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Naruto's eyes fluttered open at first light. He always had been a morning person, always one to watch the sunrise. As he sat up, he glanced over to his right side. And didn't look away. Sasuke looked like a fallen angel with the light streaming in from the window on his face. How could Sasuke not wake up with that glare shining in his eyes?
Even as he contemplated this, his mind wandered to how sexy he looked and how much he would love to kiss him awake. He mentally slapped himself. He needed to focus on the mission. He needed to forget about this and never come back to it again. This wasn't right. Besides, no matter how much he wanted it, Sasuke would never love him back.
Reluctantly Naruto tore his eyes away from Sasuke and got up to leave. He might as well gather some information on where to start before Sasuke got up. Naruto sighed. Like he told Sakura, life was complicated.
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Sasuke's eyes snapped open at the harsh sound of the alarm. He groaned. 8:30. Time to wake up. He glanced over to see if Naruto heard the alarm. 'Who knew if the blonde could sleep through something like that or not?' He shot up in panic when he realized that Naruto was not there. The panic only increase when he glanced around and saw that Naruto was not in the room at all.
Sasuke raced around the room at frantic speed, changing clothes and rubbing all traces of sleep form his eyes. Just as he tore back across the room to get his weapons, the door opened.
"What the hell are you doing? Where's the fire?" Sasuke's world momentarily froze. That voice. . . He didn't know whether to be furious or relieved.
Sasuke spun around as quickly as he had been moving before and had the blond Rokudaime pinned against the wall. "Where in the hell were you Idiot?"
"I was just gathering information. You weren't awake yet, so I figured I could get work done before Mr.-sleepy-head woke up. Why? Were you worried about me?"
Sasuke completely ignored the last statement, knowing it was nothing but the truth. "Mr.-Sleepy-Head?" Sasuke's eyebrow twitched. "Who are you to talk? What time did you get up?"
A light smirk appeared on Naruto's face. So Sasuke WAS worried about him. "5:30."
Sasuke blanched. "Whatever dobe." He pulled away from Naruto harshly.
Naruto frowned slightly. "Sasuke?"
"NOTHING!" Sasuke yelled. He came very close to blushing; worried Naruto had caught him while he was thinking of ways he wouldn't have minded Naruto waking him up.
"OK. Whatever. I found a place that we can start. Kammedi was sighted there yesterday."
Sasuke, grateful for the change of subject, asked, "Where?"
"A small town, about ten kilometers south of here."
"Let's go."
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Naruto and Sasuke had informed the Grass kage of their departure and headed out towards the town of Hitan. (A/N: hitan means sorrow) An odd feeling passed over the pair as they entered the small town.
"Creepy name, this town has," Naruto whispered to Sasuke.
"Hn." Sasuke wholeheartedly agreed with Sasuke. What had happened to this town for it to be given a name as depressing as hitan? This was an odd situation and something seemed odd about Kammedi picking this place as a refuge. It was so close to the Village and word could be passed that he was here with very little time to respond. What was this supposed 'genius' planning?
The town's people here were a bit old fashion as the two soon discovered. Most places had only a few people that spoke their native language of Japanese fluently anymore, but it seemed that Hitan was an exception. There were very few people here that spoke English.
"The kage could have warned us about this. It interferes with our investigation," Sasuke grumbled as he realized that Naruto would be the only one able to communicate with these people.
Naruto turned and flashed Sasuke his signature smile before turning back to his conversation with a resident.
"人Kammediの名前を見たか。(Do you know a man by the name of Kammedi?)" Naruto asked an elderly woman.
"Kammediはここに歓迎されていない! (Kammedi are not welcome here!) Kammediなら、許可! (If you are a Kammedi, leave!)" The elderly woman anwered.
"私を私達ないKammediがの夫人保証することを許可しなさい。(Let me assure you, madam, we are not Kammedi.) 私はUzumaki Narutoおよびthat'である; s Uchiha Sasuke。(I am Uzumaki Naruto and that's Uchiha Sasuke.)" Naruto answered.
"Uzumaki Narutoか。 KonohaのRokudaimeか。(Uzumaki Naruto? Rokudaime of Konoha?)" Naruto breathed a sigh of relief as she called him 'Rokudaime' instead of 'demon' or the equivalent.
"はい。 私のパートナーおよび私はここにKammedi Nuzioの前草kage'を暗殺することいる; sの徒弟。(Yes. My partner and I are here to assasinate Kammedi Nuzio, ex-grass kage's apprentice.)"
"彼を暗殺しなさいか。 ここに歓迎されている、友人常に。 その粗悪品はずっと余りに長くのためにずっと私達を押している。(Assasinate him? You are always welcome here, friend. That bastard has been pushing us around for far too long.)" The old woman sounded absolutely enthusiastic.
"ありがとう。 私達を助けて頂けますか。(Thank you. Can you help us?)" Naruto asked.
"私は私をできる考慮する。 He' s.aの独裁者、彼はある。 彼はここにの南14キロメートルのについてのキャンプを有する。 しかしcan' tのここにい、彼は頻繁に余りにチェックインする。 神の速度の友人。(I reckon I can. He's a dictator, he is. He has a camp about 14 kilometers south of here. But you can't stay here, he checks in too often. God speed friend.) The old lady wished them well.
"ありがとう。(Thank you.)" Naruto headed back to Sasuke.
"Well?" Sasuke said sharply, annoyed that he had missed a whole conversation.
"I know where his camp is, but we can't stay in this town."
Sasuke frowned. "Why not?"
"He checks in here. He acts as a dictator to this town."
"Right. Let's go. We can set up camp as a base and plan from there."
"Hai."
