A.N: Hey there ^_^ ! I know many of you were confused as to the ending of last chapter but I hope you had your questions answered with this one. You might also notice this chapter is a bit longer than usual. My college exams are coming up and I thought I would leave you with a little more before I disappear once again :')

As always, WARNINGS INCLUDE – some swearing – a completely not corrected chapter…AND – a small bit of drama. C'mon, as much as I like it, it couldn't be all fluff! Hope you enjoy the chapter, see you again in the next one ;) !

[9]

'Stop twitching in there, you'll attract unwanted attention.' Sasuke's annoying voice pulled his eyes towards him. Underneath those dark anbu clothes Sasuke looked times more terrifying than he ever had, then again he probably looked so as well. Perched on the end of a roof stood only the two of them. Sakura had left to do some herbs gathering while they spied on the men inside the building in front of them.

'Pfft… Kami knows what's gotten you so mad, right?' Sasuke chuckled and mentioned to the window they were currently looking at. Drunken men threw their sake filled grasses in the air while they kissed the living hell out of those poor women that had been left with the lousy job of entertaining him.

'Can you shut up?' Naruto complained twitching with the cold and wishing he could have his warm jersey back. Or better yet, Kakashi's warmth. Naruto winced mentally, damn that Sasuke just had to hit the spot on. A week ago they had left Konoha and they weren't any damn nearer to catching that fucker.

It had been a big surprise when Naruto found the leader of the drug organization had escaped prison, and an ever bigger surprise to find out he was still alive, which in all honesty, Naruto thought practically impossible since the council of the elders rarely let someone like this be allowed to live. It was hard to remember the moment that Tsunade had, reluctantly, told him the news, the rage that had taken him when he remembered what he had done to Kakashi – who that bastard had touched. Kami forbid the day when he didn't rip his fingers off for touching Kakashi, all his instincts telling Naruto to kill him on the spot. But at that time Kakashi was his priority, it was more important that Kakashi lived than making sure that bastard would never see the sun again. This time the game was different though. He hadn't told Kakashi what his mission involved because he knew the older ninja would force himself to go with them. He hadn't lied. He had… omitted. Naruto listened to Kurama's chuckles deep inside him and realized the fox had heard that.

Omitted! That's funny.

'I didn't lie.'

'What?' Naruto realized he had said that out loud.

'Nothing.'

'Are you talking to Kyuubi?'

Inform that Uchiha brat I'll rip him in pieces if he calls me Kyuubi again.

Naruto gave a knowing smirk at an angry Sasuke.

'He said something about me didn't he? That damn thing…'

Still, in all his annoying knowledge Kurama was right. Omitted was convenient but in truth he had been rather clear to Baa-chan that Kakashi wasn't to know anything about this mission. It was just too dangerous. Kakashi had been recovering from the mission for only a few days. The bastard could've at least given them a little bit more time to be together before Naruto had to be separated from Kakashi again. Naruto clamped his hand around his kunai, he would have the bastard dead this time.

'If it keeps going like this we won't be able to find anything. We've been here for days and we barely know any of their schedules.'

Naruto agreed and nodded 'I think they're purposely keeping them random. No openings, no breeches if no one knows.'

'Figures.' Sasuke sighed deeply and sat back 'We need a new plan. If we can't attack from the outside we'll have to do it from the inside.'

'You're suggesting we-?'

'We get a disguise and we get in there.' Naruto shook his head lightly.

'Sasuke that would take weeks, we don't have that kind of time.'

'Dobe, don't you want this guy stopped for good?' Sasuke pricked him on a subject he knew Naruto wouldn't deny him 'This is the way we go then.'

'Tsunade won't agree-'

'Tsunade-sama listens to you Naruto-kun.' A hesitant voice called from behind them. Naruto and Sasuke turned around to see Sakura's pink hair shine in the moonlight. Nestled in her arms were four paper bags 'Here, I bought some dinner for us.' She pushed one of the bags to the side 'Don't eat that one Naruto, those are medicine.'

