Sasuke knocked on the door again; was the dobe still asleep? He was getting more and more impatient as he slammed his fist against the door again. "Damnit dobe, open the door!" he shouted. He jumped up to naruto's window and peered in. noticing the window was open slightly he pried it open. Slipping through the window he jumped into the room. He walked through the small room and an open door caught his eye. He walked into the room and noticed he was in the bathroom. He picked up a bottle and looked at it confused. "Hair dye? What would Naruto want with this…and black no less." Sasuke muttered to himself. He dropped the bottle and walked out. "Naruto?" he called. No answer. Sasuke checked the rest of the house. "Where are you dobe?" he called. Sasuke walked back into the bathroom. Then he saw something that made his stomach clench. Naruto's headband. He never went anywhere without it; Naruto always was proud of wearing this a symbol of pride for the leaf village, so what was it doing here? Sasuke picked it up and looked at it worriedly.
"What do you mean, gone?" asked Tsunade.
"Gone! As in, not here anymore!" Sasuke replied angrily. He was too furious to bother about the fact that he had just answered back to the hokage. "Sasuke, I understand you are upset right now, but if you ever speak to me like that again you will be punished accordingly." She held up a wad of papers that Sasuke assumed to be a pile of D rank missions that needed completing. Sasuke gulped, judging by the amount of papers there, getting through those would take months. Sasuke quickly apologized. "Sorry hokage-sama. But, Naruto is gone… I found this!" he slammed the headband onto Tsunade's desk. She paled and looked at shizune. "We have a situation here. Sasuke, would you be willing to join a search team to find Naruto?" he nodded eagerly. "Right. There may still be a chance he is still in the village, if so; your team will find him immediately. I will assemble you with our best two trackers. Kiba's nose and Neji's byakugan will prove priceless. Also, your fighting skills and Shikamaru's leadership will make the perfect team to counter this situation." She nodded at shizune. "Send out kakashi, he should be able to round them up quickly." Shizune nodded and rushed out to get kakashi. Tsunade was right; kakashi did bring the team to her office quickly. They all burst in with confused and concerned faces. "What did you do bastard!" snarled kiba as akamaru barked in annoyance. Shikamaru stared at Sasuke suspiciously and Neji simply glared. "Calm down, kiba. Sasuke noticed this morning Naruto was missing and he left his headband, which as you all know, is not a good sign." Everyone nodded as the hokage continued. "Your mission is to bring Naruto back. I have no idea where he could have gone, so I suggest you try and locate him quickly. Dismissed." Shikamaru began going through his tactics.
Naruto stood in front of an office door and hesitated to knock. He jumped back as he heard a voice shouted from within. "Get out of my office before I kill you!" screamed a voice. The door Naruto was stood in front of opened quickly and a terrified looking person pushed past him. Naruto stepped inside. "Rough day?" he said, laughing.
"N…Naruto?" Naruto nodded and walked up to Gaara.