchiha, the direct decendant of Indra, The God of Future. Coupled that he is also friends with Naruto, the last scion of Uzumaki as well as Lord Kurama's grandson as well as Makoto Hotaru, who is despised by The Council. Among the three of them, Sasuke is the weak link. The expendable.

There is only one Hotaru and Naruto. The Uchiha however is plenty around.

How many times had I almost died huh?

Ever since he become an official ninja, he had almost died over and over again due to these misranked missions. It will be a boring bodyguard job, he had thought. But nope, apparently they were tricked into somekind of a coup d'etat conspiracy.

Now here he is, hiding in the sewers of one of the Snow's dome cities.

He had waited at base camp for two days but neither Kakashi nor Naruto had returned. So Sasuke can only assume that both of them were captured. He qas left with the choice of either waiting for reinforcement from Konoha to arrive or infiltrate Snow on his own.

Perhaps Sasuke had been hanging out with Hotaru for too long as instead of taking the sensible option, he took the stupid option.

Outstupid Maneuvers: Sasuke Style

Sasuke had been around Hotaru's long enough to know how the so called stupid plans works.

First, theres is no plan. I am The Plan.

Second, there is no second. Coz that will be planning. And that will be smart. You cant be stupid if you actually think about the wisdom of your life choices.

So Sasuke did what is perhaps the most controversial and scandalous move in ninja history.

He took off his headband. And put it into his back pouch.

Oh my god! What an outstanding move! No one could ever guess where did he comes from!

Sasuke doesnt know if he wants to laugh of cry over how easily he get past the security guards of Denver, the capital of Snow Country. He just walk up to the front gate, says he lost his ID while being chased by Saberwolves and the guards just go,

"Oh you poor kid! Go inside. Here, have some Ryo and buy yourself some hot soup okay?"

"Hotaru was right. Ninjas are so deep underneath the underneath that they just never pay attention over whats going on on the surface."

For a few days, Sasuke had managed to stay under the radar while he is scurrying around the city. He pickpocket some pedestrians for pocket money and sleep in shady hotels at night. None of the Snow-nin realized they had been infiltrated.

However, Outstupid Maneuvers are not invincible. It is only really effective against paranoid overthinking ninjas. Against any normal people...

You're just an idiot.

So here's Sasuke, hiding iut in the sewers ever since a random police found him out by the simole virtue of being an racist idiot. "Oi guys, look that slanted-eyed bastard! He's clearly an illegal immigrant!"

Well, Sasuke is currently being an illegal immigrant. So that guy isn't wrong.

At night, Sasuke emerge out of the manhole. He weave a series of seals for an E-rank Jutsu.

"Deodorant no Jutsu.", Sasuke mutters and the smell of sewer dispersed from him. His mother taught him this jutsu which she stole from a Rain-nin during her Chuunin exam because she was done with Sasuke retuning home smelling like sewers back when he helped out Hotaru during his past detention. Its a very convenient jutsu that to avoid making trackers like the Inuzuka irrelevant, is kept as a high ranked Uchiha's secret despite its E rank nature.

So far, he had narrowed down the suspected buildings where Naruto and other possible hostages were being kept. He just need to find a way to infiltrate the buildings.

What will Hotaru do?

Sasuke thought to himself. Figuring out what course of action Hotaru would do is not as easy as just thinking what stuoid crap he could possibly do. It has to be something that is so stuoid it's genius, or the other way around. Not only that, the reason a lot of ninjas had issues at predicting Hotaru's course of action was because Hotaru doesn't bother to calculate risks. He is capable of just take an action regardless what consequences may blowback to him and he is competent enough to get it done.

And even if it fails, he will just shrug it off and make another move.

He is truly an Unstoppable Force.

I know what to do, however I cant help to dread ocer the risk. How can Hotaru do this over and over again? The amount of stress and anxiety I'm experiencing is overwhelming.

Still, he needs to find out where is Naruto and free him. Then they can figure iut what to do next. They need to get into a good position before Makoto Hotaru's arrival.

Because once he is here, Snow Country will be plunged into chaos.

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Meanwhile, Naruto is being confined into a cell. His chakra is being suppressed by multiple seal. All he could do is just lie on the thin mattress provided for him while he's all tied up.

Well, since I've got nothing better to do, might as well do some mental training.

Naruto close his eyes and meditate. Soon enough, he enters his Mindscape. For some reason, it took the form of a sewer nerwork that lead to a huge jail cell.

Inside, there is a fleshy cocoon. It pulses rhythmically as whatever inside it is developing. Growing.

Naruto dreads the day the cocoon will hatch. It's growing stronger. More complete. Perhaps in a few weeks, the dmaned thing will awaken.

The youkai side of Naruto is awakening.

All Naruto could do is wait and prepare himself mentally. The first awakening always hits the hardest, Konami had once told him. When it does, Naruto will be in a costant fight for control over who's will be the dominant side, Human or Youkai.

Gulping his saliva, Naruto silently begs.

Please, don't wake up just yet, Menma.