AN: Thank you everyone who's read so far and a BIG thank you to everyone who's reviewed. Reviews are extremely helpful.

For Beboots: I'm afraid I am going to have to make them learn the language VERY quickly. I know it's too fast but I couldn't think of a way around it that would work for the story. My only excuse is they're ninja and maybe they're awesome like that. It's a lame excuse, but I'll try not to do anything else too absurd.

6 Days Before

"Sasuke-"

"Move."

"Sasuke-kun!"

"I can stand up on my own," Sasuke growled out.

Sakura stared back him just as stubbornly as he was glaring at her. She could tell he hadn't slept well last night, and most of what was wrong with him couldn't be rushed to heal. He needed good sleep and not to be up on his feet yet. Trying to convince him of that was like trying to get Kakashi-sensei to stop reading his books.

Sasuke had managed to leverage himself out of bed most of the way before she'd been able to stop him. She had him stuck leaning against the hospital bed, feet on the floor but weight rested mostly still on the mattress. It didn't escape her notice that he was favoring both his arm and his side. She, Tsunade-sama and the other medic-nins had repaired most of the damage. The broken arm bone had been repaired, and the crack ribs both internally and externally supported, but there was only so much they could do. The real healing had to be done naturally, and until then, Sasuke was going to need rest.

"I can stand," Sasuke repeated. He had his teeth clenched, but she didn't think it was from any kind of pain. He really was just that frustrated. And she couldn't really blame him. She was still trying to adjust to the idea that Sasuke might have another living relative other than his murderous brother – she couldn't imagine how difficult it must be for him.

"There's no point for you to be standing yet," she snapped back. Just because she might understand why he was so anxious to get out of there didn't mean she was going to let him. This was for his own good, after all. "We're still waiting on Kakashi-sensei's contact. Until he gets here, there isn't anything you can do – other than stand in bed like Tsunade-sama ordered you to."

Sasuke's eyes narrowed slowly, but Sakura was immune to that now. Let him glare all he wanted to. She was one medic-nin that he wasn't going to bully around. They stayed like that, glaring at each other, until something crashed down the hall.

"….sorry! Sorry! Opps! Um, hehhe, excuse me, old lady!..."

Sakura and Sasuke both dropped their tense stances. Naruto. With a sigh, Sakura stepped away and headed towards the door. Sasuke slipped the kunai back to wherever he had it hidden and leaned back to sit more firmly on the bed. At least he wasn't trying to make a break for it while Naruto had her distracted.

Sakura slid open the door and stuck her head out into the hallway. At the other end was an overturned medicine cart surrounded by small cups and pills scattered all over the floor. The near by elderly nurse was just staring at the mess, wide-eyed and silent. Naruto was crouched over, trying to shove the pills back into different cups, completely mindless of the fact that each one was carefully and specifically filled.

"Naruto," Sakura growled lowly.

He apparently heard her even from the other end of the hall. His shoulders visibly tensed and he slowly turned around to face her. He looked a little ill. "Hehe, Hi! Sakura-chan!" he called out, dropping one of his hastily refilled cups to wave at her.

That seemed to be enough to break the other nurse out of her shock and she was suddenly moving, clipboard in hand, and beating Naruto on top of the head with it. "Stupid! Stupid! Stupid boy!" she yelled at him before giving him a swift kick to the behind that sent Naruto scrambling to get away from her. "Look what you've done! Clumsy stupid boy! Go! Get! Why I ought to…"

"Naruto!" Sakura called out sharply. "Get down here!"

"Haruno-san! Do something with this boy!"

"Naruto, get over here right now!"

It didn't take any more encouragement than that. Naruto covered the distance from one end of the hall to where Sakura was immediately. Sakura grabbed him by the collar of his orange jacket and yanked him through the door before slamming it shut. "Naruto," she hissed. "How is it you can still be so clumsy?"

"Sakura-chan!" he whined. He had one hand rubbing his beaten head and another ineloquently doing the same to his sore behind.

Sasuke snorted. "Dobe," he said quietly, but it ended the discussion.

Naruto stood up straight and folded his hands behind his head before grinning wildly at Sasuke. "How ya feeling, teme?"

"Fine," Sasuke snapped back as he glared at Sakura. Sakura just glared back at him.

