Naruto : A Fool's Errand.

"Alright, so here's our plan.", Yamato explained to everyone in the room along with all the genin of Team Seven who had gathered. Even Naruto. The only difference was everyone in Team Seven was wearing a cloak to keep themselves warm.

Sakura's gaze kept shifting to Naruto and then to Yamato but she quickly learned to focus and not disturb the gathering and focused solely on Yamato.

Naruto was a little uncomfortable wearing the armour but he listened to Tachibana and put on a cloak to hide it from Yamato since Tachibana promised him he'd be free of the armour sooner than later.

"Doto and his gang of shinobi want something Princess Koyuki has. Specifically, they want the Hex Crystal Key that is around her neck." Yamato explained pointing at the slender glass key with some sort of dark shimmering fluid inside it.

"We will work together to keep the film shooting going in the Land of Snow, and we will bait out Doto and his gang by replacing the key with a convincing fake.", Yamato said showing a key similar to the one Koyuki was holding.

Everyone nodded since the plan was simple until here.

"What we will do next is even simpler, once Doto and his gang of shinobi take our bait, we will fight them by focusing on the weakness of their armours."

Team Seven became visibly tensed while Naruto became happier since this meant that Yamato would be taking him out of the armour to examine it.

'It seems like Tachibana-kun was right. The armour was going to be taken away soon.' Naruto nodded, 'But why don't I master its use and fight with it? Don't I look cool while wearing it!? It can even force Sasuke to stay away from me!'

As Naruto started daydreaming, Koyuki asked Yamato an important question.

"What if we don't figure out the flaw in their armour by the time we reach our destination?"

"Don't worry, we already have one of their armours. And if we really aren't able to figure out a flaw in their armour, we can hold off until we receive reinforcements from Konoha."

Koyuki nodded soon everyone went back to their room, except Team Seven who stayed back.

Yamato walked up to Naruto and spoke calmly, "Naruto-kun, now let's dissect you why don't we."

Team Seven froze as they all looked at Yamato who was looking at them with a dangerous smile.

"What? Did you really think you could keep it from me? If you could hide an entire armour by simply draping a cloth around it everyone would be doing that you fools!"

"Hehe~" Tachibana gave a short laugh and then tried to distract Yamato from scolding them, "We figured out a few things while we were fooling around with the armour too Yamato-sensei!"

"Oh? Did you now?"

"Yep! Sasuke-kun used his Sharingan to figure out that the armour only works by using the chakra of its wearer. And Sakura figured out how we could activate the armour."

"Oh?" Yamato was genuinely surprised. "Either way, Naruto-kun, lay down on the table please-"

*BZZZZZZTtt*

The pink shield appeared around Naruto once again and shocked Yamato. This time the shield seemed to have been exceptionally strong since Yamato's hair smelt like it had been burnt and stood on its end like he was touching a Van de Graff generator.

"Ah…we also figured out that…" Tachibana said belatedly while looking at Yamato with a little pity.

Yamato looked at them with dead eyes, and then *sighed* a little. "Would've been better to know that before I was shocked…"

Soon Naruto was lying on the table and Yamato was using a wood clone to manipulate the armour by turning its various functions on and off with the help of Sasuke's Sharingan.

After a while, when Tachibana and Sakura had finished noting down all its functions, Yamato pointed out the flaw in the armour.

"Tachibana-kun you were right."

"I was?"

"Yes. There is a reason why our enemies chose to fight us one-on-one."

"Oh?"

Suddenly everyone became interested even Sasuke who had almost fallen asleep because he had continuously been using the Sharingan and was tired.

"It is because the weakness of the armour is another armour. The pink field is formed from a simple barrier seal that can block all physical and chakra attacks."

"How does that make its weakness another armour?"

"Because if another armour turns on the pink barrier at the same time, they will try to repel each other. But since the barriers are fixed to the chakra-extracting machine, it means that the barriers will destroy the machine powering them as they try to repel each other, making the armours their own biggest weaknesses."

"I see…" Tachibana nodded, "So if we come across them all we have to do is bring two of them close to each other and force them to destroy the barrier?"

"That is one way. Otherwise, you can catch them off guard like you did with your enemy and the third way would be to bear the pain from the pink barrier and deactivate the chakra-extracting machine so that the barrier loses power." Yamato explained to everyone on team seven.

He then continued to explain to them exactly how they could deactivate the chakra-extracting device and everyone except Naruto understood. And since Yamato realised Naruto couldn't follow him, he gave him a simpler method.

"Naruto! From today on, you will keep wearing this armour at all times. You must practice controlling the features of the armour so that when enemies attack you, you can just use your pink barrier to destroy their armour."

Naruto was relieved that there was still a way for him to fight against the enemies and that he wouldn't be left behind by his teammates or become a burden to them. He was also happy to have the armour for longer since it appealed to him and felt like it was something cool.

So for the next three days, Team Seven performed a strange kind of practice.

Yamato made everyone on the team attack Naruto's chakra extraction device to learn how to deactivate it for a few moments which they could use to kill their opponents, while Naruto trained to work on how to avoid their attacks by controlling his armour better.

Eventually, after three days they landed at a dock in the Land of Snow and with the help of snow sledge dogs that they rented from a village nearby reached the peak of a mountain that was their next shooting site.

Everyone on Team Seven was a little tense since Yamato's plan depended on Doto and his men accepting the bait in the form of the princess.

Tachibana passed around steaming hot cup-ramen so that everyone on Team Seven could remain warm and wouldn't freeze to death due to the frosty temperatures on the mountain.

"How are Koyuki-san and the other actors able to act so freely in spite of the cold!?" Naruto asked as he sniffled to prevent his snot from dripping into the cup-ramen.

Once of the set assistants heard Naruto's question and spoke with pride.

"Haha! Fujikaze-sama is the best actress in the world! A little cold is nothing in front of her skills…but pack warmers are also helpful I guess?" The man said with a smile as he showed Team Seven heat packs that could be stored in their dresses.

Before the man could even react, all the heat warmers were gone. Taken by Team Seven who used it to keep their shivering bodies warm.

"Woahh…this feels so good…almost like a hot spring."