"Geez...I won't be able to sit down for a week now..." Naruto said, rubbing his butt while he walked down the street. He was heading home now. He looked at a town clock and it was 4:30. "Might as well get a shower..." He said to himself as he caught Sakura in the corner of his eye walking down another street. He walked up behind her. "Hey Sakura-chan!" He said with glee.

Sakura turned and her face dimmed some. She felt as if she lead him on. "Hey Naruto..." She said as she forced up a fake smile.

Naruto looked to the side with a smile. "I was wondering if you wanna do something later on tonight..." He asked bashfully.

The question seemed to stab Sakura in the heart. She had these feelings for Naruto as well, but she couldn't tell him about Raven. She felt extreamly guilty. "I...I'm going to be busy tonight. I have to help my mom with somethings...Sorry."

Naruto looked at her, disappointed some. "Oh...well maybe tomorrow then!" He said with a smile.

"Maybe..." Sakura responded.

Naruto turned towards his apartment. "Well, I'm headed home! I'll see you later Sakura-chan!" He walked off.

"Bye..." She looked down. "...Naruto..." She continued walking home. She felt as if she could cry right there and then. "You deserve to feel this way..." Her innerself taunted. She made it home and noticed no one was there. She ran up stairs to her room and steped in. She closed the door and jumped on her bed with tears streaming down her face. "Naruto...I'm so sorry..."

Back in the hospital...

"With her!" Kage yelled in shock. Raven's head nodded. "B-b-but you've only been here two days!"

"I know..." He replied. "...But she's really cute. I don't mind a date."

"Raven...we are still on a mission...remember?"

"Don't worry...I won't get off track with the mission. Right now we are getting some R&R, so calm down."

"I don't want you getting all jazzed up about some date and forget out our mission...That's all." Kage looked at him seriously. She always worried about Raven and his emotional state. She didn't want him to get connected to this girl and head back home to never see her again. "They said I would be able to move about tomorrow."

"That's good. I want you to see this town with me...It's like home...before the massacre." Raven said as he looked down. "I miss thoses times with Kenai..." He felt Kage's arms wrap around him gentlely.

"I miss those times as well brother...but we should live for today. Fight for tomorrow...It's what Kenai would want us to do. He would want us to be great ninja's..."

"...I wish I could have done something to help him that day...I wish I wasn't a burden that he had to carry..." Raven said as a tear rolled down his cheek.

"You were never a burden to him Raven..." She looked up into Raven's teary eyes. "He died to protect someone he loved..." She wiped his tears away.

Raven embraced her close. "Thank you...sis..."

Else where, Tsundae sits in her office trying to figure out what papers need to go where...

"Shizune...please..." Tsundae begged.

"I'm sorry Tsundae-sama..." Shizune said as she walked to the door. "But me and Kakashi are going out again tonight..."

"Do you love him?"

Shizune stopped. She felt Tsundae's gaze fall on her and she smiled. "Hmmm...how could I not love him..." She said as she looked back at Tsundae. "Now be a good Hokage and do some work on your own." She walked out.

Tsundae sighed deeply as she laid back in her chair. She nearly nodded off until her office door opened. She looked up to see Konton and Kokou walk in. "Yes gentlemen?"

"Hokage-sama..." Kokou said as he lowered his head.

"We are worried about Konoha's situation with these two Shadow nin." Konton stated.

Tsundae looked at both of them. They were both promoted to Jonin just a year ago, but both had a keen sense of trouble. "Worried?" She said as she leaned forward and rested her chin on her hands. "Give me your overview of the situation."

"When we fought the boy at the gates, he was with another ninja. His sister...she was hurt badly and considering they were trained under the Shadow, someone or a group of people are watching this village that are stronger than us." Kokou explained.

"We also understand that we are not the strongest in Konoha, but we were practicly defeated by this lone ninja with ease. We are worried that they have brought enemies that we could have problems dealing with." Konton explained as well...

"You maybe correct about this situation..." She said seriously. "A messenger hawk did not return to us today...now you never know if it was attacked by something in the nature...or killed by another ninja before it could tell us there location." She looked at them seriously. "I want you two to be on gaurd and send a message to the gate guards to be alert at all times..."

"Yes Hokage-sama!" They both said together as they disappeared.

"If Kokou and Konton are correct...then we could have a problem..." Tsundae thought to herself.

Shizune stepped outside and looked to her right to find Kakashi reading his perverted book again.

"It's quarter to 7...your out early..." Kakashi said as he looked up from the book at Shizune.

Shizune blushed. She loved it when he looked at her like that. "Well I was hoping to go home and take a shower..."

Kakashi's eye looked to the side. "Yeah...I could used one myself. I was training with Naruto...ahhh and they are working on the plumbing at my place...so..." He looked back at Shizune.

"Kakashi...you perverted freak...I love you!" Shizune thought to herself. "You can come and use mine..." She said as she blushed more. Kakashi put away his book and walked up to her. He pulled down his mask and planted a loving kiss on her lips that melted her heart. She felt her knees go weak. Her eyes rolled into the back of her head as they closed to feel the sensation of the kiss.

Kakashi pulled away some. "To a warm shower we go..." he said with a sly grin on his face.

Back in Sakura's house, Sakura steps out of the shower herself. She needed the warmth of the water to calm her down and wash away her worries for the time being. She made her way to her room and closed her door. She stopped at her full body mirror and looked at herself. She turned to the side and looked at her butt. She was displeased with her body, seeing that Ino was now getting curves and bigger breasts. "There are probably better looking girls back at home for Raven..." She thought to herself as she moved to her closest. She grabbed a pair of tight jeans and a low cut shirt. She dressed herself and fixed up her hair neatly. She looked in the mirror again. "I hope you like what you see Raven..." She said to the mirror in worry.