Team Seven Jumps Ship

By: Death In White

Disclaimer: I do not own anything beyond my own ideas and characters.

Summary: When Naruto found out about the fox, people thought he took it well. When he was assigned to team seven, they assumed he was okay. When he and his teammates tried to get new sensei, well they accounted it to Kakashi's hell style training, and shrugged it off. When Naruto sets off a multi pronged prank, and team seven vanishes. Well people panic.

Team Seven VS the world, game on.

Days of Hell: Round One

Sasuke couldn't believe his ears as Naruto looked at the two expectantly. It had been one week since becoming genin, seven days, and he had no clue how to respond.

Honestly when Naruto mentioned after they passed the bell test about getting out from under Kakashi's reign he thought he was kidding.

When two days later he had transfer forms, and was filling out his own, Sasuke nodded along and did the same, because let's face it Kakashi wasn't helping him grow stronger fast enough.

When the denied forms came back and they completed team transfer forms the following day, the red flags should have been apparent.

This had not been in the plan. This hadn't been in any of his plans!

Sakura blinked at Naruto owlishly beside him. "Could you repeat that, I don't think I heard right." she asked, voice flabbergasted.

"I'm leaving to become a missing nin, wanna come?" Naruto chirped again sipping on his coffee cup, he looked completely at ease with the statement traveling pack beside him.

Sakura chuckled nervously, "Did you- Did he- Sasuke-kun tell me he didn't- I must be dreaming- Sasuke-kun marry me." she begged.

"No." he bit out at her, "Are you serious right now or is this another one of your stupid pranks." he asked, now looking at the chipper blond in front of him.

Naruto set down his cup slowly looking between the both of them, "I'm not joking, just figured I'd give you a heads up on what's going on. I am being nice and offering for you to come with me, if I didn't think you both could thrive and be helpful to me out there I wouldn't have offered. I mean it's stupid to tell two genin my plans to leave." Sasuke would give him that at least, "And besides, Kakashi isn't actually training us. And while normally we could transfer away, I've filled out every form possible and it's just not flying. So since I can't get you guys a better teacher, I've decided that I'm flying the coop anyway. You can either come with or deal with Kakashi alone." he told them seriously. "Really he obviously doesn't want students and even when focused on Sasuke for the last week, Sasuke's not better. So how much can he teach the three of us to keep us alive."

And that was the heart of the problem. Sakura had accepted it wasn't a dream, Sasuke said no to marriage, he'd only ever said yes in dreams. And Naruto had been desperate to get them away. Plus Kakashi was really bad at the whole sensei shtick, like extra so, because how can you beat Mizuki. "So since hypothetically I'm in on this 'Let's Jump the Fucking Ship' Plan." Sakura started, "What is the plan." she asked.

Sasuke couldn't believe his ears, "Are you two serious right now." he asked still in disbelief.

"No, I am though, and Sakura's hypothetical. Aren't you following Sasuke?" Naruto asked head tilted. And really that was the third time tonight he used his name casually, no shouting. How was this real. "And I thought you were suppose to be a prodigy."

Sakura groaned, "Now is not the time, leave Sasuke-kun alone, and tell me the plan I hypothetically am in on." she snapped at Naruto causing the blond to grin.

"We'll I can't in the presence of his highness as he isn't even hypot-"

"I wouldn't be making triple sure if I wasn't joining you, you idiot." Sasuke snarled cutting Naruto off, "No the plan."

Naruto grinned, "Well I'm glad you asked. As you are all aware I am the prank king, and as such have very good planning skills, because pranks are glorified traps and distractions." he started, "Inside two scrolls I have everything you guys need including a list of what additional things you should gather for the group. My list is longer but also already started as I have been planning this for ten days. We are in the final hours until we are following... What was the name." he paused, "Oh yeah, the 'Let's Jump the Fucking Ship' Plan. Shortened to LJFSP for time and secrecy. I hope you are fully aware this is irreversible on a very big scale." Naruto told his teammates.

Receiving a pair of eye roles he continued, "After we've completed the preparations we will commence phase one: Get the Hell Away." Sakura looked pleased with the name, Naruto noted before shaking his head to get back on track. "Under the cover of seventeen pranks and a hand full of minor inconveniences, we will make a line straight for the western wall, once outside we will run for the village sixteen clicks northwest, there we will change into civilian clothes, use the hair dye and eye dye injections supplied in the packs made for you, and finally apply chakra suppressant bands to hide ourselves from train chakra sensors. Once complete we are to make our way to the next village by foot with packs of wares, which are sealed away in my own pack as of this moment. Our companions to travel with us will be my shadow clones under a solid hedge as two middle age adults. I will also in addition to using the dyes be using a solid hede to appear as a five year old. This should allow us enough cover on the road to avoid suspicion. When we reach Xington and have located an inn we will hopefully obtain two rooms for a pack of clone look alikes to sleep in, while the rest ourselves in the woods as we were taught by Iruka. In the morning we will commence phase two."

Sakura blinked, that was detailed. "What about trackers? For scent?" she asked.

Naruto whipped out a scroll dumping the contents on the ground. Three vials of some smear. "Each prank is going to release a potent scented chemical cloud. In each of your homes, I will set up a similar vile like this to burst on a timer washing away the scent where it's strongest. There are already some in the common places and one in Kakashi's house, the memorial stone, and all the training grounds to go off with the pranks, I'll have to put one in the Yamanaka flower stall, and Ino's room to make sure should you hypothetically come along."

Sasuke blinked, "Names?"

