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The Orange Flash: Lost Chapters	By : Breath_of_the_Wiz Category: Naruto > Het - Male/Female Views: 120666 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 16
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Naruto carried Mitsuki on his back as they walked through the desert. He had fashioned his orange sash belt into a hood for himself, while Mitsuki had on a cloak of her own. As far as Naruto was concerned, this was the easy part of the mission, this would be the last stretch of time he would have with himself, as once they reached Sunagakure's Blockade, it would be all business from there.
The searing winds made Naruto's eyes water, it felt as if he were staring into an opening oven or kiln. Mitsuki had fallen silent about an hour ago, but it also didn't help that whenever she said something, it was always an erection-inducing comment or an errant nibble on the ear. Sakura stared at the two ninja in annoyance, and of course, jealousy. She'd never say that aloud of course. Kakashi and Shikamaru Nara could of course, care less, but the barren landscape offered no vistas to hold a traveler's attention.
The five-cloaked figures bantered and jested despite the dire situation they were gearing up to face. This practice among the ninja of Konoha was not born of a lack of professionalism, no, it was more of a defense mechanism than anything. Even among the ANBU, there were always attempts to diffuse what little tension they could, tense ninja made mistakes, and any sort of major one at this point would spell tragedy.
Naruto had been thinking ever since they left Anju Oasis, and after piecing his question together he voiced his concerns to Shikamaru.
"Oi, Shikamaru. I never really thought about it, but what's stopping them from just extracting the Shukaku from Gaara? Why do they need me?"
Shikamaru immediately replied. "I've been thinking about that since we left. Remember, they've been cornered; this makes for one of two possibilities. Best case scenario; they're trying to buy time for some sort of trump card to come through. The other, more disturbing possibility; they may have come up with a way to escape the blockade with both you and the Kazekage in tow. It's really the perfect move, they've got a way to achieve, at minimum, one of their goals regardless of what we do. We're gonna need some sort of miracle to come out of this without any sort of casualties."
Naruto smirked and punched his fist to his palm.
"Miracles're my specialty, dattebayo!"
Kakashi added in his two cents. "Well Naruto, we're gonna need one, if Akatsuki hasn't sent any other operatives to extract Deidara and Sasori, that second possibility is the more likely of the two. I'd bet on my life that they've got an ace in the hole, they're just waiting for the right moment to drop the hammer."
Naruto growled in anticipation. "Then I hope you two are wrong."
Kakashi's eye swiveled to Naruto. "Me too."
Deidara and Sasori stood over the dissolving body of the 4th Kazekage. While they miraculously managed to come out of the battle unscathed, Deidara had used nearly two thirds of the explosive clay he'd brought with him. The undead kage managed to keep them occupied for nearly three hours before they had managed to overwhelm him with sheer force.
Deidara cursed the deceased man. "I can't believe a goddamned corpse wasted this much of our time!"
Sasori would have rolled his eyes if he hadn't predicted Deidara's reaction. "Deidara, we should be worried about the other two, one of which appeared to be one of my agents."
Deidara angrily kicked a stalagmite and it exploded into a shower of pebbles. "Who gives a shit? They ran off as soon as we saw them! This prick made me waste more than half my ammo!"
Deidara punctuated his curse by kicking and scattering the pile of black sand that was once the 4th Kazekage's body.
Sasori crossed his arms. "My patrols have combed this entire cave network several times over. They've likely fled, since the only other place they could be, is in this very room... Unlikely… Scan the area just to be safe; tell me what you see with that eye of yours?"
Deidara's mechanical eye lit up and he looked toward the ceiling and walls. "Nothin' suspicious on the heat scope, chakra sensor's clean as well. I'm pretty damned sure they left when we saw'em."
Sasori went over to Gaara to check if their battle had injured her, lucky for them, she was in perfect health (relatively speaking of course). He also checked the seal etched into the ground around the jinchuuriki, and while it did suffer damage, it wasn't enough for him to bother his puppets to re-draw, notably; the seal seemed to be littered with hundreds of Kunai from the battle. He scraped his scorpion-tail on a spot next to Gaara and re-drew some symbols.
The raspy-voiced-puppet then addressed his partner without turning to face him. "Deidara, you should call this in, we may have to move forward with one of the contingency plans."
His partner grunted and nodded, he pressed a button on his eyepiece and spoke in his usual informal tone. "Hey bossman, we hit a snag. It looks to me like that Snake Bastard made his move, however, we managed to salvage the situation hm? We're ready for the ritual…"
There was a pause as the blonde man listened to his earpiece. Then, Deidara gave Sasori a thumbs up. "Cool, we'll get on it. Oi, Sasori. we're cuttin' our losses… Let's get the Shukaku extracted. Have those marionettes of yours block off all the entrances for us."
