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Naruto huffed as he gave a small pout and crossed his arms over his chest. He's been trying to talk Sasuke for the past hour. A whole fucking hour! He looked the other way irritated, while Sasuke had his hands in his pockets with a now permanent tick mark residing on his face.

Sasuke hated it, they were a few miles from away from Kumo and this stupid blonde wouldn't shut up. It felt like he was 13 again, the only thing different was there wasn't a pink haired banshee attached to his arm. He shuddered slightly, remembering one of the reasons he left that village in the first place. Sasuke breathed an inaudible sigh of relief as the blonde fell silent.

"So Sasuke-"

"Shut up! You've been talking non spot for the past few hours!"

Naruto raised his hands up in a surrender, the look on Sasuke's face was pretty intimidating up close as his sharingan flared to life. "Ano I mean we haven't each other on years and you don't want to talk?" Naruto asked and Sasuke glared "Hn."

Naruto sighed and a sudden idea popped on his brain. An evil smirk formed on his lips that would make Orochimaru proud. He flung his arms behind his head and picked up his pace and walked ahead of his raven haired partner

"Sorry sorry. Didn't know beating you on three Valley of the End stung you that badly."

Naruto looked back and waved his hand as his smirk never leaving his face as Sasuke widened his eyes slightly, if looks could kill Naruto would be a bundle of ash right about now. Sasuke picked up his pace bumping their shoulders as he scowled

"I didn't know beating me so bad would get you off. Guess you always needed me huh dope?" Sasuke finished with with a smirk, but it slowly fell as Naruto broke out into a laughing fit.

"Y-yo-you hahahah!"

Sasuke scowled and stopped his walking to glare at the blonde

"What's so funny?"

"Oh Sasuke I always knew you swung the other way bring come on!" he said through his laughter, Sasuke raised an eyebrow confused. "Swung the other way? What the hell you talking about?"

Naruto exploded into laughter again and pointed at the raven. Sasuke finally catching on turned a new shade of red. A red never seen on an Uchiha before "W-what! I'm not gay!"

Naruto finally controlled his laughter and put his hand on his parameters shoulder "Well I got you to talk didn't I?" he said as Sasuke scowled with a tinge of pink still on his cheeks. Naruto continued "Now since we're in the talking mood." he said and Sasuke growled "Why did you leave Konoha again? You said your plan was to go to Orochimaru. And from the look of it you never went."

Naruto asked and Sasuke glared. He thought about ignoring the blonde, that wouldn't go very well since the blonde was very consistent. "Hn. I took some of the Uchiha scrolls that were left behind after my clan was slaughtered. About half way to Orochimaru's, I had a very bad feeling in my stomach. So I changed course and trained on my own ever since. Then Sasori came to me and you know the rest." Sasuke finished and looked back to see the look of awe on Naruto's face

"Close your mouth baka you're gonna catch plies."

Naruto shook his head and scratched the back of his head "Sorry I just never heard you talk that much before." Naruto received yet another glare that was ignored "Well are you gonna ask about me?" Naruto asked and Sasuke shrugged and turned around with his back to Naruto.

Naruto huffed and they both stopped as the entrance to Kumo came into view. They both hid behind a tree and scouted the area

"Light Kishi. You know anything about him?" Naruto asked and Sasuke shook his head. "I'm assuming it's a man. Maybe a brothel or bar? People who have powerful information often meet their employer in one of those."

Naruto nodded, it seemed logical enough. "So what are we going to do?" Sasuke scowled "I'm going to go look for this Light man. You can do whatever."

Sasuke turned to jump away but was stopped when a hand grabbed his shoulder. He looked back to halter but stopped halfway when he noticed the emotionless eyes of the blonde

"Even now when we're not in Konoha you still insist on working alone? We're breaking into a village Sasuke. Not catching some stupid cat." Naruto said with a snarl as Sasuke bristled, the blonde did have a point he scowled but gave a hesitant nod "Just follow my lead."

