Hello everyone I'm back as promised I give you chapter 3 of Operative maelstrom I hope you all will like it. I will delete the authors note later but for now its one with the story.

Location the Dickson residence

*knock..knock*

"Ugh. What is it?" Naruto grumbled placing his pillow over his head.

*knock..knock..knock* "Naruto get up its the afternoon you need to get up, you have that evaluation assignment on sector V starting today remember? Get up already..or would you rather I get Rachel to drag you out." Chad threatened in a teasing manner.

At the mention of the girl's name shuffling of feet and the opening and closing of drawers could be heard. After a minute or two the door opens with a glaring and slightly tired Naruto on the other side.

"There i'm up happy?" An irritated Naruto asked. Chad brushed it off. "Much." He replied before working down the stairs to which Naruto followed shortly after.

Mega Mom/Mrs. Dickson looked away from the dishes she had been cleaning to see both her sons walk into the kitchen "Well sleepy head good to see you finally up." She greets her youngest. "And Chad dear thank you for waking up your brother. It maybe the weekend Naruto but it's still no excuse to stay in bed." She says before going back to washing the dishes.

"Your welcome/Yes mom." Replied the two.

*doorbell ring*

"Oh I wonder who that could be?" Mega Mom/Mrs. Dickson wondered before heading off to see who was at the door.

Naruto having decided to have lunch grabbed a pot filling it with water then setting the stove to boil then proceeded to grab a ramen cup from the cabinet. On his way back to the stove he froze in mid step when he heard his mother and another familiar however younger voice at the door.

"Oh Rachel dear how are you?" MM/Mrs. Dickson greeted the young girl who lived right next door to the Dickson family. "Hello Mrs. Dickson I'm doing alright. Is Naruto here?" Rachel asked.

"Why yes he is he just got out of bed he's in the kitchen right now. Please do come in dear would you like anything?"

"No thanks Mrs. Dickson I just had lunch thank you for the offer though." Rachel says as she walked in then headed for the kitchen.

Naruto looked alarmed looking around him he noticed that Chad had left him in the kitchen...alone. "Why?!" Naruto whined mentally. "Ahem!" Naruto looked to see Rachel staring at him with her arms crossed. "Why does she have to live next door?"

"H-hi Rachel how are you?" Naruto asked worriedly thinking she might still be a bit peeved at the incident that happened on her mission the other day. Rachel didn't respond immediately instead she stared at him a little longer then sighed.

"Naruto I'm not mad about what happened on my mission anymore I know you had no part in it." Naruto relaxed a bit at this. "But I am upset that you just up and avoided me all day." Rachel said sounding slightly hurt. This caused Naruto to feel bad for cowardly move.

"I'm sorry Rachel."

Rachel smiled "I'm sorry too Naruto I was just so upset yesterday and I shouldn't have turned it on you." She says before hugging him to which he returned "It's fine Rachel I understand." It was this moment that his mother walked in and saw the two in an embrace.

"Oh how adorable! You two look so cute together!" She says happily. Naruto and Rachel quickly separated and put some space between them. "Mom/Mrs. Dickson its not what it looks like!" The two cried simultaneously. Mrs. Dickson giggled "Oh you two would make such a cute couple." She says before going back to the dishes ignoring the extremely blushing younger blondes and while thinking of sharing this tid bit of gossip for a later date.

"Mothers." Naruto grumbled stepping outside with Rachel in tow both still sporting a pink hue on their cheeks. They took a moment to compose themselves.

"So Naruto i'm taking a break from missions today. Do you want to come with me and go to the cinema? They have some new movies we haven't seen before." Rachel asked in an attempt to divert their thoughts from the recent teasing they received by Naruto's mother.

"Sorry Rachel, I wish I could but chad had ordered me to take on this mission to evaluate the status and..." Naruto took pause as he noticed Rachel had her arms crossed and was staring him down tapping her foot as she did. "...um you know what. Why not? Chad said I had to start today but he never said at what time so lets go."

Rachel smiled once again for reasons she couldn't understand, having the kind of affect she had on Naruto always gave her a feeling of pride.

The Cinema

After arriving at the cinema Naruto and Rachel ran in rushing towards the nearest line for food and drink. Naruto wanting to pass the time chose to ask Rachel a question "So what movie are we watching?"

