Sakura and Naruto jumped at the sound of their sensei's voice. Normally they'd be happy to see him, but with what was going on today, they were leery of him. Their fears were unfounded though as Kakashi smiled down at Sakura (and up at Naruto). They both sighed and Sakura said, "Kakashi-sensei, it's so good to see you!"

Kakashi clapped Sakura on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry. I'm still in control, though I'm not sure how all this came about."

Sakura held out the scroll and said, "Their was dust in this scroll that made Naruto grow. I'm assuming that these scrolls affected everyone else as well."

Kakashi opened the scroll and said, "Hmm...yes, this is the same as the scroll I got and the same one Asuma had on him."

"Asuma?" Naruto said. "You mean he's in on this too?"

"Not anymore." Kakashi said. "We were having a practice match together when these scrolls were delivered to us. We were told they were mission scrolls so we both opened them. Naturally we were covered in dust. We thought it was a prank and didn't think too much of it. We just rolled them up and stored them with our other scrolls. We started fighting again and I won. Well...I'm sure you can guess what happened next."

Naruto said, "So you got Asuma-sensei's size huh? We're going to need more help than just us if we're going to take down Gaara and Shikamaru."

Sakura shook her head and said, "That'll just make things worse. You don't want to end up like them do you? Only wanting power?"

"That brings up a good point Sakura." Kakashi said. "This whole thing is obviously a well orchestrated plan set into motion by someone outside the village."

"That's what we thought!" Naruto said. "Do you think Orochimaru is behind this?"

"It's possible." Kakashi said. "This is certainly something he might try, with his knowledge of forbidden jutsu. The only question is, how many ninja are involved in this?"

"The scroll only affects men." Sakura said. "So that means quite a few people may be involved."

"And that brings us to a paradox." Kakashi said. "In order to fight the giant ninja we'll need to get fight and get bigger. But if we do that, we'll eventually lose sight of our mission and ourselves. So what do we do?"

Naruto slammed his fist into his open palm. "Well that's obvious! We have to fight and get stronger! I won't let some snake like Orochimaru take control of me!"

Both Sakura and Kakashi looked skeptical at Naruto's enthusiasm. Unfortunately, they didn't have much time to say anything else as an enormous foot crashed down near them. All three ninja looked up and up into the face of an enormous