Sasuke smirked 'He could still eat them you know? He has no bottom in his stomach.' Sakura chuckled.

'Screw you bastard.' Naruto smiled.

'Huh, just like the old times.' Sakura's voice brought over a large wave of nostalgia, but Naruto knew what was missing here before Sakura even mentioned 'We only missing Kakashi-sensei.' She said with a sad smile.

'We're doing this for him.' Sasuke answered before he took a big bite out of his dinner. Both Naruto and Sakura smiled at him.

'My Sasuke, and here I thought your heart was made of stone and ice.'

Sasuke raised one eyebrow and gave him a smirk 'Just for you dobe.'

They ate in silence, watching over the men as they partied until exhaustion and finally settled asleep on the floor. Sakura was the first to break the silence.

'Naruto… We'll support you, but it's your call, Tsunade-sama won't listen to us on this plan. She'll think it's too dangerous.'

Sasuke snorted 'Even though we single handedly won the war.' He commented.

'It was a team effort.' Sakura remarked.

'Of course it was, from our team.' Sakura gave Sasuke an eye roll and looked over at Naruto.

'Well, you know how she is. Especially since you're here, she'll think we're just being reckless and send Anbu squads again, and we all know how that went before.'

Naruto sighed once more 'Alright, give me some paper. We need to figure out how we go with this, Baa-chan won't settle for some scribbled details in a paper.' Cheerfully Sakura pulled some paper from her bag and handled them to Naruto.

'Oi, bastard, come here, this was your idea.' Sasuke pulled himself closer to Naruto and started pointing out some ideas and defining what he should write. Sakura watched them peacefully and smiled. It had been a long time since they had been together like this. If only the conditions were different.

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'THEY WHAT?!' Tsunade's screams from inside her office could be heard outside the building 'Call the Anbu leader right now.'

'Tsunade-sama!-'

'Shizune, Anbu leader, right now!' Shizune's troubled face increased considerable as she waited for Shikamaru to arrive.

'Lady Tsunade-'Tsunade stood up from her chair and threw her papers around just as Shikamaru entered the building.

'Great, you're here, Shikamaru please inform the Anbu leader I'll need him momentarily.'

Shikamaru scowled, it was too early in the morning to be dealing with this already, what the hell had Naruto caused? And how the hell had he done it miles away?

'What happened?' He asked Shizune as the brunette picked the papers on the floor.

'Huh-'she picked a paper and handed it 'Here, it's better if you read it.' Shikamaru's eyes quickly read over the document and he realized why Tsunade was in such a state. The paper revealed Naruto's intentions, or rather Sasuke's if Shikamaru knew them well, to disguise themselves are possible costumers to the organization in order to come closer to them. All things considered, it was a good plan, especially if the schedules to the protection squads were randomly assigned.

'It's a good plan and if they are careful enough with it I don't see any flaws.' He checked the paper and gave it back to Shizune.

'Shikamaru, you must be crazy to be saying that, there's no way I'm letting them in there disguised we are calling the anbu and ending this once and for all. '

Shikamaru groaned, Tsunade could be so obtuse when it came to protecting Naruto 'Hokage-sama, do you remember when you locked Naruto away just before the war? Just who made us win that war? Naruto isn't a kid that needs protection, he'll be in your position one day and locking him away from situations like this won't help him.'

Tsunade seemed to shut up for a moment giving him a window of opportunity 'This plan they made' he pointed to the paper still resting in Shizune's hand 'is the proof of their growth, it's a well thought plan and we should help every way we can.' The older woman still didn't seem to like the idea but she calmed down and sat on her chair nodding to Shikamaru.

'So what will they need?'

'For starters, an identity, someone they can transform into. Even if the prisoner hasn't seen Sakura and Sasuke they are still pretty known and therefore their current appearance is still a hazard. They'll need money' Tsunade's eyebrow rose 'to show they have a potential buying status, they won't matter to the organization as long as they don't have any money. We'll contact the village, we are on pretty good terms, we'll need them to supply Naruto with a large and ostentatious house, showing is power here. And we'll supply them with two full Anbu squads.'

