Yay! The longest chapter I've ever written! Ha! Well, the last ----- marksthe first vision thingy I got for this story, hence theinspiration to write/type this story out, so... yeah.

Now I'm confused! What the heck is the difference between (random pairing here) Sasuke x Sakura and Sakura x Sasuke? Or SasSakand SakSas? I don't get it! I heard sort of that it had something with the last person being the 'uke' or something like that, but I still don't get it. I really don't get it. Seriously, it's scaring me. But hey, you're talking to a person who only just found out what 'yaoi' is, so don't blame me.

I'm going to be helping my friend with a story that we've both come up with on a different account (Mali-Bista)for a while, so chapters might be a bit slower than they usually are. Thought I'd warn you.

From now on, I don't really know where I'm going with this story. I know how everything's going to end, but I don't really know how I'm going to get there. I'll figure it out, but I might end up making a filler chapter kind of thing to gather my thoughts. Just another warning.

As you can tell from the title of the chapters, things are going to change big time in this chapter, so be prepared. hehe

Note: I don't own Naruto, or any other the characters. All I own is my plot, the Element Users, and the many characters I've made up for this fan-fiction, since that's all it is, a fan-fiction.

Chapter 21:

The Element User of Fire

Naruto was lying next to Shikamaru, watching the clouds roll by on a hot July day without a care in the world. The life of a ninja without missions was pretty boring. Shikamaru didn't seem to care; he was always saying how troublesome it was to do nothing, but at the same time how nice it was to have a break for once. There was no threat of war as other villages were also forbidden to take missions. The only hidden villages authorized to take missions and give them to any ninja level were the hidden villages of Rain, Falls, Grass, Star, and all the other minor villages save for Yuki. Sasuke was always away on one mission or other, and since she couldn't go on missions for the moment, Sakura had resumed her medical training with Tsunade.

At least there was one good thing about the mission cut back: Hinata had gotten closer to Naruto. She was sitting up on his other side, looking out onto the peaceful landscape that stretched out before her. Her smiling face put a smile on Naruto's face, as he sat up to talk.

"You know, this no mission thing is annoying, but it give you time to relax," he said quietly, trying to find with his eyes where she was looking.

Shikamaru opened his eyes and stared at the two, the emotion hidden from his eyes.

"Did you read the paper today Naruto?" he asked causally, closing his eyes again.

"No," he said, getting curious.

"How about the message boards?"

"Nope."

Didn't you get a message from those ANBU guys?"

"Na-uh"

Shikamaru sighed, sitting up as well. "All people that will turn or already have turned fifteen are ordered to meet inside that auditor…"

His voice faltered as his lips sealed up, preventing him from saying anything more about what was inside the odd building. Hinata rushed over to help him as Naruto clutched his stomach with laughter. The same thing had happened when he had tried to tell Sakura about his beliefs about Sasuke and how it might have been a trap. Naruto was practically copying what Sakura had done when his lips sealed up.

"S-stop trying t-to talk, Shi-shikamaru," Hinata told him, trying to get his lips unsealed. "It… it will only ma-make it w-worse."

Shikamaru finally opened his mouth, his lips streaming with blood, panting slightly and giving Naruto an evil eye. Naruto pressed a finger to his lips to stop him from laughing. It didn't work.

"Not funny," Shikamaru commented, wiping his mouth and standing up to leave. "Well, anyway, we're supposed to meet in that building tonight. Apparently the feudal lord wants to tell us all something."

"W-will everyone we… we know b-be there?" Hinata asked timidly, willing herself not to squeak.

"Everyone who turned fifteen already this year and those that will later," Shikamaru confirmed, licking his bloody lips. "If I were you Hinata, I would make sure you were with Naruto tonight to make sure he actually goes. It starts at ten."

And with that, he walked away, most likely to see Sakura to get his lips to stop bleeding, muttering something about Sasuke and his troublesome seals. Naruto had stopped laughing by then and was turning over the new information with the Kyuubi, aware of Hinata's gaze upon him. After about a minute, he stood up and stated he was going home now and that she could come with him if she liked. Hinata shook her head and, blushing madly, bowed a short goodbye and ran toward the Hyuuga compound. Naruto shrugged and set off walking in the opposite direction toward his apartment house, staring at the ground and trying to think of what the feudal lord wanted with all them.

"Hey Big-Bro Naruto!" a young, cheery voice called from up above.

