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Kurenai silently cursed the Fourth for who he sent as back up. She admitted that the team was strong but all of their attitudes were wrong in her opinion. Kakashi and his two student of Team 7 were people she did not like. First was the leader himself, his carefree attitude and aloof demeanor grated her nerves, which she suspected got the one-eyed mask man off. That and his chosen literature caused to have a scowl on her face as they approached. His first student, a pale young man slightly older then her students was known as Haku Momochi, adopted son of the famed Demon of the Mist. She was told that the young boy had taken his father's death hard and become cold to everyone, but that didn't excuse him of treating others like trash in her opinion. The second student she couldn't help but sigh at and feel for. Hinata Hyuga had originally been a timid shy girl that she tried to nurture while she was a Chunin. The problem came about because she had no friends or even someone she admired while attending the academy. When she finally snapped she did so hard. Kurenai had heard that during a spar with her little sister, whom she normally lost to, her father finally said something that caused Hinata to lash out, only not to her father. Hinata had ended up putting her sister's life on the line and ending the possibility of her being a shinobi. Hinata herself had gotten cold and didn't even look at her family as family anymore. She was still the heiress only because there was no one else and the Hyuga's couldn't deny her strength.

"Hello Kurenai, so I hear you needed some help on you mission," Kakashi called out his greeting to her as they approached.

"The Hokage wanted us to be careful and not take unnecessary risks. If you will follow me I will show you the reason for our call," she replied before leaving the road they were on and heading into the woods. She got a little glee from the fact that Kakashi looked surprised for an instant before turning serious and trying to assess what had happened. Kurenai told him all the finding and some of her thoughts on the subject.

"You believe there was one person who took them out, Kurenai-san?" asked Haku.

"Yes." She replied inquisitively.

"I believe there were two," Haku replied. He pointed to several different bodies while stating "These bodies seemed to have been cut by two, equal length, equally spaced blades, like a gauntlet blades. The others seem to have been killed by either one bladed weapon or a mixture of both. The reason I say that it has to be two people and not one with a gauntlet on one hand and a knife in the other because of this corpse over here. This person was cut twice with the gauntlet going two different directions, both kill shots. There would be no reason to unless the arms were crisscrossing."

Everybody nodded at his reasoning and began to ponder the implications of his assessment.

"So do you believe the female was a captured person or one of the assailants?" asked Sakura.

"I would go with assailant but I am truly unsure," responded the boy.

"Ok, because of the discovered fluid we have a scent, but no trail from which to start. We will split up with some of my nin hounds and search for a trail. If one is found we will mark it and then return here in three hours time," concluded Kakashi.

"Should we not stick together encase we run into whoever did this?" asked Shino.

"We will cover more ground this way and I am putting a flee on sight order for the persons we are searching for. Now here are your search zones…" Kakashi told them.

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Naruto was worried. His mate was acting weird. Laura had lost her temper too fast and attacked those men. Admittedly he was going to hurt them for what they said to her, but she was normally calmer than that. Then there was what happened after the battle, he had admitted to himself that he thought she was hot as she fought but he had not been expecting to get jumped by his horny mate while still covered in blood. She also had been acting sick, which neither had ever been. He had his suspicion but also wanted to make sure he was right, plus who knew what different diseases this place could have, her slightly weaker healing rate could be trying to fight something off that his had taken care of already.

As he was searching the forest for some food, since it seemed that the people they killed had very little of it on them but plenty of some strange scrolls. He was also wondering about some of those attacks they did with the same energy he had. It was during these musing that he heard a yelp from one of the traps he had set out.

He approached to spot a pink haired girl kneeling over a hurt dog. The strangest thing was that the dog was talking and the girl had a hand that glowed green. When she put her hand on the wound the dog had the wound closed up at a fairly rapid pace, not as fast as his normal healing rate but impressive none the less. He smirked at the thought of finding a doctor to check on Laura.

He jumped down and knocked her over the head. He then picked her up and began to carry her off. The still slightly injured dog tried to stop him but he got around him fast and proceeded at top speed to his camp.

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The teams had reassembled and Kurenai was worried. Sakura and her dog had not shown up yet. Kakashi took it as a sign that she found something and had the group proceed towards her search area. When Kakashi's hound wondered in with a slight limp and told them of its encounter with their target, if his scent was correct, her fears had come true.