Sasori flicked his tail slightly, and his army of puppets came tearing through the main cavern at a frantic pace and scattered off in different directions.
Sasori clicked and clacked. "Hn, what a wasted opportunity... Deidara, stand on that symbol over there."
"Sure whatever."
Had Deidara been more diligent in his scanning, he'd have noticed the fact that the dirt patch beneath Gaara seemed to be giving off notably more heat and chakra than it should have...
Anko nonchalantly flipped through her bingo book while she restrained the team's target… and by restrained, I mean that she was literally standing on the side of the man's skull, both of her feet were forcing his head into the dirt. Anko was currently filling in for Kurenai on Team 8; who apparently had been vomiting all morning.
Anko mused to herself on the possible reasons for such a sudden onset of sickness from the otherwise invincible woman. 'Hah! I'll bet that idiot Sarutobi knocked her up!'
They were in a small clearing in the forest, located somewhere along the border of Fire Country. One could even hear the rushing water close by; it reminded Anko of her first night with Naruto in the forest and the ensuing conversation they had shared concerning Naruto's inability to comprehend being loved. Even with her mind simultaneously in the gutter and above the clouds, she went on with her preliminary inquiry.
Even so, she really only spoke to him when she needed to confirm the identities of his alleged cohorts in whatever it was he did.
Anko crouched and showed him a headshot. "This one of your buddies?"
He struggled beneath the weight of Anko's entire body on his skull. "Y-yeah! What of it?"
Visibly bored, she continued with her interrogation. "Was he with you at this listed time and date?"
She placed the scrap of paper in front of the man's eyes.
The man squirmed. "No! What's Konoha want with me, huh? I'm not a threat to you guys!"
Anko flipped through more pages. "Well, ya are. Whether or not you know it, you've been feeding our force deployments and supply cache locations to an S-Class nuke-nin organization called Akatsuki. Now, you can either answer all of our questions here, or be more thoroughly interrogated by Ibiki Morino. That's a pretty easy decision if you ask me."
The man pleaded. "Fine! Fine! I'll tell you everything… as long as you get off my head!"
Anko started scribbling notes in her bingo book. "Good, good, but not to me. Kiba, Shino!"
The man's eyes widened in fear when he saw the Inuzuka boy whistle at his dog. The trembling man's eyes swiveled around and in his peripheral vision; he could see the gigantic canine feasting on the corpse of one of his ninja bodyguards. The dog ceased chewing on the dead kunoichi's skull and sauntered over to its master. He could see the boy whisper to it and it promptly came over and sat down on his back, he shuddered at the bloody drool leaking from Akamaru's mouth. This prompted Anko to get off of the man's head, he sighed in relief at the decrease in pressure on his skull, but now he had a hungry wolf/dog thing on his back, one that could apparently crush his skull with a well placed chomp.
Kiba grinned at the man; the boy's own fangs made the guy feel even more nervous. "Don't worry man, no sudden moves and you should be fine… Well, probably. Akamaru I mean it, you can't eat this one."
Anko crouched down next to the man and pointed to Shino. "Tell your story to this guy right here, and don't bother lying, he can tell if your heartbeat fluctuates, those bugs of his are something else."
Shino silently walked over and stared downward. "Talk. We have other things to do today."
Kiba grinned at his teammate. "Ah really? Didn't know ya had a life Shino."
The man's fearful expression reflected off of Shino's shades. "Quiet Kiba… I'm working."
Anko left the poor man to his cruel fate; an interrogation by Shino Aburame, she smirked and mused to herself about recommending the bug boy to train under Ibiki Morino for a bit, but her musings were cut short when her gaze landed on Hinata. Anko had ordered her to stand watch with her Byakugan.
Anko approached from behind Hinata and smirked. "Sooooo."
Hinata smiled a bit, but didn't turn around. "What is it Anko-senpai?"
Anko grinned and leaned against a tree. "Sorry, I'm not used to speaking to the back of someone's head."
Hinata flushed a bit, and hurriedly spun around to face the Jonin. "Oh! I'm sorry! Sometimes I forget whether or not I'm facing someone while my Byakugan is activated!"
The Hyuga heiress punctuated her apology with a bow.
Anko smirked. "All manners and protocol with you, huh? … How was your date with Naru-chan?"
Hinata straightened her spine a bit. "How do you even-? Nevermind… In hindsight, I wouldn't be surprised if everyone in Konoha knew at this point… It went fine if you really must know."