Naruto turned to see Konohamaru and his friends Moegi and Udon jumping down from the tree branch they were hiding on. The Konohamaru Corps had become Team Ebisu when they passed the academy just a year ago. Now, all three of them were ten, and had taken the Chuunin exam once already, however they didn't make it passed the second part.

Konohamaru had kept his hair at a reasonable length, but hadn't changed anything else. His clothes were the same as they were two years ago except longer to keep up with his height. He was up to Naruto's chest in height; however he was a tiny bit shorter than Udon. His scarf had been shortened and now only reached to the middle of his back. Normally, his forehead protector would be proudly worn around his forehead, but because of the new law, it was currently around his neck, much like Hinata.

Moegi had grown quite a bit; in fact, she was a couple inches taller than Konohamaru and Udon, reaching up to Naruto's chin. Her hairstyle hadn't really changed all that much, however she had grown it out a lot and where her normal ponies were there were now ribbons. When she took her hair out of her top pink-tails, it reached down to the back of her knees. She had taken up medical techniques, and because of it, was the group's medic-nin. Her pink dress split on the sides like Sakura's and her forehead protector was around neck as well.

Udon was probably the one that changed the most. He wore prescription goggles so he didn't have to keep pushing his glasses up his nose during a battle. Kakashi had noticed that they were much like the goggles Obito used to wear, except he kept them on all the time. His hair hadn't changed much, maybe a tiny bit longer. His long-sleeved shirt was completely black and his shorts were a pure white with a couple dirt stains here and there. Just like his team mates, he too had put his forehead protector around his neck. Naruto had given up telling the younger shinobi that he needed to wipe his nose, and had gotten used to it by now.

"Hey Konohamaru, Moegi, Udon," Naruto greeted. "What're you guys up to?"

"We were going to ask you the same thing," Moegi said, always the one to engage a full conversation. "Are you going to see Sakura-san?"

Moegi had gained quite a lot of respect for the older kunoichi, going as far as following her and acting upon her every order for a whole week. Obviously, she wanted to be just like her.

"Don't be silly," Udon said sharply, fixing his eyes on his female team mate. "Sakura's training with Hokage-sama today. Plus, her house is the other way."

Naruto scratched the back of his head. Looks like Udon was copying Sasuke's old attitude, as was Moegi with Sakura and Konohamaru with himself. Maybe these guys were the replacement Team Kakashi went they were out on a mission.

"I'm just heading home," he assured the team. "Nothing to get worked up about."

"Awwww," they all moaned at once.

"We were hoping you were going to do something to get our missions back," Konohamaru explained. "We've got nothing to do since those laws got up. Ebisu-sensei's been running around doing the Hokage's orders and you've been helter-skelter everywhere."

"He's been busy," Udon snapped, crossing his arms and glaring at him. "He's probably got no time for us right now; let's go."

"Yeah, well, you do what you want," Moegi told him sternly. "I'm going to go see Sakura-san and maybe learn a new healing technique. Bye bye."

She jumped away as Udon shrugged and jumped off toward his own house. That left Konohamaru and Naruto staring at each other. Konohamaru blushed and turned away, scratching the back of his head.

"Sorry about them," he said quietly. "They've been like that ever since we didn't pass the Chuunin exam. And it's only gotten worse because of these laws. I'm really starting to get worried…"

Naruto patted him on the shoulder. He knew exactly what Konohamaru was going through. Still, he felt that if he could make sure that Udon didn't leave Konoha like Sasuke had, their team would make it through till the end.

"Keep an eye on Udon for a while," he whispered in his ear. "He seems to be acting like Sasuke did before he left Konoha, and I don't want you to go through that kind of pain."

Konohamaru blinked sympathetically and nodded, turning to get back to his house and running away. Naruto watched him for as long as he could see before he began walking again. When he got back to his house, he locked the door and went to lie on his bed. He knew he shouldn't even bother with the Kyuubi right now; they had a big argument the other day that had left Naruto with a pounding headache. A tap on the window snapped Naruto into the present. He looked over and was amazed to see Kakashi sitting on the window ledge. He waved a cheerful hello before motioning for Naruto to open the window. Naruto did so quickly, for Kakashi only did that when it was something important.

"What is it Kakashi-sensei?" Naruto asked eagerly and his teacher stepped through the window.

