Kai didn't bother going home the next morning to grab any of her things. She showered at the Uchiha's apartment and stole Itachi's hoodie and a pair of Sasuke's sweatpants to go take her tests. Itachi was awake listening in the apartment while lying in his bed as Kai shifted around the bathroom softly. She was always so quiet unlike his idiot brother who normally rampaged through the place like a hungry bear until Itachi got up to make them breakfast. He also knew that Kai had a few large tests today and she wouldn't be back, if she was back later, until nightfall. He yawned turning over on his side reaching for his iphone. It was five thirty in the morning. Good god…he groaned and buried his head under the pillows. He was going back to sleep. His little brother and his friends would survive for another two hours.

Sasuke met his elder brother in the kitchen greeted with the glorious warm smell of bacon and coffee. He smirked walking in stretching popping his neck in two or three places and glanced at Itachi as he flipped the bacon with a fork in the frying pan. His brother's hair was down out of his signature ponytail and about his shoulders. He couldn't resist.

"What's this? A lovely female in my kitchen?" Itachi flipped him off over his shoulder.

"Kiss my ass little brother." He smirked turning to face him.

"What time did Kai leave?" he asked tilting his head as he leaned against the chair by the oak table.

"Early. She had midterms I think…about four?" he shrugged. "You know how she gets worried about them. She's applying for that internship in the fall with Dad's company. If she doesn't pass these tests she won't get it." Sasuke nodded knowing that their father only hired the best attorneys in the upcoming world.

Shortly after Minato's and Kushina's deaths their father had taken the time to take care of the loose ends that mattered to his friend. His children needed to be taken care of and naturally he'd offered to keep the kids under his roof. However, the will had left the young babes to Minato's old professor and mentor Jiraya. In light of the recent events Jiraya did see it fit to keep all of Minato's business intact with a good firm. He wanted a place where, if either of the children ever wanted to restart their father's firm, that they would be able to do so. Sasuke and Itachi's father had taken Minato's firm and invested it into the heart of their own. They had left a branch however and the entire company's funding in a trust for the children should they ever want to open it back up under the former name. Kai was focusing on doing just that. She'd always loved arguing, much to itachi's annoyance, and she'd conned their dad into getting an internship if she passed her LSAT.

"She's working a bit hard." Itachi chuckled eating some bacon yawning.

"Sasuke, dad never came home when we were kids because he was always working, she'd just doing what lawyers do." That didn't mean that he had to like it.

"I tried calling Naruto all last night. I can't get a hold of him." Sasuke said sneaking over to grab some bacon too. His hand got smacked with the wooden spatula. He cussed shaking it out rubbing it glaring up at his brother.

"Not until it's finished." He snapped wagging a finger at Sasuke. "And Naruto's probably back at the apartment sleeping off his drunken stupor. You could have gone out with him you know instead of leaving." Sasuke rolled his eyes.

"Kai shut the band practice down. I'm not arguing with Miss Mafia Mom." Itachi gave him a droll stare.

"Be nice. She'd trying to be responsible. Not that you…" he poked the younger raven's forehead, "Would understand that concept at all my reckless little brother." Sasuke huffed shoving Itachi's hand away glaring.

"Stop that." He snapped. Itachi laughed.

"Always so hot tempered."

"Fuck off." Sasuke said grabbing a coffee cup from the upper cabinets.

"Love you too." He tilted his head slightly chuckling.

Kai was exhausted and ready to drop by the time she rolled home in her beat up Ford. She'd barely been able to complete her last midterm and on the drive home her eyes had fallen shut nearly three times. Her cell phone had been silent all day. Much to her worry Naruto had not called or texted her all day. The lights were off as she arrived near the apartment she could tell that the garage door hadn't been moved. She had put a flower pot in front of it when she'd left the night before knowing that Naruto would have had to move it to park the car inside. She did little stupid things like that so when she got home she'd know he was there. However, once or twice her intelligent brother had figured out that he could walk home and leave the car at the bar. She'd been greeted by a drunken asshole that she'd had to clean up and put to bed or clean up puke from as far as the kitchen to the bathroom. Balancing her book bag on her left arm she fished for the keys in the bottom of her briefcase sighing. The air was biting with a delicate cold that breathed down the back of her neck making her hair stand on end.

The door popped open easily and she swung it wide with her foot shoving her way in. She dropped all of her things at the door drawing in a tired sigh letting her shoulders fall forward. She headed into the kitchen to grab a glass of water flicking on the lights as she went. Odd. Normally when Naruto came home, even drunk, he turned on the hallway light. She took a long swig from the cheap glass cup and leaned her head through the frame of the kitchen glancing down the hallway. Nothing was on. Setting the glass on the counter she let her fingers roam through her coat pocket for her phone.

"Naruto?" she called down the hallway. There was no answer. No groaning…no anything. She marched down the hallway ready to beat the shit out of him if he thought this was a funny way to punish her. She snapped his bedroom light on washing the room in a bright orange and noticed that the aqua bed sheets weren't touched. The bed was still perfectly tucked and made from the day before when she'd cleaned the house. A shiver ran down her spine. No matter how much they'd fought…Naruto had always come home.

"NARUTO!?" she called about the apartment looking for him. Her fingers dialed on her phone before she'd realized she'd done it.

"Oi, it's late. Why do you always call me when it's late?" Kiba snapped on the other side. "I can't come over tonight, I'm at Ten…" she cut him off.

"Have you seen Naruto?" she rushed out urgently. "Has he texted you? Is he at your place?" there was silence on the other end.

"No…I haven't seen him since yesterday." Worry and terror was starting to seize Kai.

"Call everyone please. He didn't come home." Kiba sounded alert suddenly.

"I will. Hey, do you want me to come over?" she sighed running shaking hands through her hair.

"No. No. I'll call Sasuke and Itachi over…maybe Fukagu…we need someone to hunt Naruto down."

Naruto had never done this before and Kai couldn't handle it. Of all the selfish shitty things he had done over the past few years he knew…he KNEW that not coming home was the worst sort of scum bag thing he could pull. Kai had panic attacks and horrible anxiety; she'd developed this after the death of Jiraya and her parents. They'd already lost so many things they'd loved…three people…and Naruto thought this was a game! She could NOT lose her brother! She wouldn't! She needed Naruto to be alright…he was all she had left.