Hey, everybody. It's been a long time, hasn't it? Well, I had a lot of stuff to take care of for a while and I've been a little busy so please forgive the super-late update!

Disclaimer-If I owned Naruto, it wouldn't even be half as good as it is now, so there. End of story.

Recap

First one there . . . like always. Being first gave Sasuke time to himself before it was time to get on the move, though. Realizing he had this time, Sasuke pulled the locket out. He didn't open it. He didn't want to. He just looked at it and tried to think of who it could've belonged to.

The question didn't linger for long, though.

"It's yours . . . "

Sasuke looked up. It was her, again. She was standing about 5 feet away from Sasuke. But something wasn't right. She seemed...sad.

You don't remember because. . .her thoughts trailed off.

Sasuke didn't talk to her. He just sat there.

"I guess in your mind you already know it..." The girl turned around and started to walk away.

Sasuke suddenly lifted his finger and pointed in her direction. She stopped. She felt his eyes on her. She didn't turn around. She didn't want to know what he looked like at the moment. She knew he was upset.

"Misato Uchiha...my younger sister...correct?"

The girl looked down and didn't answer. She sensed someone was coming a mile back. The girl turned around one last time, before disappearing out of sight.

End Of Recap

To the story!

Chapter Four-Things Left Unsaid

Sasuke was filled with mixed emotions. He was furious, shocked, maybe even saddened for some reason. But it was something about his eyes that made you unable to read these emotions. That something was exactly what made Haruno Sakura stop short in her tracks and set her gaze into his blank, onyx orbs.

She couldn't quite tell what was wrong with Sasuke, but she knew that something was bugging him. What made Sakura even more confused was the fact that Sasuke abruptly shoved something in his pocket when he noticed.

She watched him for a moment. He had an abnormally cold stare fixed toward the ground. He didn't move at all. He was disturbed…that was Sakura's guess. Why? That was a completely different topic all in itself.

"Umm, is something wrong, Sasuke-kun?"

"…" No response. Just dead silence.

Sakura was beginning to think that maybe she'd done something wrong. So instead of continuing to try and get Sasuke's attention, Sakura just sighed and seated herself a good six feet from him and kept quiet.

It was quiet enough to hear a pin drop for quite some time…well, at least until the arrival of teammate number three, that is.

"Good morning, Sakura-chan! …Sasuke." Naruto said, lowering his tone when he noticed Sasuke's slightly ticked expression.

Naruto turned his head and gave Sakura a questioning look. Sakura didn't respond verbally. Instead, she shrugged her shoulders and fixed her gaze on an ant that was crawling on the ground.

As confused as Naruto was, he decided it was pointless to continue asking and went to sit down on the opposite side of the bridge.

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A puff of smoke appeared on the bridge about three feet in front of Sakura. No one moved, though. Everyone knew to whom the always-late puff of smoke belonged.

"Yo, sorry I'm late. You see, there was this cat and-"

"Give it a rest, sensei." The silver-haired jounin was cut off by a very bored (and still very confused), Naruto.

Kakashi's one visible eye blinked and stared at his student for a moment. He was shocked to hear his voice be so low and…non-enthusiastic-like.

"Umm, Kakashi-sensei, you're staring…"

"Huh, what? Oh, hehe, yeah…sorry." Kakashi said, waving one hand in midair and the other scratching his head. "Anyway, let's get started on warm-ups and then we can do a few sparring matches, ok?"

Everyone got up and waited for the signal to begin their usual lap around Konoha.

As dumbfounded as Kakashi was, he just gave the signal, shrugged his shoulders at no one in particular, and sat down to read his "famous" book.

After the lap, everyone sat down around Kakashi to catch their breath.

"Alrighty then. Let's get started." Kakashi said, looking up from his book when he was done with the page he was on. "Each of you are going to spar against me today one at a time. If we reach a point where there is no way you can escape one of my moves, I will call the end of the match. Another way it will finish is if you manage to put me in a non-escapable attack or if you injure me in some way. I will approve of which attacks are enough to end the battle. You do not stop fighting until I say the battles over. Understand?"