"You need to meet me, Sakura and Sasuke at the bridge at ten to ten tonight," he said hastily. "I actually will be there on time if that's what you're going to ask. All three of you are to go inside the building tonight for a meeting with the feudal lord. Do I make myself clear?"

Naruto nodded. "Sasuke's actually going to be there?"

"Well of course!" Kakashi said, re-adjusting his eye patched and pacing the room. "All missions have been cancelled due to this event." He looked down at Naruto, staring deep into his eyes. "This meeting may very well end this idiotic search for the Element Users."

Naruto swallowed hard, letting the wave of panic die back down to the pit of his stomach. Kakashi nodded and jumped back out the window and away from sight. Naruto sat on his bed, taking in the new information. What was Sasuke going to think when he heard the news? No doubt he actually knew who the Element User was, but then why hadn't he told Naruto?

"Kakashi said all missions were cancelled," the Kyuubi hinted, its deep voice echoing in the halls of Naruto's mind. "Maybe he'll be there..."

Naruto was out the door before it had even finished. He ran down the street until he came to Sasuke's apartment building and flew up the stairs to the seventh floor, and was knocking at the door marked seven-four-two in no time at all. Sasuke answered the door dressed in a navy blue t-shirt and black shorts, his long raven hair tied tight behind his head. Surprised, he let Naruto in and closed the door behind him.

"You're keeping secrets from me, aren't you!" Naruto blurted out, unable to contain himself.

Sasuke just stared at him, no expression showing on his face. The plate of his forehead protector had been removed and fitted onto the turtle neck part of this shirt. After a moment or two, he walked over to main bedroom and took a pile of papers that were lying on the bed and handed them to Naruto.

"Those are the reports of the Element Users I've been getting," he said, watching Naruto flip through them. "I was put in charge of any Element User information that can into the village by order of the Hokage. I've also been collecting information from other villages as I went on missions. I figured you and Sakura had enough to worry about."

Naruto looked at the papers but wasn't really reading them. He saw something with Hyuuga Kohaku's name on it, but didn't bother to read the article. There must have been at least a hundred pages there, all about these Element User people. Naruto went over to one of the couches and sat down, trying to calm himself down. Sasuke came later and sat in the other one, seeming as if there was nothing else to do in life.

"So, you would've told us?" Naruto said after a while, breaking the spell of silence.

Sasuke nodded, staring at the ceiling. "I figured that since the Element User case will end tonight, I could tell you now."

Naruto could tell Sasuke was also reassuring himself. He was still tense all over. They sat there like that for quite a while more before Naruto left and didn't meet again until ten.

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"About time," Sakura said to Naruto as he finally joined the rest of the group. "Kakashi said he wasn't going to be late, so there was no point taking so long."

"Sasuke's not here yet you know," Naruto retaliated. "So why are you getting mad at me?"

It was true, Sasuke hadn't shown up yet. It was coming on for five after ten, and Kakashi was growing more and more impatient.

"It's not like him of all people to be late," Kakashi said, looking down the street that Sasuke would walk down.

"And what does he think we feel?" Naruto whispered to Sakura, making her giggle.

"Are you talking about me by any chance?" Sasuke said, crouching on the side of the bridge.

"And where were you?" Kakashi asked sternly.

Sasuke shrugged. "I had to prepare for something," he said plainly, jumping beside Sakura and Naruto.

"And you're not going to tell us what it was," Naruto thought with a sigh. "Figures."

"Well you've made us late," Kakashi dragged on. "I don't care how you guys get there anymore, just get to that building."

"Sir," all three of them said simultaneously before jumping off.

After they had left, Kakashi was joined by Asuma and Kurenai. Both of them wore the expression of despair, and Kakashi's face soon changed as well.

"Why were you so strict with them?" Asuma asked, standing on Kakashi's right.

"Especially since you know what's going to happen to them," Kurenai added, standing on Kakashi's left.

Kakashi sighed a great, tragic sigh. "I don't really know. I want them to remember me by the real me, not this shell I'm always wearing."

The other two nodded and looked up toward the huge building that would be the team's fate.

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"Names?" the guard asked as the three friends approached the building.

"Uchiha Sasuke."

"Haruno Sakura."

"Uzumaki Naruto."

The ANBU guard nodded. "It is confirmed you are on the list. You may enter."