The younger of the two women suddenly became suspicious, Hinata's eyes narrowed at Anko's pet name for her crush. "Ano… Naru-chan? … Why do you ask Anko-senpai?"
Anko did a few stretches and answered in her usual nonchalant tone. "Just gauging my competition, that's all."
Hinata started to worry. "C-competition?"
Anko nodded and touched her toes. "That's right princess. I'm going to have sex with Naruto as soon as I get back… for the… hmmm…" Anko dramatically counted off on her fingers. "THIRD TIME NOW!"
Hinata's eyes widened and her face went red. "S-sex, with Naruto? …" she was so thrown off her game that her Byakugan deactivated. The girl stumbled a bit as she began to faint, but she snapped herself awake before she lost balance.
Hinata was still red, but she was obviously annoyed with her Jonin Commander. "Y-you stay away from him! Why can't you date someone your own age?!" Her stutter was essentially gone, but it would come and go whenever her thoughts involved Naruto Uzumaki.
Anko smirked and wagged her finger; she took an obviously sarcastic motherly tone. "Tsk tsk. You're supposed to be on watch Hinata-chan! Switch those pretty little eyes of yours back on; you wouldn't want something sneaking up on you… Right?"
Hinata frowned and returned to her post, though this time, she felt a bit demoralized even though she was the first one to score a date with him.
No one could tell of course, with that hooded coat and high collar, but Shino had a smirk on his face as he overheard the exchange between the two women. He found Naruto's current situation rather entertaining, in a ridiculous sort of schadenfreudian way. He'd have to make sure his bugs kept tabs on the whole development when he got back.
Naruto was bursting at the seams by the time his team had made it to the checkpoint. After leaving Mitsuki in the medical tent, they were brought to the commanding officer's tent. It was tan of course, and it seemed rather extravagant and expensive for a forward command post. There at the desk, sat a familiar face, or, in this case, half of one. Baki turned to Naruto and gave a sigh of relief.
He spoke in a gruff voice.
"Uzumaki, you're here, let's get down to business."
Naruto and company nodded, they swiftly walked over to the make-shift desk.
Baki stood up and drew their attention to a piece of paper in his hand. "You've actually arrived at the perfect time. They relayed these instructions to us so that we may pass them on to you." Baki cleared his throat and read off of a piece of parchment, likely delivered via carrier pigeon.
"It says; 'Upon his arrival, you are to send Naruto Uzumaki into the caves, alone. Should negotiations run smoothly, you'll have the Kazekage back. If you send anyone aside from Naruto Uzumaki, the Kazekage will die.
~ Sasori of the Akatsuki"
Baki tossed the piece of parchment behind him and it flew off into the wind, he had a defiant smirk on his face. The ninja of Konoha stared in blank confusion, after a short pause, the Suna Jonin spoke.
"Our sensor teams have detected the presence of another group in the cave system, and the best part of it all… they seem to be disrupting the Akatsuki operatives at the moment. A small team could theoretically slip in unnoticed by Sasori's damned puppets and extract the Kazekage… Of course, that's where you all come in."
Kakashi took out a kunai and spun it around his finger. "Good for us then… show us the way to the entrance and we'll handle the rest."
Baki nodded and escorted the team to a makeshift wall in the blockade, he handed a set of short-range communicators to Naruto, Sakura, Kakashi, and Shikamaru. The Nara heir politely refused the offer, stating that he was just there for tactical support. Naruto stared at the earpiece he'd been handed, from what he could tell; Sunagakure's short-range communication devices were notably more advanced than Konoha's. It was painted with tan camouflage as opposed to Konoha's matte grey earpieces; it also seemed to have several buttons with channels assigned to them.
Naruto placed it on the ear opposite to his Konoha earpiece and switched it on. Baki spoke a few test phrases into the receiver and all of the Konoha shinobi gave him an all-clear sign.
Baki nodded and looked to Shikamaru. "We're currently in a stalemate, as it seems that Sasori accounted for everything that we'd ever think of, but I saw how you outmaneuvered my student Temari in the Chuunin Exams, she's a genius in her own right. You know the capabilities of your own teammates better than we ever could, anything you come up with will probably be more effective overall."
Baki bowed. "Please, save her."
He hastily walked away when a Suna tracker ninja waved him over to the other side of the command post.