The three nodded their heads.

"Ok, then...Sasuke, you're first."

Sasuke stood up without a word. Sakura and Naruto moved out of the way, so that they wouldn't interfere with the fight.

"In this match, we are both allowed to attack at full force without holding back. Are you ready?"

Sasuke got into a fighting stance.

"Begin!"

The battle started off with Sasuke throwing a few shuriken toward Kakashi, which were easily dodged.

Kakashi didn't take his eyes off of Sasuke, though. He watched as Sasuke disappeared and reappeared behind Kakashi.

Sasuke went for a blow to the back of Kakashi's neck. Kakashi was aware of this and twisted to the back to grab Sasuke's arm.

Sasuke used his other arm to pull out a kunai and went to stab Kakashi's arm and make him let go, but Kakashi threw him toward a tree. He then immediately appeared in front of Sasuke and elbowed him in the stomach, causing him to choke up blood.

Why didn't he use a substitution? Kakashi thought as he waited for Sasuke's next move.

After a second, Sasuke regained composure and bounced off the tree, using chakra for more speed. He now had his sharingan replacing his usually onyx colored orbs. Just before impact, Sasuke turned in midair and went for a kick. Kakashi blocked the kick with his forearm and tried for a punch.

Seeing it coming, Sasuke retreated backwards and almost slipped when he heard something hit the ground. He had felt something slip out of his pocket seconds before and soon realized what it was. Sasuke mentally cursed himself before trying to gain back his focus.

Unfortunately for Sasuke, it was too late.

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Sakura watched the intense fight from the safety of the bushes. She did not want to get into the middle of a Sasuke versus Kakashi spar. That was like signing your death certificate. So Sakura just stood cross-legged on the ground and silently cheered Sasuke on.

Her cheering was soon interrupted, though, by the sound of something clanging. The clanging was getting closer, but stopped about a foot in front of her. Sakura looked down at the ground, only to see a small locket sparkling from the sunlight.

Sakura studied it for a moment, debating on whether or not to pick it up. It's so pretty. But I wonder whom it belongs to. Kakashi-sensei? Doubtful…Sasuke? Even more doubtful than Kakashi. Wait a minute! Drat! I just missed the whole fight! Oh well, I'll ask around and see if it belongs to any of us.

With that, Sakura picked up the locket and walked over to Kakashi, who currently had Sasuke pinned down with a kunai to his throat.

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"And that's why you don't let your guard down." Kakashi simply stated as he gave Sasuke a chance to get up.

Sasuke, on the other hand, didn't seem to care. It appeared as though he was looking for something. Sakura was the first to speak to him.

"Umm, Sasuke?"

For some reason, her voice caught him by surprise. His head snapped up at an alarmed speed.

"I was just wondering if you knew who this belonged to. I found it on the ground during your sparring match with Kakashi." Sakura was a little startled by his sudden movement.

She saw him switch his gaze to what she was holding. She noticed his eyes widen and then instantly go back to normal.

"It's mine..." he responded while looking back to the spot where his sister had left him this morning.

"Oh, well, here. You must've dropped it during your match." Sakura said, handing over the locket.

Sasuke just took it from Sakura and walked over to the bushes.

"What's his problem?" Naruto said when Sasuke was far enough away that he couldn't hear.

"Honestly, I don't know…"

"He's probably just mad cause he lost." Kakashi said, looking up from his book.

"No, he was like that before." Sakura now had a worried look on her face.

"Well, you do have a point. That is a little too much tenseness, even for Sasuke."

"Nah, he's fine. Probably just not feeling well or something. He'll get over it." Naruto said, trying to cheer up his pink-haired friend. Obviously Kakashi was just agreeing, rather than

optimistically helping.

"Yeah, I guess you might be right…" Sakura said, taking one last look over by the bushes.

"Ok, Naruto, you're up." Kakashi said, changing the subject. He wasn't sure Sasuke would appreciate it if they continued to use him as the topic of their conversation.

