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Author's notes: Gah! I'm so sorry for my lack of updates! I'll do my best to make up for it! Okay. I'll answer the reviews first.

Yuen-chan: Ouch. That hurts. Anyway, I'm sorry if I didn't put on some love scenes here. But that's what this chapter would be about. I'll try to put on love scenes here, alright? I'm not good at fluff so please don't expect me to put on a good love scene here. I'm more on fighting scenes. But thanks for the review!

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Chapter 4: Surprise Attack! Chuunin Exams Cancelled?!

'Sasuke... tomorrow... we'll meet again... tomorrow...' Naruto thought before drifting off into sleep.

The next day, as the sun reached its rising peak, a certain onyx-eyed Uchiha stood up from bed and leaned on the wall as he held his head on his palm.

'Was Naruto really here last night? I hope that wasn't a dream.' Sasuke thought as he placed his forehead protector on and went outside his house as he started walking towards the red bridge to clear his thoughts.

At the same time, the blond haired shinobi of hidden nature had just slipped out of bed and placed on his cloak, which had dried over the night. He was about to slip out of the window when a cool voice called.

"Going out again without telling your teammates, Naruto-san?" Fei coolly said as she sat down on her bed.

"Fei, I don't have time for your contradictions. We don't have the same mind and you know that." Naruto said as he refused to look at his female teammate.

"I'm not contradicting your actions, Naruto-san. I'm just telling you to at least tell us that you're going out so that we may not get worried again." Fei said.

Naruto closed his eyes. "As if the two of you care about the fox demon."

Fei suddenly bolted up from bed and glared at Naruto's back harshly. "Naruto-san, how many times do we have to tell you that you are NOT the fox demon? You are you and the fox is the fox! You two are different! And we DO care! We're your teammates! Your friends!" She exclaimed.

Naruto turned around to face her and smiled. "Arigato Fei-chan."

Fei glared at him harder. "I told you to not call me Fei-chan."

"Fine. Fei, thanks for caring."

Fei smiled. "It's alright. Where are you going anyway?" She asked. Naruto stiffened as he refused to respond. The female shinobi smiled.

"You're going to visit him again?"

Silence.

"You still love him, ne?"

"...yes."

"Oh come on! There's nothing wrong in loving another guy if you really love him. As long are your intentions are good, you'll do fine." She said as she lied down on her bed again.

"You better go now. I don't want to spoil the romantic atmosphere, right?"

Naruto smiled at her once again. "Thanks Fei."

"You're welcome. Go on."

Naruto then jumped off the window, smiling. At least he has another friend who understands him.

He decided to walk slowly in order to savor the peacefulness of Konoha. For he knows that this won't last long for he need to go back to Hidden Nature after the exams. He kicked a pebble on the way.

As he reached the red bridge, he suddenly came face to face with the onyx- eyed boy... the Uchiha that he loves with all his heart. The Uchiha was surprised to see him as well. Both of them walked towards the middle of the bridge and leaned on the opposite posts as they looked at each other's features.

The Uchiha has to admit, Naruto has grown so much over the years. The once spiked-up blond hair now fell down to the top of his shoulders with his forehead protector on his arm.

Sasuke saw that Naruto has really grew taller. But then smirked as he noticed that he was still taller than him. Well... maybe by a few inches. Before, Naruto's head just reached up to his eyes, and now, even though he himself grew a lot taller, Naruto still managed to reach up to his eyebrows.

Naruto's eyes were also no longer the container of happiness and giddiness. It now holds wisdom and power.

Naruto gazed at Sasuke before him. Sasuke has also grown taller over the years, and so did he. But it still frustrates him to know that he's still smaller than him. Sasuke's eyes and hair were still both the same.

His hair was just longer by an inch. But the bangs seemed to reach an inch lower that the shoulders. Sasuke had grown more lean but muscular over the years and Naruto could describe him with one word.

Handsome.

