The Magician

OMAKE

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"So you are saying it disappeared?" The older woman looked at Naruto skeptically from behind her desk, hands already digging through her drawers in search of the alcoholic beverage that she always kept handy.

"I walked along those waters, and there was nothing, not even the signs of whirlpools around the damn place."

"How can an island, a whole country disappear?" Naruto grew annoyed as Tsunade was clearly dismissing the urgency of the whole situation, the older Hokage poured herself a glass of sake, sipping it leisurely like there wasn't a crisis around.

"I don't know? How is it possible to seal giant demonic foxes into babies?" Naruto deserved that snow globe ─ she shouldn't have given her that ─ thrown at her.

"There hasn't been any report of a missing island anywhere, you are the first one to have mentioned it ─"

"All I know is that there was an island there when I visited it years ago with Jiraiya, sure I didn't step foot on the place, but I saw it in the distance. Now it's not there." Naruto didn't like that Tsunade continued to look at her with a bit of doubt, but Naruto knew she was getting through to her, and why would she lie about this anyway? "Jiraiya said that there might have been treasures there ─ not in gold and jewels, but he suspected there were fuinjutsu secrets hidden there."

"And now with the island disappearing─"

"Someone might have already gotten their hands on it." Naruto worried her lip, which triggered Tsunade to follow her lead, but the woman quickly opted to pour herself more of the sake and drinking that.

"We are in a time of peace, we had just finished a war, who would want to do this? Everyone has their forces depleted, to attempt this... well who would be able to attempt this and what's the end goal?" Tsunade drew her hands together, her eyes far away as she rested her chin on her clasped hands.

Naruto fisted her hands at her sides ─ the image blue grey eyes that turned a dark stormy hue as the night wore on, wide lips that were quick to smile and so very good at kissing her, and hands that were rough against her own skin...

No one could do what I do.

Magic.

Genjutsu specialist?

There was more to it than that. There was a puppy that was waiting outside for her, sleeping while its leash was secured to a chair. Something he created. A new bloodline?

"I think I know who did it." Naruto growled out, she couldn't believe she let him touch her. He seemed like a nice guy harmless, he didn't even have that much chakra through his body, and even with a lean body, he wasn't coiled like a ninja, they were more like muscles from an active civilian.

Tsunade raised a brow at her, blue eyes narrowed. "You think?"

"There was a magician..." Tsunade snorted and rolled her eyes, okay she probably shouldn't have started off saying he was a magician.

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"I'm not too sure about this..." Naruto looked at the cute pup that continued to be unaware of the danger that surrounded it, it just trotted along the cold metal surface of the table, sniffing about before laying down and trying to take a nap. "He doesn't look dangerous..."

"But it was created by a possible suspect to the disappearance of Uzushiogakure?" The scarred man beside her spoke with a sharpness that Naruto wondered how it didn't cause the sleeping puppy to wake in fright. It should be frightened. There was a mad man trying to dissect it in a few moments.

"Well yeah... but it doesn't feel ominous." She had consulted with the fox earlier, while the puppy was in her arms, and he confirmed that there was nothing malicious at all from the puppy ─ but there was also the fact that he didn't feel anything from the animal at all.

"We would still have to do this. You sure you want to stay in here?" Ibiki tightened his gloves around his hands.

She wasn't really. But she reminded herself that this was not a real puppy, it is just pieces of napkin that the man had fashioned into a puppy before bringing it to actual moving living puppy but still fake. It's fake and it could be evil. "Yes."

"You didn't name it did you."

Tiny Ein. She named it Ein and it was a fake puppy. "No."

It was done quite swiftly. Naruto didn't even know it was coming at that moment ─ she knew it was going to happen, but she didn't think that it would happen that immediately. But she guessed it was better this way, like a bandaid.

The kunai had cleanly cut through the puppy.

Naruto felt that her voice was stuck in her throat, her fake puppy was just killed in front of her.

The puppy continued to bark. No decapitation, no guts anywhere, no blood, just a happy puppy that had woken up because of the activity in the room.

"I'll try a different tactic─"

"No!"

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A portion of the story that I had cut out, decided to use it as an omake, because it wasn't really necessary to the plot but just a fun little snippet for everyone.