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"I have a mission today, Sasuke. You'll have to stay here while I'm gone. If you try to run, anbu will catch you, and probably kill you; understand, Sasuke? Stay here and I won't have to go coffin shopping." Kakashi paused, then added, "And I'm sure that you're a great ninja," just like Orochimaru was, "But you're badly wounded. Any attempt to leave will end badly." Just to be sure that Sasuke wouldn't try anything, Kakashi put a sedative in his food.

…hopefully Sasuke hadn't noticed. All the same, Kakashi was going to have to hurry with his mission so that he could keep an eye on Sasuke, and hopefully thing of something to do with him. As great as it would be to just turn the brat in, have him rot in jail, or die at the hands of the executioner, Kakashi was sure that Naruto would not appreciate that. This put Kakashi in a bad position; he could either do what was legal and keep his job and life, or he could let Sasuke have his life, keep Naruto and Sakura happy and ultimately get caught and suffer the Godaime's wrath. He really needed more time to think about this.

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About fifteen minutes after Kakashi left, Sasuke began to feel the effects of the drug. And no, he hadn't noticed the sedative. He wondered if it was really so bad to just sleep here, sitting at the table. Surely he would wake up before Kakashi returned, and…

Why aren't I more concerned about this?

And Sasuke was out like a light.

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"Kakashi-sensei is late again?! What the hell does he do in the morning that is more important than training with us?" Naruto was obviously pissed. They had a mission today, the first in ages, and Naruto was sure as hell not about to let Kakashi ruin it without even being there.

"That guy had better have a good excuse; otherwise I'm going to—" Naruto flinched at the thought of Sakura beating the life out of their teacher, which was not to say that Naruto really disagreed with her, but actually, Sakura had become quite the demon over the last few years. Naruto was sure that if Sakura was given the chance, she would rip Kakashi into sheds and they would have to use some super jutsu to find all of the pieces.

"Uhh…Sakura-chan? As cool as it would be to see you completely destroy Kakashi-sensei, wouldn't it be better to just find him and get some other, more… ah… legal… revenge?"

Sakura stared at Naruto, before bowing her head and sighing. "You're right. I guess that if we want to get Sasuke back, going to jail for killing some stupid pervert isn't going to help. Naruto hummed affirmatively.

"So let's find him and strap a time bomb to him and…"

"Yeah yeah, and then we could—"

From Kakashi's location, in front of the memorial, he could feel the evil aura created by Sakura and Naruto growing. He shivered slightly and prayed that it wasn't something he'd have to worry about.

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Naruto and Sakura were standing in front of Kakashi's apartment door, both more than curious as to what the inside of this apartment looked like. While neither of them had actually been inside the place, they had followed Kakashi for six hours to find out where the man lived, in case of an emergency, of course.

"Do you think there are traps?"

"Of course there are, you moron! What kind of ninja do you think Kakashi-sensei is?!" Sakura snapped, although she was pretty curious about the booby traps that may await them should they try to enter the apartment.

When neither of them could take it any longer, Naruto suggested they 'rock, paper, scissor over who had to open the door and potentially lose a limb or two. Unfortunately for Naruto, 'rock, paper, scissors' with a woman was very different than with a man; ultimately, it was all about wits.

"This is stupid Naruto. Why don't you just open the door? After all, it would be a shame if I, a beautiful you woman, were harmed by a trap when my comrade, a man, just sat back and watched. One-two-three—"

"Sakura-chan…"

"Show! Ha! Paper beats rock! I win!"

"Whaaaaat?! When did--?" Naruto glanced at his hand. It was indeed in fist, or a 'rock'.

When did she get so sneaky? I bet that Tsunade rubbed off on her big time.

Naruto took a deep breath and reached for the handle. So far, so good. His finger tips barely touched the cool bronze. Still doing good. He wrapped his finer around it, and turned it, pulling the door open.

It wasn't even locked…what kind of ninja is Kakashi-sensei?

Naruto peeked through the doorway and scanned the dark room for traps. However, instead of traps, Naruto saw…

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