However, the silence soon became unbearable to the two. One of them has to start the conversation soon. But Sasuke was the silent type who is not really in to making conversations and Naruto was too shy this time to make a decent conversation.

"So... uhh... Sasuke... you wanna walk somewhere...?" Naruto started as he mentally smacked himself.

'Stupid me! After the incident last night, I doubt he'll even agree to walk with me, even speak with me. I think I really deserve the title dead last.' Naruto thought as he tried to remain his gaze on Sasuke.

Unexpectedly, Sasuke nodded.

"Sure."

The two started to walk in silence as the cold morning wind flew around them. The silence began once again and Naruto was becoming pissed off. He was about to open his mouth to start another conversation but then Sasuke took over.

"Why?" It started off as an almost inaudible voice but Naruto heard him. He cocked his said to the side to stare at him.

"Huh?"

"Why? Why did you leave? Where did you go? What happened to you all these years?" Sasuke asked with a dull voice.

'Hn. A bastard will always be a bastard.' Naruto thought.

"Okay. But before I answer your questions, I would like us to be in a truce." Naruto said. Sasuke nodded.

"Fine."

Naruto nodded. "Alright. As of why, I told you that it is to train myself. I traveled for quiet some time until I reached Hidden Nature Village, or in other terms, Shogakure. (a/n: 'Sho' means nature in English, right?) I stayed there for a week until I met the Shokage. Shokage was another small country with one small village. The Shokage knows about the kyuubi, but he still took me in. I became a genin of hidden nature with my teammates: Fei and Hoshi. Now we're here to participate in the chuunin exams." He explained.

Sasuke nodded. "But that doesn't explains on why you left everyone... why you left me." He mumbled.

"What were you saying, Sasuke?"

Sasuke shook his head. "Nothing, dobe."

Naruto smiled. "Well it was nice seeing you again, bastard. But I gotta go back to the hotel now. My teammates, more specifically Fei, will be mad at me for staying out for so long. See you then!"

With that, Naruto turned his back and with a simple hand seal, he disappeared from sight. Sasuke sighed as he smiled to himself. "The dobe is still a dobe."

Kakashi suddenly appeared beside Sasuke in a puff of smoke with a worried expression on his face. "Sasuke, come quickly!" He exclaimed.

"What do you want, Kakashi-sensei?"

"Hokage-sama has been attacked!" Kakashi exclaimed.

"Aa. Now? Hokage-sama should have disposed of them by now. He's a ho-" Sasuke was cut off.

"Sasuke, this is serious! The shinobis were not ordinary. Their skill can rival even a hokage's. They have been defeated but the hokage was wounded severely! They don't even have a forehead protector. They also said that they want you. So you need to be placed under my care. The hokage also wants to talk to you." Kakashi said. His normal calm expression was changed by a worried one.

Sasuke nodded. "Alright."

"It is also said that the chuunin exams have been cancelled due to this incident." Kakashi added.

"What?!"

"Hokage's decisions."

"Fine."

At Naruto's place...

"Oi! Fei! Hoshi! We're going to the Hokage's Office now to get our passes." Naruto said. Fei and Hoshi suddenly glared at him.

"What do you mean get our passes?! Don't tell me that we don't have one yet!" Hoshi exclaimed.

Naruto laughed nervously and nodded. "Yeah..."

Fei started cracking her fists. "Naruto... I am so going to kill you..."

"Sorry! Sorry! Okay! That's why we're going to the Hokage's!"

"Puh! Fine then!"

The three of them walked out of the hotel and started to head towards the Hokage's office.

=Hokage's Office=

Poof!

"Hokage-sama, Sasuke's here now." Kakashi said as Sasuke bowed slightly in respect. The hokage nodded as he lied down on his bed.

"I assume that Kakashi has already told you about the situation."

Sasuke nodded. "Yes Hokage-sama."

"Very well. You are now going to stay under the care of you sensei, Hatake Kakashi, until this issue is sorted out."

"Hai. Hokage-sama."

"You may leave."