"Then why aren't ya dressed?" Naruto continued.

Sakura nearly pounded him right then and there. But a medic-nin was not supposed to do such things within the hospital. Not unless it was justly deserved. Which it probably was. But Sakura had promised not to do so, at least not as much.

"She will not let me!" Sasuke replied.

Sakura huffed and glared at both of them now. Really. Must she always be the grown up one out of the three of them?

Naruto smirked. "But our translator's here."

Both Sakura and Sasuke stared at him. Then Sasuke cursed and shoved himself out of bed and towards his clothes and Sakura let him.

She turned away, however, as he got dressed. Out of the corner of her eye she could see Naruto do the same, except he gave her a cheeky grin that suggested he was thinking about all kinds of dirty jokes he could be making. Sakura reached over and thwapped him upside the head without turning her head at all.

"Come on," Sasuke said and there was the sound of the window being pulled open. It was frowned upon to leave in such a way from the hospital. It wasn't polite and it often meant extra paperwork for the nurses when a patient suddenly disappeared, but this was an emergency, after all.

The Hokage tower was not far from the hospital, and in moment the three of them arrived at the hallway just outside of Tsunade-sama's office. Sakura took the lead then, stepping up to the door and knocking in the particular pattern she always did when visiting.

"Come in."

Sakura resisted the urge to glance behind her and instead pushed both doors open and strode in. Tsunade-sama was sitting behind her desk, hands folded in front of her face and the aged Uchiha book opened before her. Kakashi-sensei was standing in front of the desk, slouched with his back to them. Sitting on the corner of Tsunade-sama's desk was Naruto's other teacher.

"Ero-sensei!" Naruto shouted out immediately.

Sakura's eyebrow twitched. She noticed Tsunade-sama's mouth twitch. At least she found it entertaining that not only was Naruto's mentor an unrepentant lecher, but that Naruto made it a point of announcing as much to the world.

"Hello, brat," Jiraiya replied, unconcerned with Naruto's outburst. He gave a small lazy wave. "Now get over here, all of you."

Sasuke wasted no time striding forward until he came to a stop directly in front of Tsunade-sama's desk. "What leads do we have?" he demanded.

Sakura bit the inside of her cheek as she watched both Jiraiya and Tsunade-sama stare at him critically. Neither of them trusted Sasuke a great deal, much less liked him – and his attitude was hardly the kind of respect nin of they caliber demanded.

Tsunade-sama said nothing, but Jiraiya eventually nodded slowly. "We have several names and locations."

"Really?" Naruto was quickly by Sasuke's side, though Sakura noticed that he waited until Jiraiya's obvious approval before interrupting. "That one little piece of paper says all that?"

"Essentially," Jiraiya explained. He turned the book around so that the two young men could see it. Sakura hurried forward so that she could see too. The official looking document had been carefully attached to the page, and in the small space underneath was a small amount of text that Sakura could read. Jiraiya started with that. "This down here is simple enough. Uchiha Jin, now James Potter, born March 27, died October 31, 1981. Wife Lily Potter, no birth date, death October 31, 1981."

"They died together," Naruto said quietly.

"Potter," Sakura repeated. She knew she wouldn't forget it, but it still sounded weird.

Sasuke said nothing.

Jiraiya waited a moment, then pointed up to the document above. "This was a bit more tricky, but the important parts were fairly easy to figure out. Basically it says that Harold Potter and Elaine Potter of a place called Godric Hollow, adopt one Uchiha Jin, renamed James Potter, on the 15th of March, 1965, in Great Britain."

"Huh?" Naruto asked for the three of them.

Jiraiya smirked at him as if he had planned on and was entertained by such a response. "Great Britain. It's a country about halfway around the world from here."

"How soon can we leave?" Sasuke asked quietly.

Jiraiya grinned and snapped the book shut. "As soon as you all are ready. I'll be with you until the border. Teach you as much of the language as I can. You're going to need it to figure out how to get there, and then to figure out where this Potter family is and if James and Lily Potter had any brats of their own. Tsunade-hime has already arranged for special transportation scrolls for each of you that will return you immediately to just outside Konoha."

Sasuke glanced up him. "Thank you," he whispered.

"Good luck," Tsunade-sama replied.