Out of the goodness of my heart I am posting this today for you people since almost everyone that reviewed has added me to their favorites. Outside it is approximately 93 degrees. In my room right now, which is on the top floor of my house it is exactly 98. But let's not forget the small ceiling fan which is circulating hot air and the computer running, which exhausts hot air as well. So it is probably damn well near 100 if you want an exact estimate. And for those of you who don't know what Central New York is like, let's put it this way, It's still snowing well past April. So to be hot like it is now, is death to me. After I post this I'm locking myself in my basement where I will watch Bleach and Mirage of Blaze reruns.

Then next morning was very awkward to say the least. Of course waking up in the arms of your declared rival is enough to send you miles away already. But when you're half asleep, those kind of things don't affect you as much as they might as they would when you were awake. Sasuke had to learn that the hard way...as soon as he opened his eyes, he was greeted with a mop of blonde hair in his face. How he ended up there? No on knew. All that was certain was that if they remained that way he'd lose the last strands of the Uchiha pride he had left.

"Dobe. Wake up!" he hissed shaking him.

"Go 'way...I'm sleeping..." he mumbled snuggling more in to his makeshift pillow. The young Uchiha could barely hear it because of the fact he was too preoccupied with watching the direction Naruto burrowed his head closer to, a.k.a his bare shoulder. Sasuke felt the heat rising to his face and other parts that will go unmentioned, as something moist was felt on his neck now. So he quickly tried to get him off before things got worse.

"Dobe! Get off of me now! Before someone sees!"

"Le' me 'lone teme...I need sleep" he mumbled. Suddenly the door burst open revealing Kio. Sasuke scrambled for the bed sheets and instinctively threw them over Naruto's head.

"Good morning! Oh goodness me! I am so very sorry! I should have knock" he said before shutting the door quickly.

"Teme! What gives?"

"You need to get dressed and do your justu before someone else comes in" he said throwing him a shirt. Still half asleep he put his shirt and did the justu before walking out of the room. As soon as he stepped out of the door, he could hear two people arguing in the next room. He ignore it and went to shower before anyone saw him without the genjutsu on. As soon as he was done, he got dressed and did his genjutsu again (amazingly all in a state of still being half asleep). Walking aimlessly down the hallway he noted Kakashi-sensei was nowhere to be seen.

:Until further notice Naruto will be referred to as a girl:

'He's always late. I bet he won't wake up for another 2 hours. He's so lazy!' Nariko thought angrily. All of the sudden she collided in to a hard surface and was knocked down.

"Oh! I'm sorry miss! I wasn't watching where I was going!" a friendly voice said. Then man offered her his hand to help her up.

"Who are you?" she asked curiously.

"Me? I am called Jiro." he said smiling.

"I'm Nar...Nariko! The future Hokage of the Leaf Village"

"Really now? In that case I better watch out for you. It's a bit dangerous for a pretty girl like you to be walking around by yourself. Especially if you plan on being Hokage someday. I Jiro will be your guide while you stay here"

"Really? Cool! Can you take me somewhere that has ramen?" she asked excitedly. As Nariko pulled pulled him eagerly down the hall, she bumped in to a familiar person.

"Oh! Nar...Nariko! Where are going. And who is this?"

"Hey Sakura-chan! This is Jiro. He's gonna take me to get some ramen. Wanna come?" she asked hopefully. Sakura was about to say yes had it not been for the glares of death she was getting from the man behind him.

"Uhh...no thanks. Kakashi and I have work to do. Maybe I'll see you later. Bye!" she said disappearing.

"That was weird" she mused.

"Never mind her. Let's go. Your ramen is waiting remember?"

'Now Sasuke, we'll see how devoted you are' he thought smirking.

"Sasuke! Sasuke! Get out here quick!" Sakura screamed. He growled stepping out of the bathroom to open the door.

"What is it?" he snapped. Sakura didn't say anything for a moment because she was staring at the (rather large) red bruise that was beginning to show on his neck

"What happened to you? Is...is that a-" Judging by the rare blush that formed on his face she knew she was right. It was a hickey!

"Was there something you wanted?" he snapped before she could finish. After that she remebered why she was there again.

