A/N: Wazzup! I really need to catch up on this story. I planned on them fighting again. I need to do 2 chapters but I'm really tired. I hope Riko or Sasuke isn't…
Riko: (yawns) What?
Me: I didn't say anything..
Sasuke: Rock-a-bye baby on the tree top, when the wind blows the cradle will rock….
Me: Sasuke, what's wrong now?
Sasuke: Naruto-naruto-sh-sh-showed me –a-a magazine of h-h-him and he-he was……. Teletubies….
Naruto: BELIEVE IT!
Me: What did you do to Sasuke you big lemon head?!?
Naruto; (smirks evilly… creepy….) I just showed him some pictures..
Riko: Of what?
Naruto: Me..
Riko: Doing what?
Naruto: Something…
Me: What is 'something?' If you don't tell me your lemon head will be cherry head!
Naruto: Why must you ask me all of these-
Riko: IF YOU DON'T SAY IT I'M GOING TO KILL YOU, CHOP YOU UP, FEED YOU TO DOGS, CHOP THEM UP, THROW THEM WITH YOU IN THEM, AND BURN THEM!! DO YOU HEAR ME???!!!
Naruto: Ok ok! I'll show you! (Shows me and Riko the magazine.)
Riko: Why is it named, 'Playboy Men'?
Naruto: Look…
Me: WHAT THE-?!?! WHAT IS THAT!?? WHAT ARE YOU-!?!? HOW DID THAT GET RIGHT THERE?!?! WHY IS THAT GIRL ON YOUR-?!?! WAIT?!?! IS THAT A MAN ON YOUR-?!?!?!?! (Faints..)
Riko: (Looks disgusted. Goes by Sasuke, sits back to back with him.) One two, buckle my shoe, three four, shut the door….
Sasuke: Five six, pick up sticks…
Riko and Sasuke: Seven eight, lay them straight, nine ten, get a hen.
Naruto: They're not that bad…. Are they?
All: Bye...
Sasuke and Riko entered a deserted town, nothing more but dust, dirt, and a few abandoned houses. They walked, cautiously, into the place. They looked around and went into some houses. Nothing looked suspicious, not yet. They continued to travel down the dirty road. The dust clamed the air for a few minutes. As they walked, Riko noticed a familiar house coming in the distance. She blinked and sharpened her eyes site.
"This can't be." Riko stopped and looked at the huge figure, freezing where she stood.
"What is it?" Saske asked as he keep staring at the house.
"It's mine."
Back in Konoha, the village almost gave up hope.
"We will have to wait on their return. We can't go after them." Tsunade announced.
"Why can't we?" Kakashi asked.
"Even if we did go, we wouldn't know where they would be. You're dogs probably can't find them." Gai added in.
"Why can't we search by air?" Yugao came in as she heard the conversation.
"A Uchiha is so superior that they can sense people anywhere. It's not that they have super powers or something it's just that their chakra boosts their senses." Tsunade explained to the group. She drank some sake.
"Well, what are we going to do? We can't just wait on them." Kurenai walked into the room soon after Yugao.
"We will have to." Tsunade sighed.
In other parts in the village, the kids didn't give up hope.
"How are we going to help? We even sent out our top ninjas." Sakura complained as she sat by her best friend/ rival Ino.
"I know." Ino lay her head in her hands.
"This was too troublesome anyways. They can come back on their own. Troublesome.." Shikmaru said in his usual, lazy voice.
"I'm tired of you saying that all the time! Shikamaru Nara, YOU are troublesome! Your lazy butt never does anything! I thought you were a comrade! You are just no good! You won't even help Konoha retrieve one of the hottest guys and the devil!" Ino yelled in front of his face with a fist. He just looked at her surprised kind of guilty, and annoyed.
"We might as well admit it, Ino. I agree with Shikamaru." Sakura looked up at the blonde.
"I know….. I'm just sooo mad and I needed to take it out on somebody.." Ino sat back down by Shikamaru and Sakura.
"I just hope they'll be okay." Sakura sighed.