He stepped aside so that they could get in, and opened the double doors for them. Sasuke stepped inside first, squinting his eyes as they switched from outside darkness to the lights of the auditorium. The room was jam-packed with people. On a closer inspection, they were all the same age; already or turning fifteen. They were seated in the seats that lined the sides all the way down to the stage. The stage itself was lighted in spot lights, and a microphone was positioned in the center.

"Hey you guys! About time!" Kiba shouted from his seat in the middle-right side.

Team Kakashi went to join them, seating themselves on the three seats that were empty.

"Well, the whole gang's here now," Chouji said, munching on a bag of chips.

"We are not part of you're gang," Neji said stubbornly, slouching in his chair and crossing his arms.

"Hey, why are you guys here?" Naruto asked, looking from Lee, to Tenten to Neji. "Aren't you guys turning sixteen this year?"

"It's all Gai-sensei's fault!" Tenten shouted, finally getting her anger out. "It's 'youthful' this and 'youthful' that but he's gone way too far this time! He's decided that we need to be 'youthful' and pretend to be fifteen. I tell you, I'm going to kill him when I get out of here!"

"Easy Tenten, easy," Lee tried to soothe, patting her on the back. "I'm still fifteen, remember?"

"Lee, if I were you, I wouldn't provoke her," Shikamaru whispered to him. "She's a girl. Remember? Bad temper?"

Naruto looked over at Sasuke, trying to read his face. Sasuke had gone a bit pale, but he still didn't show any emotion. He was just staring at the stage, his eyes just a bit wider than they usually were.

"He knows what's going to happen," Naruto realized with a start. "And whatever it is, it can't be good."

A hushed silence followed that thought. All twelve of the ANBU members that were going around stepped onto the stage, in-between them was a miniature man with a funny hat dressed in black robes. Everyone was able to identify him as the feudal lord of the Country of Fire. He stood in front of the microphone and cleared his throat, waiting for the last of the teens to shut their mouths. Six ANBU stood on one side of him, and the other six stood on the other side of him. The feudal lord raised his hands and began to talk.

"Children of Konoha! I'm sure that all of you are aware that this year is the year that the people known as the Element Users gain their full powers. Five out of the six that are in the Shinobi Lands have been found. Their names are as follows: Hyuuga Kohaku of Snow and Ice, Tomenaki Kaiya of Wind, Mishanata Sota of Water, Tsumiga Imara of Earth and Yasashii Kora of Lightning. Unfortunately, they all were able to escape from even our best ANBU members. The only Element User left to find is the Element User of Fire, hidden somewhere in this village. That is why all of you are gathered here tonight. I ask that whoever the Element User is in this room to please stand up."

No one moved. Sakura whispered something to Ino about them really being serious and Sasuke paled even more. Naruto was beginning to get worried about him. He's never seen Sasuke like this. Then again, Sasuke had been in touch with every one of those people, that much he was sure of. He turned his attention back to the feudal lord as he sighed into the microphone.

"I thought as much. Does everyone remember when I had some men putting some sort of liquid inside this building? Well, that was acid. There are many layers of the roof, each with a larger amount of acid inside." He paused to hold up some sort of red button on a thick piece of metal. "When I press this button, one of the roofs will fall away and splatter acid on all of you, thus killing you.

Shrieks of terror and enragement rang out through the crowd, vibrating the room. Tenten had to be held back by Neji and Lee to stop her from storming out and killing Gai. Ino was searching through her bag, desperately trying to find something like an umbrella while Sakura was helping Kiba keep Akamaru from jumping out and biting the feudal lord. Shino was as still as a statue but Chouji wasn't really paying attention. Shikamaru had gone to hide under his chair but wasn't having much luck getting all his limps under. Hinata clung onto Naruto, who was watching Sasuke go from pale to his normal clam again. He was slouched in his chair with his eyes glued to the ceiling as if he could see the acid coming down already. There was some sort of glint in his eye, a glint that Naruto had seen far too many times; the glint of a plan.

There were more screams as the feudal lord held up the button and pressed it. There was a clatter of metal as one of the roofs fell away and began to tumble toward the many people, a large amount of acid following it. Naruto looked up wide eyed as a huge, blue flame ignited the metal and the acid, stopping them from falling any further. Before he had a chance to look where the fire had come from, it died away, leaving no trace that it had ever been there. The feudal lord smiled an evil smile.

