Fox In The Leaf

Aiding Allies

"THOSE FUCKING MORONS!"

The peaceful air in Konoha was suddenly disrupted when everyone heard their Hokage shout at the top of her lungs.

Tsunade was furious right now. She had sent out an Anbu to summon Naruto to her office as she had not received his written report from his previous mission that he returned to a couple of days ago. But the Anbu was not able to find the boy. It wasn't until she was visited by Shino Aburame, who was at the moment standing in front of her desk, that she learned that Naruto, Ino, and Hinata had left the village and were on their way towards the retrieval team.

Shino had heard what had happened from one of his insects that he let roam the village during that time. The insect had returned to him only an hour ago and once he learned that Naruto, Ino, and Hinata had gone after the team, he went straight to the Hokage to inform her about this. Right now, he as well as his insects were shivering from the KI that the Hokage was releasing. The only thing that made it more tolerable was the fact that he knew that her anger wasn't aimed at him.

Shizune moved to stand next to Tsunade as she tried to calm her down. "Now Lady Tsunade, please calm down."

Tsunade felt like breaking something but after hearing Shizune, she took deep breaths to calm herself. Once she calmed down she sat down in her seat and rubbed her forehead to try and stave off the oncoming migraine. After a minute of calming down, she heard a knock at the door. In anger, she grunted out an "Enter!"

The door opened to show Kakashi nonchalantly coming in with his hands in his pockets. He walked until he was standing next to Shino, who he gave an eye smile at before facing the Hokage. He knew that she was mad about something but he knew that it wasn't at him so he should be relatively safe. "Here to report on my mission, Hokage-sama"

Tsunade still felt her anger boiling her blood but with the arrival of Kakashi, she now had an idea on a way to fix the situation.

Kakashi for some reason, felt like he should have added three more hours to his delayed arrival.

~with Naruto~

Neji felt extremely uncomfortable at the moment. He considered himself to be a very collected individual and there have not been many things in his life that would make him question things. However, at the moment he could not help but do just that.

"Don't get used to this. I am not going to be a ride for everyone every time we go out on a mission. This is only because we need to hurry and catch up with the others."

Neji looked down at the large fox Naruto clone that he was riding. This is what had him a little stunned since he would never think that he would be riding on the back of a six tailed fox. Even more so riding on the Chunin that had beaten him in the Chunin exams. Before he could say anything, the original Naruto began to speak.

"Karin-chan! How are you with your chakra level?"

Karin took a second to check her chakra before answering "with the rest that I get from riding your clone, my levels are at 60% more or less!"

Naruto nodded before he and his clones had come out of the forest, only to dig their claws into the ground to stop themselves from falling into a ravine that seemed to split the forest in two.

Everyone that was riding Naruto and his clones screamed at the sudden stop and held on as tight as they could to whatever they were holding on to so they wouldn't fall off.

Once everyone had stabilized themselves on their ride's back, some of them had begun yelling at Naruto and his clones for the sudden stop, namely Ino and Karin.

Karin would have hit the clone she was on but she knew that it would dispel if she hit it hard enough so she restrained herself

Ino, however, whacked him in the head. "Damn it Naruto! Don't just stop like that without warning!"