The Chunin Team and their Fanboy do get lucky and find Sasuke

Travel on the open road was a good experience in many ways for Naruto. True, whenever they rested in a small town to restock supplies or met travelers on the road the gawking, snicker and other reaction towards him and his current dress up were annoying, but it sure as hell beat being stuck at the academy.

Naruto wore the same childish dress up that identified him as a Konohamaru copycat during the whole trip. Konohamaru made sure to carry a role of three spare sets of clothes, and made sure that Naruto kept good care of them to show his reverence towards what they represented. He was especially annoyed at the long blue headscarf that constantly got stock on rocks or roots during their travel and the way to warm gray cloth helmet he was forced to wear in addition to the googles now.

Konohamaru had been adamant that the new helmet was to keep his recognizable spiky blonde hair from being seen and thus reducing risk of getting Akatsuki called on them, but he suspected it was more so because this was the same helmet his boss wore when they first met. His boss was at this point strong enough that Naruto seriously questioned the chances of any Akatsuki member wishing to fight them, but young Sarutobi was adamant that even if HE could easily defeat them, he could not assure his undersigns safety or that of his teammates.

Udon and Moegi had certainly grown up to be respectable Chunin in their own right, but they were no S-Class Ninja, and Naruto was easy pickings in his current state. And the Akatsuki usually traveled in pairs of two. Even if Konohamaru only took a minute dealing with one of them, that left the other one ample time to kill the rest of their little squad. Not wishing to argue Naruto accepted this explanation. After all, it was not like he could do anything about it if he tried.

Due to his courage problems he had trouble denying random academy students their demands nowadays, there was zero chance he could do so with his boss. Sure he might not have liked it, but he had to do as he was told now. And for the next two months of travel time especially, that meant jumping when Konohamaru told him to jump.

After their first week of travel, they had rested at a small cave when the thing happened that Naruto had initially only dreamed off. They encountered Sasuke. Or rather, his boss felt his presence a couple miles away and informed his teammates and Naruto about it afterwards.

“Listen Moegi, Udon I want you to stand ready for the capture with the emergency seals I gave you. Just slap them on his back after I am done crushing him for good measure and stay out of the line of fire otherwise got it?” once he received a small nod he turned towards Naruto whom was looking up at his boss with barely disguised excitement and worry.

“Are you worried for Sasuke Naru-chan?” the blonde blushed and looked down at the floor before stammering “y-yes boss. After seeing how strong you got after training with the pervy sage there is now way Sasuke could beat you. I just ho-” Konohamaru cut him off with a headpat and a reassuring smile.

“Listen Naru-chan I wont lie to you. I will utterly beat the shit out of that Uchiha dickhead for deserting the village to become the apprentice of the guy that killed my grandfather. But I will not kill him. I will drag him back to the village and then he can rot in whatever cell he is thrown into, but for you and as a favor to Sakura I wont kill him alright?” Naruto nodded with tears of gratitude flowing down his face as he hugged his boss tightly.

When they appeared before the Uchiha he had been shocked at the stealth and speed Konohamaru had displayed. The teammates and Naruto were quite obvious, but he had been completely blindsided by the brat that used to follow his idiot formerly best friend around.

“Well, cant say I was expecting to see you for here. Is Naruto taking you squirts on a sight seeing tour? Looking at the way he is dressed he clearly lost a bet to you Sarutobi didn't he?” Naruto shrunk a bit at the amused stare in in the eyes of Sasuke, but Konohamaru barely even acknowledge what he heard.

“Uchiha Sasuke, as a Chunin of Konoha I inform you that you are under arrest. You shall be dragged back to prison for your crimes of deserting the village and allying with a traitor and terrorist like Orochimaru in the pursuit of power” he drew a special Kunai out of his pouch and was about to launch into an attack when a comment from Sasuke stopped him in his tracks.

“Ah yeah, Orochimaru killed the third Hokage. You must be pretty mad at me for joining the guy that murdered your grandfather. Sorry to burst your bubble but you cant honestly think your are tough to actually capture me. Your “boss” could not do it either kid. Besides, while I might have joined the snake I also killed it” this caused Konohamaru to look at him in disbelief. He felt that the Uchiha was telling the truth.