'I thought I was being reckless about the Anbu squads Shikamaru' Tsunade smirked.

'Well, I was thinking of incorporating them in the house and have them disguised as workers, but I know they won't be happy about that so I'll leave the request to you Hokage-sama.'

'Oi…' Tsunade started.

'I have to go now, I must start constructing them a new identity.' The ninja waved a hand and smirking he stepped out of the office.

'This kid… He's truly his father's son.' Shizune smiled at Tsunade's words.

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Kakashi woke up with a scream feeling his heart beating quickly. He raised his hand and rubbed his eyes. Every now and then he still had nightmares about that damn day. It had gotten increasingly worse as Naruto's mission days prolonged and he wondered how much more time the blonde would take. One week had passed without him, he knew the blonde had been lying, but after trying to do some research on the mission he had ended up realizing it was probably classified, and if it was classified there was no way it was a C ranked mission.

Groaning he left the bed and dragged his feet to the living room, Yamato was still sleeping on his couch. His kohai had been crashing at his place since two days ago when he realized Kakashi wasn't getting any sleep, Kakashi chuckled, Yamato had supposedly come here to wake him up from his nightmares but apparently had finally succumbed to his lack of good night's sleep. He walked to the kitchen and made himself a cup of coffee, after careful consideration he made a second and yelled.

'USELESS KOHAI WAKE UP!' He heard something fall on the floor and ten seconds later a wasted looking Yamato was showing up at the kitchen's door 'Here.' Kakashi gave him a warm cup of coffee.

'As welcome as I am… couldn't you have waited?'

'And not serve you the fresh warm coffee I made purposely for you? Of course not.' His lip twitched at Yamato's expression and he made his way into the living room to sit on his couch. Yamato sat beside him, warming his hand around the cup.

'It's getting cold, I hope those three took warm clothes wherever they went.'

'Sakura wouldn't have let them go without it.' Yamato smiled and looked over at Kakashi.

'Naruto's fine Kakashi.' Kakashi looked to the side.

'I still don't get why the kid lied to me.' Yamato didn't have an answer to that and stayed quiet. Then he looked surprise. Kakashi noticed this and asked them what was wrong.

'Actually I forgot to tell you, I'm out of my leave in about 2 days.' He started 'I could get some information about that mission the three went on.' Kakashi nodded.

'Until then… I'll just have to find something to entertain myself with.' Yamato laughed heartily.

'The life of medical leave isn't for us.'

Kakashi winced 'Indeed.'

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Four days after Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura were entering one of the largest houses in the village. Naruto laughed maniacally when he saw the size of the rooms. Sakura seemed impressed by the view as well but didn't let it show. Sasuke however, contrary to the other two, seemed rather unimpressed at the house. Naruto noticed this and snorted.

'Of course the young master Uchiha would find this house very little to his liking.' Naruto's voice took a butler's tone to it and Sakura actually managed to giggle at that.

Sasuke stared him down and punched him in the arm 'Shut up dobe.'

After talking with the masters of the village and finishing the deal they were awarded with this house and protected identities. The deal was easy enough, get rid of the organization for them and they'll provide whatever conditions they needed.

Sasuke, since he had the most training dealing with business situations was going to pose as the master of the house, Mayeda Akihiro, which undoubtedly would further anger the Anbu squads, to serve as workers to the Uchiha. Sakura would pose as his wife, Mayeda Mitsuko, no training needed obviously. And Naruto, left with the last role, would pose as the uninteresting brother of Sasuke, Mayeda Kai. Supposedly the two brothers were filled with cash and a dark past, and that would likely attract Sutomu's attention.

