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Chapter Nine: The True Meaning of Her Crimes pt 1

The beautiful blonde sat in a comfy white chair bored out her mind. One elbow was proped up on the table and her head rested in hand. A glass of red wine was held by her other hand. Her cerulean orbs watched the crowd in front of her lazily. All that was going on was socialing and dancing. Nothing interesting was happening. No one she knew was there. It was starting to bother her. She did come hoping to get some things over with.

She wanted to end everything tonight. Now she was seeing that would be impossible. The gang was nowhere to be found. She had searched the whole entire party looking for them. Not one person seemed to catch her attention. After the long look, she decided to take a seat and wait for them to come out. They had to be hiding somewhere in this place.

Naruko had only been at the party for an hour and a half, and she was ready to leave. She probably would've enjoyed it more if Kakashi was with her. In her short time knowing him, she found his company comfortable and enjoyable. She never engaged in conversations like she did with Kakashi with anybody else. Not even Sasuke could make that happen.

Kakashi was suppose to be with tonight, but there was a problem. Naruko didn't know where Kakashi was at the moment. Last night was going well until the waitor came along. That's when things fell off. Everything turned upside down and yelling happened. She had even walked out on him. She was sure he went through hell last night while she was just fine. She couldn't even get it out her mind as each minute went by, and he wasn't here with her.

"Excuse me, I don't mean to interrupt your conversation, but Ms. Namikaze?"

Naruko turned to look at the waitor waiting for him to get on with whatever he had to say. She was in the middle of a very interesting conversation with her date.

"Can I have your autograph? Im a huge fan of your work" the waitor exclaimed.

"Sure" Naruko said cheerfully. She took the pen and paper from the man's hand. She started to sign her name, but a gasp from Kakashi stopped her. She looked up to see what was wrong with him.

"Ms. Namikaze?!"

"Huh?"

"He called you Ms. Namikaze, and you answered" Kakashi said the shock clearly shown on his face.

Naruko stared at him wondering what his point was. The waitor asked for her autograph. He even knew her name, Ms. Nami-. Her eyes suddenly widened at realizing exactly what his point was. 'He called me Ms. Namikaze, and I answered. He called me Ms. Namikaze, and I answered! Why, Naruko? Why did you answer the fucking call?! Shit, Im screwed!' she thought.

She abruptly turned around in her chair scanning the building. The red head was gone and so were the three orange heads. The only one left was the purple haired woman who was clearly watching Naruko. She started to panic. She just gave up her identity in a place where the people who are trying to kill her are, and the said people now knew. 'Fuck! I have to get out of here!'

The blonde turned back around to face the waitor who caused this, "Why the fuck would you say my name like that?!"

The waitor looked taken back by the blonde's words. "The man I was catering to told me who you were, and I just wanted an autograph" he said.

"What man?!" she yelled at him.

The waitor flinched before pointing to the other side of the table, "He was sitting over there." He definitely pointing at the place where the red head was sitting.

"Shit! Do you know what you just did?!" she yelled at the waitor some more.

"Naruko, calm down. He didn't know. Who would with you holding out on secrets" Kakashi spoke.

Naruko looked at Kakashi then narrowed her eyes at him. "Shut the fuck up, Kakashi!" she snapped.

By now every person in the restaurant was staring at Kakashi and Naruko. "No, Naruko, you shut the fuck up! You just ruined everything!" Kakashi snapped back at her.

"Uh," the waitor interrupted.

"What?!" Naruko and Kakashi yelled at him.

"He also wanted me to give you this note" the waitor held out a piece of paper. Naruko snatched the paper away from him, and he fled the scene they were causing.

Naruko opened the note. Instantly her eyes widen again or mouth flew open. Naruko got up from her seat ready to leave, but she was pulled back. She turned around to see Kakashi standing and gripping her wrist.

"Let me go!" she screamed.

"You're not going anywhere" Kakashi said.

"Let me go, Kakashi!" she screamed again. He's starting to make me mad.

"Im not going to let you die, Naruko" he said softly.

Naruko snatched away from Kakashi, "Don't get in my fucking way!"

Kakashi grabbed her arm again. Naruko snatched away again, this time landing a punch to Kakashi's jaw. "I said don't get in my fucking way!" she shouted then stormed out of the building.

She stepped outside wiping furiously the tears streaming down her face. She had to get out of Suna right now. Naruko heard her name being called, but she ignored it. She started walking to Kakashi's car, but she was suddenly pulled into some unknown room. 'What the fuck!?'

"Who's there?! I have a gun, and Im not afraid to use it!" Naruko shouted.

A deep chuckle sounded off before none other than Itachi Uchiha appeared. "That's a nice greeting, Naruko."

