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Okay, so here's the summery:

Summery: Years pass, Sakura has changed, Naruto has changed too, even his looks are different, and Sasuke returns to find everyone has changed. What happens when things go wrong? Can Sasuke adjust, and can Naruto get used to his ex-friends return? And what the heck is Sasuke hiding anyways? FIND OUT!!!

Oh, and I know I'm mean, I don't need anyone to tell me, this chapter proves it. You'll see what I mean later. Oh, and this chapter is the first one that I decided I should do something funny in.


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In the interrogation room, Sasuke lay panting on the floor. He had finally finished telling them everything they had wanted to know, it had taken a while. He hadn't actually told them everything they wanted to know, they still didn't know why he left the bastard, but they weren't even allowed to ask, so that was fine. The pain in Sasuke's body started to fade. It had hurt so much when he couldn't remember something, but they had added a few seals so that it wouldn't hurt as much as it usually did. They had only done it as a favor to the Hokage.

The room they were in was almost all black, except for the glowing seals on the floor, which were the only source of light in the room. They had been here for hours, it had taken them so much time to cover all the things that they needed to know. They had started their questioning from when he had left, all the way up to right before he left Orochimaru. When they had asked one of their many "What happened next?" Sasuke had said, "I left," and left it at that. They had to confirm that was it, so the asked straight out if the next thing that happened was what had made him leave. He said, "Yes," and didn't feel any pain for it. So they knew he was telling the truth.

The lights coming on made Sasuke look up from where he lay on the floor. Most of the men in the room that had been questioning him had already left through some doors Sasuke hadn't seen in the room when he had first walked in. All the men were wearing ANBU masks. One of the men still in the room walked over to him and offered a hand to him so that he could help him off the floor.

Sasuke looked at the hand that had been offered to him. After a moment he took the hand, thinking it was better then arguing. The moment he touched the hand, he felt a slight lurch in his stomach. It felt like his stomach was doing flips. He didn't know why he felt so strange, and more importantly, he didn't know why the man under the mask seemed so familiar, even without him saying anything, or even seeing his face. The man just seemed so familiar, but he couldn't remember ever seeing a slender man with long hair before. The blond of the hair seemed oddly familiar too. It was strange, but he had an odd urge to hug the stranger, and he had never had that feeling, not since he had seen Sakura.

The man turned Sasuke around and started pushing him to the door. 'What the hell?! Stop pushing me! I get it! I get it! Sheesh, it's time to go, I get it. Stop! Alright already!' He thought in annoyance as the man kept pushing him toward the door that Sasuke came in through earlier.

"Get moving moron." Came a voice that sounded very much like it was laughing at him.

'Who the hell is this guy, DAMN IT! STOP PUSHING ME!' Growling slightly he headed for the door.

Sasuke was finally at the door with the man still pushing him. The man grabbed the door for him and ushered him through it.

Once out the door Sasuke was met by a very worried Sakura and Tsunade. They both looked at him and hugged him in turn. Even Tsunade hugged him.

"How did it go? I was so worried! I thought for sure you had forgotten something and were in a lot of pain in there. I was so--" she stopped in mid-sentence as she and Tsunade caught sight of the ANBU member beside him. They both stared for a moment, slightly shocked to see him. They hadn't even known he was back yet. Tsunade was the first to break the silence.

"Ah… When did you get back," she asked with a slight smile on her face. "Naruto."

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"Na-na-Naruto?" Sasuke stuttered. He couldn't believe that the masked man was Naruto, it absolutely could not be him. Naruto had been so close but hadn't let Sasuke know it was him. No it couldn't be. He would never let Sasuke just sit there without telling him he was there, not after four years.

"Well… uhm… maybe you should take the mask off. I don't think Sasuke thinks it's really you. It looks more like he thinks we're lying to him." Tsunade said as she looked at Sasuke's face, he had a strange, slightly horrified and slightly disbelieving look on his face. It was almost enough to make her lose her compose, and burst out laughing. The young man had almost never shown any emotion in the past, it seemed that his time with the pale sannin was enough to make Sasuke get an attitude adjustment.

Doing as the old woman asked, Naruto took off his ANBU member mask. The moment Sasuke saw his face, it made his heart break. For so many years, he wanted to see those eyes again. For so many years, he wanted to see those marks on his cheeks, and now he finally got to see them again, but there was one more thing that Sasuke wanted to see that he didn't get to, and that was Naruto's smile. He had wanted to see those eyes gleaming with happiness and that smile that held all the emotions in the world, but now all he saw was a blank look. One that had almost no emotion. The only emotion that it did hold, startled him. It was anger.