"This room has an Element User in it indeed," he said, chuckling a bit. "Everything we thought would happen did. The only difference was that the fire was blue. I thought it would be orange. No matter; there are many other roofs to be dropped. We've pin pointed him to the right side of the building. Ready?"

He pressed the button again as another roof fell away. Once again, the blue flame stopped it. Naruto looked over at Sasuke as the flame burned, but the other boy's eyes were unfocused, still staring up. The feudal lord pressed the button again but the blue flame still held back the falling roof and acid. He handed the remote over to an ANBU member on his left.

"Judging on how fast the Element User is able to react and where the fire starts going up from, we've pinpointed the Element User to be in this area."

A blinding light enveloped the group as a spot light was directed at them. That's when Tenten got out of control. She punched Lee and Neji to get them to let go of her and made a run for the door. In a flash, two ANBU stood in her way, their arms creating a fence. Tenten took out one of her scrolls and threw it at them, exploding raining kunai and shuriken on them. Four of the remaining ANBU jumped to the doors, barricading them. Lee couldn't watch any longer and ran to help her. Not to be outdone by Lee, Neji ran after him. Team Gai was able to break through when two other ANBU showed up and, with a couple hand signs, paralyzed them. They picked them up and put them under their shoulders as if they were pieces of wood and dropped them back into their seats. The feudal lord was grinning again.

"That's what will happen if you try to escape, Element User. Next!"

With that, another roof fell away, once again being stopped by the blue fire. Naruto was looking at Sasuke the whole time, but the raven haired teen barley moved an inch. What Naruto didn't see was Sasuke's right hand twitching ever so slightly when the fire ignited. When the flame disappear this time, it missed some of the acid, and a couple of drops landed in the crowed. One of the drops landed on Sakura's hand, burning through her skin and spilling blood. She screamed, knocking Sasuke out of his slight daze. She was holding her hand out as Ino wrapped her forehead protector around the mark, trying to stop the bleeding. Shikamaru stuck his head out from under his seat to glare at the feudal lord, but was surprised to see him smiling an evil smile.

He took the button from the ANBU member and pressed it again as a roof came tumbling down. Once more, the blue flame stopped the acid, but only barely. When the fire was gone, more drops than before rained on the teenagers, landing this time on Shino, Akamaru, and Hinata. Shino sent his bugs to get rid of the acid and didn't move. Akamaru began to bark loudly and painfully as Kiba tried to stop the bleeding on his ear and Hinata just screamed and screamed. Naruto tried to get her to hold up her arm to let him see but she bent over and cradled her arm, letting the world slip away from her knowledge. The feudal lord smirked and held up the button again, ready to push it.

"That's enough!"

All heads turned as Sasuke stood up, shouting over the shrieks of terror. Naruto blinked in amazement; Sasuke had been totally tuned out a moment ago, why the change?

"If the Element User of Fire is the only thing that will get you to stop this madness, so be it," he said, taking a deep break before he spoke again. "I am the Element User."

Many more shrieks followed, mostly from the left side of the building. His friends around him could only stare. Sakura stopped putting pressure on her hand and stared wide-eyed at the person she thought she knew. Shikamaru climbed out from under his chair to stare at Sasuke as well. Team Gai finally got over their paralysis and once again held back Tenten when she tried to lunge at Sasuke. The feudal lord seemed shocked.

"You have no mark on your forehead and no one can perform a genjutsu in here," he said, trying to prove Sasuke wrong for some reason. "If you are truly the Element User of the Fire Country, where is your mark?"

Sasuke reached inside his shirt and pulled out the medallion. A little switch in Naruto's brain clicked. When Kohaku gave that thing to him, he had said that it hid the 'mark'. Things were starting to make sense now.

"This medallion has hid my mark for some time now," Sasuke said sternly, not a hint of nervousness in his voice.

He pulled off the medallion as a blue mark began to glow in the center of his forehead quite brightly. When Naruto's eyes got use to staring at the strange light, he could make out the kanji for 'fire', the same kanji that was on the Hokage's hat and Sasuke's concealment medallion. The feudal lord was still surprised.

"I never would have imagined that you of all people would be the Element User, Uchiha Sasuke. No wonder you know so much about them," he said almost to himself. "If we had known before, we wouldn't have put you in charge of all your little Element friends' information. Why did you give up secrecy?"

