Naruto hurried to grab his gear and his spare uniform. He knew he had to go as undetectable as possible, so he decided to leave all his Hokage possessions in the office. He leaped from his window, and landed softly on the ground. All he had on his mind was to get too Sasuke, his mind was focused on what could be happening, he was so consumed by his thoughts that he didn't even realize several anbu members were following him to the entry.
Before Naruto could leave the village 3 anbu members had leapt in front of him stopping him from going any further.
"Hokage sama, where are you going? The village will be in jeopardy if you leave."
Naruto didn't have time to deal with this, every minute and every second was time he was wasting.
"Look guys it's okay, I am joining the 5-shinobi leaving for Sungakure, Kakashi will be my substitute. Now I would advise you to step out of my way."
Even though the anbu seemed reluctant to let Naruto go, they knew they couldn't defy an order from the Hokage, so hesitantly they moved out of his way. Naruto ran past the gates and leaped to the closest tree branch, stabilizing himself with a little bit of extra chakra around his feet.
He turned back to look at Konoha one more time. He knew everything would be fine, but he hoped Kakashi didn't make a mess of things whilst he was gone. Kakashi was a great shinobi who he trusted with his life, but he also was the laziest man alive. Naruto looked towards the direction of Sungakure, he knew this was going to be a long journey if he didn't get started right away. With a buildup of chakra to his legs and feet, he leapt off the tree branch and towards the direction of the Sand village.
*The forest*
Naruto was only 20 minutes into the forest, already the light from Konoha had faded away into the darkness. Naruto started realizing what a bad idea it was to leave before daylight, he couldn't see an inch in front of him.
He knew he could use Kurama's help, but he would kill Naruto for waking him up for something so stupid. He decided there was no use fighting it, he jumped down to the ground beneath the trees. He set up a small fire and camp for the night, he would continue as soon as daylight hit.
Naruto paced between the fire and a tree that was nearby, he hated waiting, he wasn't made to be patient. His nerves where extremely agitated, his heart was reaching 1000 beats per minute and he was starting to feel woozy from all the hyperventilating he was doing.
"Hey Naruto, can you please calm down, I can't get much rest if you are acting all restless."
"Kurama?"
"Yes, who else would it be."
Naruto was glad to hear from his friend, since Naruto became so busy he never got any alone time to himself and thus never got to speak to Kurama anymore. Naruto sat down near the fire, rested his head on a large oak tree and let his eyes shut close.
*Inside Naruto*
"Hey! Kurama, how are you?"
"Naruto, just because I spoke to you once, doesn't mean I want to chat at 1 in the morning."
Naruto had kind of forgotten what time it was; his body had stopped being tired the minute he found out his Konoha team was in danger.
"Oh, sorry Kurama, I just thought we could talk, but I'll let you go back to sleep."
"Hm, well I'm awake now."
Kurama drowsily arose from his comfortable position, he stretched out his front legs and let out a deep yawn.
"This better be good Naruto."
"Well Kurama I'm a bit worried, I have been feeling strange of late." Silence filled the air, it seemed for a while that neither Naruto or Kurama were going to say anything.
