NARUTO:The sealed shinobi.-Chapter 175: CH

There was nothing but Naruto's handwritten notes taken from his own point of view and that of Hamako's for Deidara, as Iwa wasn't exactly very forthcoming with that information.

So one was down, there were five more that he knew of... and there were three more that he didn't. In addition to that they only had at the most a little over half a year to find Sasuke Uchiha before Orochimaru turned him into his own personal Uchiha body skin and then came back to Konoha to raze the place to the ground which would give them nine months to a year from now, accounting for Orochimaru's time needed to adjust to the new body and mobilize for another offensive. Why was he the only person that seemed to take this little aspect into account?

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They had work to do. (Omake – Lost Missions 1)

Naruto had been with Team Gai plus Shikamaru on a B-ranked border patrol assignment for the last week by now. Border patrols weren't really B-rank material, they were more along the lines of glorified C -ranks, but since they vaguely had something to do with national security or whatever they were given one step up above being that lowly ranked. There were minute chances of some action going down; a few smugglers here and there, a bandit party trying to hop borders and try their luck in a new country, hell if you were there at the right/wrong time you might even get something of a skirmish against foreign ninja, though that hadn't really happened on a significant scale in over ten years. For the most part it was just a rare question to a travelling civilian or merchant group here, some suspicion and even rarer checking of possessions there, and a whole lot of walkabout.

And here is where we found our blonde hero on this particular day of his routine countryside perambulation, made all the more simpler with his ungodly amount of Kage Bunshin littered about the borders, thus depositing him and his partner for the day in boredom, a state of being that his partner was doing his best to fight off.

"Naruto-kun! I spy something with my little eye, something that is green!" Lee shouted, far too enthusiastically for a person his age to be over a game of I Spy.

Naruto sighed, he really wished he had drawn Shikamaru as his partner for the day. At least if it were Shikamaru the lazy bastard would have been okay with him littering the woods with clones, leaving the others to guard the main roads, and simply sitting still and relaxing or something. Maybe Neji, at least he wouldn't be yelling at the top of his lungs every seven seconds. Hmm, maybe Tenten, at least it would definitely improve the scenery, "Gee I don't know Lee. The last time you said green you meant your spandex suit so I'm going to go ahead and guess the fucking leaves on the trees because that's about the only damn thing we have out here to look at!"

Lee paused for a moment before whipping out a small notebook, "Well done Naruto-kun! Once again you keep yourself firmly ahead of me in our rivalry. This one puts you the lead now with 28 wins to my 6. But I will catch up to you soon! If I cannot I will do 100 squats while drinking a gallon of water, and if I cannot do that I will-."

"Okay Lee I have a new contest for us to do!" Naruto hurriedly shouted before he could get off on a tangent. Noticing he had Lee's full attention he pressed his advantage, "It's called 'background noise'. All you have to do is be quiet longer than the other person is. The first person to talk is the loser, you up for it?"

Lee's eyes filled with the fires of youth, "Oh you have selected an incredible task for our latest challenge! If I cannot outlast you in a contest of silence I will-!" Naruto cut him off, "Okay Lee let's practice! Starting now!" Both teens became tight-lipped and continued their trek along the area.

After about thirty seconds, Lee let out his emotion, "I can simply feel the leaps and bounds I will grow as a shinobi by taking part in this! I will master this-!"

"Okay Lee we're starting for real this time okay!" Naruto yelled, 'Kami, he won't even shut up to win a goddamn challenge!' The bowl-cut chunin gave him a firm nod in the positive, "Okay Lee on the count of three. One. Two. Three, and shut the hell up!" Knowing that this time was for real, Lee quickly reeled himself in and buttoned his yap, this time for longer than thirty seconds.

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"Ahh! I cannot go any longer Naruto-kun! You are the victor!" Lee let out in a loud exasperated manner, "It is simply too great of a challenge for me, but I will best you in a similar competition later or I will do 250 ax kicks, and if I cannot do that I will-!"

Naruto palmed his face as he continued patrolling next to his exuberant partner, "Well at least I got him to be quiet for 45 seconds..." Naruto then perked up, "Okay, next time I'll get him to shut up for an entire minute, and from there a minute and thirty seconds, and then I'll get him to shut up for-!"

Needless to say the insane sounds of the two yelling kept away anyone thinking of heading their way anytime soon.

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