Naruto nodded, "Gone, you can't use them until we can actually stand up against the bounty hunters and elite ninja of the world. Besides your name once a missing nin will be infamous, all of ours the genin who disappeared. Are the dead? Are they Alive? Where could they be?" Naruto shrugged his smile sharp, "Sometimes your name is a beautiful thing when you have the protection of a village at your back, out their everything you are is known, you can't afford to be prideful and boast about your accomplishments, there will come a time, but for now, when we are running with our lives so unprotected we must be fucking ninja, and hide, be deceitful, and cunning, we don't have the time to learn slowly, being nurtured and encouraged, if that's what Kakashi was capable of to begin with, we have to harden ourselves and learn rapidly, master techniques to stay ahead not gather them like collectables, sometimes basics will save you in a way you could never imagine." Naruto snarked. And Sasuke believed him.

"Soulmates?" Sakura asked. Naruto and Sasuke looked at her for a moment. "What just cause I don't have one doesn't mean you don't."

"You don't have a soulmate?" Naruto asked slowly.

Sakura blushed, "Uh no proof that I do at least. Never had an injury that wasn't mine, no scars or red marks showing they exist. Ninja's die all the time, the likelihood any of us would meet them is low." she muttered.

Sasuke looked at her in a new light, that was brave, "We'll cross that bridge when we get there. Besides until we can take our names back, how the hell would we protect a soulmate on the run, while they only know an alias." Naruto exclaimed, slinging his backpack on, two scrolls in hand.

"How long until we leave." Sakura asked, "I need to get everything from home that I'll need and your list." she told him, "And then Sakura Haruno is missing." hey eyes were hard, determined. "Don't think for a second this means I'll date you Naruto." he looked at her curiously, why would he ever take advantage of her soulmate status, "but so help me Kami, if you die before we find a home out there, before we're strong enough to hold our names, I will find a way to resurrect you and kill you again myself." the Pinkette stood, taller and stronger than she ever had.

Now that made sense, he was happy to see Sakura look so put together. Naruto's smile went from too sharp to predatory, "It's a promise of a lifetime." he told her throwing medium sized scroll her way. "It's labeled." he pointed out at her questioning look, turning to Sasuke, "You in?"

The Raven nodded, "Couldn't stop me if you tried." he said before taking the other scroll.

Naruto nodded "You have until seven in the morning, but don't go to the bridge. At a quarter after the pranks begin. Meet me at the west end of the red light district when cover hits. I have more vials to cover our scent when we hit the edge of the scent ring that is going to hang over the village for the next few weeks."

The plan was coming together, and the three were in on it.

Sakura smiled turning to leave, she'd be living with Sasuke-kun, traveling with him, making memories beside him, befriending him. "And Sasuke, before you start you should know, what happened with Itachi, it's more than you think." Sakura froze at Naruto's voice. She remember the introductions, she knew what her brother did, to claim something like that, she couldn't think of what it could mean.

Spinning around quickly she watched Sasuke fume, "I found something interesting out when in the tower a few days ago, you might be interested in." Naruto commented, keeping Sasuke from shouting. "I swear to you I will help you find your brother, and I will help you get the truth, the whole truth."

Something was off, more than him just using Sasuke's name, something in Naruto had changed. Sasuke stood frozen for a minute, before breaking, he'd figure Naruto out later. "I know the truth, I watched it." his voice was harder than his teammates had ever heard it be before.

Naruto was far braver than they gave him credit, pushing past the anger and need to defend himself, he nodded, "That's great and all, but you see, I looked into it anyway, call it morbid curiosity. The reason I went looking into it, the complete reason, was because it came as a shock to a lot of people he'd do such a thing, since they all said he was a pacifist. So I had to ask myself, why would someone who didn't like fighting kill his whole family save one." Sasuke drew in a sharp breath, "I found the orders, the leaf is at civil war without anyone knowing it. Isn't that peachy, and a very good reason number two to run the fuck away." Naruto said with false cheer before going straight on, "Your parents were planning a coup. Itachi and a guy named Shisui were trying to negotiate, trying to stop the coop. And it was working, but then Shisui was found dead without his eyes, not his eyes destroyed, but his eyes stolen. The order to kill them, the signed order had bypassed the Hokage, his signature forged, I saw it myself in the tower. And your know what, I think your brother knew that, a prodigy he was too you know. It's speculation from here, but the orders said every Uchiha, I think he bargained for you." The news was ground break, Sakura wasn't sure what the world was coming to, it was too much, Naruto chuckled softly, humorlessly, "But there was a second order, an order that was solely signed by the Hokage, it was to spy on the Akatsuki. I can't help but think there's shit missing, I'm not a prodigy or even a genius by any means, but it still doesn't sound right. So, fuck all reason number three to leave, figure out who the fuck the Akatsuki are, and four why the hell a pacifist would become a mass murderer." Naruto finish, eyes hard staring Sasuke.

And Sasuke, Sasuke felt water dropping in his lap, before glancing up at the clear sky. Raising a shaky hand to his face, he couldn't believe he was crying, he hadn't cried since the night they all died. He couldn't decide what he was feeling, not really, he was so angry, so hurt, so confused. "Your sure. You have to be sure." he asked around the tears, wiping at them with his arm warmer.

Naruto let out a small tired smile, he was relieved it wasn't going to become a bloodbath before he could leave, "I'd steal you proof, but that would tip off the Hokage to us trying to find out more, you know." Naruto said, before his face dropping back to neutral, "But for what it's worth, when we find Itachi, I'll help you get your answers on the none official shit. And if you still want to kill him, I'll help you to the end."

Sakura let herself relaxe for the first time since hearing Naruto's absurd declaration that evening. "We both will Sasuke-kun."

The three shared a look before running away.

Itachi,

I regret to inform you that your brother has gone rogue, under the guise of Naruto's panks, he and his teams stole away from the village,as of fourteen days ago they have been declared missing nin and enemies of Konoha.

I am deeply sorry for you loss.

The Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi.