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Naruto was on the same dreadful D-rank mission of catching the demon cat known as Tora for the Daimyo’s wife once more. After the hellspawn ran away for the hundredth time.
He could sympathize with the beast to some level because he’d seen the way the Daimyo’s wife squeezed the life out of the poor cat. But still, it’s not like he wanted to repetitively chase after the hellspawn and get his face scratched up by its claws.
And yet here he was hiding in a bush as he waited for the signal to jump and grab the cat that was currently grooming itself on the forest floor.
“Everyone ready?” He heard Sakura ask through the earpiece. “Hn” Sasuke responded, “I’ve been ready now can we hurry this up I wanna go and eat ramen after this dattebayo!” He whisper-shouts. “Shhh we don’t wanna alert the dem-the cat that we’re here Naruto!”
“Sorry Sakura-Chan” he apologizes sheepishly. “Will you guys hurry the cat’s about to leave” Sasuke hisses. “Sorry Sasuke-kun” Sakura apologized sounding embarrassed.
“Ok, Naruto are you ready?” Sakura asked.
“Yeah!” He confirms.
“Ok ready…” a pause “and…NOW!” Sakura shouts. He sprung into action and dived head-first towards the cat who was too slow to escape. “I got it!” He yelled wrestling the cat out of his face.
“Finally! It only took an hour and 6 minutes to catch them this time! That’s a new record! Good job Naruto!” Sakura exclaimed coming out of the bushed as well as Sasuke hoping out of a nearby tree.
He gave a bright grin at the praise. “Thanks Sakura-Chan!” He said grinning widely. “Let’s get this over with already” Sasuke says turning to head for the Hokage tower. “Coming Sasuke-kun!” Sakura says hurrying after him. “Yeah yeah coming teme” he grumbled.
They were almost to the Hokage tower when Sakura suddenly stopped causing him to pause as well. “Oh yeah!” Sakura said as if remembering something “I just remembered I brought some catnip for the demon I mean Tora to try I wanted to see if it would calm them down”
“Really? That’s cool Sakura-Ch- Ow!” He yelped being cut off by Tora who used their death weapo-claws to swipe at his face successfully scratching him on the cheek. “Damnnit” he mumbled as he engaged the hellion beast in another wrestling match.
Just then Sakura put the pouch of catnip near the cat’s face which was near Naruto’s and in the midst of their wrestling match Naruto accidentally smacked the catnip into the air making it spill all over him and the beast known as a cat.
As if intentionally the beast froze and their eyes dilated. Naruto had also frozen much for the same reason and his eyes also dilated turning into saucers.
“Uhm Naruto?” Sakura called out to her blond teammate. When she received no answer she took a step forward towards the blond. When she was about to wave a hand in front of the blond’s face the blond bolted dropping the cat as he did.
Tora in turn landed perfectly fine and started to roll in the catnip that had spilled and fallen on the floor. Sasuke was the first to react as Sakura was frozen in place.
“Sakura! Take the cat and return it to the Daimyo’s wife I’ll go after the dobe!” Sasuke ordered before sprinting after the catnip-high blond. “I-ah yes Sasuke-kun,” she said quietly when she snapped out of her frozen state.
She picked the cat up cautiously but found that they were unusually friendly now and kept rubbing themself against her.
Meanwhile, Sasuke tried to keep up with his catnip-high teammate. Which proved to be challenging because of some unknown speed he didn’t know the blond possessed. “Damnnit dobe!” He hissed under his breath as he narrowly avoided running into yet another person.
“Oi Uchiha!” He heard someone call out he shot a glance back and found that it was Shikamaru and his team. He didn’t bother pausing for them and continued on his chase for the dobe.
He heard footsteps racing after him as well. He shot another glance back and saw that Team 10 decided to follow him. They were quick to catch up and keep pace with him. He wondered how long that would last.
“What the hell is even going on? Why is Naruto running around like a feral cat?” Shikamaru asked. “Catnip” was his short response not wanting to socialize more than he already has to with his team and clients.
“What about catnip?” Ino was the one to ask this time. He mentally slapped himself as he responded “D-rank demon cat, Sakura brought catnip, catnip and Naruto” he sighed nodding his head towards the catnip-high blond they were chasing after.
“But how does that work? Naruto isn’t a cat at least I don’t think. He’s not one right Shika?” Choji asked. Shikamaru huffed a laugh but responded nonetheless “No Naruto isn’t a cat.”
“Ok but then how did the catnip affect him?” Choji questioned looking confused as he felt. He didn’t respond verbally but shrugged instead.
“Do you need any help catching him?” Ino asked and oh is he going to hate himself for this later He gave a stiff nod and picked up the speed to close at least a little distance with the blond. Just like that team 10 was also on the hunt for one catnip high blond.
At one point Sakura regrouped with them and they had recruited the help of team 8. Even with all this help Naruto still managed to escape them because unlike the blond’s what seemed to be an infinite supply of stamina, they didn’t have that. So it was only natural for them to grow tired and slower.
When they lost sight of the blond they all took a break and devised a plan.
Elsewhere a pet store was robbed of its catnip and the stray cats were all going bonkers. In the midst of this, all was one catnip-high blond who had managed to cause more chaos in the span of two hours than he had in his life.
Chuunin and genin alike were covered head to toe in glue and feathers. Even some Jonin and ANBU fell victim to being covered in neon orange paint and bright green glitter. They will be finding glitter everywhere for months.
