"So what happened while we were gone?" Yukino asked, trying to pick up the conversation again.

"I really don't know all that much that happened in the village. I left with Ero-Sannin to train before I even gotten out of the hospital. I got back only a bit ago actually."

"Oh, what have you done since you got back?"

Naruto went on for a bit to tell her about his mission fighting the Akatsuki and saving Gaara's life.

"Wow sounds exciting!" Yukino commented after his story, bounding up and down a little.

Naruto couldn't help but notice that Yukino had changed quite a bit since the last time he had seen her. Her hair was longer and she had gotten a little taller but she was smaller than everyone else to begin with. She did seem to have matured over the years. Especially in one particular department…

Sasuke was awake as looked over at the pair. Yukino was standing near the windows wearing his shirt. Naruto was looking in a place where his eye shouldn't be. "What is?" he asked, sitting up in the bed, rubbing his head.

The two teens looked over and tried to stifle their laughter. Sasuke's hair was sticking up in every which direction from lying down while it was still damp. It more resembled Naruto's hairstyle now.

"What?" he asked, a bit annoyed.

"Your hair," Yukino was the first to speak.

He just shrugged it off; he didn't care about his appearance. He had no reason to, especially with the current company that was in the room. The other teens were finally able to control themselves.

"Naruto was telling me about how he saved Gaara's life," Yukino finally answered his original question. The two teens joined the bed-head bringing over his share of food.

Sasuke ate while Naruto retold his story, a quicker version than what he told Yukino just before. Yukino just looked on at the pair; things seemed just like old times.

"Seems we didn't miss much being away," Sasuke commented.

"This is great!" Yukino proclaimed loudly.

Both guys looked at her like she had lost her mind. "What are you talking about?"

"This is just like old times!" a huge smile was on her face, "just standing around talking about things. Next Kakashi-sensei is going to walk in with some type of excuse about why he is late and we'll go on another mission. Team Kakashi is back!"

Dead silence followed her little speech. The air in the room seemed heavy all of a sudden as the mood completely changed. She should have just kept her mouth shut.

"Team Kakashi really isn't 'team Kakashi' anymore." Naruto said sadly. "Yamato-Taichou is the leader since Kakashi-sensei is still recovering in the hospital. Sakura and Sai have replaced you two."

"Oh," Yukino was saddened by this. Her shoulders dropped as her smile disappeared.

"Hey but it doesn't mean that Team Kakashi can't get back together! They can just figure out something else to do with those other two!" Naruto said, trying to cheer her up.

"Thanks Naruto." A small smile returned.

Silence followed for a bit again as the sun sank past the tree line. The light was now coming only from the lights in the room. Naruto yawned loudly.

"I think I'm going to head home guys," Naruto announced to the room as he turned for the door.

"Ok Naruto, it was really nice to see you again." Yukino moved to walk with him but she stopped in mid-stride. Pain shot through her body like a dam had broken. It felt like it that had been holding it all back for the past few hours and released it all at once. Her face scrounged up as she felt her legs crumble under her.

Naruto was closest and already standing, but still both teens reached her at the same time. However, since they both were involved in the action something had to go wrong. They ended up banging into each other's heads as they went down to catch Yukino. Naruto fell backwards himself, clutching his head. Sasuke just ignored his own pain and caught Yukino at the last second before her own head hit the floor.

Sasuke picked the girl up and set her down in the bed, pulling the blankets over her.

"I'm ok," she huffed out, "I'm not tired."

"Rest." He commanded her. His eyes flashed red for only a few short moments before the girl was asleep. Sometimes his ocular jutsu came in handy when having to put others asleep.

Naruto was still sitting on the floor, looking up at the bed where Yukino was now asleep. He looked over to Sasuke. He had so many questions for his friend, but he didn't know where to start.

He stood up, "So she's asleep?"

"Yea," Sasuke commented simply, walking over to the window and sitting down on the small ledge. "She won't wake for awhile, even with the loudest noises."

"Good." Naruto walked over to his friend and pulled his arm back before throwing a punch right at Sasuke's face.

Sasuke didn't register what was going to happen in time and got punched in the side of the face hard. He fell from his seat onto the floor.

"What the hell?"

"Why did you let her go with you? Why did you go?" Naruto yelled.

There was a part of Sasuke that wanted to stand up and fight back, yell at Naruto at how he was wrong and explain everything. There was another part that told him to be cold and not respond at all. He huffed as he wiped the trickle of blood that had come down from his mouth as he stood up. "You wouldn't understand."

"You'd be surprised." Naruto said seriously, "try me."