'Ah! The garden is so beautiful! I wish I could live here.' Sakura's eyes shined over the flowers that surrounded the immense green extension the garden was, a lake could be seen near the edges but Naruto really couldn't see, even squinting, where the hell the garden ended. This place must've cost a hell of a deal to Tsunade, either that or the village really wanted these guys out. Naruto looked over at Sasuke who was glancing at Sakura as she touched the flowers and smiled back at him. Sasuke's lips formed into a smile and Naruto snorted and headed towards the rooms, but not before he lost that blush on Sasuke's cheeks from being caught.

'Dobe.' Sasuke called behind him.

'Teme.' He called ahead.

After a good 20 minutes looking between rooms he finally found one he liked, at the end of what looked like a less used corridor. The room was relatively small, it was the smallest he found inside the house. He knew Sakura and Sasuke had chosen a room all the way on the left wing thanks to Sakura's claims that if she was to live in this place for only a few weeks she would choose the most luxurious bedroom she could find. Naruto took out his bang and unloaded the clothes into the drawers and finally he took a picture he had of his team. He slowly realized he didn't have a picture of him and Kakashi alone. He held the frame in his hand and looked closely at Kakashi. Huh… The struggle of not having Kakashi close was getting worse. He wanted to go home and dive into Kakashi's heat. Instead here he was, about to make fake deals with a monstrous organization, inside a dark cold room in a gigantic house.

Thinking back to Kakashi he wondered how the grey haired ninja was doing. Yamato was probably helping him. It had been more than one week now, had he gotten any better? He still couldn't be back to ninja service, or a battle really. The drug had left his chakra system pretty messed up which meant they had to wait until Kakashi's chakra completely renew itself and stabilized until he was fit to do anything that required chakra.

The marks he had left were probably long gone by now as well. How he wished he could go back to Konoha and make new ones every day. Naruto felt his mood swing, he thought back to how Sasuke and Sakura here with him and Naruto in the lonely road of bitterness having to think about his lover back at home. Lover? Could Naruto even call Kakashi his lover? Naruto groaned loudly, knowing no one would be there to hear him, set the frame on top of the table and fell backwards on the bed. After all this was still blackmail. Could he take that night's events and admit them as an answer? Did that mean Kakashi loved him?

'Baka…It's yours.'

Naruto blushed, even if Kakashi's body was his, was Kakashi his? The man inside. That night, when Naruto said he loved him, Kakashi didn't say it back. Could that be his answer? To grown men love and sex were different things. You could have the latter without the former. To Naruto things didn't work like that, did they work for Kakashi? Was this grown up love he had talked about? Was this what separated Naruto from being a man?

These thoughts tormented his head as he laid on the bed intent on falling asleep but still thinking of Kakashi.

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Yamato looked worried when he first arrived to the apartment that day, Kakashi knew it had been his first day back to service but it couldn't have been that bad right? Anbu had a natural inclination to tease people when they left for big amounts of time, but Yamato's two weeks barely counted as such. However it was clear to Kakashi that Yamato had something on his mind, and also something on his shoulders, he was white as marble as he sat on the couch.

'Yamato?' His kohai gulped loudly and looked at him.

'Kakashi-san…' Surprisingly, Yamato was able to look even whiter than before 'Maybe it's better that I don't tell you.'

Kakashi scowled deeply 'What is Naruto's mission about?'

'Kakashi-'

'Tell me!' Kakashi was beyond worried at the moment, he couldn't go through this just to back off, to know nothing.

'Sutomu escaped prison.'

Kakashi froze. Yamato's words resonated in his head, a second, a third, a fourth time. Sutomu had escaped. He was out there. His organization raised from the ground. He was alive. Kakashi flinched involuntarily. Yamato worried about his senpai as he saw those eyes lose focus. Kakashi had taken it worse than he had, Yamato hadn't gone through the same traumatizing experience Kakashi had nearly been subjected too. Being forced, not being able to fight back. Yamato cursed at the image.

'And Naruto?' Kakashi's words came slowly, separated in between breaths.

'Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura went there to destroy the organization. It was supposed to take less than one week, including the deals with the village.' Kakashi's eyes widened and Yamato rushed to continue 'They're fine. But the protection the organization had was completely different, they were better guarded so…'

'So?' Kakashi asked.

'The three of them made a plan. They… disguised themselves as costumers to the organization and they are currently residing inside the village.'

Kakashi looked at the floor and angrily he slowly raised his eyes at Yamato 'Why wasn't I informed of this?' Yamato looked at him, less worried but more reluctant to answer him than been before in his whole life.

'Naruto-kun…' Kakashi's brows furrowed 'Naruto ordered Tsunade to not let you know of this mission.' Yamato sighed and fell backwards on the cough 'I'm so fucked.' Kakashi looked back at him and realized the mess Yamato had just put himself into by telling him this.

'I'm going to talk with Tsunade.' Alerted Yamato stood up and grabbed Kakashi by his arm 'Are you crazy? She's going to lock you down if she even has a hint that you want to go after them.'

'You saw what he did to four Anbu squads!'

'And I saw what Naruto did to him!'

'Naruto caught him by surprise, we can't keep on relying on Naruto's powers and believe he's stronger than anyone!' Kakashi released his arm from Yamato's hold and headed towards his room followed by Yamato.

'Where are they?'

'Who?'

'Don't play stupid kohai, where are the three of them?'

'You can't be serious? You can't go in the state you're in, Kakashi.'

'Yamato. Where. Are. They.' Kakashi's voice showed threatening tones as he filled a bag with clothes. Yamato groaned and opened his senpai's wardrobe, where he knew he kept another travel bag, and pulled it.

'Fine. I've never you seen you like this, you're being lunatic and incredibly stubborn. I'm going with you. If I let you go alone after telling you this Tsunade and Naruto would murder me.' Kakashi looked at him and nodded.

'They're in the water country.' Kakashi glanced at Yamato 'In Kirigakure.'

'Mist? They're in the hidden village of the mist?'

'Yes. The organization settled on a building on the outskirts and apparently the Mizukage hadn't even known of their existence before we contacted them.'

Kakashi's ears picked up on some movement outside his apartment. He looked over at Yamato and whispered 'Were you being followed on your way here?'

'I didn't check… who would follow me here?' Kakashi sighed.

'Tsunade is being surprisingly careful with Naruto's request.' Yamato rolled his eyes.

'Maybe she knew how you would be once you knew.' Kakashi lips tinned in a straight line beneath his mask.

'Ma… it could've been worse. I could have sworn I would murder Naruto.' Yamato didn't ask. He could see behind the joke, Kakashi was furious at Naruto's attempt to keep this from him. Kakashi stopped packing and closed his bag 'I will take care of the ninja outside. Pack your things. We leave right now.'

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'I was sure you would be great business Mayeda-san!' Sutomu patted Sasuke on the back and the only thing keeping Naruto from going over there and punching him on the face was the fact that they stood in their house surrounded by ninja. And also because he knew Sasuke wanted to rip the man's arm off as much as he did. But they needed information first, they needed to know if there other branches of this business, other leaders, other drugs. Pretending to be customers interested in this kind of stuff disgusted Naruto down to his core.

You should make this guy swallow a box of his own drugs

Kurama's comments were the only thing keeping his mind of murdering scenarios at this point, and Naruto thanked the fox for it.

Damn fat rat, how the hell is he surrounded by so many beautiful hotties?!

At this point Naruto had to contain a laugh at the fox's indignation. But easily, Naruto's serious mood returned. The answer was - they didn't want to be there. Chances were they were his slaves, and what had nearly happened to Kakashi, had really happened to them. Naruto's fists clenched and he struggled with his rage.

'Yes, it's a pleasure to make business with you Sutomu. This is my wife Mitsuko' Sutomu drooled over Sakura's slightly disgusted face 'and my younger brother Kai.' Sutomu's eyes hit Naruto's form with little interest and a slight nod. If it were up to Naruto this business would've gone a hell of a lot quicker.

