Assasins Turmoil

It was a windy night in the village of Konoha. So windy in fact that even the strongest ninjas were residing inside with their friends in family. Sasuke Uchiha the current snake Sanin, the youngest to hold the title thus far, was no exception, he too was sitting down in his estate warming himself with a large fire. He was blissfully enjoying the warmth when he noticed something of place. The hokage monument, seen gloriously from the estate's master window, had a single figure standing at the top.

Naruto was standing on the head of his late father, well more or less, the rock hewn portrait of his long dead father was cold, even through his tabi. Naruto had left his house late last night, well was kicked out of his house last night. Several drunk villagers demanded him to leave, and as a future hokage, he did not object. In his eyes he was protecting his fellow villagers from bloodshed, or more precisley their blood shed. He laughed at this thought a short evil laugh, he allowed a small amount of chakra to pulse through his extremitys the warmth of the kyubi's essence effectivley providing his body with protection from the harsh winds. Yet again an evil laugh escaped his lips

'Mental note' he thought to himself 'evil laughters getting outta hand.'

Frankly the young man was bored. Everyone he knew was inside, everyone! He slumped down, feeling the chill of the stone monument on his back. He decided it would be best to take a short nap, it would still be a few hours untill the drunkards were done "decorating" his house, so he'd might as well get some sleep. But some things are not ment to be and the rustle of some bushes nearby brought Naruto into a battle ready stance.

"Hey dobe."

Naruto instantly recognized the cold as steel voice and whipped a kunai from his tabi.

"Bastard..."

The yound man spun around quickly pointing the ninja weapon directly at...

"...Its good to know i'm not the only punk who can take the cold."

...Sasuke Uchiha. The young Sanin smirked at his good friend's statement he then began to swing his kama in a crescent pattern.

"The usual stakes?"

Naruto nodded slightly before jumping backwards over the edge of the monument. His friend followed suit. Let the game begin.

As usual Naruto and Sasuke started their high speed game of chicken by free falling from the hokage monument, it would end when one of them gave up. Sasuke, Naruto had decided, would be the one to give up today.

As the two ninja dove through the wind whipped drop a single obstacle remained in their path. The ground.

'dammit!' The young Uchiah screamed in his head. 'we've got eighteen seconds before we hit, why the hell won't he give up?'

Sasuke turned to spot his friend smiling, Sasuke had to quit, any second now he would be dead. He swung his kama and it plunged into the hard rock of the mountain, he quickly lurched to a stop. However the young Namikaze was not so quick to stop, he plunged even faster toward the ice cold ground, and his doom.

"Stop, idiot!" Sasuke screamed at his teammate. Naruto simply smirked before spinning backwards and ripping his kunai through the rock, effectively slowing him down inches above the ground. He let his feet touch and stood up.

"I win!" Naruto proclaimed with a thumbs up. He stood there smiling untill a fist slammed into his rib cage. He flew backwards into a nearby building. He started to get up when a foot collided into his face.

"damn..." he groaned in pain. He lifted his head up to see none other than...Sakura Haruno.

"Are you retarded?"

"I-"

"You must be, you could've died!"

"but-"

"You know what would happen if you died?"

"yes but-"

"I mean you of all people should know, that we need every shinobi we can get!"

"Sakura-chan I-"

"And dragging Sasuke into this, I mean he's our strongest ninja! If you had gotten him killed, Naruto I would kill you myself, I swear to god!"

Naruto was instantly silenced after that, even after Sasuke betrayed the village, even after Naruto kicked his ass to bring him back, even after Naruto killed Pein; the leader of the Akutski, a man who killed a sanin, Sakura still considered Sasuke better than Naruto.

"Im-"

"Or you could've gotten in trouble keeping either of you from going on any missions untill your punishment end-"

"SAKURA!!!"

"yes?"

"I'm sorry!"

Sakura looked at Naruto in shock, his apology seemed genuine and sincere, to sincere, something was troubleing him.

"um, okay Naruto...just don't let it happen again."

They both turned around Sasuke had been behind them for the past few minutes.

"Don't think that you're escaping this lecture Sasuke-kun."

Sasuke reeled in fear he decided to change the subject quickly.

"Later, An anbu guard has just informed me that Tsunade-sama wants us to meet her in her office."

Both Naruto and Sakura nodded at Sasuke and helped eachother up. The trio then started walking towards the Hokage's tower.