I don't care about christmas or new year's any more. but i do like getting presents.


Exiting the building they turned a right. Sasuke stared at the back of the Anbu called Sambaso.

"If you are worrying about your clothes and weapons, I've brought them over to my place already, seeing is how you're going to be staying for a long time. Heh. Just don't get used to it. I don't need a freeloader."

Sasuke could feel him smirking. He felt like teaching this guy a lesson for nearly strangling him to death and making a fool out of him in front of Naruto. He noticed that they were mazing around Konoha.

"Are we going to your place or not?"

"I can't take you to my place if you're still angry right? Suddenly shoving you into my place is just going to make you uh…have mixed feelings. Watching you in your previous, heh, situation, could you get any more hostile being put in an Anbu's care?" chuckling.

Hmm, it made sense to the Uchiha avenger.

"So…not angry anymore?"

Uchiha decided to not respond. He wasn't. Sambaso turned his head and continued walking.

"Good, getting tired waiting for you," back to their starting position at the Godaime's office went the opposite direction, leading Sasuke down a very familiar road.

Well look at that Kakashi's place, Sasuke was alarmed, do all Anbu's and ex-

Anbu's live together or what? Or was he going to bring him there instead? No. No. They went behind Kakashi's house, hopped the backyard fence, walk past that house and went to the house right next to it.

The house was as plain as his mansion, except it had more furniture, looking around taking his shoes off. He followed into the kitchen; Sambaso pulled out a chair for him, and started heating some water. Sasuke slowly sat down in it watching him pull out two cups from the cupboard and setting them down on the table.

"I've," tapping on his mask, "seen you around a lot before you have left with Orochimaru," deciding whether to take it off or not. "You used my hiding places often so I had to find new ones to use when all those little girls were chasing you."

Sasuke leered at him. Idle chatter? He wondered if he'll take off his mask any time soon. Sambaso got the teakettle off the stove and poured into the cups.

"Would you rather have green tea or tangerine orange tea?"

Still not responding.

"I'll pick for you then. It's still going to be used as fertilizer anyway," nodding over to the bamboo plants on the windowsill over the kitchen sink. Dunking the teabags in.

"You're room is right next to the kitchen just in case your hungry. Though I expect that you won't blow up the place while inside. My room is next to yours, the bathroom right across from mine, and then the living room. Your room has no window. I'll get the fan later for you," picking up his cup and sighing. Not a 'Why am I always burdened with this?' sigh but a peaceful home at last sigh. "Establishing the rules will be tomorrow morning," sipping.

This Sambaso seemed to be okay; at least he was trying to be pleasant, not like Kakashi. He'll keep his guard on a down low until these 'rules' were out in the open. But one thing was still bugging him, maybe a couple.

"Why?" Sasuke watched through the eyeholes of the mask look at him.

"Why what? Why I stopped you? Why I brought you to the Godaime instead of to Hatake's place? Why I agreed to train you? There is no real reason other than I was bored. Though I wanted to say that the Hyuuga's would be more appropriate for you at the Godaime's. I suppose I am just as good as them. Quite a high compliment. A change of pace is good for us shinobi's."

Uchiha finally tasted the tea, orange, it was okay. Once he finished, Sambaso took him over to the bathroom, "I still need to put the covers on the bed," and showed him the cold and hot knobs.

'What an unexpected turn of events,' Sasuke rubbed his throat, the water spraying his back, 'wonder what training this'll be? Besides not escaping, too easy,' he thought.


thanks for reading for those that didn't quit at the first chapter. (bastards) i know i know, work on Relationship Skills, but this seems to be easy writing (the beginning anyway) suck it up. post a review or something and maybe I'll get the RS chappie up. (do threats work anyway?) ja