Yellow haired Uzumaki

Banquet invitation

"I'm impressed, you planned this well" Tsunade said wishing the team off at the village gate "this is awesome, but wouldn't it be better with even more people?" Naruto asked "it's not simple about man power Naruto, for this job two teams working together is ideal, we're only after one or two targets so two teams will give us the right amount of strength and flexibility any more and we could be detected too easily and have difficulty" Kakashi explained.

"Alright, listen closely starting now our main objective is to find Itachi and take him into custody" Kakashi said after they landed on a building "right" the group said before Kakashi explained the mission plan "kakashi sensei, earlier you mentions something about dividing the team into 2 group how do you suppose we do that?" Fujiko asked "great question" Kakashi said summoning his ninja hounds "it's pakkun" Naruto said "to be safe I will be assigning two ninja hounds to every team member" Kakashi said as 2 dogs walked to a member.

"Okay what about Fujiko and I?" Naruto asked "your both jinjuriki and thus a target, to protect you from potential akatsuki attack you'll be escorted by Yamato and a sensory type Hinata" Kakashi said with pakkun on his shoulder "and don't forget big bark bull as well" Pakkun added as the dog barked "pleasure working with you" Fujiko said scratching his ear "same" Hinata said before they set off for their mission.

"Naruto, hinata, Fujiko you know what to do" Yamato said feeling an unknown presence behind them "yes sir" hinata said before Yamato threw a Shuriken at the tree alarming the group "it's you" Naruto said "so you sensed me coming huh" Kabuto said revealing his face "Kabuto Yakushi, it's pretty brash for you to voluntarily approach us like this" Yamato said on guard "I just wanted to have a little chat with Naruto" Kabuto said "you won't escape we're taking you in" Yamato said "maybe we should listen to what he has to say, it could be some useful information on how to find itachi or sasuke, after all he did kill your master" Fujiko said.

"Your smart, I brought you something" Kabuto said taking out a no ebook "what is that?" Naruto asked "things our organisation managed to gather on the akatsuki" Kabuto said "so what about it?" "It's yours now you can have it" Kabuto said surprising the group "what is your goal in this? The akatsuki aren't after you so why would you help us?" Yamato asked "it's just a gift for Naruto, a token of my gratitude after al the akatsuki is pursuing you" Kabuto said before explaining his past.

"Kabuto life is pretty sad, you can't be mad at someone who's lost their will to live" Fujiko said picking up the black book Kabuto handed them "what do you mean?" Naruto asked "me remind, let's go" Fujiko said before an explosion went off "what is that?" Hinata asked "come on let's check it out" Naruto said running towards the source "who do you think it is?" Naruto asked "depending on the chakra I'll say it's Deidara the explosive akatsuki" Fujiko said.

"Naruto" Sakura said once the team reached the site "looks like the explosion caught everyone attention" Yamato said "you guys what happened?" Naruto asked "there's evidence that sasuke's here" Sakura said "it's very faint that sasuke was here, also I can detect several other scents as well" Kiba said "what does that mean?" Naruto asked before the dog with Sakura added his input "then where is Sasuke now? Try to find his scent" Fujiko said "sorry I'm afraid we can't do that" Pakkun said.

"What why not?" Naruto asked "the trail goes cold here" kakashi said "what does that mean?" Naruto asked "I'll say in this case Sasuke got completely annihilated in that explosion or he used the transportion technique to escape before it went off" Yamato said "it was probably the latter, I made my sense of smell keener than the dogs I think I found Sasuke" Kiba said as Fujiko stared blankly at him "what?" He asked "are you sure you're human and not a dog or something what you just said was slightly unattractive" Fujiko said before he yelled before soon showing them where Sasuke was.

Later

"What's wrong Naruto?" Kakashi asked as Naruto landed on a tree branch "all the scents in the south are false leads" Naruto said "hey don't look so down Naruto, I thought you never give up no matter what isn't that your ninja way?" Kiba asked "you try harder Kiba" Fujiko said "stop talking!" Kiba yelled "it's alright, I'll increase the number of shadow clone with the chakra I've stored" Naruto said creating shadow clones before they continued their search.

"I found him" Naruto informed "good job where to?" Kiba asked "this way" Naruto said turning to another direction. "Come on guys this way" Naruto said running up a tree "wait Naruto!" Hinata called out "howdy~" a man wearing an orange mask said surprising Naruto and causing him to to fall off the tree "well now how's it going there, there and there, imagine running into hidden leaf folk in a place like this and it's 2 no 6, 9 against 1 what bad luck" the man said laughing nervously.

"Your a member of the akatsuki" Yamato pointed out "although he wasn't on the roster Kabuto gave us" Kakashi said before the man laughed nervously "I'm kinda new here, nice to meet you" the man said "you think your funny huh? Don't waste our time" Kiba said as Akamaru barked "don't be rash we need to wait and see, study the situation first" Kakashi warned "oh me, as I being underestimated? By you guys?" He asked inspecting the team only for a shadow clone of Naruto to charge at him.

"Are you guys analysing my strength right now? Is that what your doing? Boy you guys from the hidden leaf sure are clever" The masked man said scratching his head "he's dodged them, every one of Naruto attacks" Yamato said he's toying with us, what does he want" kakashi asked inspecting him "whatever his reasons are we have to get past him to get to Sasuke" Fujiko said "now then what shall we play next hidden leaf folks?" The man asked "we don't have time to play around with the likes of you" Naruto said as the team agreed "formation B got it" Yamato said as the team got together.

"Keep it up, split up and force your way through his defenses" Kakashi instructed after the formation failed on the masked man "oh dear, uh ninja art" the man said disappearing and attacking the team. "That's it!" Fujiko said alarming the team "what is it?" Yamato asked "Sasuke is in this direction and if I'm not wrong Itachi should be too" She said "yea and?" Naruto asked "use your head, this man is stalling for time, time where Itachi would have already killed Sasuke or the other way around, time where Sasuke would have escaped, time we don't have" Fujiko said.

"She's right, we're wasting our time here with him" kakashi said "then we'll go with formation A" Yamato suggested.