"Peter Pan, my mom told me about it, said that it would be something that we'd might like its about some families children getting a visit from a boy named Peter Pan who takes them to some place where an ongoing war with an evil pirate captain is going on."

"Sounds interesting." Naruto commented. "Yeah I thought so too." Rachel replied. Time passed quickly and soon enough the blonde duo reached the counter and got what they wanted.

"Okay popcorn?"

"Check."

"Candy?"

"Check."

"Soda?"

"Check."

"Tickets?"

"Um...I don't have them." Naruto said after checking his pockets. Rachel whirled around "Naruto you need to go and get those tickets quickly the movie is scheduled to start in five minutes." Naruto nod his head giving her the popcorn and candy before running to the ticket booth. "Excuse me two tickets for the Peter Pan movie please." Naruto asked handing the money to the man in the booth.

The man took the money. "Here ya go sport." He said kindly as he gave Naruto the tickets. "Thank you." Naruto said and as he was making his way back in to the theater he heard a gruff older male voice from behind him "One for Violence the movie.". Curious Naruto looked over his shoulder and saw Mr. Boss who despite wearing a disguise was still recognizable due to his large shape, hunched back and cigar. "Mr. Boss a level 2 class villain due to his tactics and ability to hire other villains being second only to Father. If he's here it can only mean trouble." Naruto felt torn on one hand he wanted to watch a movie with Rachel his best friend since pre-school but on the other hand his mind kept nagging at him to find out what kind of trouble a villain that every higher up was made aware of was up to.

Naruto's internal debate came to a halt when he spotted another familiar face. This one unlike the last was a kid next door operative to be more specific number 4 of sector V dressed as an admiral? "What is that fool doing?" Naruto thought as he watched number 4 walk up to the booth and make the same request movie that the disguised Mr. Boss had made just moments ago. "Does he honestly believe that his disguise will work. Not even a complete and total Moron would.." "Here ya go admiral."

"No way.. Naruto was in disbelief. there's no way..d-did they?..Did they really just bought that cruddy disguise!?" Naruto thought as he stood there frozen in total shock before snapping out of it to see the disguised number 4 walk in to the cinema. Naruto rushed in and looked around and spotted number 4 walking towards the movie arena where he also spotted the disguised enter just as he caught sight of him. "He's going in! If the ticket taker is as gullible as the ticket booth guy then he's going to fall for the disguise as well! Numbuh 4 is no spy so if anything of importance goes on inside then there won't be any record of it, unless.." Looking towards the food counter he spotted the straw dispenser.

Moving swiftly through the people Naruto ran to the dispenser and grabbed a straw and pulled out a S.L.I.D(1) and put it in the straw and took aim for number 4's head. Naruto took in as much air as he could and blew sending the S.L.I.D hurtling fast and making contact with number 4's skull. "Ouch!"

Naruto smirked in success, the S.L.I.D was now in place and number 4 had no idea that he was now bugged only rubbing at where S.L.I.D had landed but since S.l.I.D was an elite anbu spy top piece of equipment capable of moving and dodging around obstacles and capable of avoiding detection plus its small size chances were no one would find it on number 4 until it flew off him.

"Well now that's taken care of it's time to head back to watching a movie" and with that Naruto headed back to the line. Once there he started looking around the waiting line to find Rachel starting from where she was last before he left to all the way in front people of all shapes and sizes adults and kids made up this line making it harder to spot her in the crowd. After searching thoroughly through the middle of the line he moved his search up the front end.

"Rachel. Rachel where are you?" Naruto called out looking through the front of the line Rachel was . "Naruto? Naruto over here!" Naruto turned looking to his right There standing in line just a few feet from the door was Rachel. "Naruto do you have tickets?" She asked, Naruto responded simply by showing the tickets in his hands as he walked towards her. "Yea Rachel I got'em." Naruto said as he got behind Rachel then taking a soda and the popcorn lessening her burden of carrying the load of snacks.

"Well that was interesting." Naruto said Rachel only nodded not knowing what to say the movie they felt had been like a personal message to them. In the movie where pan and the lost boys would fight against the pirates was similar to how they and the kids next door would fight against the evil adults then came the romance scenes both felt rather uncomfortable but when one wasn't looking the other would glance at the other for a moment before quickly looking back towards the screen. Then the subject of growing up came into play and both felt uneasy and we're glad when it was over.

