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It had been a lonely night for a young dark haired man by the name of Zaku. He was sitting alone in a bar, trying to drink himself into oblivion. His finance Kin had kicked him out two nights ago because she found out that he'd fucked one of the stripers from his bachelor party. It didn't help that he'd slapped her on his way out.
Right now his only friend was the bartender who made sure that his glass was always filled with brandy on the rocks. He downed another drink and sighed, "You get drunk and fuck one piece of strange and all of the sudden you're the devil. I tell ya man, women."
Another young man with brown hair sat down next to him and asked, "Would you feel the same way if she'd been the one who cheated on you?"
Zaku responded with a slur, "Hey, I can keep my woman satisfied and in line. Who do you think you are anyways? Butting into my business…"
"My name is Kankuro," the brown haired man said as he pulled out his wallet, "And I'm just a guy who wanted someone to talk to."
Zaku could care less about talking, "Well why don't you go and fuck off. All you're gonna do is kill my buzz."
Kankuro pulled out a fifty dollar bill and put it on the counter, "I was hoping to help your buzz, if you'll let me anyways."
Zaku had a very quick change of heart, "I guess a little company couldn't hurt. So what did you wanna talk about?"
Kankuro's phone went off and he started to pull it out of his pocket, "Well both of us seem to enjoy the company of beautiful women. I suppose that would we could talk about."
Zaku watched the bartender fill his glass back up, "Beautiful women just so happen to be my favorite topic. Do you get a ton of pussy? Back before I got a fiance I did."
"I did okay for myself, but I've got a serious girlfriend now," Kankuro said before he dropped his phone, "Dammit!"
Zaku bent down to pick it up, giving Kankuro a split second to slip something in his drink, "I'll get that for you. You'd better be careful or you're gonna bust this thing."
Kankuro had to fight from smiling as Zaku handed him the phone, "Yeah, I wouldn't want to have to replace this thing. Looks like I got a text from my girlfriend. She wants me to go see a movie with her."
Zaku hated to see the man who was paying for his drinks go, "But you just got here man."
Kankuro waited until Zaku took a sip of his drink and then said, "Oh well, whatcha gonna do? Just keep the fifty, I'll buy your drinks for the night."
Zaku wasn't about to argue with that, "Well shit man, thanks."
Kankuro just started to walk out of the bar, "Don't worry about it. You're clearly having a rough day, so drink that brandy like it's your last."
Once Kankuro was out of the bar, he pulled out his phone to call his brother, "He Gaara, it's your bro. Zaku's gonna be dead before the morning's up. The herbs I used will make it look like he died of alcohol poisoning and the coroner won't be able to tell there was any foul play."
Gaara had a lot of respect for his brothers abilities and always made sure to acknowledge, "Nice job Kankuro. Kin was willing to pay a king's ransom to see that bastard get what was coming to him."
Kankuro was glad he could give Gaara some good news, because now he had to ask the hard question, "So did you or any of the other kings figure out who the traitor was?"
Gaara wished desperately that he could say yes, "No, none of them found even the slightest indication that anyone who works for them was the traitor. Most of the kings didn't even mention Han's painting to anyone."
Kankuro was hoping this could just be over already, "Well that sucks. Is there any chance that one of them could be lying?"
Gaara had already looked into that, "I had Temari do some snooping around. All of the kings did exactly what Naruto asked them to do."
Kankuro hated how complicated this whole thing was becoming, "Naruto better find this guy fast. Lord knows how long we've got before he moves on from Han and starts attacking the other kings."
Gaara was fearing that exactly same thing, "Just be patient and have faith in Naruto. I'm sure he'll figure out who our oppressor is soon. I've gotta go Kankuro, but just sit tight for now."
Kankuro said goodbye and hung up the phone, "Fine, I'll sit tight. Let's just wait and see who's next in this guys hit list. Good luck to that poor sap."
