See Me

A/N: I am sorry for the long wait and the short update. *sighs* I could tell you everything that happened but I will spare you all. (See I can be nice!) As all a special thanks to the wonderfully insane Cutsycat for agreeing to beta this. *Please note* I ABSOLUTELY hate how this chapter turned out, so if you hate it too no hard feelings... OK enough chatter on with the story!

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When an explosive tag went off near them, the team lost their nerve and decided to run the remaining distance. Breathing a collective sigh of relief, they reached their destination. Neji raised his hand and knocked on the door in front of them. Hearing permission for them to enter, they all took a deep breath and opened the doors.

Standing beside Tsunade was Sakura, surely this meant trouble for the team entering. Two of the strongest female shinobi in Konoha, hell that they knew, were about to get a shock. Gulping the team walked in, trying to hide the blond from their view.

Sakura was the first to notice Naruto in chains. Her eyes widened at the sight before she narrowed them and shot her husband a look that should have warned everyone of the things to come.

“Just what the hell have you done?” she shrieked, while striding over and grabbing her husband by his ear. “Do you realize who it is that you have in chains?”

“Calm down Sakura-koi,” Lee pleaded. “Really just let us explain!”

Tsunade was seething at the sight of her gaki in chains. Not bothering to keep the anger out of her voice she asked in her most menacing tone, “THIS is what you call bringing him back? ”

“There were complications.” Kakashi said with a smile.

Seeing Naruto in chains and Kakashi smiling seemed to break what little resolve Tsunade had to not cause bodily harm to the shinobi in front of her.

“I said to bring him home! NOT bring him home in chains!” She screeched. Since Kakashi was too far from her to physically reach him she started throwing any object that she could get her hands on at the copy nin.

Naruto sat down in the corner, confident he wouldn’t get hit, and watched her throw a temper tantrum. Since most of it was directed at Kakashi he felt vindicated in doing this. ‘He shouldn’t have made that smart ass remark about me,’ he thought.

When the blond Hokage got to her supply closet and started throwing very sharp pointy things at them Kakashi jumped to the ceiling and told her to calm down. Needless to say this did not go over well. She tossed several well-aimed Senbon Needles at Kakashi, which to his delight missed his groin, though only barely. Sensing that his life, and manhood, truly was in danger he made his way out of the window and onto the roof.

“Get back in here you coward!” she yelled at him.

“I’m not a coward, I’m only making a tactical withdrawal.” He yelled back “I’ll come back in when you have calmed down.”

She threw her desk outside of the window before taking a deep breath and going for Naruto. “Come here gaki and I’ll get you out of those chains that these ’men‘ put you in.”

Naruto carefully avoided her and positioned himself behind Iruka before replying, “You can’t take them off Baa-chan, and Sakura-chan stop strangling your husband, he really hasn’t done anything wrong.”

“Don’t be ridiculous Naruto, you don’t have to protect them. Now come here and let me get them off.” She replied through gritted teeth.

Naruto bounced around the room doing his best to avoid being caught. That worked out very well for him until he got a little too close to a certain pink haired kunoichi. As soon as he was in her reach, she grabbed him and told him to shut up and to do as he was told. No matter how much he begged her and Tsunade to listen to him, they still tried to remove the shackles from the paniced blond. Much to Naruto's delight, and the two kunoichi's disgust, Gaara had decided that enough was enough and used his sand to free his friend from their grasp.

"Hokage-san, Sakura-san; please stop doing as you please and listen to what he has to say," the Kazekage said calmly.

"Thanks Gaara," Naruto said while heading to the window and leaning out to call in his hidden mate.

He whispered 'coward,' as his mate peeked in to make sure it was all clear before entering through the window.

"Are we ready to discuss the details of this mission without any physical violence?" Kakashi asked warily.

As Sakura and Tsunade felt the sand around them constrict tighter, they knew it was a promise of death if they did not agree. The two kunoichi decided that their life meant something to them and nodded their agreement and were released from the sand. Even though they had stopped chasing Naruto, the elder of the two glared at the now present copy nin. Everything was calm, even if it was a little tense, until Naruto opened his big mouth.