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A man with long brown hair with calm pink eyes walked down the street with a girl with long flowing pink hair, and cold hazel eyes. The man was a tall 6'3 while the girl being 5' girl was glaring at anyone who walked by while the man gave warm smiles

"I fucking hate you so much." the girl muttered as she looked up at the tall man. The man smiled down and put his hand on the girl's head "Calm down Sasuke-chan, or should I say Sasu-chan?" The man said and the 'girl' gave the coldest galore she could.

"Fuck you. I can't believe I had to he the girl. You have a fucking Jutsu dedicated to this." the man gave a victory sign "Now now my name is Ruto-Kun. And how about don't loose in a game of rock paper scissors nectar time?" Ruto said with a smile and she haired harder

"Fuck you."

Ruto chuckled as they entered the closest bar they could see. It was filled with civilians and some ninja as they both sat at the bar. Sasu had to avoid 3 lusty men just to take 'her' seat at the bar. When she finally sat down Ruto opened his mouth but it was quickly covered by her pale own "Don't say a word."

After he nodded Sasu leaned in "I'm going to put a genjutsu over this bar. It's not a powerful one, but it would make them all think they're drunk and would most likely spill information quicker." Ruto nodded and within seconds the people were falling over each other yelling happily. He looked back at Sasu and they both nodded and slip up on the bar to get through information.

"Happy dayy!" a Kumo ninja yelled as Ruto felt a hand drape over his shoulder and was pulled with a strange man. "Heyy s'un you sh'oul par'tty with ussssss." he said as he put his face close to Ruto's, he had to hold down the urge to gag at the strong scent of alcohol and somehow managed to nod. The man broke out into a large smile "Awessaome! Na'mss L-l-ight Ki'sssshi."

Naruto stiffened slightly, somewhat surprised that they found him so easily and so quick. Ruto wanting to play the part and vet on his good side chugged a small liquor bottle "Names Ruto Uchi!" he yelled as Light broke into a drinker smile "Woooooooo!" he yelled and Ruto coughed loudly getting the attention of a girl across the bar. They made eye contact and he gave a curt nod. And she nodded back.

It was 30 minutes later when Ruto, and Light were pushed out from the bar with an angry blushing Sasu right behind them. Light giggled on the floor as Sasuke quickly pushed a pressure point on his neck making him pass out. She looked at Ruto angrily and Ruto put his hands up in surrender

"Ugh sorry?"

Sasu glared harder "Sorry? You're sorry! You tried to hook me up with a man in there!" she yelled and Ruto had to calm her down since it was past 1 am. Sasu huffed and bent down to pick up Light. She turned around to see a slightly pink Ruto "What?" she asked and Ruto scratched the back of his head "W-well you're wearing a skirt.." it was Sasu's turn to turn pink as she slapped Ruto across the face without dropping Light "Pervert!"

Ruto massaged his face as he and Sasu quickly shunshined out of the village. They never noticed a lone ninja on a far away building. The ninja turned tapped his ear "Light has been taken."

A deep chuckle came from the earpiece

"Follow them."

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Their henges dropped letting their real appearances finally show as they entered the forest close by the village. They tied Light to a tree and Sasuke being impatient, slapped him a few times to wake him up. Naruto sweat dropped at the sight but ignited it since it was working.

"hmmmmmm I'm up." he said drowsily as he tried to scratch his eye but found his movements were restrained. "Finally you're up." Light looked up to see two people he's never seen before. The one with raven black hair crouched down and flared his sharingan to life. Light raised an eyebrow at seeing an Uchiha but wilted for him to speak

"I want to make this short. What do you know about the snake sannin Orochimaru?" Sasuke growled out and Light gave a smirk "And what makes you think I know anything about him?" he felt something sharp come across his neck as he turned his head to see the other man behind him with a dagger to his neck. "Listen you don't want to he here, we don't want to he here, how about you let us in on this information and we won't take your life. Deal?" Sasuke looked a little shocked to see that Naruto would easily take a life but be pushed it in other the back of his head for now. Light chuckled, all according to plan. "Uchiha Sasuke, Uzumaki Naruto." he said surprising the two as he continued "Orochimaru had been trying to go after Uchiha Itachi once again." he said and this caught Sasuke's attention. "Orochimaru was most disappointed when you Sasuke never showed up after your abandonment from Konoha. He has been slowly getting Iwa on to his side and forming a military alliance. Planting evidence on the Akatsuki to slowly lure them out, but more specifically Itachi-san. And that is all I know." Light finished with a smile as Naruto retracted his dagger and Sasuke snarled. His sharingan spinning widely as Light fell back asleep. Sasuke growled audible and Naruto sighed. "Listen I know your and about this whole Itachi thing. But this isn't the time or place." he said and Sasuke reluctantly agreed and picked up Light once again. "I used my Sharingan to see if he was telling the truth and that's all he knew. And yes it was all he knew, what I don't understand is why Sasori needed this information. He seemed to know almost everything when we met him."

