Fox In The Leaf

A revelation and the dark side of a mission (WIP)

Naruto was walking the streets of Konoha while ignoring the usual glares he got from the villagers. At this point, he had gotten so used to it that he would consider a day he wasn't glared at to be abnormal. Something that he noticed was that he wasn't glared at as much as before and he only realized this when he didn't feel as much hatred as before. But right now he didn't care about any of that since he saw his destination. "Ok, this should get baa0chan to stop nagging me." before he got any closer he put himself into a henge to make himself look like a man that was in his thirties with brown hair and eyes, wearing normal civilian clothes. Walking up to the door, he knocked and waited.

The door opened to an elderly man with grey hair. The man looked up at the brown-haired civilian and smiled "ah welcome! Please come in."

Naruto walked in, ready to get this over with.

~Konoha park~

Sasuke was sitting on a bench, staring at nothing in particular in front of him. He was thinking about what had happened last night. Four shinobi from Oto had come to him and offered him a chance at gaining the power he needed in order to kill his brother. During the whole meeting, he didn't say anything and just listened to them and after they said their piece they gave him a week to think over the offer. At that time if he agreed, he was to meet them at a certain meeting point outside the walls of Konoha. When he heard the offer, he immediately thought of just going with them right then and there…..but then he remembered the truth that his brother had told him. Power was all he ever wanted ever since the massacre. Power to kill his brother. Now though, he didn't know what he wanted. A part of him was telling him that he should accept it for the power and to kill his brother but this thought always came with the burning of his curse mark. He soon realized that the voice that kept telling him to accept the offer was coming from the mark itself. The rest of him didn't really know what to do and that is why he sat here, thinking about what he should do next.

"Ryo for your thoughts?"

Sasuke was a bit startled at the voice and turned his head to look behind him only to see it was Kakashi. Sighing a bit he went back to staring in front of him with a far more subdued "...hm"

Kakashi eyed Sasuke for a second before he reached into his weapons pouch and instead of pulling out his usual little orange or green book, he pulled out a booklet and began to skim through it. He walked forward to be in Sasuke's view as he said "hmm? That one isn't in here. I think I should let Naruto-kun know that I have discovered a new word for you."

Sasuke looked up at Kakashi and noticed what he was reading. It was the little booklet that Naruto had given Kakashi when they first became team 7. He scowled at the thing "I can't believe that you still have that thing."

Kakashi just turned the page as if still trying to find what he was looking for "it helped me understand you a bit…..and thanks to making a few copies I made a little bit of pocket change from your fans." he said as he made the hand gesture for money "don't tell Naruto-kun though. If he found out he would prank me with my worst nightmare."

Sasuke scoffed as he went back to staring "you sound like you are afraid of the dobe."

"I am afraid of him."

Sasuke was now confused because of that statement and gave Kakashi and incredulous look

Kakashi eye-smiled as he put the book away. "You may have not noticed but that boy is a genuine prankster."

"So?"

Kakashi looked to his left as he spoke: "the boy is a prodigy."

Now Sasuke just didn't believe him but he let Kakashi continue