"Would you please stop glaring at my mate!" he yelled and then covered his mouth. His eyes widened as he took in everyone's reaction to this bit of news. Gaara just smirked, most of the others had a look of utter shock on their faces. Kakashi stood there in a daze as two very angry figures approached him. The copy nin was sure he had not heard correctly, surely Naruto would have told HIM first if they were mates. He didn't snap out of his shock induced daze until he felt a fist connect with his jaw.

"WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN DOING TO MY GAKI?" Tsunade screamed.

"You perverted bastard, you keep your filthy hands off of my Naruto!" said a very angry Iruka as he launched himself toward the fallen man. As soon as he was close enough, he wrapped his hands around the slim neck intending to kill the man who he thought had taken his otouto's innocence. After all Kakashi was a pervert and the blond was as pure as winter's white snow.

The blond in question was in a panic as he watched his mate being choked and beaten to death. He desperately started to pull at the enraged duo. As soon as he managed to pull one off of the silver haired nin though another was on him. He kept trying to get it through to them that Kakashi had done nothing and hadn't even known he was his mate.

Noticing his friend's distress and the lack of involvement from the rest of Naruto's so called 'friends' in the room Gaara once again used his sand to help. He nodded to Naruto as the blond silently thanked him and checked over his beaten mate. Seeing that there was no life threatening injuries, he turned to the two captives and began berating them.

"What in the hell do you think you were doing?" Naruto yelled at the two furious figures before him.

"It's obvious that he is trying to pervert you Naruto." Iruka said desperately. His otouto had to understand what the older man was trying to do to him.

"Huh? How in the world is Kakashi trying to pervert me?" He was honestly curious, the poor man had done nothing to him, OK so they had kissed and groped, but he sure as hell hadn't objected to it.

"He's obviously talked you into thinking that he is your mate Naruto. I am sure if you were to choose your own mate it would be someone closer to your own age." Tsunade said knowingly.

It was all too much for the young man to take, he collapsed to the floor laughing and holding his sides. The ninja in the room looked at him, afraid he had finally snapped. Kakashi sat up wincing in pain before poking the blond next to him in the ribs and asking for an explanation.

"Gomen Kaka koi, but I just couldn't help but laugh at them. Did you two happen to notice that Kakashi was as shocked as you at the news? No? Well he was shocked because HE had just learned that I had chosen him as my mate."

"YOU chose him?" Iruka asked suspiciously.

"Yes I chose him, not the other way around, so if you two wouldn't mind not grilling us on it we have REAL problems here. So why doesn't everyone calm down so I can tell you WHY I am in shackles?"

"After all this is over, I will expect a full explanation of this mate business." Tsunade said.

"Hai, hai Baa-chan, anything you say." Naruto said while smiling, "Thanks Gaara, could you let them down now?"

Tsunade dusted herself off and then narrowed her eyes at the other blond in the room and asked the question that had been nagging her since he took off on the mission, "Why did you not come to the celebration the night you left?"

"Wha- you mean Sasuke's welcome home party? I was told I wasn't welcomed there." Naruto said with a frown. Surely she hadn't gone senile in his short departure?

"It was NOT to celebrate HIM coming home but to celebrate YOUR succeeding in you mission to bring him home. The villagers and many others were very disappointed that the guest of honor never showed." She frowned, knowing just how badly the Elders had manipulated her gaki.

Naruto sat down on the floor looking confused before whispering, "The Elders told me everyone was upset with how I had brought him back home. They had contacted them and there was such an outcry for my death that I had no choice but to take this mission. If I didn't take it then the villagers would take things into their own hands and mob me."

Seeing Naruto in distress, Kakashi threw caution into the wind and wrapped his arms around him. Slightly rocking him and cooing words of comfort to his mate. He liked that thought... HIS mate, and the elders were going to pay for hurting him.

"I guess they did me in good all the way around huh? First tricking me into thinking that everyone hated me then into tricking me into signing the contract about that damned mission. I wonder what they are planning on doing to me." Naruto mused out loud.

Before anyone could ask any further questions about the contract several Elders walked into the room grinning viciously at the blond captive. Smirking, the head speaker looked around the room and then finally stated the reason for their presence, "I see that you either went against orders or failed in your mission, demon. You know what this means for you. Hokage-san, please call Ibiki in here, he has some cleaning up to do."

TBC...

*Runs far away as fast as I can*