"Alright! Prepare to be dusted, Kakashi-sensei!" Naruto said as he pointed his index finger out at his sensei.

"Sure…whatever." Kakashi said, putting away his book.

"Don't you 'whatever' me! Just for that, you're going to treat me to ramen when I win!"

Kakashi continuously nodded his head and began walking back over to the battle area, tuning out all Naruto's comments as he followed slowly behind.

Sakura just silently walked over to where Sasuke was sitting to watch Naruto's sparring match.

There was not a word exchanged for the longest time between the two ninja. Sakura tried to find the right thing to say. She couldn't help but wonder what was wrong with the boy beside her.

"It was a really pretty locket..." was all she could blurt out at the moment. She mentally scolded herself for saying something so dumb afterwards.

Luckily for her, Sasuke didn't say anything. His expression remained blank.

"Sasuke?"

He turned to face her. She at least got his attention.

"Are you mad at me?" She had to make sure she didn't do something to make him act like that.

"...no." Although her question confused him, he just answered. It wasn't like it he didn't say the truth. It would be annoying to make her waste her time thinking she did something wrong and have her apologizing nonstop for the next week or two over something she didn't do.

"Oh, umm, k."

CRASH! "Ow!" Sizzle…

Both heads snapped to the battlefield to see what looked like a toasted, blonde boy, eating dirt.

"(cough) You may have won the battle Kakashi (cough), but the war (cough) has only just begu-(cough cough)!" Naruto said, choking over every fragment of his sentence.

Both of his teammates had little sweat drops falling from their heads in the background.

"Yeah, ok…Sakura, you're up."

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Training was finally over and everyone was on their way home or wherever they were going. Sasuke was just mindlessly dragging his body down the street while contemplating on what to eat.

He took a cautious peek into the ramen bar to see if his oh-so-annoying friend was already eating there. When he realized the coast was clear he sat down and ordered.

"...How long did you think you could run from me?"

"Longer than it turned out to be."

Sasuke nodded his head a few times, as if he understood.

"You mad?"

"I should be..."

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"Exactly what I said."

There was silence between the two for a moment.

"Pardon me for eavesdropping, but do you two know each other?" came Mr. Ichiraku's (anyone know his name?) voice as he placed the two siblings each a bowl in front of them.

"Not enough to call us related."

"See, you are mad at me!"

"I never said that."

"Well you sure did come off that way."

"Well excuse me for being rude to my sister that wasn't planning on ever telling me she existed."

"It was for a good reason."

"And what kind of reason would that be?"

"It's none of your concern."

"Then I suppose you were none of my concern."

"Oh, come on! You know that's not true."

"Well you sure did come off that way."

"You are so difficult, sometimes."

"You'd know that if you were actually here for the past, I don't know, five years."

"You know what, I don't need this. I'm leaving." With that, Misato paid for her food, grabbed her things, and left.

On her way out, she passed Naruto who was just entering. "Hey Mis-o...oh well. Hey, obii-san, pork ramen, today."

"Coming right up!" Mr. Ichiraku seemed happy that the girl had left and the arguing had stopped, for he had no idea what it was about.

Naruto turned his head to the side, only to find Sasuke sitting next to him. "Ah, Sasuke! What're you doing here!"

"..."

"Oh, don't give me that. I know something's u–oh." It just hit him. "She told you, didn't she?"

"You knew!" Sasuke looked even angrier than before (if that's possible after arguing with his sister for about five-ten minutes).

"Look, I was going to tell you, but she said she'd zap my memory and I would forget you and her and-bah it was just really pressuring!"

"Why would she tell you something like that?"

"Honestly, I don't know. I was walking home from dinner here, I ran into her, she asked me if I knew you, and then she told me. This is really starting to give me a headache."

Folks, that was the end of the line. There was absolutely no way the girl was gonna get away with the gold. She had made a fool out of him one too many times for the Uchiha to take.

It was quite obvious just then what was taking place:

The chase was on.

End Of Chapter

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