Yagura had been rather pissed off when Naruto texted him and accused his men of being traitors. However, there wasn't anyone in the Nine Kings dumb enough to cross Naruto. Doing that would end up putting a person six feet under. Even though he hated doing it, Yagura looked over every single person in his organization who had information that could screw over Han. None of them were the traitor, just as he'd expected. When Yagura saw Naruto again, he gonna give him a piece of his mind.
The King of Falsified documents was in his office right now, thinking over how he was going to handle all of the issues he was facing right now. He was still convinced that Han was trying to screw the other kings over. Yagura didn't believe that there was any doctor or traitor causing problems for the nine kings. No, it was just Han being a fool and Naruto being too trusting. It was going to take something pretty big to change Yagura's mind about this, and as fate would have it, something pretty big was about to happen.
Zabuza and Kisame knocked on the office door and went inside. Zabuza seemed pretty nervous, "Um Yagura...we've got a bit of a problem."
Yagura groaned, "Oh great, another fucking thing to worry about. Well, lay it on me. What the hell is it now?"
Kisame pulled out some papers and handed them to Yagura, "Well sir, the bank just sent us a some papers to confirm some transactions you were supposed to have made."
Yagura looked over the paper, "I never made any of these withdrawals. Not a single one of them."
Zabuza already knew that, "Well yeah, I kind of figured that out already. With all the various withdrawals, this guy took out a total of 304,562 dollars."
Yagura nearly had a heart attack when he heard that, "What?!"
Kisame had never seen Yagura this mad, "Now just calm down man,"
Yagura snapped, "Calm down? I just lost over 300,000 dollars!"
Zabuza didn't know what to say, "Look, in a situation like this, we've gotta make sure we're thinking straight."
Yagura just kept yelling, "How did they do it? How did these sons a bitches manage to get that much of my money?"
Kisame didn't know how to tell him this, "Hehe...you're not gonna believe this."
Yagura glared at him, "Try me."
Kisame gulped, "Well sir, they got into your account by using...falsified documents."
Yagura's eye started to twitch with rage, "Falsified documents? They used my own skill against me to steal my hard earned cash?"
Zabuza was starting to get a little scared of his boss, "As much as I'd love to sugarcoat it, that's pretty much exactly what happened. This guy had a bunch of documentation that let him get into your account. He was smart enough to go to the banks where you'd never been seen in person too."
Yagura didn't understand, "The only person who could make a fake document good enough to do something like this is me. I can't think of anyone else that would even be able to come close to pulling this off."
Kisame had thought about that, "You've gotta a point, but is there any chance that someone could take an old document you falsified and mess with it so that it can be used against you?"
Yagura thought about it for a second, "Well, it's not a complete impossibility. They'd need to have a lot of business experience to know how make the right changes though."
Zabuza had to suggest, "Hey, do you think that this could be the same guy that's messing with Han?"
Yagura hadn't thought about that, "A doctor just might have business knowledge to figure something like this out, or he may at least know the right people to do it for him."
Kisame really wasn't sure if he should say this, "So does that mean that you believe Han? Do you think that there really is someone coming after the kings?"
Yagura hated to admit it, "As much as I dislike the taste of crow, this does make it seem like Han was telling the truth."
"What the hell does the taste of crow have to do with anything?" Kisame asked.
Zabuza gave his partner a funny look, "Really? That's what you got out of that sentence?"
Things like this didn't even throw Yagura off anymore, "It just means that I'm admitting I'm wrong Kisame."
Kisame felt kind of dumb, "Oh...well why didn't you just say that?"
Yagura smacked his forehead, "For the love of god, will you two just leave so that I can call Naruto?"
Kisame and Zabuza could see that it was time to make their exit, "Of course sir, just call us if you need us."
Yagura sighed as got out his phone, "I swear, if those two weren't so good at killing people…"
Naruto had been in bed when he got the call for Yagura and he was actually pretty happy about it, for a couple of reasons. First, this was proof that Han wasn't lying and that someone really was taking on the kings. Second, this was actually a pretty decent lead to go off from. All they had to do now was figure out which one of Yagura's clients was the problem.