But just as they were about to leave the room, the windows suddenly shattered as another bunch of shinobis in black entered the room.

Kakashi stood before the Hokage and placed on a defensive stance. "Sasuke, go and call for the guards outside. I'll protect Hokage-sama." He said.

One of the shinobis laughed as Kakashi narrowed his eyes at him. "What's so funny?"

"It's just that it's useless to call for the shinobis outside." The shinobi said. "And why is that?"

"Let's just say that they are now cold and not breathing." The shinobi said in a mocking voice.

Sasuke's eyes widened.

=Outside=

Naruto and his team were near the hokage's office when the three of them felt something wrong. The three of them squinted their eyes and gasped as they saw a bunch of shinobis lying on the ground.

The three nodded at each other and dashed towards the bodies.

"Fei, Hoshi, how are they?" Naruto asked.

The two shook their heads. "They're all dead, Naruto-san." Fei said. Hoshi stood up as he heard a crashing sound. The other two nodded as they left the bodies and hurriedly entered the building.

"Fei, Hoshi, search the building and see if there are more wounded people. If there are, treat their wounds or bring them to the hospital. I'll go to the hokage's office. Is that clear?" Naruto instructed.

The other two nodded. "Crystal."

"Spread out!"

=Office=

"What do you really want?" Kakashi asked as he lifted his forehead protector to reveal his sharingan. Sasuke activated his sharingan as well.

The shinobis snickered. "Ahh... the sharingan. That is exactly what we wanted. We want Uchiha Sasuke."

With that, all of the shinobis attacked at the same time.

'Damn! Kakashi didn't say that they rival a hokage for nothing.' He thought as one of them managed to hit him with a kunai in the arm.

"Sasuke! Protect the hokage!" Kakashi instructed.

"Hai!" Sasuke immediately stood in front of the hokage. The hokage was currently fragile and can't even move to defend himself. These unknown shinobis are really strong that even Kakashi himself is having trouble keeping them away.

As the trouble grew, Naruto finally heard all of the 'clangs' of the kunais and the 'swishes' of the shurikens. He finally reached the door of the hokage's room and didn't waste time to open the door.

"Hokage-sama!" Naruto earned all the stares of the shinobis as he opened the door with a slam. Naruto saw the shinobis in black and noticed that they were the assassination squad of Hidden Nature. "Naruto!" Kakashi, Sasuke, and Sarutobi said at the same time. Naruto ignored them and glared at the shinobis in black.

"All of you! What the heck are you all doing here?! Attacking the Hokage of Hidden Leaf!" Naruto exclaimed at the foreign shinobis.

The shinobis in black trembled at Naruto's voice. "Na-Naruto-sama..."

'Naruto-sama? What do they mean?' Kakashi thought.

Naruto turned to glare at the seemingly leader of the squad. "Yuroku!" He called coldly. The shinobi shook in fear.

"H-Hai... N-Naruto-sama...?"

"What is the assassination squad of the Shokagure doing here?! I want an answer now!" He exclaimed.

"They are Hidden Nature shinobis, Naruto?" Kakashi asked. Naruto nodded.

"Yes Hatake-san. They are the assassination squad of hidden nature. And now..." The glared at all of the nature-nins in front of him. "What are you all doing here?"

The nature-nins gulped in fear.

"Answer me!"

At last, Yuroku took a step forward and answered. "N-Naruto-sama, p-please forgive us. We were just doing what we were told."

"Just get straight to the damn point, Yuroku! You don't want to make me angry now, do you?"

Yuroku shook his head violently. "No Naruto-sama. Sorry. Well... Shokage-sama ordered us to come here and assassinate the Hokage and Uchiha Sasuke before the Chuunin exams start."

Naruto's eyes widened. "WHAT?!"

The nature-nins cowered in fear. "Why would Shokage-sama order such a thing?! I never knew about this! And what kind of ninjas are you?! Cowering like babies! Rise up and face me!" Naruto commanded.