"So..." Naruto began uneasily, thoughts about the movie still on his mind."I got to go and start my assignment on sector V. I'll see ya later Rachel." he said before giving a smile and waving goodbye. Rachel smiled and waved back "Yeah see ya later Naruto."

The trip to Sector V for Naruto was a short one thanks to the jet pack he had picked up from home. While on his way he decided to listen to the recording of what had transpired in the movie arena that number 4 went into. Suffice to say Naruto found it interesting that some adult movies where being used as secret meeting places for villains.

"Maybe I should send in some teen anbu agents to take job positions at local cinemas. Doing this would give us a chance at gaining intel and possibly a knd discount for movies." Naruto continued to mull over on these thoughts until he heard an explosion. Taking pause Naruto look toward where the explosion came from and spotted sector V's tree house.

"Whats going on?" Naruto and at the same time caught whiff of a familiar smell. "Is that..nacho cheese?

Sector V tree house (after explosion)

"Numbuh 3!" Number 2 cried out for sector v's second fallen teammate. "We can't stop now come on." Number 5 said hurriedly as she continued her way up to the stairway followed by number 1 and 2.

On their way up number 2 tripped falling on one knee with a "ugh" catching both number 1 and 5's attention. "Numbuh 2 are you alright?" Number 1 asked with concern. "Yeah i'm alr-aah!" Number 2 was about to say before getting pulled down by a swarm of baby lice.

"Numbuh 2!" 1/5 shouted in worry for their friend.

"Save yourselves!" He shouted back as he was attacked. "Oh my hair of full malt!"

Number 5 was the first to snap out of shock. "Lets go theirs nothing we can do for him."

Aaaah! Hey no that tickles! Aah!

(Slam)

Number 1 and 5 sloped down against the door breathing heavily from exhaustion. Number 5 was the first to recover. "Wooah, the cheese room. I never been up here 's so..cheesey." she said as she looked at the gigantic pot of cheese pouring down into a pool sized tank. Coming up behind her Number 1 started listing the infected parts of the tree house. "10 through 40 sub section d through m. At this rate they'll have the entire tree house infected in a matter of hours. We've only got one chance left."He said solemnly. "First l'll raise the pressure building in the main tank so we'll have enough cheese to fill every nook and cranny in the tree house. Then all we'll have to do his hit the purge button." He pauses his relay of his plan and points to a red. "and we cheese the place, so lets do this." He says before making a run towards the red button.

(Naruto a few minutes before)

Naruto had landed on the bridge where the cheese explosion had just occurred and is shocked at the sight that greets him. A yard or two away was a pile of white monster lice all of them shoving one another to get at one of the two girls at sector V's head so as to munch on her hair. The girl operative seemed to still be conscious if the screams of 'Ew!' and 'get away!' were any indication.

"What in the name of Babe Ruth?" Naruto said quietly without thinking as he stared at the scene before him. One louse however heard him and turned its head towards him the louse only took a moment to look at his head before it charged at him.

Naruto's shock ended at the sight of a louse about twice his size running at him brought him back to reality. Naruto however was too slow to react in time before the louse headbutted him in the stomach causing him to fall on his back and gasping for air. The louse was quick to seize the opportunity and jumped on Naruto as he tried to stand up.

"Uggh!" Naruto exclaimed as the large louse landed on him. Naruto notice the louse moving for his hair knowing whats its intention was moved one arm to try and push it off his person while using the other to keep its mouth away from his head while the louse pushed forward. The struggle went on neither Naruto nor the louse was giving but Naruto knew he had to stop the creature soon before his arms gave out so looking around Naruto tried to find anything that he could use. unfortunately there was nothing on the bridge but the cheese puddles around him and.."Wait! Cheese puddles? That explosion..the cheese and the lice..I see"

A plan began to take shape. Naruto took a gamble by removing his hand from the louse's mouth a risky but necessary move and reached his palm over the cheese while still trying to push his the louse a way.

Naruto stretched his arm as far as he could and tried to shift closer trying desperately to reach the cheese it was a slow progress but he was close but his arm that kept the louse away also began to weaken and the louse moved closer with each movement. "almost there" He thought his hand was a mere centimeters away from the puddle now.

