Instead she'd seen Sasuke and Sakura acting suspiciously and then sneaking into Naruto's apartment.
She had turned on her Byakugan and watched as they found one secret compartment.
So she saw the tag fall from the bottom of the drawer. She saw it hit the floor. She saw chains erupting out and crisscrossing the apartment and wrapping the two other members of Team 7 there.
This was very odd.
Sasuke hung upside down, tugging at one chain and then another. "Well. If we needed confirmation that he's not the braindead dobe we knew, this did it."
"Mff?"
Sasuke twisted around to see that the chains had managed to blindfold and gag Sakura as well as tie her up and suspend her. "Still needs work on it though."
"Mff!" indicated Sakura.
"No, you don't want to move too much," said Sasuke. "If you jerk your arms - that chain is wrapped around a post and then goes through your shirt. If you tighten it too much, you'll lose your shirt."
"MFFF?!"
"Actually it looks pretty random."
"Mn."
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiip!
"Uhm," said Naruto, a bag of groceries in each hand, standing in the doorway, and staring at the scene as if he could hardly believe he was actually seeing what he was seeing.
"We figured out you were an imposter," said Sasuke.
"I'm an imposter of what?" asked Naruto.
"MFF! MFF!"
"You might as well surrender now," said Sasuke.
"What ARE you talking about?" asked a thoroughly confused Naruto.
"Since we worked at that shrine, the real Naruto was replaced by someone who acted as if he actually had a brain," said Sasuke.
"Gee. Thanks," monotoned Naruto.
"Someone competent," continued Sasuke.
"I get the point," said Naruto.
"Someone who actually could find a clue," said Sasuke.
"You really are a bastard, ain't ya?" said Naruto.
"You haven't proclaimed that Hokage nonsense OR asked Sakura out since then," finished Sasuke.
"She's been turning me down since we were NINE. I'm almost thirteen," said Naruto.
"Exactly," said Sasuke. "Surrender now and we won't have to get rough."
"Says someone who is tied up in chains and hanging from the ceiling," said Naruto. "All that happened is that a seal got taken off."
"A what?" asked Sasuke.
"Someone who didn't really like me put a seal on me to keep me from being able to think," said Naruto, tapping his head. "It came off in the shrine. Uzumaki shrine. Fuuinjutsu experts."
"You're making this up on the spot," said Sasuke.
"Maybe," admitted Naruto. "Can you prove that isn't the case?"
"MFF MFF MMMMPH!"
"Gee, thanks, Sakura," said Naruto. "I can demonstrate how one works on you?"
"MFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF!"
"I think that's a 'no'," commented Sasuke.
Naruto sighed. "Fine. What do you think, Kakashi-sensei?"
Sasuke blinked as suddenly their sensei was in the small apartment.
"I think, Naruto, that this is a pretty good use of fuuinjutsu to trap your apartment with. Also that trapping your apartment IS pretty much a ninja sort of thing to do. Good job."
"Then he's..." said Sasuke. Not that he really thought it was a fake Naruto but that was his story/excuse and he was sticking to it.
"No, Sasuke, this really is the real Naruto," said Kakashi. Just that he'd been able to check and confirm the Kyubi being sealed there was indication enough.
A thrown kunai tapped the metal plate and the chains vanished in a puff of glitter.
"Whenever we're on a C-Rank and away from the village, you should use traps like that to safeguard the perimeter," said Kakashi to Naruto. "Oh and Sasuke? You might want to remove the glitter from your hair."
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