Disclamer: I don't own Narutoor anybody in it thogh that would be cool.I do have thefirstsix volumes and a couple cds.

Chapter 2: The News

Sasuke tried to escape but the man wouldn't let him go. Sasuke then saw someone emerge from the shadows.

'Orochimaru! Then Kabuto must be holding me.'

Sasuke stopped moving knowing that they weren't going to kill him.

"What do you guys want?"

"We came to see if Itachi returned yet," Orochimaru asked.

"No. He won't be here until tomorrow."

"Tell him to come see us. It's important."

"Well it must be if you had to drag me in here," Sasuke said looking over his shoulder at Kabuto.

"Just tell him," Kabuto said.

"Alright. I'll tell him."

At those words Orochimaru and Kabuto left.

"Sasuke why are you in an alley?" asked Ino who was walking by.

"Just thinking," he lied. Oh well. He couldn't tell Ino what really happened, "Hey have you seen Sakura?"

"No. I haven't seen or heard from her since she left the park," Ino told him with a slight sad tone.

"Oh. If you hear from her tell her I want to talk to her face to face," Sasuke told Ino.

He then started to walk to the store when Ino grabbed his arm.

"Wait. Sasuke I think Sakura lost it. She won't return my phone calls, her new message on her phone is real weird, and the things she said doesn't sound like something you would except her to say. I can't even see her talking to Naruto like that."

"Alright thanks for telling me. I got get some things for a party."

"What's it for?"

"My brother's birthday."

"Oh. I'll see you later. Bye."

"Bye."

Sasuke than walked into the store to get food and ingredients for Itachi's party. Sasuke was thinking of what cake mix to get Itachi when TenTen walked up right next to him.

"Hey Sasuke," said TenTen.

"Hi."

"What's wrong?"

"Just having a bad day. What are you doing?"

"I'm having a party and Ayame wants me to make some of sweets for her to eat while she's there. It's on the tenth. You can come if you want."

"Sorry. Itachi's birthday is on the ninth and I told him that I would spend the week with him." Inside he really wanted to go because TenTen was the best party thrower next to Orochimaru.

"Why don't you both come? I really like Itachi. He's really cool to hang out with and I haven't talked to him since your sixteenth birthday," TenTen said giving him a smile.

Sasuke smiled back and felt happy for the first time that day. When Sasuke got done shopping he went back home, put the groccies away, and went to see Kakashi. He wanted to see what he thought about the events this morning. He knocked on his door and for the first time he saw Kakashi without his mask on. What was his reaction? He fainted.

(20 minutes later)

"Finally. You've been out cold for 20 minutes."

"You….your…so handsome without that mask on."

"Thank you. So why did you come here?"

"You know. I can't remember anymore."

Kakashi sweatdroped. "Alright. You have five minutes to remember. Meanwhile I'm going to put my mask on." Kakashi got up and disappeared from the front room.

'Why am I here? Now I remember. I was going to ask him about this morning.'Sasuke sat up and noticed he was lying on Kakashi's very comfortable couch. He could tell it was made from silk. He had a couch that looked a lot like his.

Kakashi soon came back with his mask and headband on. "Remember?"

"Yeah. I was going to ask you about what happened this morning."

"Oh. Well I think she's serious. She won't kill with her own hands but, she'll probably hire someone to kill you."

"She might have a problem with that unless she hires Ayame."

"Sasuke there are a lot more people out there that can kill you."

"Really?" Sasuke raised an eyebrow.

"Yes. Orochimaru, Kabuto, Itachi, Tatsu, Naruto, Gaara, Rock Lee, and me."

"Yes…but all of you have something in common."

"Which is?"

"There all my friends. None of them have the guts to actually kill me. Except Ayame."

"True. When Ayame gets a mission she completes it no matter what she has to do. I saw her one night running out of a house with a book bag on and I'm guessing she didn't know it was me because she clawed my right arm with what I'm guessing was her shadow claws technique. I still have the scar," Kakashi said raising his sleeve and showing Sasuke a very deep cut in his arm that looked a lot like giant claw marks.

"I'm gonna go," said Sasuke with a disgusting look on his face.

"Watch your back out there. I don't want you getting hurt like you did when you fought Haku."

"Alright," said Sasuke while walking out the door.

He then started walking home when he noticed it was dark out. He checked his watch and saw that it was 10:04. When he got home he went right to bed and instantly fell asleep. Outside somebody was watching him.