Yagura wasn't nearly as happy about all this. The only thing he cared about was that he'd lost a shit ton of money. Naruto promised Yagura that he'd do whatever he could to get him his money back, and he'd have to be very careful with what cash he had until then. He might have to go and see Kakuzu, who wouldn't cut him a deal even if he was Fu's friend.
it was just a few hours after the call and Naruto was in the back of his restaurant right now, which was where he ran all of his questionable business out of, talking to his assistant Hinata Hyuuga. Hinata was the heiress of Byakugan Investments, a company that used their knowledge about the stock market to buy and sell shares of various companies. For a long time they were the second biggest company in Konoha, but they were top dog now that United Sharingan Defense was going under.
Hinata was working her way through college right now and she managed Naruto's restaurant along with a couple other businesses to get some money and a little bit of experience. She made sure to be at the restaurant every time that Naruto was there. While she did know that Naruto was crazy about Fu, Hinata just couldn't help be crazy about him. Naruto was a great guy, even if he was a criminal.
Yes, Hinata knew that Naruto was a criminal, and she even knew he was the head of the Nine Kings. Hinata had been going through Naruto's cash flow long enough to tell he was taking in more money than he should be. No small town restaurant did this well, which meant he had to be laundering money. It became all the more noticeable when she started working for a couple of his friends and found they were doing the same thing.
Hinata eventually managed to work up the courage to confront Naruto about it, and he didn't even bother to to deny it. In fact, he even told her the entire truth about the real way he made most of his money. Naruto felt Hinata was 'Too smart to do something as stupid as ratting on him.' He was right too, as Hinata just couldn't bring herself to turn him in.
Naruto was telling Hinata his plan of action, "The first thing I did was have Yagura take all of the money out his accounts so that this guy can't get to it again."
Hinata knew there was logic in that, "We don't want him to lose anymore of his money than he already has, now do we?"
Naruto was pacing a little bit, "No, we don't. So now that I've got that done, I'm gonna have my guys find the banks tellers who handled the transactions. There's no guarantee that they'll remember the guy or that he handled all this stuff himself, but it's worth a shot."
Hinata asked him the obvious question, "So what if that doesn't work and you still can't find him?"
Naruto was really hoping it didn't come to that, "Then we're gonna have to go through almost every single person that Yagura's ever sold a fake document to, just to see what we can find. For all we know this guy could've bought those damn papers years ago, so even that is a longshot."
Hinata didn't like their odds on this, "You seem awfully excited about this so called 'Longshot.' Why are you so happy if we've got so little to work with?"
"A little is all I'm gonna need with the team I've got," Naruto said confidently, "If I tell them to do everything I just told you about, I'm positive they'll at least be able to give me something I can work with."
Hinata did know that Naruto's team was damn good, "So the are you going to call the kings now?"
Naruto felt it was too soon, "No, I need to think it through a little bit more. The plan isn't perfected enough for me to bet the lives of those I care about on it."
Hinata couldn't stop herself from frowning a little bit, "Yes, you need to make sure your lover is safe, don't you?"
Naruto knew about Hinata's feelings for him, "Come on Hinata. You know that I care about you too. The two of us would just never have worked out."
Hinata had heard this speech too many times, "I'm not an idiot Naruto. I know that Fu is prettier than I am and that you don't find me attractive."
Naruto couldn't let her think that, "What the hell are you talking about Hinata ? You're one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen. Don't get me wrong, for me Fu will always be the most gorgeous girl in the world, but you're amazing too. Not to be rude here, but you've got some of the best tits and one of the nicest asses I've ever seen. Top that off with a pretty face and you've got yourself one hell of a woman."
Hinata blushed at the way he was talking about her, "Oh...um...thank you Naruto. That's very sweet."
Naruto gave her a toothy grin, "Don't mention it. By the way, could you not tell Fu about everything I just said? She'd kick my ass for saying stuff like that."