Sasuke backed up slightly at the look. It was so… dark. It wasn't a look he had ever thought the other man could make. It scared him. It scared him because he knew it was directed at him. 'This makes no sense. He was laughing in there. He was laughing while he pushed me... While I--' his thoughts froze as he realized why Naruto had been laughing. 'He was laughing because I was uncomfortable with him touching me.' The realization made him want to cry, but he wouldn't let that happen. He wouldn't cry in front of so many people. He wouldn't give Naruto that satisfaction.

Tsunade and Sakura watched the looks on the two boy's faces. When they had first seen Naruto, they thought that he wasn't going to be angry. They had thought that their worries that they had had over the past two days about what would happen when he saw Sasuke were wrong. Seeing the look on the blonde's face let them know that their fears of the last few days weren't wrong at all. He looked almost as though he could hit Sasuke.

"Na-Naruto--" to their shock, Sasuke was interrupted by Naruto's fist connecting with his jaw. Frozen in their shock, they almost didn't intercede in time to stop Naruto in his lunge at Sasuke. They managed to tackle him at the last moment.

"GET OFF ME!" He screamed, thrashing as he tried to get to the bastard that had tried to kill him and had abandoned him. "GET THE FUCK OFF ME!" He was so angry. He couldn't believe that the bastard, that had done so much to hurt him, had come back. He had tried to kill him years ago. He had abandoned him, and now the bastard was back again. He had come back after all these years. "LET ME GO! I'M GOING TO KILL HIM!"

"THAT'S ENOUGH!" Tsunade yelled, finally having enough of the blonde's anger. If it weren't for the fact that she knew why he was angry, she would have been really pissed, but she knew. He had yelled about it over three years ago, when he finally realized that Sasuke had really left him. It had broken his heart, and made him almost as moody as the Uchiha himself used to be.

"Let. Me. Up." He said through gritted teeth. How could they just sit there while that asshole was there? After everything that he had done to them? After everything he had put them through? Why weren't they just as mad as he was?

Gritting his teeth, he forced himself to calm down. After a few moments he had finally managed it. "I'm fine now, you can let me up," he told them. Glaring at the ceiling as though it were ceiling's fault that he had lost his temper.

Tsunade and Sakura looked at him for a moment. After a few seconds, they decided that it was safe and they slowly let him up. As he stood up, he made it a point not to look at Sasuke, if he wasn't allowed to kill the bastard, then he didn't have to acknowledge him either. Turning on his heels he walked off without saying a word.

"Are you alright?" Sakura asked, extending a hand. She had half hoped that Naruto would simply forgive Sasuke and make up with him, but she hadn't been completely stupid. She had at least thought that it was a possibility for him to get that angry. Sakura knew he was angry now, but she also knew that he would get over it.

Sakura looked at Sasuke, waiting for him to answer her. After a few moments he just nodded. He didn't feel much like speaking, but he knew he would have to.

"What the hell was that about?" He asked, trying to sound mad, but only managed to sound slightly sad.

"It's a long story. Naruto kind of took it really hard when you left. At first he just kept on looking for you, and was convinced that you would come back to us, or rather, that you would come back to him. He kept saying that you would never abandon him. That you wouldn't leave him alone." She paused then, wondered how best to describe the next part. She knew Sasuke wasn't going to like hearing it, but he needed to. He had just nearly found himself on the wrong end of one of Naruto's bad moods. Sakura thought that he should at least know the reason why.

"He eventually started to change. Over the months that followed you leaving, he slowly started to become more and more depressed. After a while, he seemed kind of distant. Then one day, I told him that we had gotten a mission to find information on you. It was a mission that just a month earlier he wouldn't stop asking to have, but that day, he just stood there, and didn't say anything, when I finally asked him if he had heard me, he said…"

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"What's the point? It's not like he wants to be here anyways." Naruto said as he stood there, looking out over the river he had fought Sasuke on so long ago. All he felt was emptiness. Less then emptiness. Emptiness was a feeling, he didn't even have that. He didn't feel anything.

"Wh-what? Bu-but we have to bring him back! This is where he belongs! With us, not with that snake bastard!" Sakura couldn't believe what Naruto had just said. He always wanted to go looking for Sasuke. Why was he acting this way? He wanted Sasuke back just as much as she did. It made no sense for him to be acting this way.