Naruto nodded and scratched his cheek, "I'm not sure. But I feel like this wasn't all of it. It seemed too easy to just find and lure him out here." Sasuke nodded it was a little easy, maybe too easy

He dropped Light and turned to leave "Well whatever it is I want to leave. Like you said this is dangerous territory, we need to leave as soon as possible."

"Where? Sasori gave us no direction on what to do after this. If we ever completed the mission." Naruto said while Sasuke cursed. Sasuke closed his eyes to think as Naruto looked up to the sky

"Okay here's what we're going to do." he said catching Naruto's attention "I'm going to Iwa and see if there's any clues or information I can get regarding Akatsuki or this so called alliance." Naruto widened his eyes as Sasuke finished speaking. It was crazy!

"You're going to leave to Iwa by yourself?! Do you know how dangerous that is?!"

"Listen dope I already figured out who your father was and you look almost identical. If you're even spotted 50 miles from that village it's basically a war." Sasuke said and Naruto tried to argue but got shot down almost instantly "If possible you should stay here or move back to Kiri. There still in there civil war right now and you could use that to your advantage." Naruto reluctantly nodded and Naruto snapped his fingers "I got it. I'll move your Kiri. 1 year after I was banished from Konoha I met with a man, his name was Akishi. He went Rogue from Kiri a few years ago and I could try and meet him and gain more information, he had Kumo documents in his tent and I'm sure he has more information regarding Kumo."

Sasuke gave a nod and Naruto returned it. When Sasuke was about to leave he was held back by Naruto's hand on his shoulder.

"Look Sasuke, I know you don't like working with me and could be doing something different. And I've been holding back my anger-"

"You still partially blame me for your banishment."

Naruto smiled sheepishly as he rubbed the back of his head "Is it that noticeable?" Sasuke nodded and waved his hand "I don't care Naruto, you can blame me all you want. But i made it clear that I didn't want to he saved you should have just listened." Sasuke looked the now awaking Light as his breath hitched and he once again passed out

"Listen I'm leaving now. I'm sure we'll see each other again"

Sasuke flickered out if the area leaving Naruto alone with the passed out Light. Naruto sighed as he also flickered out of the area. His next stop. Kiri.

As soon as they both were gone two Kumo anub jumped from the bushes and puked up a smiling Light. He looked over at the anub and waved his hand "You know what to do. And make them A for now." they nodded and vanished from the area. Leaving Light alone in the clearing. Light smirked as he also flickered out on a modified lighting shunshine.

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"Listen!" Tsunade yelled as she slammed her hands on the widened table making it tremble "Yes I know the involvement of team Kakashi consisting of Nara Shikamaru, Hyuuga Neji, and Sakura Haruno was horrible considering Uzumaki Naruto was met in this failed mission to capture Uchiha Sasuke. But yelling inaudible isn't helping anyone here!" she said glaring at the civilian side as they shrunk down a bit.

"Remember Jiraiya has clearly started that the Kyuubi has no effect on Naruto unless he's under heavy emotional stress or he himself allows said demon to take control. And from the report of the ninja present during the mission. Said Naruto knew exactly was he was doing. He was using the chakra willingly." She finished as the yelling came back and she rubbed her temples feeling a headache coming already.

"Hokage-sama!" an anub flashed in the chambers holding a messenger scroll. "It's an urgent message from Kumo!" this caught the whole council's attention as Tsunade reached out an unraveled the scroll. Her eyes slowly becoming more wide the further she read into the message.

"Kuma has declared war on us."

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