Hinata supposed she could do that, "Don't worry Naruto, it'll be our little secret. Of course I'll have to get a raise in my paycheck at the end of the week."
Naruto put his hand on Hinata's shoulder and laughed, "You're beautiful, smart, and funny. Trust me Hinata, you're gonna attract a great guy one of these days. He's just not gonna be me."
Hinata was both filled with pride and sadness, "You're a really nice guy Naruto, even if hwat you do is considered a crime."
Naruto scratched the back of his head, "I have my moments. Now if you'll excuse me, I've got some friends to go and see."
Hinata was very sad to see him go. Naruto was such a good guy, why couldn't he be single? Oh well, she knew deep down that Naruto was right and she needed to move on. Fu and Naruto weren't breaking up anytime soon, so she was gonna have to find her own man. Who knew, maybe it would even be another one of the kings?
Kakashi nearly jumped for joy when Naruto called him and told him about the new lead he'd gotten on the mysterious doctor. After being absolutely lost for so long, it felt great to have something real to go off from. He'd gotten Rin as soon as he could and they started to head right to the closest bank where one of the withdrawals had been made from.
Rin gave Kakashi a little bit of a conversation in the car, mostly thanking him for his help with Naruto, and the two detectives managed to get to the bank very quickly. It was a pretty small place and the parking lot was almost totally empty. Kakashi doubted that the place would have security cameras, but he remained hopeful.
Once they got inside, Kakashi and Rin found that the bank's outside looked nothing its inside. The inside of the bank was rather high end and it clearly had extremely high security. It looked like a small fortress, with guards and vaults all around. Somehow, it didn't surprise Kakashi that this was the the kind of place Yagura stored his money. It was under the radar, but still very safe.
"It really doesn't surprise me that this is the kind of place where Yagura keeps his money," Kakashi said to Rin.
Rin could see what he meant, "Yeah, this place is perfect for him. Completely under the radar, but still very safe. He can hide a lot of money without to many eyes looking at it."
Kakashi nodded and walked up to the teller, showing her his badge, "Excuse me mam, I'm Detective Hatake and this is Detective Nohara. We're with the Konoha police department and we were wondering if we could ask you a few quick questions about a transaction that occurred here a couple of days ago?"
The woman smiled bright at him, like most bank teller she'd been trained to be friendly to everyone who came in, "Of course, as long as it doesn't involve any privileged in information, you can ask anything you like."
Rin couldn't see privileged information being a problem, "Is there any chance you remember a man by the name of Yagura stopping in here?"
The woman grinned, "Of course I remember him! His coming in was a bit of an event actually. Despite how much cash he keeps here, we've never had the pleasure of seeing him in person."
Kakashi got a little excited, "Is there any chance that you could describe the man to us? Hair color, hight, stuff like that?"
The woman thought for a second, "Well, he was about average height, had shortish white hair, and he was kind of skinny. Oh yeah, and he had these huge round glasses too."
Rin couldn't imagine a guy like that should be too hard to find, "Sounds like a pretty hard guy to miss. Now, do you guys have security cameras that saw the guy coming and going?"
The woman gave him a sympathetic look, "Sorry, are security tapes are erased every 24 hours so that we can record new ones. Recording a full a day of footage takes up a lot of memory, so we only bother to save it if anything really unusual happens."
Kakashi really couldn't fault them there, "Fair enough. I suppose your description will be enough. Thanks for your help."
The woman gave them a quick wave goodbye, "Not a problem detective, have a nice day."
Kakashi and Rin walked out and Rin had a small smile on her face, "Well that was easy. I mean there's no way that Yagura would forget someone like that."
Kakashi had to remind her, "That's assuming that whoever it is that's after the kings actually went in there himself. He could've sent someone else."
Rin was still optimistic, "Well he should be an easy guy to track down either way. The guy sounded pretty conspicuous looking."
On that, she and Kakashi could agree, "Yeah, let's go see if Yagura remembers anyone like that."