"What's the point in bringing him back if he's just going to leave again? He doesn't want to be here. He doesn't care about Konoha, he doesn't care about you, and he doesn't care about me." His voice never changed at he said those words. Nothing in him said anything other than he had given up. He no longer wanted to bring Sasuke back. He just wanted to forget everything that had happened.

"But he's our friend! He's my friend and he's you-"

"HE IS NOT MY FRIEND!!" Naruto turned to her, yelling at her as he did so. "He doesn't care about you or me, that bastard doesn't care what happens to us! Or did you forget? He can't be much of a friend since he TRIED TO KILL ME!" He yelled out everything that he had been feeling for so long. Every little thing that he had thought since he watched his friend leave. "If I ever see him again, I'll kill him," and with that he left her in silence. All she could do, was stare after him.

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They were silent as she finished her story. She knew that it probably hurt Sasuke to hear what Naruto had said, but if he didn't hear it now, he would eventually. It was common knowledge by now, and trying to hide it from him was stupid.

"After that, no one was able to talk to Naruto about you, he would either walk away when they tried, or he would get violent. After a while, people just stopped talking about it all together. It wasn't something that you discussed near Naruto, unless you fancy a meeting with me in the hospital while I try and keep you alive." Tsunade said this thinking that it was best to explain the rest for Sakura; she didn't exactly look like she wanted to finish the story.

Sasuke just stood there, thinking about the information he had just received. He really didn't think he could stand anything else at that moment. He just wanted to go back to his room and huddle under the covers, and with that thought in mind, he headed for his room, leaving the two women in the hall, thinking about his ex-rival.

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At the same time in an unknown bar…

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He was starting to get pissed. He had been there for over four hours and the bastard's goon still hadn't shown up. When he had gotten word that Orochimaru wanted to have a chat with him about some nuisances, he had almost laughed, when he found out that the bastard wasn't going to be meeting him himself, it had pissed him off. Sad to say, like what happened when Orochimaru always got mad, the poor fool of a messenger didn't ever make it back to Orochi's place. 'The bastard probably told his shit-head servant to be here a little late just to piss me off. Old snake-head had better not have sent some sniveling little punk like last time, I'm already pissed, I don't need more reason to kill someone. If that's what he wants me to do, he could always just say so.' Lost in his thoughts he almost missed what he had been waiting for.

What looked to be a woman walked through the door. She didn't seem like much. She had on a pair of old jeans, a tank-top, and black boots; she almost looked like every other woman in the place, in fact, she wouldn't have caught his eye if it weren't for the fact that she had a cursed seal right on her forehead. It was a slightly jagged version of the one he knew was on that Uchiha brat's shoulder. He thought about what the other messenger had said about this chick. He had said that the second messenger had two cursed seals. Which made her unique in its self because she was the first person to ever survive it twice. 'Where the hell is the other mark?' He smirked, thinking that he knew exactly where the mark was.

Spotting the man at his seat, she walked straight over to him, smiling the entire time. 'She must dig me. Old fork-tongue wouldn't have asked her to smile, he'd say be vindictive as hell, but never smile.' With that thought, he greeted the beauty that stood before him.

"Hey, you must be the chick I heard about. You're a bit better looking than I thought, Old snake head knows I like broads, ain't never sent a babe out to see me. Glad to see he changed some," he said all this while trying to get a good look down her shirt. Considering she had on a tank-top, it wasn't that hard. 'Man, this babe's got some knockers,' he thought putting his hand on her back and pulling her up to his body on the stool so that she could feel him growing through his pants. "Glad Oroch' sent a babe, this way we can party after we're done," he said in his deep, gruff voice.

At this, the messenger smiled, it was more then just funny at that moment, it was down right hilarious. 'He's just rubbing himself against me like some whore, the boss was right, this would be funny.' The only reply that came to the messengers thoughts, as he felt the man grinding himself against him was, "Who says he sent a woman?" in his own, deep voice.

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At Ichiraku ramen stand…

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Naruto sat there thinking, 'Why the hell is he back? Ain't like he was doing any goof last time he was here. Couldn't he just go fuck his buddy Orochi' and leave me the hell alone. Hasn't he put me through enough?' He had been thinking the same thing over and over again. it had already been three hours since he left the pale man in the hall with his two friends. 'And what the hell are they doing with him? He left ALL OF US! Why are they being so nice to that trader?' He didn't understand it. He didn't get why they would just suddenly be nice to the guy who had turned his back on them. He didn't see what made them want to do it again. It just didn't make any sense.