Shikamaru ushered the team into another tent off to the side and pulled the chakra-powered radio receiver from his backpack. Sakura reached into her pouch and pulled out a scroll, from said scroll, she released a table and enough chairs for the team to sit down. Kakashi took the primary receiver from Shikamaru and set it down on the table, the cyclopean ninja fiddled with it for a few seconds until everyone's radios had been recalibrated to a new chakra wavelength, so as not to interfere with Sunagakure communications.
The Nara heir whipped out a pencil and some scratch paper and started to speak in a hushed tone.
"So, ever since we left, I'd been wondering how they'd make the exchange, and even if they'd make it at all. I can see them giving up this chance to capture the Shukaku in order to guarantee acquiring the Kyuubi. Konoha is the most heavily militarized of the ninja villages, so they'd have to risk a lot to come to us and kidnap Naruto. Instead, they're trying to get one of the more difficult captures out of the way by forcing us to make a decision between Naruto and Gaara. If even one of us screws up, they'll get both the Kyuubi and the Shukaku…"
Naruto rolled his eyes. "Yeah, yeah. We've been over this already pineapple head! We gotta figure out how to smuggle Sakura-chan and Kakashi-sensei inside the caves without tippin' off the puppet patrol."
Shikamaru rolled his eyes. "And that's why I'm restating their motives, they factor into my plan, now lemme finish… We're going to give them a chance at capturing both the bijuu to create an opening."
Sakura scratched her head and began to think. "…A trojan horse ambush? … I don't like where this is going Shikamaru."
Shikamaru sighed. "I don't know if we have any other options Sakura, Akatsuki's just captured the Nibi, and they've been sighted near the Sanbi's hibernation site… You'll have to allow it just one last time."
Naruto's eyes bounced between Sakura and Shikamaru, and then to Kakashi, who was absentmindedly sharpening a pair of kunai.
Naruto's ears twitched in anticipation. "What?! What?! What?! What're we gonna do?!"
Kakashi cut Shikamaru off before he could answer by handing the two Kunai to Naruto. "…We're going to test the limits of your skill with that orange Hiraishin… Are you experienced enough to teleport objects to you? … or is it only the other way around?"
Sakura vouched for Naruto. "He can bring objects to himself."
Naruto added on a warning. "I can… but… the mass of the object in question exponentially increases the amount of chakra I gotta use to transport it. This is completely different from traveling to a location. In other words, it takes more than twice as much chakra to use my own body as the anchor for the teleportation."
Shikamaru would have given Sakura a pleading look if she weren't such a pushover in these situations. "Naruto needs to use the fox's chakra again. Before you object, it's either that, or he uses his own chakra… I can't even list the number of things that could go wrong if he did that."
Sakura defeatedly stared at her hands. "Fine… just let me run a few tests, alright?"
Shikamaru just shrugged in reply while Kakashi's nose was buried in his porn.
Sakura ushered Naruto to another spot in the shade and he obliged. The pinkette had him lie on his back and began running some diagnostics, most of her focus was on Naruto chakra coils. They seemed to be regenerating and expanding, something normally considered impossible. She stared down at Naruto and sighed.
"Naruto… I know I can't stop you from doing this, but you have to be careful with the Kitsune Kaminari from now on. Your chakra coils can't handle very much stress at the moment, that's why you get those waves of pain through your spinal column; your coils are leaking demonic chakra into your bodily tissue, if you use any more, you might rupture them."
Naruto shifted nervously. "So ah... what happens if I do that?"
Sakura shuddered. "You'll be ripped apart by an explosive release of chakra, and with your reserves, It's guaranteed to be fatal… We'll need to get you to Tsunade-sama as soon as possible following this mission."
Naruto grinned up at the medic. "Relax, I've got one more trick up my sleeve for this. Besides, if I die, I can't trick you into falling in love with me." He gave her a thumbs-up gesture.
Sakura smiled and chuckled, she thought to herself; 'I think you may have done that already, Naruto-kun.'
Kakashi shifted his attention from Naruto and Sakura, to his Icha Icha book, he addressed Shikamaru without looking up.
"So, have you noticed Naruto's interesting circumstances over these past few days?"
Shikamaru stared at a solitary cloud passing overhead. "Yeah, and I can't exactly say that I envy his position right now. Mendokuse… I know for a fact that this is gonna get extremely messy for him."
Kakashi nodded. "Of course, but… The Hokage has a growing betting pool for this entire fiasco. I'd like your input on the odds."
Shikamaru appeared surprised at Kakashi's choice to defer to him. "Kakashi-senpai, I'll be honest, I'm pretty socially inept. If you want me to win a battle, just give me command and I'll make something happen… but this… It's not exactly my forté… But… based on my observations… I'd put my money on Ino."