While the detectives were busy chasing their leads, Madara was setting up the next phase of his plan. He was of course the one who modified the papers that Orochimaru had used to rob Yagura blind. All the old man had to was find the paper Yagura had given him years ago and makes some simple changes to them. Well, they were simple to Madara, but they wouldn't have been all that simple to anyone else.
Now that he had the kings running around like chickens with their heads cut off, he had to get in contact with his family. Madara had to be certain that this plan actually had a chance of working before he told anyone about it, as he didn't want to look like a fool. Once he was sure, he called up his grandson Obito, even though he likely wouldn't be interested, and his great grandsons Sasuke and Itachi.
Sasuke and Itachi were Fukagu's sons, and they'd lost both their parents at a young age when their father killed their mother and then himself. Madara had no clue what the two of them did for a living, but it couldn't have been better than running their families company. Obito played himself off as a private investigator know, but Madara knew in reality he was a career criminal. The man made money doing things others didn't have the balls to do themselves. His experience as a police officer made him damn good at it too, as he knew exactly how to avoid getting caught.
He had the three of them in front of his bed right now, all three of them had the same dark hair and eyes that Madara did and they'd all come in nice clothing so that they wouldn't insult their grandfather. The only real way you could tell them apart was by looking at their hair and faces. Itachi had a thin face with thin with long hair, Sasuke's was a little chubbier and he had shorter more unkempt hair, and Obito had mid length hair and a face that was just a little bit chubbier than Sasuke's.
Madara was pleased that they all came, "Hello you three. It's good to finally see you again. I do hope you all have an active interest in saving our company."
Obito really didn't want to be here, so he asked rather crabbily, "Why in the hell did you make all of us take time out of our lives to talk about a company that's already dead?"
Madara scowled at his harsh words, "I see you still have no respect for the company your ancestors built Obito. Do you even care about everything they sacrificed to build this great empire?"
"To be fair grandfather, the companies days are number. It seems their sacrifices may have been in vain," Itachi reminded him. He was the older of the two brothers, and was the families current voice of reason.
Madara felt a little ridiculous after his grandson said that, "You have a valid point there. However, I have found the solution. I've found something that will undoubtedly save this company and make sure that it's always provided for."
Sasuke, the younger and more rash of the brothers, had a hard time believing that, "I think the company is a little too far gone at this point. Let's face it grandpa, it's time to cut our losses and move on."
Madara gave his great grandson the darkest glare he could manage, "Bite your tongue you brat! This company won't be dying now or anytime soon, because what I've got is foolproof. We're going to take over one of the greatest criminal organizations the world has ever seen. We're about to have complete control of The Nine Kings of Crime, and once we have it, one of you can take over as CEO of the the company and we'll launder the money we make from the The Nine Kings into The United Sharingan defense."
Obito nearly started laughing, "You must be joking. Grandpa, we don't have even close to enough power to take those guys. What are you gonna do, use are old factories to supply an army?"
Madara couldn't believe how little faith his grandchildren had in him, "Not every plan requires guns or knives. I've already begun to set everything in motion. For the past week or so, with the help of a friend, I've been strategically ruining the king's operations."
Now he had Itachi interests, "I see. That does change things slightly, I'll admit. However, I'm already running a business coning old fools out of their cash. For pete seek, I make 80,000 thousand dollars a month, nearly a million dollars a year, and that's a minimum. Why should I risk that on a something that's not even a sure thing?"
Madara didn't follow his logic, "A million a year? That's nothing compared to what I'm offering. You've got a chance to be one of the richest men in the world once it's all said and done. You can't be telling me that you're gonna pass that up?"
Itachi scratched his chin, "While that is a good point, I'm still just not sure."
Sasuke was starting to look more nervous than the others, "I think that Itachi's right. I'm making more than enough cash right now and I'm safe doing it. Why join the high mortality rate world of The Nine Kings if we don't have to?"