"Hey, Naruto!"

Turning to see who had called his name, Naruto was met by a happy, familiar face.

"IRUKA-SENSEI! When did you get back?" Naruto asked, as he happily hugged his sensei, who was also his other sensei's husband.

"Just a few hours ago, the field-trip was a blast, too bad we didn't do it while you were still at the academy. So, how have you been?"

"Good. What about you and Kakashi-sensei? How are you guys doing?" He asked, trying to keep his face pleasant. The fact was, he wasn't doing good. Sasuke was back, and he might be a spy, and no one was doing anything about it. It pissed him off to no end, but he wasn't about to blow up in Iruka's face. He didn't deserve that, not after how great he had treated Naruto over the years. He could pretend to be happy for him.

"It's going great, Kakashi is still being just as much a perv' as he ever was. He still tends to read those books, and to go spying on the people in the bath houses, if I hadn't known that he was a lecher before I started seeing him, I probably would have left him by now," Iruka said all this with a smile. He really loved Kakashi, even if he was a pervert, at least he was his pervert.

Naruto smiled at his old sensei's happiness. It was so evident that he was in a happy marriage. Which was strange, considering no one thought that Kakashi would last that long. Everyone had thought that his peeping would eventually piss off Iruka to the point where he would leave him, but he had stood by his pervert, even when it sometimes made him angry.

"That's good to hear."

"Hey, do you want something to eat? My treat."

"I already ate, but I'm bored, so you can be my victim for the next few hours." Naruto said, half laughing. He knew that he could be a pain sometimes, but he couldn't help it, recently he just felt like being angry all the time.

"Sure, Kakashi's busy with something for the Hokage, but he wont tell me what it is. It's strange, he usually tells me. I wonder what it could be." He stood there thinking about it for a few seconds before Naruto decided that he could at least tell him that Sasuke was back, even if he did prefer to tell him that the bastard was in hell.

"He's probably out watching Sasuke. He came back while I was gone and from what I heard, Kakashi-sensei has been watching him since then." He said all this with the barest bit of annoyance. He really didn't like Sasuke.

"He's back?" Iruka seemed almost as shocked as Naruto had been in the interrogation room. "He's not a spy, is he?"

Naruto shook his head at the shocked man. "I don't know, but if he is, I'll be the one to kill him. He shouldn't have been let back into the village after what he did." He was getting angry again. It was something he hadn't wanted to happen, but any talk about Sasuke usually did that to him.

Iruka just looked at the blond. He couldn't even bring himself to be shocked, it was common knowledge that Naruto felt this way. He had hoped that seeing Sasuke would make him like who used to be, the way he was before this new, angry Naruto appeared. "Naruto, you should really give him a chance, I mean, he did come back, who knows what he might have gone through, he might be hurting."

Naruto sighed, he knew that the older man had a point, but he was still so angry for what Sasuke had done. He couldn't just forgive him, could he? "I know, but I still can't forgive him, he put Sakura and me through so much. He really hurt me, Iruka. I don't know if I could ever forgive him…"

"Are you sure that's what you want? To always hate him? To never be friends with him again? You spent so many years looking for him, Naruto, it would be a shame to walk away from him when you have finally found him." Iruka sighed, it was so painful to see Naruto this way. He missed the happy little boy he used to know. "It' your decision to forgive him or not, I just hope that you can live with the decision you make." With that, Iruka left, heading for his and Kakashi's apartment.

"Iruka-sensei, I know your right, but I don't know what I'm supposed to do…" Naruto whispered, as his older friend walked off, leaving him to his thoughts, not knowing that at that very moment, a blond woman with the word gamble on her back, was making a decision that would change the young man's life forever, and probably cause the death of half the village if he took the news of it too bad. Oh, well, can't have everything.

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So, you all know who Kakashi is with now, and also, it seems to me that Naruto has a broken something on his mind, something that makes him hate a certain blue/black haired man, think Sasuke can fix the problem? Oh, and about the messenger, I just had to do that. It's been something that I've been thinking about for a while, I thought it might make some of you laugh your asses off. Hope you enjoyed this so far, next chapter will be up when I get five more reviews (if everyone reviews, then the chapter could be up say... tomorrow? Or the day after? It just depends on you!

Also, I need a beta, if anyone is interested, let me know, I usually miss a lot when I go back through the chapters to fix stuff (as most of you know) so help me out please. Oh, and if any of you have stories that are more then three chapters long, go to my user page then click on my home page, and send me the story. My site could so use them.