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Naruto trudged through the empty, moon-lit streets of the Leaf Village with only one thing and one thing only occupying his concentration: Sasuke.

For weeks Naruto had been in this solemn, dazed trance and for all of that time he had been ways of getting Sasuke, his far and distant friend, back to Konoha.

As you know Naruto is not the kind of person to give up on something he feels so strongly about so as he finished his 87th lap of the Leaf Village's main street, Naruto had not even begun to consider when he would return home and call it a night.

Made uneasy by his friend and teammate's distress, a single figure watches Naruto's movements. He is perched on the windowsill of his apartment. No detail visible on his silhouette which was projected through the moon light onto the building opposite. Nothing but a vague outline of a crouching man with a thin, rectangular item swinging from his left hand. The man stopped swinging the object and raised it to eye-level, he kissed and gave it a brisk hug before tucking it away inside his jacket.

The figure at the window took a shuriken from his holster, stood up and started spinning it round on his finger, while he waited for Naruto to emerge from the shadows at the bottom of the street.

The man waited until Naruto was directly parallel and his zombie like prowess had halted at the dead at the dead end infront: ready to turn round and start his next lap of the village.

'Wham'. The shuriken flew from the top apartment down to smack the billboard on the other side of the road. A short lock of bright blonde hair drifted slowly down to the floor.

The shuriken nearly hit Naruto's face as it sliced past, which was enough to get his attention but not injur him in the process. Naruto was frozen still, his face pointed down towards the ground. An astonished look filled his face to complete his trembling figure.

Before Naruto could look up, the figure at the window was now facing him only a few metres away, hidden in the dark shadow of a brick wall.

Naruto – now awake from his trance – was keen to find out the identity of his apparent attacker. All of a sudden, Naruto smirked, sighed and turned to continue on his next lap.

Then Naruto managed out, "Lightening speed, lightening accuracy… Lightening gaze,

I know it's you Kakashi sensei".

"You certainly have gotten sharper, but you are still are as clueless as a bat aren't you Naruto", Kakashi said emerging from the shadows.

"If you have come to tell me to go ba…"

"No" Kakashi interrupted, Naruto stopped walking but did not turn around.

"I think I know of a way to get Sasuke to come back to Konoha, I wasn't going to tell you because I was pretty sure it wouldn't work and I didn't want to disappoint you when you came home without Sasuke. But now I am a little more sure of its success so I will tell you."

Naruto still did not turn round but was obviously listening intently. Kakashi spoke slowly in order for Naruto to digest the information.

"Naruto, when you saved Gaara from his suffering and brought him into the light, you could feel his pain couldn't you?"

Naruto nodded his head slowly but Kakashi already knew.

"You were able to connect with him so well because you had experienced the same loneliness and emptiness that he had. You were both Jinchuriki and shared the neglect brought on being outcast by your own village."

Naruto's head was tipped right down towards the ground. Only silent splashes of tears forming a puddle on the stone floor could be heard over his noisy sobs.

"Maybe this time it's time to say quits Naruto" Kakashi continued.

Naruto stopped crying for a moment and made a slight effort to move round and face Kakashi. Kakashi carried on:

"You know fine well that you and Sasuke withstand different pains that the other can never fully understand. Well, this may be my opinion and all but what I'm trying to say… Naruto… is that since you do not share Sasuke's pain, no matter how hard you try… You will never be able to bring Sasuke back to the Leaf Village."

Naruto spun around to face Kakashi; his bedraggled eyes now wide open in a shocked amazement.

"Kakashi sensei how… can you say that" Naruto struggled

"Let me finish" Kakashi replied

"There is one un-explored option which sounds likely to work; if you have faith that is"

Naruto was practically jumping with excitement and newly found zeal. His famous energy had crept up on him and had over taken within instants.

"Lets hear it, let's hear it" Naruto yelped.

Kakashi swallowed and took a deep breath, "You find someone who shares Sasuke's pain!"