Madara felt Sasuke was sounding a little desperate, "You're sounding a little bit nervous here. Surely you could always use more money Sasuke. What do you do for a living anyways?"
"Officially I'm a private investigator," Sasuke said with a little sarcasm, "but of course that's bullshit. Basically, I'm a very special kind of fixer for very wealthy criminals. People pay me a very high price because of how high risk the kind of things I fix are. The kind of stuff I do, you can't hand off to some kind of third rate criminal."
Madara was very glad to find that out, "Now this is a skill that will come in handy. I'm assuming of course that you are with my on this, right Sasuke?"
Sasuke didn't know what to say, but luckily Itachi saved him, "I think I speak for all three of us when I say that we need time to think. This isn't something that we can decide on the fly grandfather."
Madara opened his mouth to argue, but quickly shut it. Perhaps it was smarter to just let them do this willingly. It's not like all three of them would say no. Just to be safe, Madara told them, "For the record, none of you will be at any real risk during this plan. I've seen to it that another person will be blamed for all of it."
Obito felt like he should inquire further, "What if the kings figure out who the guy is and interrogate him until he blabs on you? They'll come after you and fill your decrypted ass with bullets."
Madara had planned way in advance for that problem, "I've gained enough information to burry the Nine Kings. You have no idea what all I had to go through to get information. I had to sell and spend so much just to obtain some of it, but it was worth it in the end. If I die before this plan is complete, my assistant will open my personal safe and give this information to the police. I'd rather they die with me then live once I'm gone."
Sasuke clenched his jaw a little bit, but didn't say what he was thinking, "We'll take that into consideration. Now if you'll excuse me, I've got to go and meet up with an old friend."
Madara looked a little disappointed, "That's too bad. What about you guys, Obito and Itachi? Will you stay with this old man for a little while longer?"
Obito had no desire to spend anymore time than he had to with the man, "Sorry, but I'm afraid I have business to attend to as well. Have a pleasant day though."
Itachi felt a little guilty, so he said, "I guess I could stay for half an hour, but I do have things I need to do today."
"Nice to see one of you still has time for me. You two are free to go I suppose," Madara said with slight irritation.
Obito and Sasuke both wanted to come back with some kind of smart remark, but they really did have things they had to do. They gave Itachi a small nod and then left Madara's bedroom. Sasuke got out his phone the moment they were out of Madara's hearing range and turned to Obito, "Before I make this call, just let me say that there's no way in hell I'd ever work for that senile old bag of wind."
Obito quickly agreed, "Same here. That guy's a real piece of work. I've never seen someone that greedy and egotistical."
Sasuke dialed the phone and put it to his ear, "Tell me about it."
Obito was too curious not to ask, "Who are you calling anyways?"
Sasuke could hear the other end ringing, "For your own safety, don't ask."
Obito could tell that whoever Sasuke was calling would likely make things more complicated, but he wasn't about to get all nosey with his cousin, "Well, if you say so. Just remember, you can always call me if you need help."
Sasuke gave him a small nod before the person he was calling picked up, "Hello?"
Sasuke was glad he picked up so soon, "Hey Naruto, it's Sasuke. Something very big just came up. You and I need to meet up like right now."
Naruto was more than a little surprised by all this, "Well, I guess that we up at my restaurant if you'd like?"
Sasuke wasn't crazy about the sound of that, "I think it'd be better if we just met up at my house. Do you know where is is?"
Naruto knew how to get there, "Well yeah, I sent you those checks last year. It would have been kind of hard to do that if I didn't have your address."
Sasuke had almost forgotten, "Oh yeah. So you'll come then?"
Naruto really didn't have much of a choice, "Sure, I can be there in just about 20 minutes."
Sasuke mulled that over in his mind, "You might just beat me there then. Just tell Sakura you're there to see Sasuke and she'll let you in."
It had been a while since Naruto heard that name, "Sakura huh? How do you think she'll react to seeing me again?"
"You know, I really don't think I could tell you," Sasuke said honestly, "When's the last time you two saw each other?"