Somewhere else…
"Neji, just sop looking. You're byakugan can't find them. Lee's super speed can't find them and even if I did my Twin Dragons into trees it still wouldn't help." Tenten walked over by Neji.
"Hn. You just keep looking." Neji said as he ignored her comment.
"Why can't my youth track them down! I have failed you, Gai-sensei!" Lee came to the ground.
"Shut up, Lee!" Tenten came over and punched Lee in the face, but only having little effect.
"You're right, Tenten! We shall never lose hope or youth!" Lee sped off into the woods, only a few yards away.
"What are we going to do with him?" Tenten asked.
"Just keep looking." Neji told her.
Back where Riko and Sasuke were.
"What do you mean its 'yours'?" Sasuke turned to look at Riko.
"This is my house. I lived here." Riko ran to the door.
"What are you saying, Riko?" Sasukle caught up with Riko, also getting a better look at the house.
"This is the Uchiha village. Where me and you and every Uchiha grew up." Riko stared at the door and opened it with caution.
"Home? We're...home?" Sasuke asked as he walked through riko's home.
"Yes. This is where my parents died. Where he did it." riko got down on her knees to see a blood stain on her carpet.
"Itachi." Sasuke sat by her.
"But why, Sasuke? His own clan." Riko started to shed tears as she thought about that terrible day.
"I know. Don't you think it hurts me, too? My own brother. My family. Our families." Sasuke looked at the blodd stain, thinking about his mother and father.
"He even killed my best friend, Hanshiro." (Remember him in chapter 7?) Riko looked at a picute of her and Hanshiro, each other's arms wrapped arounf each other's shoulder, laughing. Her tears started to stop as she smiled on it.
"I had a best friend."
"Who, Sasuke?" Riko began to wipe her left tears off of her face onto her now dry clothes.
"My brother." Sasuke said as his rage began to arouse in him. (It's not the arouse you perverts are thinking about!)
"Oh."
Silence broke in. You could even hear a pin drop. Riko exmained the picture one more time. She compared her childhood with Hanshiro to Sasuke. There really wasn't a difference. Riko thought about the good times and the bad times, including the day. She looked down upon her past, though. She didn't like it. Her father was alwys gone, yet her mother was poor but still supported her. That was the only one who supported her, besides Hanshiro. Riko got more comfortable and sat on her bottom. She let out a sad sigh, carrying the memories of her childhood.
Riko couldn't help but keep glancing at the picture next to her and Hanshiro, like she missed something or something was on it. She looked closer to it, which caught Sasuke's attention. Riko picked up the picuture beside the picture with Hanshiro and her. By the way, the picutures were some how unharmed in the process of the massacre of Itachi, which caught both Sasuke's and Riko's attention at first glance.
"What is that?" Riko asked as she took the picture into a clearing view.
"What is what?" Sasuke scooted closer to her to get a better look.
"Do you see that? I've never seen my mother waer that before." Riko pointed to a jewel that had a deep blue color, almost indigo like Riko's. It even seemed like it sparkled in the picture. Riko gazed harder at the picute, trying to find out what that thing was. Riko had no clue what it was. It sure was beautiful, though.
"Do you know what it is, Sasuke?" Riko asked as she handed the picture to him.
"No. I have no idea what it is. Wait, there's a note in the corner." Sasuke pulled out the piece of paper. He opened it up and read it. He gased and became wide eyed. It's like he just died and sat in the postion he was in.
"What is it? It can't be that bad. Give it here." Riko held out her hand for Sasuke to give her the piece of paper.
"It is that bad. You'll be very surprised." Sasuke, hesitantly, gave the little, crumpled up paper to Riko, who thought he was too slwo and snatched it from him.
"Let me see what it says." Riko read it, almost dying.
To Riko, The Daughter Of Orochimaru...
A/N: OMG!! I can't believe I just did that! People, I exported this chapter.. I hope the other on didn't catch you off track! I forgot to save! Who would think Riko would be Orochimaru's daughter?? Wow! Riko and Sasuke are asleep so bye!