'When I saw who was in town Mayeda-san, I just knew I had to make some kind of deal!' The man laughed heavily and Naruto thought his breathing resembled a dying mammal.

'Good. I'll be in town for a few weeks so I think we will have plenty of time to think about a deal. I have to know my sources before I make any deal, I'm sure you'll understand.'

'Why of course, I would be happy to supply you with any information you need. In fact, I'm having a party in two days, some of my related branches and other costumers will come and I would be delighted if you and your wife would come?' Naruto winched and he swore he could've taken his kunai and stuck it perfectly between the bastard's eyes. Looking at him Sutomu pronounced a quick apology 'Kai, this party will be boring for a man such as you, all business and no action you see' He gave Naruto a disgusting wink 'but I can give you a nice time with one of my girls here.' He mentioned to the row of girls around him. Naruto forced a smile on his face and quickly rejected the offer.

'Ah- my brother is more of a… scholar.' Naruto snorted mentally 'I'm sure he would prefer that we left him to his books and studies.'

'Ah! Yes a scholar, I was once one too 'til I left that for my employees.' The man laughed again 'They are all very smart but can't pack a punch for their lives. You should watch them squirm when I stare at them for longer than five seconds.'

Naruto stood up and excused himself 'I'm sorry, but I fear I'm useless here so I'm going home earlier brother.' Naruto emphasized his words and Sasuke mentioned for him to leave. Naruto felt like a bother in this mission. He didn't want information he wanted that monster stuck in a jail somewhere in the pits of hell. He headed home and entering he transformed back into himself. His clothes remained the same, how he longed for his orange jersey. Mist's clothes were so dark and boring he appeared years older in them. Sakura had told him they looked rather nice and made him seem more mature. Naruto just felt old and depressed wearing them. Naruto went to close the door when he noticed something that caught his attention. Wet shoe marks spread on the floor, it had been raining the whole day, but they had left in the morning, and the Anbu only worked on the outsides of the house. Somebody had been here, or, was here. Naruto took out his kunai and silently followed the tracks. He sensed someone's presence just as he was about to turn the corner and grabbed him by the arms instantly having the kunai deeply pressed against the unknown figure's neck.

Then he noticed that grey hair, he noticed that sweet smell, that soft skin. He turned the figure around and stared into Kakashi's black eyes. He couldn't believe what he was seeing, it had to be a dream, it had to, so he did the only thing that seemed reasonable, he pressed Kakashi into the wall and joined their lips into a heated kiss. Kami, how he had missed his, his dreams had been too kind with him. He heard a small groan and Kami how that was sweet music to his ears. Until he heard another kind of groan and stopped the attack on Kakashi to turn around and discover an awkwardly embarrassed Yamato.

'I definitely wasn't expecting this when I came here.' He said.

Naruto was confused. What the hell? Why would Yamato be in his dreams? His eyebrows furrowed in confusion at the sight and he turned around to see, for the first time, an expression of pure anger in Kakashi's face.

'You're not a dream?'

Yamato snorted 'No. He's a nightmare.'

Kakashi pulled Naruto privately into the first free room he could find and threw Naruto on the ground.

'You lied to me.' He yelled.

'I did it for your sake.' Naruto stood on his feet and patted the dust of his clothes.

'My sake? You told me you were going on a C ranked mission! You ordered the Hokage to hide this from me! I trusted you and you lied to me! You're just a kid, you don't get to make up orders that affect other people's lives, how can I trust-' Naruto had rage in his eyes as he grabbed Kakashi's arms and spit words that he knew he would probably come to regret.

'You trusted me? Was your trust in me in broken? Or did it become just like mine the day I found you didn't have to go on that mission?' Kakashi's eyes widened at Naruto's words 'did your trust become as damaged as mine when I found out you denied my help? When I found out you purposely ran away from me? That you preferred nearly dying over enduring my presence?' Naruto threw Kakashi back, who tripped on his foot and fell on the floor.