"It's...Naruto. He went out with some guy this morning...he hasn't come back yet...the inn keeper gave me this at the front desk" she said handing him the note.

Dear Sasuke Uchiha,

By the time you get this, your other teammate will already be in my hands. You may choose to rescue him or leave him with me. Do not fear. He will be in good hands, for the moment. But if you are like I think you are, I know you'll come for him as soon as you get this. I'll leave you the address and location of where you can find him. Come alone. And please prove to me you are different from him.

"Who do you think he's talking about?"

"I don't really care right now. Sakura, go find Kakashi and give this to him."

"Sasuke you can't go alone. It's probably a trap!"

"Does it look like I really care at this moment? Go get Kakashi and hurry up so you can come help out!"

"Alright. I'm leaving" she said before rushing off.

"Excuse me Kio. Can I have a word with you?" Kakashi asked grinning.

"Why of course! What do you need?"

"I wanted to know if you knew someone named Akio. He gave my students this letter and now one is apparently missing."

"M...missing?" he squeaked.

'This wasn't a part of the plan! He said he was just going to force Sasuke to confess. He wasn't suppose to kidnap her'

"Yes missing. You said your name was Kio. Is that short for Akio? The same missing-nin with a bounty on his head by 2 feudal lords and wanted in every hidden village?"

"What? When did we become wanted in every hidden village? He said we were just famous!" he said shocked suddenly it all clicked. Akio had given him that alias to throw them off of him...lied to him about what was going on, and left him out most of his plans...again.

"Damn that Akio! I hate it when he does this to me!"

"So you're not Akio?" Sakura asked slowly.

"No! My name is Suichi Hazane. I'm his...well...his..."

"Lover?" Kakashi asked with interest.

"No way! I'm one of his henchmen...and apparently the decoy right now" he said allowing a blush to form on his face.

"Decoy? Then obviously he's managed to outsmart us anyway. Hopefully Sasuke didn't fall for this as easy as we did"

"You mean he actually went!?! Then we better hurry"

"Why are you helping us?" Sakura asked confused.

"He's used me far too many times and now I must put my foot down. Besides, I'm rooting for you"

"So Nariko...I understand ninjas travel in teams. What's yours like?"

"Well there's Kakashi sensei. He's always late or reading these dirty books that he's obsessed with. Then there's Sakura. I use to have a crush on her but I think she finally knocked some sense in to me after the 5 years of punches she whacked me with...and man does she have some crazy strength. Then there's the our team mascot, the bastard. He's got a superiority complex, is stuck up, and anally retentive."

"Come now Nariko, there's got to be something nice you can say about him" Jiro pressed on.

"Hmm...we I guess he the only good opponent I've ever fought with. Our battles always ended with draws no matter what we do. We both are finally on the same level now so we only fight until someone gets tired."

"See! There's something positive. I bet you could come up with more. What about his physical characteristics? Is there anything that sticks out?"

"You mean besides his hair?"

"What about his hair?"

"You said something that sticks out. Well it does. It practically defies the laws of gravity, because there's no way hair can look that way naturally"

"So, do you like it that way?"

"Um...I don't know. I guess since it fits him...sort of"

"Alright then! I think that's enough progress for one day. We don't want you to waste all of those compliments here do we? You know, there's a cool abandoned warehouse nearby. Everyone visits it while they're in town for some reason. Would you like to see it?"

"Sure! Let's go!" she said downing her last bowl of ramen. He quickly paid for the bill without waiting for change. As he left the cook stared in awe at all of the money left over, even for the 7 the girl amazingly ate. As soon as they walked out of the stall the innkeeper spotted them and rushed up to where they were.

"Mr. Innkeeper! Are you looking for supplies?"

"No sir. It's about Kio" he said softly.

"What is it?"

"He didn't take too kindly to the change of plans. He's leading the girl and teacher to the hideout for Naruto as we speak!"

"Naruto?"

"Yeah?" the girl answered. Suddenly the last of the pieces fell in to place and Akio smiled widely.

Bwhahahahaha! The evil cliffy of doom! Now everyone must review or I'll make my evil pixies and the Burger King come and take pictures of you while you're in the shower.