"Itachi, you scared me!" Naruko said throwing her arms around him. "What are you doing here?"

"Well my little brother has been throwing a fit about you leaving him and going on some dangerous mission" Itachi said.

Naruko rolled her eyes, "Why does he care so much?"

"You are his wife, and he is mad with you" Itachi pointed out.

"Dont remind me. Back to the point"

"He found out about you leaving the city without permission from Lady Tsunade. I just happened to hear it all. I told him I would come protect you so he could quit complaining" Itachi said.

"Or was it to get away from him?" Naruko asked.

"That to, but I can say it was mostly because I have a soft spot for you" he said.

Naruko giggled, "Sure, Itachi. Im sure you saw what happened since you're here. I need to go hide somewhere."

"Yeah I did. You can stay with me since no one knows Im here" Itachi offered.

"Thank god! Itachi you're a life savor" Naruko exclaimed.

That was the last time she saw Kakashi. She knew he was worried about her because he had called her a dozen times. She ignored his calls; she still needed to cool off. When she went to see Gaara this morning, he mentioned Kakashi saying he looked for her all night.

Naruko walked into Gaara's office to have a talk to him. She saw Gaara sit down in his chair, his anger lashing out. She could tell he was mad about something. He was even deep in though. Kakashi had to tell him something because she saw him walk out the building a while ago. Gaara hands then found their way into his red locks pulling at them out of fustration. How on the hidden cities was he suppose to fix this.

"Geez, Gaara, don't kill yourself; I'm fine" Naruko said.

The red haired man snapped his head up looking into the direction the voice came from. Gaara got out his seat, sprinting over to the person. He held the girl in a bone-crushing hug. He had to for he thought she had been in danger for the past two hours.

"Don't scare me like that again, Naruko" he said.

"C-ca... can't... bre... breathe" Naruko gasped out.

Gaara let her go, "Where have you been?"

"Itachi is here" Naruko said.

"Naruko, you need to go ba-'

"So he told you"

Gaara nodded, "Naruko what were you thinking?"

"I wasn't thinking; it slipped. I was uh... having a rather distracting conversation."

"It's not safe for you to be here, Naruko" Gaara said.

"I don't care"

"Nar-"

"Gaara, Im staying. Im finishing this tonight" Naruko said.

Naruko drank the last of her wine then got up to get another glass. She reached the back of the room where the bar was. She handed the man her glass. He refilled it and gave it back to her. Naruko put the glass to her lips to take a sip, but the sight of red caught her eyes. She put the glass down then started following the person. She had to make sure she wasn't seeing things.

The blonde went down a hall she didn't know existed. She kept her distance making sure not to be caught. The person she was following turned her head giving Naruko a good view of her face before turning the corner. Naruko knew she saw right. What is Karin doing here? Naruko turned the corner also, but Karin had dissappeared.

She froze realizes she had just walked into a trap. If Karin was here then, Juugo and Suigetsu also had to be here. If those three were here then that meant... Her thought was cut off as she snatched into a room. Before she could even do anything, she was pushed against the wall.

"You're really starting to make me mad!"

Naruko glared at the man in front of her, "You didn't seem to care when you was making me mad."

"You're my damn wife!"

"By blackmail" Naruko said.

"You're enjoying to be someone else wife more than being mine"

"It's for the mission. How do you know that?"

"I got eyes and ears everywhere you go, Naruko"

"What!? You got other people watching me now"

"A lot more than this mission has been going on"

"Sasuke, don't even go there" Naruko said. Sasuke stared at Naruko then started for the door. "Where are you going?"

"To get rid of your fake husband"

"He's not even here"

"He just stepped in" Sasuke smirked.

Naruko eyes widen, "No, Sasuke, don't!"

"Bye, Naruko" Sasuke said.

Naruko pulled him away from the door, "Im not letting you leave."

"You care for him too much"

"You're not going to kill him" Naruko snapped at him.

Sasuke wrapped his hand around Naruko's neck, "Stay out my way!"

Naruko tried to pull Sasuke's hand off her neck only for him to tighten his grip. "Suke... stop" she panted out.

Sasuke stared at her before he let his hand fall from her neck. Naruko dropped to her knees trying to catch her breathe. Sasuke stepping out the door and closing it behind him.

After her breathing went back to normal, Naruko tried to open the door, but it wouldn't budge. "Shit!"

Kakashi stepped into the building that held the party two hours late. If somethings hadn't happened, he would've been on his way back to Konoha right now. His life was the one of the reasons he had finally decided to come. He valued his life more than the guilt he was feeling from last night. He was sure he didn't want to deal with Tsunade wrath either.