'How damaged was your trust Kakashi?' Naruto's words hurt him. They hurt him because they were true, and because Kakashi hadn't thought about Naruto at all when making those decisions.

'Whatever right? I should've known. I was the fool here.' Naruto laughed miserably 'I insisted, and in my head, oh we kissed that must've been something, maybe… maybe he feels something too.' Naruto mocked his voice 'I insisted for weeks that this-'he mentioned between the two of them 'would work. That maybe the way you looked at me would change, that you wouldn't see me as a kid. Screw this.' Naruto walked around him and opened the door making it bang against the wall producing a loud creaking noise as he stepped off the room.

Yamato appeared suddenly be his side and helped him stand 'Are you alright? What the hell happened here?'

Kakashi sighed 'Karma.'

'You two need to solve your stuff. Let's go senpai, we will wait in the living room for Sasuke and Sakura. I'm not sure where Naruto went but it's probably best we stay out of his way for now.' Yamato didn't lose the sad expression on Kakashi's face but he didn't comment on it. There were a few things in this world even his senpai needed to learn. He had realized way ago that at this point he didn't to warn Kakashi about his relationship with Naruto. Even if Kakashi didn't realize it and if, Naruto now didn't have faith in it, the two of them had already fallen into a serious thing that needed some serious thinking done.

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Sasuke and Sakura seemed surprise to get home and see their teachers sitting on the couch drinking some tea as if it were just another regular day in Konoha.

'Oi.' Kakashi waved and Yamato just sent them an apologetic look.

After things had been explained, even if rather roughly to hide Kakashi's reluctant feelings on leaving them alone on this mission, Sasuke had given them all his famous eye roll and grabbed some paper.

'Sasuke-kun?' Sakura called.

'I'm writing to Konoha, letting them know you're here.' Kakashi went alarmed 'Don't worry stupid sensei, they won't come to get you, that would cause too much unwanted attention to our new identities. But the Hokage will be pissed, at you two, but honestly that is not my problem.' Sasuke smirked. Kakashi now had no doubts how that kid swung around the good and bad sides for so long, he was the devil.

Sakura glanced at Kakashi and Yamato and finally asked if they had seen Naruto 'He got out of the meeting earlier than us and I thought he had headed home.'

Yamato took one look at Kakashi's expression and decided another lie couldn't possibly screw them anymore 'We saw him, he went for a walk.' Sakura seemed to believe it at least, but Sasuke sent them a knowing look, obviously he hadn't fallen for that.

'Well sensei, send your dogs to go get him before dinner, and hide your ass inside a room because Sutomu is coming here for dinner.'

'What?' Kakashi asked. Sakura threw Kakashi a worried look and elbowed Sasuke in the chest.

'You could've been nicer you baka.' Sakura turned to Kakashi and explained the situation 'As you already know, the plan here is to make him trust us so we obtain the fullest information we can and this time we take down the whole organization and also others that might have connections with him. For that we need to gain his trust and… well participate in things like parties and dinners.' Kakashi understood the situation but still…No. It had truly been his fault. He had come here aware of the circumstances and now he had to deal with them 'Sasuke here…' She threw Sasuke an annoyed look, which was answered with an equally as annoyed stare 'asked you to go get Naruto because he can protect you since he's the only one that's understandable that he be excused from this dinner.'

'Yamato here can protect me.' Yamato looked at him as if saying you're doing it again senpai.

Sakura grimaced at that and Sasuke intervened 'Actually, since Yamato is well recovered he can help us by returning to his Anbu service. He'll be required to wear a mask and hide so his face showing around won't be a problem.'

Kakashi really was left with Naruto, and after the discussion they had he figured it would be a long night. He summoned Pakkun and asked Sasuke for a bit of paper and a pen. Grabbing the note he gave it to Pakkun.

'He should be around here somewhere, please give him this and make sure he returns.' Pakkun nodded and ran outside.

