Crafty Chameleon

Stripped Down

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Itachi cracked an eye open and smirked, (I am forever in your debt Naruto.)

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Naruto's eyes fluttered open, "Damn ... I feel like I was hit by a truck."

"That might have been more merciful." The blonde looked at his dark skinned lover who was snuggled against him with a scroll in his hand. "I'm mean really, love. Completing a 6 day mission and then rescuing a Daimyo all in only 4 days and then, this is my favorite part, you infiltrate the Akatsuki ... I don't have to tell you how screwed up that sounds, right?"

The ROOT agent chuckled, "Yeah, things got out of hand, but at least I got to see Itachi."

"Ah, the one and only anbu who cared for your safety when you were young. I want to meet him one day ... he was also your sensei too, right?" Dan asked.

"Yep, even though we were in separate branches of anbu he helped instruct me and after that ... experiment, was done on me he let me copy his sharingan as an apology for being on a mission when I was taken. He's a very good friend and practically a brother ... what's that?" The blonde asked when he spotted a file on his side table.

Dan smiled, "Well, after you told me about your family returning from the dead, so to speak, I did a little research. You won't believe what I found on Arashi." He set the scroll down and handed the ROOT agent the file.

"Really?! I wanted to find out what they were doing, but I buried myself in missions instead ..." Naruto opened the file and flipped through the pages. "Let's see ... they traveled to Paris and Italy before finally settling in New York ... are you serious?"

"It's no joke. love." Dan said as he leaned against the strong shoulder.

The blonde rolled his eyes and read from the file, " 'Arashi Namikaze, 25 years old, spent six year in Paris as a model' ... ouch, he favored style over finding me, but that explains why the others had to go meet with him before coming to Konoha."

"I don't get it. Even Arashi could've at least checked in on you, but no one was worried. If we were talking about you and Mina you'd be checking every few minutes. Why were they so content?" Dan pondered out loud.

"I'm positive it has to do with Jiraiya since he was the only link they had to Konoha. They probably assumed he was watching over me and would mention something if something bad happened ... I'll have to have a chat with him when he gets back." The blonde said with a slightly ominous tone in his voice.

"Assumptions, assumptions , assumptions ... no one should assume anything especially with kids in the picture ... I hope they don't have any more." Dan said with a grimace etched on the face.

"They won't" said Naruto

Dan raised an eyebrow at the certainty is his lover's voice, "but how do you know for sure- oh... oh you didn't. You performed a vasectomy on Minato!" He burst out laughing.

"Yes, yes I did and I'm happy about! ... it's not that funny." Naruto muttered as Dan started crying from laughing so hard.

After calming down the former assassin frowned, "That won't change what's been done already. I mean, look at Mina."

"Mina won't have to put up with this situation for long ... I won't allow it." Naruto said

"Speaking of Mina, if you're up for it we should spend the day with her and Natsu." The former assassin said happily.

"Yeah let's do that ... are you going to move so I can get up?" asked the ROOT agent.

"Do I have to?" Dan pouted and snuggled closer.