Just then, Asuma, Kurenai, and Gai were already there, assisting the hokage, Kakashi, and Sasuke. They were all shocked at Naruto's superior tone of voice.

"We are just doing what we are ordered to do, Naruto-sama. And more importantly," Naruto's glare intensed as he saw how wounded Sasuke was. The other shinobis gulped. "We cannot disobey our orders. What we know is that Shokage-sama plans to start a war and..."

Slash!

Yuroku fell down on the ground. Fei appeared behind him with a katana on her hand as she glared at the body.

The other shinobis ran away in fright.

"Hn. What a bunch of cowards. I can't just stay hidden there listening to all of shokage-sama's evil schemes." She said as she placed the katana back to its sheath.

"Where's Hoshi?"

"At the hospital. Assisting the other wounded shinobis."

"Naruto, what's going on here?" Gai asked.

Naruto didn't even spare them a glance as his eyes turned fox-like and claws started to take form on his hands.

"Shokage-sama... you don't know how much you are angering me so."

With that, Naruto fainted on the spot. As Sasuke stared wide-eyed at all that has happened, he felt his own energy getting drained as he fell unconscious as well.

"Young lady," Kurenai called.

"The name's Fei."

"Fine. Fei, bring them to the hospital." Kurenai ordered.

"Hn. My pleasure."

=Few hours later=

"Augh... huh?" Naruto sat up on the bed as he looked at where he was.

'The hospital?'

"Naruto-niichan! You're awake!" Hoshi called as he and Fei entered the room. "We were so worried!"

Naruto nodded. "Thanks for your concern. Anyway, what happened? Why am I in the hospital?" He asked.

"Fei can explain those."

Fei then took a seat as stared at him. "Well... right after I killed Yuroku, you collapsed and..."

Naruto then remembered what has happened. The assassination squad, Kakashi, Hokage-sama, Sasuke...

Sasuke!!!

"...The doctor said that you had emotional stress and..."

Naruto suddenly bolted up from the bed. "Sasuke!"

Hoshi and Fei quickly stood up and tried to make Naruto relax. "Where's Sasuke?! What happened to him?!" He demanded.

"Calm down, Naruto-san! Uchiha Sasuke is resting in the other room and... wah!!! Naruto-san!" Fei shrieked as Naruto ran out of the room and entered Sasuke's room.

"Sasuke!"

"Naruto-niichan! You shouldn't be standing up yet! More or less making noise. You're inside the hospital." Hoshi reminded.

"No. I'm staying here."

"But..."

"You cannot change my mind, Hoshi."

Hoshi sighed in defeat. "Fine, fine. Stay there. I'm going back to the hotel." He said as he closed the door behind him.

Naruto sighed and looked at Sasuke's peaceful sleep. 'Sasuke... I'll be here.'

=Four days later=

The bright light entered through the curtains as the Uchiha woke up from his sleep and groaned. He looked around and noticed that he was in a hospital.

As he looked at his side, he saw a blond boy sleeping with his head resting on the table. "Naruto...?" "Oh. You're awake now, Uchiha-san." A nurse said as he came inside and made a small check up on him.

"Good! You're recovering faster than expected. You'll be out here within two days." The nurse said with a smile.

"Uhh excuse me..."

"Yes?"

"How long have I've been asleep?"

"Four days, dear."

"What is he doing here?" Sasuke asked as he looked at Naruto.

The nurse smiled. "Oh. That boy? He's another patient here that's supposed to stay in the next room. But oh how he refuses to go back to his room and stay here. He is so stubborn that we just agreed and took his check ups in this room as well. He's watching you day and night, you know? He's a very good friend. You're very lucky." The nurse said as she exited the room.

Sasuke looked at the sleeping Naruto and noticed the dark circles in his eyes. 'He was there for me?'

"...Sasuke..."

Author's notes: Well how is this? Not much of romance huh? You can't even count it as romance. I think I fastened it too much. But how is this chapter. This was kind of random, so... sorry. But I hope that you like it. I'm sorry for grammatical errors as well. Please review!