No one was safe from the pranks. Unsuspecting stall owners’ stalls were rigged with glitter bombs and stink bombs. Ninja wire that when triggered makes the glitter bombs and stink bombs go off. Everyone was on guard and deciding to stay home which was by far the safest thing to do.
The clans were also not left unaffected several Hyuuga’s hair being dyed bright neon pink. Naras being kept on their toes for every time they start to doze off out of nowhere a water balloon comes popping in their face effectively waking them.
The Akamichi’s snacks disappearing and reappearing in another place. Yamanaka’s things being moved exactly 3 inches to the left. It was a disaster, to say the least, and the Hokage was not spared in the slightest having received several complaints about these pranks. Already feeling incoming migraine.
In the 2 hours it took for them to come up with a plan and catch their breath everything has gone to hell. And it all had Naruto written in bold all over it.
The plan was simple enough. Shino, Kiba, and Akamaru are in charge of tracking down the blond. The girls along with Shino, Kiba, and Akamaru herd the blond towards training ground 3 where Choji, Shikamaru, and him would set up traps to capture the blond.
“You guys remember the plan right?” Shikamaru asked verifying receiving various nods of agreement. “Alright Shino, Kiba, and Akamaru track down Naruto. Sakura, Hinata, and Ino follow them. We will head to training ground 3 and set up the traps.” Shikamaru instructed.
Just like that the plan was set into action and everyone set on to do their part.
They had finished setting up the traps and were now waiting in the trees surrounding the training ground. Shikamaru had just given the signal to be ready because the others were on their way.
They spotted a blur of orange dash by straight towards where one of the traps were. The orange blur snagged at the ninja wire that triggered a hidden net that was covered by leaves. The net snapped up successfully catching the blond.
The blond was now dangling inside of the net unable to get out. They specifically made sure that it was extra sturdy and able to withstand jutsu and weapons.
Now with the blond caught Choji, Shikamaru, and him came out from hiding and waited for the others to show up. When the others did they were out of breath and covered in glitter, feathers, paint, and glue.
Ino’s and Sakura’s hair looks as if they were struck by lightning, went through a tornado, and then proceeded to get burnt.
Choji was about to question it but was quickly shot a glare by the duo “Not. A. Word.” They said in unison.
Kiba was next to speak after spitting out a feather. “Never again. Since when did Naruto even have time to learn to make a fucking fire tornado?”
Wait what? “But the dobe can’t make fire tornadoes?” He said confused sneaking a questioning glance at Sakura to which she nodded confirming that what Kiba said was true. “I thought so too until I got one thrown right at my face. It didn’t even hurt or anything it just felt extremely warm”
“And windy” Ino added while using her fingers to comb through her hair. “And windy, very windy” Sakura said nodding also trying to tame her own messy hair. Shino and Hinata stayed quiet not bothering to add on to what the others said just sticking to nodding.
“Well let’s hope that we won’t need to do this again this was such a drag” Shikamaru commented. At least they could all agree on that because it was not fun nor easy to catch the catnip high dobe.
“Well, now that we are done here Choji wanna go check out that new barbecue place you were talking about?” Shikamaru asked receiving a very eager nod from the snack lover.
And like that they all started to leave minus Sakura and him who stayed with Naruto to make sure he didn’t go anywhere. Ino-Shika-Cho headed for the barbecue place after Ino took a shower and all of team 8 headed home for the day.
He turned to where the dobe was trapped to find them fast asleep. He sighed and went to lower the trap. It made him uncomfortable just by looking at the way the blond was positioned and he wasn’t even the one in that position.
When the net was lowered and untangled from around the blond’s sleeping form he dragged the blond to lay them on the stump of the tree. The blond was asleep like a rock and he didn’t think that they would be waking up any time soon.
He leaned on the tree and closed his eyes. Opening an eye when he heard shuffling only to find Sakura flopping herself on the other side of Naruto and closing her eyes.
The sun was already starting to set when Kakash found his students. They were all under a tree sleeping soundly in training ground 3. He eye smiled at the sight of his genin bonding.
Of course, he was aware of Naruto raining havoc on the village in a mirage of pranks. Did he know why exactly? No, did he care? Also no. He was just glad that he hadn’t gotten caught. -yet-
He moved to pick Sakura up to take her to her house and proceeded to do the same with the other two.
The next time at training they were in the middle of another D-rank to scrub the paint off a store that was victim to one catnip high Naruto. It was then Sasuke decided to ask about the fire tornado. “Yo dobe, where did you learn to make a fire tornado?” Sasuke asked.
The blond scrunched up their face in confusion turning to look at the other. “Fire tornado?” They questioned confused. “Yeah! You made a huge one when you were high on catnip. Oh, that reminds me what was that even all about?” Sakura asked.
“What are you guys even talking about? I don’t remember making any fire tornadoes that would be amazing though! Like, imagine it! But what about catnip?” Naruto asked still confused.
Both Sakura and Sasuke looked at each other before at the confused blond. “Never mind don’t worry about it.” They both said in unison. The blond shrugged it off as his teammates being weird and went back to the task at hand.
“Ughhhh this paint just won’t come off! Who even did this?” Naruto complained. Again Sakura and Sasuke gave each other a look before rolling their eyes and saying nothing.
“Oh, and what even happened to the village I don’t really remember anything after catching the demon cat it all just a blur. It’s like if someone decided to go on a pranking spree and went all out. Whoever it was managed to get even some Jonin and ANBU!” Naruto exclaimed with admiration.
“Don’t worry about it Naruto just get to work use your shadow clones to make the process fast” Sakura said. The blond nodded and made 20 shadow clones and got to work again.