'Naruto's bedroom is the last on the right wing. He chose a room on the least used corridor, you'll recognize it right away, his room is probably already a mess.' Sakura informed him and Kakashi nodded.

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Kakashi opened the door on the last room and found that the mess Sakura had described had been somewhat right… and familiar. He picked up Naruto's orange jersey from the chair it lay in, abandoned but not forgotten and hugged it softly. He hadn't meant to hurt the blonde, again, but he really did it. And he kept on doing it without meaning.

I insisted…And maybe… maybe he feels something too… Maybe the way you looked at me would change.

But it had! Kakashi just couldn't point out how- what did he feel? How much did he feel? Had he really gone crazy over Naruto?

He heard someone opening the door to the room and slowly Pakkun stepped inside walking around Kakashi.

'My job is done.' Pakkun informed him.

'Thank you Pakkun.' The dog disappeared in smoke and left Kakashi with a huge weight on his shoulders. He didn't – he couldn't turn back. All his courage had left him and in that moment he couldn't stand to see Naruto's eyes.

'I read your letter and I'm here. Can't you at least look me in the eyes?' Naruto's voice still held anger and Kakashi wondered if he would ever stop hearing it like that.

'How come you get to stay angry over something you ignored?!' Kakashi complained 'you didn't tell me anything about this and now you're angry about it?!'

Kakashi's arm was pulled and the jersey fell of his hands 'Because you claimed your trust had been broken like you hadn't broken mine before! How does it feel knowing someone you loved lied to you?!' Kakashi looked into the blue orbs that he had come to know so well and now looked strained, angered. Kakashi pulled his arms back and walked around Naruto heading for the door until an arm on the side of his head shut it quickly.

'I'm not staying here Naruto-kun.' He threatened.

'Well pity it looks like you are. Sutomu's men are here and if you walk out that door I'm dragging you back.' Naruto threw a bag to the bed and pointed to it 'You like to read right? Entertain yourself.' Naruto sat on a chair and began reading some papers. This was going to be a disastrous night.

Some hours after, it was nearing 1 am and Sutomu was still in the house, so were his men. Naruto could pinpoint every single charka inside the house and the quantity of men Sutomu had brought to a simple dinner was outstanding. Contrary to the happy expression Sutomu had showed them, he didn't trust them one bit. Naruto sighed and looked over his shoulder, Kakashi had gone to sleep on his bed a few hours ago. It had seemed like was exhausted and had fallen right asleep. At first glance it would seem everything was alright but Kakashi kept squirming and turning making Naruto look over at him more than twenty times in the past hour. Finally he heard the beginning of a small yelp and a cry and stood from the chair to see what it was about.

'Help…' Kakashi cried. He hadn't stopped having these nightmares? Naruto thought they had ended right before he left the village. Had Kakashi been having these nightmares for the two weeks he was gone? 'Naruto-' Naruto took his outer clothes and pulled the sheets over them as he laid beside Kakashi 'Naruto' Kakashi called once more in his sleep.

Still angry Naruto pulled Kakashi over to his side and wrapped his body against Kakashi's waiting for Kakashi to calm down, when Kakashi didn't stop moving Naruto rose his hand to Kakashi's shoulder and woke him up, abruptly those black eyes were looking everywhere, panicked, in search of help.

'You're alright, I'm here.'

'Naruto?' Kakashi called, half asleep.

'Yes, I'm here now, sleep. I'll be watching over you.' Kakashi looked at him one more time before he closed his eyes and relaxed, arms wrapped around Naruto's body, and his own wrapped by Naruto's warmth. He felt calm. He had missed Naruto. Naruto felt Kakashi relaxing in his arms and minutes later the older ninja was asleep again, this time undisturbed it looked like. He was still angry, no doubt in his mind about that, but no one deserved this. Sutomu would pay greatly for what he had done, to Kakashi, and everyone else he had hurt.

Slowly, he brought his lips against Kakashi's forehead and pressed them softly. Why couldn't things be easier?