Early the next morning she was awoken by someone knocking on her door. She sighed and stumbled out of bed; she had managed to tangle herself up in the covers. She opened the door and saw Naruto.

"Can I help?" She asked as she yawned.

"I want to make it up to you Kat-chan. I was stupid to think something was going on between you and Kakashi-sensei." Naruto said looking nervous. "I was hoping we could train together this morning and then I could take you for lunch?" He asked her.

"Sure, come in." She said. Naruto stepped in and closed the door behind himself as she walked off to the kitchen to make some coffee. "Make yourself at home, food and drinks are in the kitchen if you want anything, I'll just get dressed." She told him as she walked past him in the hallway, going back to her room.

Half an hour later Katsumi and Naruto were leaving her apartment and on their way to the training grounds. He led her to the far training grounds by the forest. "What are the rules?" She asked once they had stopped walking.

"Anything goes." Naruto answered with a cheeky smile. He was hoping the plan would work, he hoped she wouldn't see through the sleep jutsu. Katsumi nodded and jumped back into the trees, hidden from Naruto's view. Naruto took out a kunai, readying himself. Just then he felt Sasuke's sleep jutsu starting, he let himself become captured by the jutsu.

Sasuke caught Katsumi before she hit the ground. He quickly tied her hands and feet together with chakra bonds after removing her weapons, he won't allow her to escape him again. He ran with her in his arms, he hid inside a cave he had found the day before. He had hidden the supplies he needed for the journey. He planned he would stay there until nightfall when he could move under the cover of darkness.

Darkness was starting to creep in, Kakashi was starting to worry about Naruto and Katsumi. Naruto had asked for the morning off to apologise to Katsumi he hadn't come back after lunch. Kakashi decided to go around to Katsumi's to make sure she was alright and ask where Naruto was.

As he walked past the training grounds, he noticed a patch of yellow and orange grass. He stopped in his tracks and decided to check it out. As he got closer, he realised it was Naruto, lying on the floor. He ran over to the blond. He tried to wake him up but it wasn't working, that's when he noticed he was under a genjutsu. Kakashi quickly made a hand sign and dispelled it. Naruto slowly woke back up.

"Oh hey, Kakashi-sensei." He greeted with a yawn, that's when he noticed it was dark now. "Wow, I didn't know Kat-chan's jutsu was that strong." He added as he stretched.

"Where is she?" Kakashi asked worried, this wasn't Katsumi's style, she certainly wouldn't have left him like this. Naruto shrugged.

"I brought her here to do some training and then I woke up now. I was going to take her for some ramen too, too bad I guess." He answered. Kakashi was now even more worried.

"Hurry, Naruto, let's get to hers, I want to check she's ok." He told Naruto, helping him up.

They both rushed to Katsumi's apartment. They got no answer at her door. "Wait here, I'll see if I can get in through a window." Kakashi told Naruto and went around the back. After a few minutes, Kakashi opened the door for Naruto. "She's not here." He said, his voice filled with panic and worry. "Go to Sasuke's, see if she's there." He ordered Naruto. "Come straight back to my office and report." He added as he locked up and left to go back to the office. Naruto nodded and headed to the Uchiha estate. Naruto already knew Sasuke had left with Katsumi but he wasn't about to let Kakashi know, it would ruin his chances of becoming Hokage.

Sasuke felt his jutsu being broken on Naruto, he had to leave now even though it wasn't as dark as he would have liked. He quickly put his backpack on and picked Katsumi up in his arms. He ran through the forest to the fence that surrounded the village. He moved some branches out of the way and it revealed a hole in the fence. It was the old way that the Akatsuki used to slip in and out of the village unseen. He quickly made his way through the hole and used the cover of the forest and darkness to run unseen by the night watch.

Naruto ran back to the Hokage's office after going to Sasuke's house. He ran into the office, there was no point in knocking.

"Sasuke wasn't there and his ninja kit and supplies are missing." He reported to Kakashi.

"Alert the night watch, Uchiha Sasuke has left or making a move to leave the village and has most likely kidnapped Akiyama Katsumi." Kakashi told him. "I will call for a tracker team to search for Katsumi." He added and Naruto left quickly. Kakashi quickly sent out a messenger to get a team together. He would never forgive himself if Sasuke did anything to her. He shouldn't have let her move out; he should have let her stay longer than finding her a place of her own.

When Naruto got back to the office, he found Hinata, Kiba, Neji and Shino. Sasuke would have to cover his tracks up good for this.

"Why does Neji have to come with us!?" Kiba shouted but quickly went quiet when Kakashi glared at him. He still hadn't forgiven for he had done to Hinata during the Chūnin exams.

"Because you'll need Hinata as a medic as well. If Katsumi is hurt then Hinata can't use her Byakugan, therefore, I want Neji on the team." Kakashi explained annoyed. "He will also be team captain." He added and quickly dismissed them before Kiba could complain again.

"Kakashi-sensei, I'm sure she'll be ok." Naruto tried to reassure him.

"I'm worried that won't be the case. Sasuke has done some terrible things to her." Kakashi told him as he ran his fingers through his hair. Naruto growled annoyed.

"Sasuke has done nothing wrong!" Naruto shouted at him and Kakashi sighed. Naruto was going to find out one way or another, he might as well tell him now.

"No, Sasuke was abusing her." He told the boy as he took out the medical report from his desk and handed it to Naruto. "He had been for quite some time." He added. As Naruto looked over the medical report his face paled.

He had helped Sasuke hurt Katsumi again, how could he be so stupid.

"I helped him." Naruto muttered.

"Helped who?" Kakashi asked curiously, confused by Naruto's sudden confession. Did he think that because he didn't see what was happening that he had helped Sasuke? Surely not?

"I helped Sasuke kidnap her." Naruto admitted to him. Kakashi was fuming, well, beyond fuming. If it wasn't for the fact that he was Hokage, he would have ripped Naruto apart already. He couldn't believe what he had just heard.

"You what!?" He shouted at him.

"He convinced me you had put Katsumi under a genjutsu so she would be with you and that he needed my help to get her away from you." Naruto explained, his knees shaking in fear.

"Where did he take her?!" Kakashi demanded.

"I don't know, all I had to do was get her to the training ground and then he would put use under a sleep jutsu." Naruto explained quickly.

Kakashi growled and ordered his guards to come in. Even though Naruto's intentions were for good, he couldn't ignore Naruto helping in a kidnapping.

"Put him in jail." He hissed at the guards while pointing at Naruto. Naruto looked shocked.

"Why!?" he shouted as the guards started to pull him out of the office.

"The charges are kidnapping and aiding a criminal." Kakashi told him just before the door closed in Naruto's face. He couldn't believe Naruto had done what he did. The boy should have known better.

Sasuke kept running, he had to get out of fire country before a team, most likely ANBU caught up with him. He was a few hours away from the border if he kept this pace up but he was using up his chakra keeping Katsumi asleep. He decided to make a stop. He covered Katsumi's mouth to stop her from making any noise and released the jutsu so he could run faster.