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Disclaimer: The following story is a fan fiction -- it is just for fun... Any characters you recognize belong to their respective creators. Any characters you do not recognize are figments of my own warped imagination, and bear no resemblance to any person, living or dead. If the story matches the timeline, characters, or continuity in any way, blame it on dumb luck; this is only a fan fiction. For the real thing and far better writing (and editing) go to the original authors:

I am doing this mainly for the fun of it, but any constructive criticism and advice is welcome (and I am fairly thick skinned). This is a creative exercise and a token of appreciation of the various story universes. Any violations of copyright, trademark or use of real people or incidents are only for purposes of humor or parody and solely for the free enjoyment of the reader. If you are paying to view this you have been robbed.

I am about to venture into the strange and deranged world of crossover fiction here is a starting point: Crossovers will be credited as they appear:

[Reff: Naruto (is an ongoing Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masashi Kishimoto with an anime adaptation. .org/wiki/Naruto ]

Yukio Yamamoto was a desperate man, desperate and scared. He had felt something in his orchard not of this world; it was making whole trees disappear. The young farmer began running for help. Help was not far away for The Village Hidden by the Leaves was a place with a history of adversity. Yukio had almost made it to the village when he noticed a young man in a green jumpsuit running effortless beside him.

“Nice day for a training run,” asked Rock Lee.

“Monster -- eating -- fruit tree -- must tell – Hokage,” panted Yukio.

“Never fear sir I will make sure you get there,” Lee reassured.

With Rock Lee’s encouragement Yukio made it to Lady Tsunade’s office. While the young orchard worker tried to catch his breath Rock Lee gave her the little information that Yukio had told him during their run through town.

“Lee, find Shikamaru and have him gather any Genin that are available and report back here,” ordered Tsunade.

Rock Lee responded with his usual enthusiasm and was gone with a thumbs up and a smile allowing the Hokage time to question the now recovering horticulturist.

Rock Lee soon found Shikamaru Nara lying under a tree discussing the configurations of the day’s clouds with Choji Akimichi. Shikamaru did not really appreciate the interruption, but quickly had Rock Lee tell him what he knew of the situation. He asked Rock Lee to round up the rest of his team and meet him back at the Hokage’s office. He told Choji to find Ino and meet him at the Hokage’s office. That done Shikamaru headed over to the Ichiraku Ramen shop.

Two gray eyes followed the actions of Naruto Uzumaki with silent admiration as he finished his fifth bowl of noodles. Hinata Hyuga was so interested in her luncheon companion that she had barely touched her own bowl. The combination of coy admirering glances and clueless noodle slurping was an odd and touching seen. Shikamaru almost regretted interrupting them.

“Naruto, Hinata Lady Tsunade has told me to gather any Genin that are available and report back to her office,” Shikamaru announced.

“Is there a new lead on Sasuke,” asked Naruto.

“I don’t know, Hinata get together the members of your team and meet us at Lady Tsunade’s office, Naruto come with me,” said Shikamaru. The too young Genin responded instantly Naruto draining the last of Hinata’s bowl as they left the restaurant.

Shikamaru headed back toward Lady Tsunade’s while Naruto bombarded him with unanswerable questions. His only answer was; “Lady Tsunade will brief us.” This had the unfortunate consequence of prompting Naruto to greater speeds. Shortly after Shikamaru and Naruto arrived they were joined by the three junior members of team Guy. Much to Naruto’s frustration they all waited until Shikamaru Nara, Ino Yamanaka and the Genin from team eight arrived. Before knocking on the door to Lady Tsunade’s office he told the group to hold all questions until the Hokage briefed them. A short time latter they entered the office to find Lady Tsunade, Sakura Haruno, the young farmer along with the Sand Village Siblings.

“As far as we can tell there is some sort of monster stealing plum trees out of our orchards. Young mister Yamamoto here did not stick around long enough to get more than a cursory look at the thing. He says it looks like a glowing gold whirlwind that leaves a trail of blackened earth in its wake. Your mission is to find out what it is, and if it is any threat to the village,” said the Lady Hokage.

“You mean this has nothing to do with Sasuke,” asked the disappointed Genin in the orange jump suite?

“With what little we know it could be anything, I need to know, and I need to know now, take Gaara, Kankuro, Temari and Sakura with you and find out,” ordered Tsunade.

“Let’s go,” stated Shikamaru. A short time later they were following the young farmer back to the seen of the crime. They easily followed Yukio’s pace while Shikamaru told the others his plan. By the time they neared the orchard they all knew their parts.

Neji, Hinata, and Kiba acted as advanced scouts. As they came in sight of the orchard it quickly became obvious they did not really require there special powers of observation to see that most of the orchard had been turned into a parking lot complete with cars. The slow moving golden vortex was now four times the size it had been when Yukio Yamamoto first ran for help. The three scouts fell back to the rest of the group.

“I have never seen anything like it; I do not believe it is a chakra jutsu,” reported Neji.

“It smells like a city street, I also smell cheery blossoms, it is the wrong time of year for cheery blossoms and this is supposed to be an orchard of plum trees,” stated a puzzled Kiba.

“I saw a butterfly come in and out of the light more than once,” added Hinata tentatively.

Shikamaru made a few notes and handed the paper to Yamamoto. “Take this to Lady Tsunade,” he ordered. As soon as the farmer was safely on his way, Shikamaru turned to Shino Aburame and asked; “Shino, Hinata saw a butterfly enter and leave that thing do you think your insects can get us more information?”

“We shall soon find out,” said the Aburame clan ninja as a small swarm of insects headed toward the strange disturbance.

They all waited patiently while Shino’s tiny warriors challenged the enigmatic column of light and air. Slowly a few of the minuscule explores returned bearing booty; part of a cherry blossom, a few grains of cooked rice, and a Denny’s receipt.

Shikamaru sent another note back with Rock Lee and they continued watching the disturbance grow, fortunately it lifted into the air for a good bit of time and was doing no apparent damage.

During the time Rock Lee was gone things were relatively uneventful. The golden vortex filtered about in the sky spitting out a small cloud and creating an occasional cool breeze. Lee arrived with another runner from the village bearing a letter from the Hokage. Lady Tsunade had ordered Shikamaru to cross what she believed to be some sort of gateway to see who or what may have caused it. It was while Shikamaru was reading the letter that the vortex dropped like a rock. It true size was now apparent as a small row of trees disappeared to be replaced by a large section of fence with a gate reading “Juuban High School”. Cries of alarm went up as the group realized that Sakura was hiding in one of those trees. He quickly silenced Naruto’s demands for a rescue mission as he began given tactical orders. Sending the runner back to the Hokage the group entered the vortex with a plan.

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