Summary: Ex-sound shinobi invaded north of Fire country trying to find anything valuable. Sasuke searching group had their mission changed and now they are protecting Soraku city and nearby villages. So, lines of fate of people there become tangled and blond pair comes together...

Title: Two
Author: NHunter aka N.H. aka 夜狩猟家 aka 灰色天使
Genre: Romance, Adventure
Pairing: Naruto/Tamaki
Rating: M = NC-17
Warnings: AU, OOC, possible (very possible) lemons, spoilers
Disclaimer: i DO NOT own Naruto or its characters

"speaking"
'thinking'
"speaking of higher beings / Naruto while using Kyuubi's power / jutsus"
'thinking of higher beings / Kyuubi talking to Naruto through mental link'

AN: English isn't my native language, so, please, don't be too rough with me for my mistakes… and, OH YEAH, i did it! First Naruto/Tamaki story! it is mine! ^_^ OK, no more stupid talking...

Two
chapter 1: Mission changes

Naruto, Kiba with Akamaru, Shino, Sai, Sakura and Hinata under the command of Yamato and Kakashi were running through forest near the northern border of Fire country, trying to find any traces of Sasuke Uchiha, when Yamato spotted hawk with message scroll on its left paw.

"Kakashi-taicho, we've message from Hokage-sama." Silverhaired jounin stopped and called team to a halt. He took scroll for bird's paw and opened it. After minute or so of reading, Kakashi spoke.

"Naruto, Sakura, sorry, but our mission was changed." Before those two could shout anything, Copy-nin continued. "We will have to protect several villages not far from there from ninjas from Hidden Sound gone rogue." Ninjas nodded, though they weren't happy with their changed mission...

"Hai."

"Don't be sad, Sakura-chan, i'll definitely bring Sasuke back! That's my nindo after all!" Naruto tried to cheer up his teammate.

***

Eight ninjas stood on the bank of the river, between great field and even greater forest they just left.

"So we will split there in two groups." Kakashi started. "First one will have me, Sakura, Kiba and Sai. We will guard Denmura and Chison villages. Second group: Yamato-koohai, Naruto, Shino and Hinata will guard Yagaimura, Tanboson villages and Soraku town, though i'm not sure if anybody lives there." Told silverhaired jounin.

'I'm on the same team with Naruto...' Hinata blushed furiously and almost fainted from this thought.

"Hinata, are you OK?" Blond shinobi suddenly appeared in front of her. Young Hyuuga nodded and blushed even more. "Your face is red. Are you sure you're OK?"

"I-i'm OK, N-naruto-kun." Hinata spoke. Yamato coughed.

"Yes, Kakashi-sempai!" Immediately replied mokuton user. "OK, let's go. Sound ninjas won't wait for us to start attacking!"

"Hai!" Four ninjas started running towards Soraku town and two villages nearby. Other four shinobi waited several seconds before starting moving towards their destination.

***

Yamato's group almost reached Tanboson village when Naruto spotted group of seven rogue ninjas running in the direction of deserted-looking Soraku city several kilometers away from his current location.

'Shit. If there is anybody in that town, i need to protect them!' Not waiting for Yamato's order, blonde jumped into action and run towards Soraku, hopping to be first one there.

"Naruto, fall back!" Shouted jounin.

"Sorry, Yamato-san, but i need to save anyone in that town!" Naruto shouted back and increased his speed.

"Shit." Mokuton user sighed. "OK, Shino, go after Naruto. Me and Hinata will continue our way to Tanboson village." Shino nodded any started running after Naruto.

***

Platinum blond girl sixteen or so years old in dark blue, almost black sleeveless blouse, white shorts with very thin titanium chainmail pants under them and black shinobi sandals on her feet was walking through streets of Soraku town, collecting whatever pieces of metal she could, when seven ninjas popped seemingly out of nowhere.

"Hey, cutie, how 'bout give us everything valuable you have?" Asked one of them, showing kunai to now shaking girl.

"Oh, she doesn't have anything valuable we can take. But we always can play with her, right?" Another man approached defenseless girl. As suddenly as shinobi appeared, two cat-ninjas dropped in front of girl, ready to protect her. One of cats, white with crosslike tattoo on its head, summoned kodaichi sword and tried to attack shinobi who held kunai pointed towards girl's neck. Shinobi easily blocked cat's attack. He caught animal and threw it into the wall.

"Denka!" Girl screamed in fear for her cat-ninja's life.

"I'm... OK... Tama... ki-chan..." Cat said weakly, before collapsing on the ground and losing consciousness.

"One annoying animal down, one to go." Commented one of ninjas.

"Who did you just called annoying!!!" Second cat jumped straight to nearest man's face and ripped one of his eyes, before joining Denka in the wall. Unconscious too.

"Hina!" Girl, now know as Tamaki, screamed.

"Now that there is now one to protect you, cutie, let's play!" Forth ninja said.

"Hey, you, jerks, get away from her!" All seven ninjas and Tamaki turned to see orange wearing shinobi with Leaf hitae-ate on his head.

"Oh, another anoying brat." Rogue ninjas sighed. Naruto made cross with his hands.

"Shadow Clones!" Dozen of his clones popped into existence and immediately attacked enemies.

"Interesting..." Said one of rogue ninjas, reaching his weapon pouch for scroll. "Poisonous senbon barrage!" He opened scroll and several hundreds of poisoned needled were sent in Konoha nin and his clones, destroying them.

"Shit, that hurts!" Naruto was still standing. "Mass shadow clones!" This time more than hundred clones appeared and practically crashed seven opponents with their number. When clones finally disappeared, rogue ninjas were all beaten unconscious.

"Are you... OK?.." Naruto stepped towards the girl he just protected, but himself felt unconscious, as poison he got with those needles started working.

***

"Shino, where is Naruto?" Yamato asked.

"I lost him. He got himself into a fight. There was very strong smell of paralytic poison and my bugs couldn't find his scent." Bug user told.

"That's bad. We must find him. As it is already night, we'll tomorrow at the dawn." Jounin said.

"Hai" Two chuunins nodded and went to their sleeping bags.

'Please, be alright, Naruto-kun.'