Naruto didn't even know, "I can't remember, but I know that it's been a long time. At least six years. You'd better call Sakura and tell her I'm coming."
Sasuke felt that was a pretty good idea, "In that case I'll let you go so that I can call her. I'll see you in like half an hour."
Naruto gave a short goodbye and hung up. Then Sasuke hit his speed dial and got to his next important call. He couldn't wait to see how all of this went.
Back with Kakashi and Rin, things had finally begun to go right for them. Yagura had heard the description of the man who'd made the transactions and didn't even need to think about who it was. The only person he could think of that fit that description was Kabuto Yakushi, a medical student at the hospital Yagura went to a few months back for some X-rays. He'd never sold documents to Kabuto before, but that didn't really matter, no one else fit the description. Like Rin had noted earlier, this was a hard guy to forget.
Once the detectives heard this, they went right into looking into who this Kabuto character really was. It didn't take much digging to see something wasn't right with him. Everyone they question him about at the hospital said the same thing; he practically worshiped a doctor by the name of Orochimaru. If you ever wanted to find Kabuto, just hang with Orochimaru and he'd show up eventually. Orochimaru didn't exactly seem normal either, several people saying the man scared the hell out of them. When they checked him out, things got even stranger. According to his credit card statement, he'd made all kinds of purchases for medical equipment that he kept at his home. What kind of doctor needed medical equipment at his house?
Yet, while all of this was strange, there wasn't really a smoking gun anywhere to be found. It looked like Orochimaru may have ordered Kabuto to go to the bank for him, but there was no way to be sure yet. Kakashi and Rin both agreed that they shouldn't call Kabuto in yet, not until they asked Naruto what he wanted to do. They'd get their ducks in an order and then call Naruto once they were ready. Who knew, maybe there was a small chance, any chance, that Orochimaru would finally be the man they were looking for.
Sasuke Uchiha lived in a small brown house surround by a white picket fence with flowers in the front and there was a nice park just a couple blocks away. It was like something out of a magazine, the perfect place to raise children. Sakura Haruno was hoping to have children in that house one day.
She'd married Sasuke when she was just 19 years old, and for her life was like a fantasy. Sakura was a nurse at a local hospital and she was pretty good at her job. Most of her patients were a little thrown off by her hair though, as it was bright neon pink. Much like Fu, her has color was natural, but almost no one believed her.
You wouldn't find many woman in Konoha who were happier. She felt like she was living in some kind of fairy tail at times. It was the weekend, so she had the day off. That was very convenient, since Sasuke had a friend coming over today. Now she could make everyone some lunch. All she was wearing was a simple red tee-shirt and some jeans, she was trying to remain comfortable.
As she cut up some carrots and threw them into the salad she was making, Sakura heard someone knocking at the door. She of course rushed to go and get it, wanting to make sure that Sasuke's friend didn't want to wait. Sakura opened the door and found a blond man waiting for her, "Hi, you must be Naruto. It's very nice to meet you."
Naruto jumped a little bit at her chipperness, "Um, yeah, I'm Naruto. Do you not remember me or something?"
"Well you do look pretty familiar," Sakura admitted, "But Sasuke said that you were a friend of his, so maybe the two of us met at a party?"
Naruto couldn't believe it, she really didn't remember him. It was all he could do to keep from laughing, "Yup, it was that party you guys had a while back."
Sakura gave him a sweet smile and motioned for him to come in, "Well what are you waiting on? The two of us can wait for Sasuke together."
Naruto followed her inside and mumbled, "Sasuke is not gonna believe this."
The moment Sasuke got home, Naruto pulled him into the hallway and told him about Sakura not remembering him. Sasuke's jaw nearly hit the floor, "You're kidding me right? For god's sake, you chased after her all throughout high school and she actually slapped you when you asked her to prom. She doesn't even know who you are?"
Naruto scratched the back of his head, "I guess the six years that she hasn't seen me in must have fogged her memory. She just thinks I am another one of your friends."