Another reason he was late was because he was thinking about Naru. He had seen her at least three times that day, and he was glad to see she was her lively self. She had made him feel so guilty last night, and Gaara didn't help with that this morning either.

Kakashi Hatake stood in the plainly decorated room with his hands stuffed in his pockets and a cool expression on his face. His stance indicated everything was just fine, and he didn't care one way or another. The information he had just told was the complete opposite of what he had been protraying. He wasn't calm at all either. He was panicing and breaking down in the inside. He lost the Hokage's god daughter. She was sure to kill him along with Jiraiya, Sasuke, Gaara, and hell even Sakura.

Gaara no Sabaku sat at his desk with his eyes fixed on Kakashi. A hard glare met the bachelor piercing fire throgh his skin hoping to kill the man. He knew that no matter how long he stared at him he was never going to drop to ashes. His glare harden at seeing the silver haired man calmness and apathetic attitude. Did he not find anything wrong with what he had just said? If he didn't, Gaara clearly did. He lost his friend! He had to hold back from strangling him when he said it, but if Naruko didn't turn up by the night, he was going to slowly torture Kakashi. He would leave the murder part to Tsunade for he knew her anger would be double amount of his.

"Where is Naruko?" Gaara asked.

It was a question Kakashi wanted to know the answer to himself. Naruko had shocked him so last night that his mind short circuted. Never in his short period od time of knowing her did he think she would get mad at him. Mad to the point she punched him and nearly locked his lights out. It took him awhile to regain his composure and go after Naruko. There was no sign or trace of her. He looked for her all night. Even waited for her all morning at the hotel. She didn't show up, so he thought it was best to go to Gaara.

"She left last night and never showed back up" Kakashi said not moving from his position.

"You were at the restaurant, correct" Gaara said.

Kakashi nodded his head, "Yes."

"What happened. Don't leave out details, Hatake. You're seconds away from dying" Gaara threatened.

Kakashi sighed at hearing that. He didn't want to think about the night at all. He felt so guilty for what had happened. He could've handled the situation alot better, but it was in the past. Now, Naruko was probably mad at him because she was in the hands of the enemy. He hoped not. Kakashi looked at Gaara and told what happened starting from the point they walked in to the point she stormed out, leaving out the flirting and side conversations.

After Kakashi finished talking, Gaara rised up from his seat in a quick haste. His glare intensified, and Kakashi could feel the killing intent oozing off of him. "Hatake, you are dismissed. I will be informing Lady Tsunade of this." Kakashi didn't need to be told twice and left quickly.

Kakashi didn't want to be another situation like that ever again. He didn't even want another mission like this one either. He knew as long as he lived he would continue to do missions, and as long as Naruko was still alove, she was going to be reckless. She would be the reason he would try to stop her recklessness and continue his job. She was even his motivation on getting to the party and finishing the mission. Naruko was the last reason for why he was here.

Kakashi stepped through the front doors of the hotel at six o'clock. After leaving the Kazekage's office, Kakashi drove around Suna admiring it's beauty. It was just something to get his mind off of Naruko, and it worked quite well. He couldn't do that all day because he had a mission to finish, and Tsunade would personally come down here and have her way with him. He decided it was time to get back to get ready for party that starts an hour later.

The owner came from around the front desk, "Excuse me, Mr. Hatake."

Kakashi looked up to see the man, "Yes"

"Your wife told me to give you this note" he said handing Kakashi the note.

"Uh thanks" Kakashi said taking the note and continued on his way.

He stepped onto the elevator and pressed the button for his floor. Kakashi played with the note in his hand. For some reason he couldn't pull himself to open it. What if she went back home or if she was capture. Kakashi crossed that off the list; he knew Naruko was a strong woman. She could protect herself better than he could.

The elevator doors opened, and Kakashi stepped off of it. He walked slowly to his room at the end of the hall. Once making it, he dug the keys out his pocket opening the door. Kakashi walked in then froze realizing everything was wrong about the picture. He could've sworn the lights were off when he left. He wasn't even in the room for the past hours. Then there were clothes thrown everywhere.

Kakashi reached for the gun strapped to his side, but he felt a breeze. He looked to see the window open. He went over to close, and stopped seeing golden blonde hair. There was Naruko getting into an unknown car.

"Naruko" Kakashi whispered to himself.

He went to open the note, but his phone interrupted his thought. He looked at the caller ID and saw that it was Lady Tsunade. He sighed before answering it.

"Hello" he answered.

"Just what is going on over there?" Tsunade asked.

"Everything is just fine. Naruko is fine" Kakashi said.

"Where is Naruko?"

"She can't answer the phone right now"

"Kakashi!"