"Argh!" Naruto felt a tug on his hair. Taking a glance up he saw the louse had now gotten close enough to bite the tips of his golden locks. Naruto cocked his arm back and threw a punch at its head nailing it on the nose causing it to let go and screeched loudly in pain.

Naruto made a move for the cheese and scooped some onto his hand and slammed it on it's head causing it to screech and fall back. Naruto watched with intrigue as the louse started to slowly melt into a puddle of cheese. "So they're weak against cheese huh." Naruto looked up when he heard a louse screech from the other end of the bridge. The lice were either falling off the bridge or touching the surrounding puddles.

Naruto moved his non cheese covered hand to touch his hair where the louse from before had started munching on him and frowned feeling a good bit of hair missing. Naruto's face shadowed his bangs covered his eyes. "You over grown insects just made a grave mistake." He said darkly as he bent down to another cheese puddle and dipped both his hands before turning back towards the advancing lice raising up his now cheese covered fist and smiled. The lice stopped momentarily for the smile on Naruto's face was one that promised nothing but pain for them.

(With number 1 and 5 present time)

Number 5 managed to out run the giant louse however the same could not be said for her sector leader. Number 1 struggled trying to wiggle out of the louse grasp. The alpha louse roared bring number 1 towards its maw but stopped and looked at the top of number 1's bald head before tossing the sector leader away in disgust.

"Numbah 1!" number 5 cried.

"Woaagh!" Number 5 watched as her team leader went flying and crashed into a pile of boxes with an "Umph." Number 5 concern for her friend's wellbeing was quickly forgotten as the massive louse loomed over her guffawing in maniacal glee.

Number 5 schooled her fears taking in the problem that now laid before her a sense of familiarity of todays earlier events came back to her and idea came to mind. Number 5 pointed the nozzle of her cheese dispensing weapon to the floor and blasted herself into the air and flipping over the louse before landing on her feet and made a break for the purge button. Number 5 neared her target and as she was about to push the button a sudden yank on her hair as the giant louse began to chew and tug on her hair pulled her back slightly making wail at the sudden pain flooding her system. Looking back to see the louse behind her number 5 steeled herself ignoring the pain for favor to reach her primary objective slowly she reached for the button that would unleash a cheesy end to the lice. Choosing to ignore the pain as the louse kept try to pull her back her finger slowly moved closer before making contact.

"Wait!"

"Huh/Grunt?" Number 5 and the louse turned their attention to see number 2 running in majority of hair gone and a new born louse clinging on his back.

"You got to say something cool first like, "Say cheese bub" or "Cheese to meet you" Number 2 continued furtherwhile being ignore by his teammate and their current foe. Number 5 and the louse looked to each other and came to a mutual agreement the louse let its grip slack enough for number 5 to push the button. "No wait I got it cheese-"

BOOM!

(Naruto minute before explosion)

Exhausted and breathing deeply Naruto looked around checking for any remaining lice. Finding none his breathing finally settled to a calm. "Finally" Naruto thought before examining his jet pack seeing that it was damaged. "Must've happen when that thing jumped me" He soon concluded after some thought than discarded the ruined equipment choosing to instead check on the girl on the bridge and moving her inside the tree house first so that she would be out of harms before continueing onward into the other section of the tree house where the rest of her team should be.

As he walked down the hall Naruto took in his surroundings making sure no lice where around and keeping an eye out for any more members of sector V.

"GRRAAA!"

Naruto stumbled as a screeching roar echoed through out the hall. "That can't be good I got to hurry" regaining his balance Naruto ran quickly up the stairs while avoiding the puddles of cheese that were scattered all over.

Finally reaching the end of the stairway Naruto ran toward the open door and what he saw was a giant purple louse with yellow spots and three members of sector V the first was a female operative whos hair was currently in the giants mouth. The second operative stood to the side making lousy puns and the third laid unconscious by some boxes.

"Wha.."

BOOM!

Well thats the end everyone sorry it took so long forgot to save it the day before and was to buy to write yesterday but there you have it. leave any questions or suggestions in your reviews. Sorry no omakes for this chapter.

(1) Secret listening insect device

Louse for those who don't know is singular for lice.