As they followed the trail that the kidnapper left they could hear an argument and two voices carrying on in an odd language. As the peered into the little camp they saw a boy no older then her students arguing with a girl his age. By their body language it was obviously over Sakura who had been laid next the bed roll the two teens were sitting on together. She was shocked that as soon as the wind shifted both teens stiffened. Both turned to were her group was and called out in whatever language they were talking in from before.

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"Come on out," yelled Laura in English.

"I told you, I think they speak Japanese," Naruto said in the same language.

"Come on out you six and the dog too," she said in the Japanese.

"I see that you can be talked to. May I ask what you are doing here and why you have her," Kakashi spoke while pointing at Sakura.

"That is none of your concern. If you value your lives you will leave," Laura replied without hesitation to which the shinobi tensed.

"Stop it now. You have been angry for a while now, you have also been acting sick so will you stop and just calm down for a moment," Naruto told her. He then turned to them and smiled "I am sorry, she has been acting very angry lately and I think she is sick. I saw this girl healing a dog and assumed she could at least check to see if there is anything she could do. I am sorry to have done it the way I did but I had no guarantee she would come otherwise."

The shinobi relaxed a little but were still wary of the two before them.

"And what are you doing here?" Kakashi asked again.

"Living," replied Naruto since Laura seemed to still be mad and was silently fuming. It didn't help that she was sending back mental images of what she was going to do to him.

"Why not go into town or have you been robbing them?" asked Kurenai.

"Well, you see…we have no money and only recently arrived here. We also don't know our way around. We were hoping our friends would show up looking for us, but we believe that won't happen after yesterday," Naruto said while trying not to flinch at Laura's attempts at psychological warfare.

Kakashi was silent for a moment but was also studying the teens before him; mainly the boy. His face seemed similar to the Hokage's, as did the eye color, although the slits were not common. His build was a little on the tall side and muscular but decided to leave his opinions on his fighting style until later.

"We will have to take you with us since you have been stealing. Oh, did you happen to see what caused the state of the clearing a few miles that way?" Kakashi asked in an innocent voice.

To Kakashi's slight amazement the boy and girl didn't flinch. Kakashi was more amazed when they told the truth.

"That was us. Laura went off on them when they made some comments about her and what they wanted to do. I backed her up," stated Naruto.

"So her name is Laura?" Kakashi asked.

"Yes, she is Laura Kinney and I am Naruto Kinney."

"Hmmm, well we will get going as soon as Sakura wakes up and checks out Laura," Kakashi concluded before he and Kurenai walked away to talk a little bit.

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"So, why take them with us?" asked Kurenai.

"Did you not feel the power they were putting off? They have huge chakra reserves. The fact that they do not seem to have village affiliation and took out an Oto group for us is a plus," Kakashi said.

"Kakashi, the Chunin might not have caught it but I saw you flinch at his name. The question is why?"

Kakashi reached into his vest and pulled out a small scroll. Upon opening the scroll a book popped out.

"This is the first book Jiraiya wrote. It was also the only one that has not been smut in many people's opinions. My sensei, the Fourth, loves this book. He was going to name his child after the lead role, but you know what happened and you also know that he has never been the same since that day," Kakashi said as he handed the book over to Kurenai who took the book and opened it.

"Naruto, the main character is called Naruto," she whispered to herself.

"And so you see why we must at least take him back for some questions. You can see the similarities in his facial structure and eye color. His hair is the same color besides the red streaks. If it turns out that this is the Fourths son, it would be good, not just for the village but also for the Hokage, it would give him some closure," Kakashi said.

Kurenai nodded to this all before speaking, "We would have to be sure and even then be wary. There could be trouble following them or they could be meant to cause trouble."

Kakashi nodded before headed back to where a now conscious Sakura was running a diagnostic jutsu over the prone form of Laura. When done Sakura blinked before blushing a bit.

"Umm, Laura, how do I say this? You're pregnant," Sakura said. She expected many things but Laura jumping up and running to a nearby Naruto and hugging him was not one. Naruto himself seemed ecstatic and nearly dancing with Laura in his arms.

Naruto suddenly seemed to stop and set Laura gently down and start to fuss over her. Laura herself seemed content just to lay back on her bedroll smiling while rubbing her stomach.

"Ok everybody. We will camp tonight and tomorrow we will head back to Konoha," Kakashi called.

Everybody else was slightly embarrassed as Naruto helped Laura strip before stripping down too. When he then crawled next to her and snuggled into her form the others realized that there wasn't a second bedroll and that these two truly had no shame when it came to their bodies, not that they should seeing as they both looked remarkable.

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AN: I am giving you this second update as a gift for being late in the updates.