"Sorry, Lady Tsunade, got to finish the mission" Kakashi hung up.

He put the phone back in his pocket and laid down on the bed. The pure whiteness of the plain ceiling was the only thing he saw. The nicely decorated wall and freshly made beds didn't even catch didn't attention, the pureness of the bare ceiling did. It was nothing fascinating about the ceiling. Staring at the ceiling helped him to think. He needed to clear his mind before he decided to attend the party.

"Kakashi get yourself together" he said to himself.

He opened the note Naruko left for him hoping to finally get rid of the curious nature he had developed. The was one sentence, four words, written in black ink on the paper. It was he needed to get up and get ready for the party.

See you tonight Kashi.

Kakashi looked around for noticeable golden blonde hair, but he couldn't even find her. The party had been going on for at least two hours; she should be here. Kakashi took another look and saw the gang in different parts of the room. If they're here, where is Naru? He went to the back of the room to see if she was at the bar, but still no luck.

Where is Naruko?

Kakashi started to go back up to the front then the bartender went down a hallway to get something. The silver haired bachelor went down the hall he had just seen the bartender go down. The hallway had a series of twist and turns, and Kakashi went down them going into every room. There was no luck in finding Naruko. Kakashi stopped his search when he spotted a necklace laying on the floor. He picked it up instantly recognizing it as the necklace Naruko always wore.

The necklace dropped out Kakashi's hand when a knife came past his face. He dodged it quickly and turned to see who had thrown it at him. Six people with orange hair and piercings were standing in front of him. Kakashi recognised three of them from his date with Naruko.

"Where is the heir?" one of them spoke up.

Sasuke walked down the halls going back to the party. He leaned against the wall at the end of the hallway watching his target carefully. He saw Kakashi take a look around and assumed he was looking for Naruko. After a couple of minutes, Kakashi started to walk to the back. Sasuke was ready to put his plan into action.

Suddenly, someone grabbed the back of Sasuke's shirt pulling him away from the opening of the hallway. Sasuke was shoved against the wall. He opened his eyes to be met his red eyes.

"What did you do to, Naruko" the person hissed at him.

Sasuke glared at the person, "She's fine."

The person gripped the front of Sasuke's shirt. "That's not what I asked you"

"She's somewhere around here" Sasuke smirked.

A punch was landed to Sasuke's jaw, "Sasuke, I will personally kill you if you harmed Naruko in any way!"

Sasuke wiped the blood from his mouth. He looked to the person, his glare intensified and his eyes turned red. "Itachi, stay out my way" he snapped.

"I don't like your way" Itachi said.

"I don't give a fuck, Itachi. Im going to finish you right here!" Sasuke yelled. He ran up to Itachi holding a sword ready to stab his older brother.

In the blink of an eye, Itachi ended up behind Sasuke, and Sasuke's sword held against the back of neck by his own brother. "I think it's you who is going to be finished right here, little brother" Itachi said.

Naruko kicked at the door for the millionth time in the past thirty-five minutes. "Why won't this stupid door open?!" she yelled out of fustration.

Damn teme! He is going to pay for this!

She pulled out her gun aiming it at the door. Her index finger rested on the trigger. She pulled the trigger hoping the bullet would go through the door. She ducked as the bullet bounced off the door and went into something in the room.

"You got to be shitting me!" she cursed. The damn door is bullet proof and unbreakable!

Naruko had tried everything possible to get the door open. The door never budged or even created a dent. She even tried picking the lock, but nothing happened with that either. She wasn't going to give up. She couldn't be stuck in a room while Kakashi fought her battles and got rid of her problem.

"Help! Anybody out there!" Naruko yelled banging on the door. Where the fuck are people when you need help!?

Naruko pushed on the door trying to see if it would open. "Fucking door!" she yelled and slid down the door. She looked around the room seeing if there was anything else that would help her get the door open.

Then the door swung open, and Naruko fell back hitting her back on the cold floor. "Shit!" she hissed at the pain and coldness. She sat up quickly rubbing at her back then she realized she was out in the hallway. "Hey, the door's open!"

"Still the way I remember you, Namikaze" an unknown voice.

Naruko slowly turned until the person came into her view. A man in a black cloak wearing an orange mask stood in front of Naruko.

She gasped, "Madara"

O_O oh snap! This was long. It took me at least four days to type this. Then I have like three different versions of this chapter. It was some hard work, but I did for you guys. It will not take me four days to type the next chapter... I hope not. I hoped you enjoyed. Review, favorite, and follow! I think this is my longest chapter yet. I hoped I didn't confuse some of yall with the flashbacks. Enough of my talking.

Until next time,

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