Why The Mask

Chapter 3

A/N  By the way during the kyuubi attack Mikoto Uchiha (sasuke's mother) died in this story. Also both Ino's and Sakura's mother were in the group of villager's in the Hokage's office in the last chapter.

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Third POV (while the villager's are speaking to the Hokage)

"So what do we do now?" Asked one of the male shinobi from the group that were chasing Naruto.

"We follow the brat, that's what we do!" Yelled out a different one.

"But what's the point in following him if he's just gonna get eaten alive in there? It isn't called the forest of death for nothing."

"Yes but I don't wanna take any chances of him surviving, even if those chances are slim." The Uchiha from before said angrily. He seemed to be the one in the lead of the group the one to bark orders and the others would follow. But he wasn't the type of man with bark and no bite. No, he was the type of man to bark and if not listened to he would bite. Hard. And so when he turned around and started to run after the blonde and into the forest of death, so did the others.

After about half an hour of following the 'demons' -as they would call him- blood trail that he had left behind without knowing, they finally reached a small clearing with a stream of water going through it.

Putting his hand up in a stop signal for the shinobi that were following behind him, the Uchiha watched as the blonde boy splashed water onto his face cleaning off most of the dried blood and dirt from earlier. He watched as the boy let his gaurd down completely, resting his back against a rock as he did so.

The boys breathing had started to even out as he was drifting off into dreamland, the Uchiha pointed his finger forward as a signal to move on forward, and so they did.

Huh, the demon must have been fairly confident that we wouldn't follow him in here, the man thought as he moved forward snapping a stick with his foot on his way. It really isn't his lucky day is it?

Chuckling under his breath the Uchiha pulled out a kunai from his weapons pouch, holding it in his closed fist.

Turning his head slightly to look at the shinobi behind him he motioned towards the sleeping child with his empty hand, "hold him down."

With that four shinobi walked forward and pulled the sleeping boy away from the rock he had just been asleep on, startling him awake as they did so.

Not knowing what was going on, his brain not quite up to speed yet, Naruto didn't have time to react until it was already to late, and they had him pinned on the grass covered ground by the stream.

Now not being able to move due to the four shinobi holding him down by his shoulders and legs he started to freak out, but once again only on the inside, still not wanting to show them any type of emotions.

That was until he saw the same man from before, the one who had thrown the kunai at him, holding yet another kunai in his clenched fist at his side.

"Hold him up." The man said in a commanding tone towards the two men that were holding the boys shoulders down. He chuckled as he watched the boys eyes widen in fright as the two men sat the boy up grabbing an arm each and twisting them behind his back as they both grabbed a fist full his hair tilting his head back making him look the Uchiha in the eyes.