Sasuke rubbed the bridge of his nose, "Wow, she really is a dumb bitch."
Naruto just had to point out, "You're the one who married her, I would've thought you'd know that already."
Sasuke knew that was true, "She was the perfect woman to make my wife. That pretty little idiot will believe anything I say as long as she gets to keep living her fantasy life. People are a lot less likely to suspect someone's a cold blooded killer if he's a family man."
"Well then we better go eat that lunch she made and act like nothing's up. We can talk after we get some food," Naruto recommended.
Sasuke knew that Naruto was right, so he followed his friend to get the food his wife had made. Like Naruto said, he needed to keep this ruse up if he wanted to keep doing what he was doing without getting caught. Given all of things Sasuke had 'fixed,' he really didn't feel like getting caught.
The three of them had a pleasant meal along with plenty of nice conversation. Sakura had asked Naruto how he knew Sasuke, which Naruto just answered by saying he was a client of Sasuke's, not entirely a lie really. Naruto then asked Sakura how she and Sasuke had gotten together, causing her to spin a whimsical tale of her being swept off her feet by her amazing and caring husband once they got out of high school. Sasuke mostly sat there quietly wanting to laugh at how strange the whole interaction really was.
Finally all of them finished their soup and salad and Sakura left to run a few errands. Before she left Sakura comment on how much she'd enjoyed Naruto's company and said that she hoped to see him again. Once she was out the door, the two friends began to laugh.
"Oh man, that was just hilarious!" Naruto historically roared.
Sasuke was having almost the exact same reaction, "Four years of hating your guts or spitting on your feet and then she just forgets who you are? Oh man that's priceless!"
Once they had their laughter under control, Sasuke finally told Naruto why it had been so urgent that he saw him, "Before we start, I just have to ask...you know that you can trust me, right?"
Naruto was taken back by the question, "You were one of my only friends in high school and you've been my extreme issue fixer since I started the Nine Kings. You've been my best friend for the past ten years. Of course I trust you."
Once Sasuke heard that, he knew he could start. He needed to remember everything that his grandfather had told him because his friends life depended on it. Naruto's eyes just got wider and wider as the story went on. It was like listening to some kind of horrible dream that Naruto couldn't wake up from.
Sasuke could see just how worried Naruto was by looking at his face, "And that's about it. Basically Madara's got you all by the short hairs right now."
Naruto had a thousand thoughts running through his mind, "Is there any chance he's bluffing? I mean he could say he had the information so that you and your family would work with him, but he might really not have anything."
Sasuke tapped his finger on the desk nervously, "That's a possibility, but is it a risk you're willing to take? How much information do you think it would take to finish off you and your friends?"
Naruto gulped a little bit, "Not much. If Yamato smells blood in the water, he's going for the kill. Even the slightest bit of information on us might just get Yamato what he needs to tear our operation a new one."
Sasuke really felt sorry for the guy, "So what are you gonna do? You can't just kill Madara, at least not until you find and destroy that information he had."
"This is really gonna take some time to figure out," Naruto said as his phone started to ring, "Oh man, this better be some good fucking news."
Naruto answered the call, but it didn't last very long. He listened carefully to what the person on the other end was saying and then responded, "Don't do a damn thing about it Kakashi. Get all of the kings at Choji's place right now and wait for me to to get there. Just tell them that we've got a major break in the case and that it's very important that we all get together. I've got nothing else to say right now, so I'll call you later."
Naruto hung up and Sasuke asked, "So you're gonna warn all of them about Madara, good plan. What else?"
Naruto grabbed his coat, "Fuck if know. I'm just gonna wing this whole thing for now until I can think of something better."
Sasuke got up and put his hand on Naruto's shoulder, "Knowing you, you'll pull some crazy ass plan out of nowhere and fix all of this."
Naruto just smirked at the compliment, "Madara doesn't know what's coming for him. I'm pure raw chaos and I've got my sights set on him."