Kakashi raised an eyebrow. "Hm. I placed my bet on Sakura, what makes you think Ino's got it?"
Shikamaru shut his eyes and raised his finger, in a sort of teaching gesture. "That depends, is Naruto obsessed with her yet?"
Kakashi shook his head. "I doubt that right now, he's interested, but not notably so. Why-"
Shikamaru cut the silver-haired ninja off. "Then that means she hasn't really made her move yet. She has this thing she does where she goes on three dates with a guy, and everything she does on these dates is a calculated risk, but whatever she does, it works. I really don't get it at all, but whenever she moves in, Naruto's gonna change his tune real quick. I'd rearrange my bet if I were you… but that's just my input."
Kakashi eye-smiled and scratched his head. "And I thought Naruto was unpredictable."
Shikamaru yawned with half-lidded eyes. "Yeah, you and me both."
It seemed that blondes were the topic of conversation that day for everybody.
Several hours after her impromptu meeting with Asuma and Kurenai, Ino's vision was flooded with the platinum blonde hair of her fellow clan mates. She was with her parents at the front most table of the conference room.
It was obvious that mind of the Yamanaka heiress was elsewhere, primarily due to the fact that she stared down at her plate and absentmindedly pushed her food around.
She sat flanking Inoichi, with her mother, Rena Yamanaka, sitting on his other side. It was actually a rather entertaining scene; Ino was the spitting image of her mother, with a personality to match. In light of that, they both took the same disinterested slouch, creating an almost symmetrical visage, with Inoichi sitting firmly in the center.
If it were a painting, it'd be called "Bewildered In Blonde" or something to that effect. Iniochi was currently talking about the clan's genetic health, and from what Ino could tell, things were going well enough, no warnings against potential inbreeding or anything of that sort.
It was an overall… nausea-inducing affair for Ino, however, she knew it came with the territory of being the Yamanaka heiress. It wasn't like she had any siblings to pass the job down to, in fact, at the age of 15; she was the youngest member within the platinum blonde sea of hair.
It had been nearly twenty minutes and Ino had long ceased listening to her father prattle on, but judging from the fact that everyone's attention seemed to suddenly shift to her, she perked up and smiled out of reflex. It was likely that Inoichi was saying something about her.
Ino began listening out of necessity at this point.
Inoichi 's chest puffed out as he nearly gloated. "I'm proud to announce that my daughter, Ino Yamanaka, Heiress of the Yamanaka Clan, has been recommended for a promotion to Jonin!"
Ino's heart punched the inside of her chest as it sped up, she hastily stood up in a confused haze of excitement. Ino took a shallow bow as the applause and wolf whistles echoed through the conference room. Sure, the past few years had been interesting for Ino and team 10, but she was surprised that Asuma would call for her promotion so soon. Ino made a mental note to go motivate Chouji's fat ass to get promoted to jonin as well so he wouldn't be the odd one out.
Even with good news such as this, Ino's thoughts were still with one of the most powerful genin to ever walk the face of the earth. While this meeting was important for Ino to attend, she'd have rather been preparing her new apartment for Naruto to get back so she could make her move, especially with all of the other players in the game. Ino's mind began formulating contingencies and plans of action, but she managed to stop herself after thinking back to Asuma-sensei's advice.
Out of nowhere, Inoichi crudely ruffled Ino's hair in approval, much to her dismay.
"Dad!"
He chuckled to himself. "Sorry, sorry, you just used to be such a tomboy when you were little, I forgot for a second! Congratulations Ino-chan! We need to spar soon… I wanna see what all this Jonin fuss is about!"
Ino grinned at her Dad and looked to her mother, who gave a slow, yet commanding, nod of approval.
Ino's face turned red in astonishment when the entire room raised a toast to her, she laughed to herself and allowed her mind to drift from the future to the now… but not before one final thought.
'At least I have something to keep my mind off Naruto for the time being! But when he gets back… he's mine."
Tsunade was preparing to go home for the evening when the second powerful knock came to the door. The Hokage sighed, but she was interested in seeing who would come to visit her at this hour.
"Come In."
Tsunade's door creaked open, and this time, a familiar pair of glowing green eyes lit the doorway.
The Hokage smiled and ushered the visitor in. "I'd figured you'd be stopping by at some point, and I'd assume it has something to do with Naruto-kun… or maybe Mitsuki-chan?"
"Nothing ever catches you off balance, does it Tsunade-san? … We've business to discuss, I've brought your favorite brand of Sake as well."
Tsunade crossed her arms as she smirked and leaned on her desk. "Discuss away."
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