"You would kill all these people just to find me," Sasuke said. "Including the people that I can call friends." Under his breathe so that only Naruto and Sakura could hear, he added, "Plus staying secret any longer would ruin our plan."

Sakura would have asked him what plan if he hadn't suddenly appeared on the stage with two ANBU holding his arms. Sasuke dropped the medallion into the feudal lord's outstretched hand and let the ANBU members cuff him, the chains rattling whenever he moved the slightest bit. Beside Sasuke, the feudal lord looked like an older version of Udon, height and all. His weird hat didn't make up for much; it only reached up to Sasuke's chin. He turned over the medallion, inspecting it closely before giving it to one of the ANBU behind him.

"So in return for your capture, you want me to let all of these people go?" he asked, motioning mainly to where Sasuke was sitting.

Sasuke nodded, and Naruto was able to see the 'plan glint' in his eye again. He told Hinata to hold onto something or to close her eyes as things were about to get ugly.

"Fine, I won't stop anyone from leaving anymore," the feudal lord compromised, handing the button over to another ANBU member. "Anything else you want?"

"Yeah, actually," Sasuke smirked, as Naruto held on tighter to his chair. "Step a bit farther away."

The feudal lord tilted his head to the side in confusion and noticed only too late that the two ANBU that were holding Sasuke were on the ground dead. Sasuke broke the cuffs with the same sort of blue flame around his hands as the flame that had stopped the acid. The tiny man barked an order to grab him but Sasuke's whole body burst into flames. When the fire died down, he was wearing a deep-blue cloak, the fire still around his hands. The rest of the ANBU pounced, all flying back as Sasuke touched them with the fire. The feudal lord stood panic-stricken as Sasuke raced forward, plunging his fiery fist into his stomach. The little man coughed blood before dropped to the ground, dead, as Sasuke jumped out of the way of the ANBU.

Soon he was surrounded by the ten remaining ANBU as they closed in. Sasuke smirked and closed his eyes, turning off the fire of his right hand and holding it up. Before anyone could do anything, a green blur shot up from the turtle-neck part of Sasuke's shirt, enlarging at a rapid rate. Sasuke grabbed Draco's fiery tail as the huge dragon flapped it's wings, nearly touching the roof.

When Draco had grown, the stubs of his horns had grown into real horns, much like that of an antelope. Wings had sprouted from his back and his fangs had also grown longer. Draco opened his huge mouth as an explosion of blue flame shot from his mouth, disintegrating the rest of the roofs as well as the acid.

Everyone was out of their seats by now, some heading for the doors, some just running around in circles. Naruto and company were all standing up out of their seats, watching the events unfold. Team Gai had disappeared however, most likely to stop Tenten from hunting down Gai and killing him. The only person that wasn't standing was Hinata, crouched on the floor and holding her arm, her chair somewhere behind her. Naruto had given up trying to get a look at it, and Sakura was much too busy to help right now. As Sasuke rose up into the night sky, other figures in the distance were coming closer. As the got nearer, Naruto could see the other Element Users, flying on some sort of transportation or other.

"Sasuke!" Kaiya called, riding on a larger version of her bird, Tori.

"Kaiya, you get to the 'Temple' with Sasuke," Kohaku ordered, Shive on his shoulder as he sat on a colossal snowflake, a dark haired boy beside him. "We'll go on ahead and tell Lady Aboshi you're on your way. Get there as soon as you guys can."

Sasuke jumped onto Draco's back and turned to face the destruction he had created. Spotting Naruto and Sakura, he smiled.

"Hey Naruto, Sakura," he called. "As a birthday present, make sure you two stay alive until I come back for you, alright?"

With a quick word to Draco, Sasuke and Kaiya sped off in the other direction, following the enormous snowflake and a thunder cloud that Kora sat on with a boy that must be Imara beside her. That left the other boy with Kohaku to be Sota.

"What is he…?" Sakura started, stopping as a piece of paper fell on her head.

She took it off and handed it to Naruto, walking over to Hinata. It was a piece of a pull-off calendar, for that exact day. It was July twenty-third and in the notes, written in Sasuke's handwriting, were the words 'B-day'. Naruto smiled and looked up at where Sasuke had been last, savouring the image.

"Of coarse we will," Naruto silently promised. "Just come back soon."

No, the temple is not the Uchiha Temple. Don't think it is. It's a different temple, that you'll find out about soon enough.