“I never had any intentions of giving my body to the bastard. I only wanted what I could get from him so I could kill Itachi. I do not give a damn about anything else. I was about to hunt down his laboartories with his map I have to ensure he stays dead in fact” Konohamaru now felt a lot more conflicted going into this fight than he had at first expected.

He had read up on the file of the last Uchiha quite extensively prior to departing the village. Thanks to his clearance level as what effectively was Konoha royalty, he had managed to get a hold of a psyche profile of the young Uchiha. He had been rather unsympathetic towards his strife before but could not help but feel sympathy towards the guy that killed his grandfathers murderer. He let out a small sigh before locking eyes with the Uchiha.

“Well that changes things. I read your file Sasuke. About the crybaby little brother you really are. Before this whole emo avenger phase started your used to worship your elder brother like a god. That was probably why you got so messed up. It was not just the massacre wasn't it? It was that your perfect big brother did it.

I am going to be blunt I did not really care about your sad background all that much since you joined up with the guy that killed my grandpa. But I realize now that you, just like Naru-chan, need somebody to set you straight. A real big brother whom you can idolize, that allows you to be the little crybaby fanboy, whom that we both know is still inside that head of yours.

I at first had planned to wreck you and put you in jail for the rest of your life but consider yourself lucky. Instead I will now just seal away most of your chakra and revert whatever Orochimaru did to you in the past three years and set you straight myself. Moegi and Udon? Do not bother with the seals. I got this. Naru-chan? You better be thankful for me saving your best friend from himself and teach your soon to be fellow fanboy and future little brother of mine how to behave got it?”

Sasuke just starred in disbelief as he started to process what was said as he saw Naruto nod in affirmation and the other brats carry hi ma safe distance away.

“What the hell was that ab-” Sasuke was stopped from speaking any further when he saw Konohamaru teleport right in front of him and had a Rasengan slammed into his stomach while at the same time being on the receiving end of the essence transference jutsu seal being placed upon him.

As he was flung backwards clones he had not even been aware of pummeled him into the air and strengthened the seal further, invisible to both Sasuke and all bystanders. Sasuke only realized the effect of the seal when he began to notice his Sharingan lose tomoe after tomoe before completely fading out of existence only moments before a kick to his chin send him falling down towards the earth onto the outstretched hand of Konohamaru.

Konohamaru gave a confident smile in the direction of his team whom sprinted towards him letting out happy screams, Narutos being the loudest of them all. The new seal he had applied onto him after some training with the toads and mastering of the Sage arts was not only going to function much faster, but was completely invisible to anybody but the caster.

As he was hugged tightly by his team he sat down his future little bro on the ground and took the lab map he had of the various hideouts or Orochimaru from him. Konohamaru was already trying to figure out how he was going to explain to the village how he got Sharingan now that hey had been naturally transferred to him before remembering the fact his grandmother on his mother's side was distantly related to an Uchiha.

That worry quickly discarded, he smiled down at Sasuke. He was glad something as dangerous as the Sharingan was now in his hands, and his seal would ensure his little bro would accept his new place sooner rather than later. All he had to do now was get rid of those labs Sasuke had mentioned and track down Itachi afterwards.

If he wanted to ensure that Sasuke accepted his new reality what better way to kill his rotten biological bro and show him how much better Konohamaru was than him. Not to mention removing a huge potential danger for Konoha and, if he could place it on him, add another Sharingan pair onto his newly acquired one.

It would ensure that the transfer seal finished its job much quicker. Naruto had only taken as long as he did because he was fighting it influence and his new role in life. But Konohamaru was willing to bet if he killed Itachi in front of Sasuke the effect on his psyche would be so immense that the seal could finish the job then and there.

Also the idea of Sasuke reverting into his old behavior of a crybaby fanboy with a bad case of big brother worship towards him immensely appealed to him. Not to mention the idea of him and Naruto having fights over their boss or older brother and them being his biggest fan was just to cute to ignore.

He was going to have to really lay down the law by the time Sasuke woke up to hammer his new role in life home.