I do not own Naruto. Masashi Kishimoto owns. I only wish I was as skilled and talented as him. :[

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~~~ Thirteen Years After ~~~

Giggles could be heard as someone very handsome walked in the room that several girls were standing in while they gossiped about random things happening in the village. He glared ahead, ignoring their bickering about who would have him or who was the most beautiful. He didn't not like anyone in the room, or the village for that matter, because they just weren't his type.

"Sasuke-kun," The pink-haired konoichi, Haruno Sakura, he had once been on a team with said as she stalked up to him like a cat trying to be sexy. He sighed and looked down at her like she had given him a disease when she placed her hands on him. She apparently didn't notice as she she almost purred out the words, "I missed you.. How was your mission?"

"Hn," Was all that left his lips as he walked with her, not bothering to pry off her death grip, because he was too annoyed. Sasuke rolled his eyes when he heard the other girls call Sakura a slut and several other names he'd rather not think of. "Sakura, please let go, I have to go see the Hokage about another mission she would like me to go on."

She pouted, "But Sasuke-kun... you just got back, and she wants you to go out again?"

Sasuke's eye twitched as she clentched on to his arm tighter, rubbing her breasts on his arms. He just peeled her arms away without trying to hurt her and nodded before walking in the room the Hokage was occupying. He walked up to her desk and lay the folder giving details about the mission he had just done. Normally, he would have waited until the morning, but someone had told him that he was needed for an urgent mission.

"Uchiha, I-" She began, but paused to clear her throat. "I need you to do a retrieval mission. This is not an ordinary mission though, so I suggest you pay close attention. Before we discuss this though." She shifted her hands so fast that anyone not really paying attention wouldn't have been able to see. When she stopped moving, the room was encased in black.

She looked at him with uneasy eyes. "I need you to go, alone that is, to retrieve someone special that stole some scrolls a while back. This person is known as Uzumaki Naruto, and is a very powerful being. He needs to be brought back here whether he likes it or not and I know that you're they only one that can do it. This is very dire. The scrolls he possesses are very valueable, and we need them as soon as possible."

Sasuke felt his brain click when he heard the Hokage speak the names of the person he would need to find. He thought back but couldn't remember anyone having that name from his past. He looked at the woman in front of him, impatiently waiting for any kind of response to her orders. "I accept the mission Lady Tsunade. Do you have any idea of where he might have run off to?"

"Yes," She said, staring straight into his eyes, "I heard that he was spotted in Sunagakure. He was traveling with over fourty others and is staying for the festival. I heard that he is thin, blond and has three marks on each of his cheeks. He is probably around your age since he ran away only when you were seven or eight, but I could not get an exact picture of what this person looks like." She nodded letting Sasuke know that she was done speaking.

"Alright, I will get this Uzumaki person," Sasuke spoke before walking to the door as it began to appear from the blackness. He paused when a kunai hit the wall beside him and grabbed the peice of paper attached to it. He didn't bother to look back, knowing that he was supposed to read it. He knew most of what it was going to say, but would wait to read it until he got home. He shoved it in his back pocket and lifted his hand to gesture a goodbye.

He knew that Lady Tsunade would be worried about him. It was something she let him know every time he went on a seriously difficult mission. He frowned thinking if this mission was going to be as difficult as she had made it seem. The boy ran away thirteen years ago, so he couldn't have learned much. He could not be stronger than Sasuke was.

Sasuke had pushed himself past his brother's abilities. His brother being the one that killed his whole clan aside from him back when he was seven. His brother that had been to cocky and was killed by his sixteen year old little brother. He was the strongest of Konoha and would remain that way for many more years. He was, after all, the only ninja in the village trusted with the most important missions. He gained his motivation from his brother and enjoyed killing his brother with his Mangekyo Sharingan. He cringed at the thought of what he had to do to get that power.

He arrived at his home within a few minutes and made his way through the gates of the Uchiha Manor. He would pack some food, new clothes and a fresher blanket that would last for the mission. He sat on the counter in his kitchen and grabbed an apple from the bowl on the counter. Sakura must have put some fresh fruit out before she left. He sighed thinking back to the reason he allowed Sakura to have a key to him estate. She continuously begged for one when she'd found out that Sasuke was going to be going on month long missions, so she could keep his house tidey. He shook his head when he remembered the time Sakura had rearrange his furniture, and he'd tripped over several things in a very non-Sasuke way.

He twitched slightly, remembering the time that the konoichi had redecorated him whole home in pink. Everything cloth, everything glass, and just everything else that could be changed was pink. It took everything in his power not to drag Sakura back to his house by her hair to make her change everything back. Instead, he just did everything himself and left all of the pink objects on Sakura's doorstep. He had only kept the one pink vase that held three lovely pink and orange flowers. He still has them sitting in his mother's study he uses for doing his special reports and paperwork in.

Finished with looking back on things, the Uchiha pulled out the note that Lady Tsunade had given him. The note read:

Sasuke, I need you to be extra careful on this mission I hear that Uzumaki Naruto is no ordinary shinobi. Also, he has a power inside him that should not be

underestimated. I cannot tell you what that power is. Try to get him to tell you. Plus, I'm sure whoever he is traveling with will not just let you have him. I am sorry to spring this on you so soon, but he needs to be brought back. Try to stay safe and don't die. I'm serious.

Sincerely,

Tsunade

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