? Dark Dawn ?

Ep 12 - Choices

"How long were we there? I wasn't keeping track of the time." Naruto asked.

Itachi thought for a minute. " It felt like twenty minutes. It did feel shorter."

Naruto sighed. "Well, I better get going or else every shinobi in the Leaf Village is going to lose their butts. That won't be good." He spun around to face Itachi. "I'm going to go back to Kakashi. Bye!"

Naruto smiled at the two and walked at them, before taking off into the forest.

Itachi held a hand up. "Okay then. See you soon."

In the forest, Naruto ran fast through the forest. I have a new role in the Akatsuki now! Isn't that awesome, Kurama??

It is pretty amazing. You've come a long way since I first started speaking to you.

Naruto smiled. "Yeah!"

A short while later,

Hey, I sense someone not far from here. It's Kakashi-sensei.

Get ready .

Right.

Kakashi came into a small clearing and Naruto ran up to him. He pretended to be surprised.

"Kakashi-sensei?" Naruto asked. "What are you doing here so deep in the forest?"

"Naruto! I was looking all over for you! So this is where you've been?" Kakashi said.

Naruto stared at Kakashi. "Where'd the enemy go?"

He sighed. " He got away. It doesn't matter really. We should get out of this place before we proceed."

Naruto silently nodded and dashed towards the direction Kakashi came from.

"I do still have a concern." Kakashi told Naruto.

Naruto nodded, not saying anything.

"There is still the matter with the village that we thought we came to help. They said that they had imposters in the villagers. That is still a big problem. Why would there be people that wanted to pose as someone else in a small village like that?" Kakashi pointed out.

Naruto nodded absently to Kakashi. "Yeah, well, I don't think that the imposters will show up anymore."

Kakashi gave a strange look at Naruto. "Why do you think that is the case, Naruto?"

Naruto shrugged at Kakashi. "Its just a hunch. And I'm pretty sure that I'm right about this the enemy no longer has a reason to be here, since their goal has been accomplished." They were trying to lure us out. After all in the mission details, they requested out team specifically.

And I already know who the imposters were made by.

Zetsu?

Yeah. Naruto turned his attention to Kurama un his mindscape.

Kakashi started to question that Naruto's hunch, but then decided against it. I'll ask later or else I will never get any straight answer out of him. He thought.