Dare to be naïve or how I learned to be a silent killer. Part 2.

Lying in bed in his hotel room, Naruto once again had trouble sleeping, so he did what he normally does when he can't sleep. Getting up sitting on the rug in front of the bed, he fell into his meditation; He then started replaying each and every thing he did that day. Normally he used this to find errors in his training, or when something just was not sitting right subconsciously. When he got to the roof and Temari, he immediately smacked his forehead, damn, damn, damn. He was so drawn to her, he ignored the hundreds of things he could have done, and thought with his tool. Damn naïve hormonal teenage years, why didn't his mother warn him of this? She did everything else.

Pulling out his mother's journal, he thumbed through pages he hadn't read in a few years. Finding the section, he reread the paragraph.

I met a young man today. We were almost to Konoha. When I saw his smile, All the world changed, I know we were using codenames, but when he asked me mine, I stupidly gave him my real name, damn, damn,damn. Nothing I can do now, I will have to chance it, if it comes back to bite me, Konoha will have another victim of a spy from Iwa.

Oh, crap, she did the exact same thing I did. Now what do I do?

The next morning found Naruto in the Hotel gym. Usually shinobi only, He decided to go anyways. Running track overhead, He estimated he needed 200 laps to get his usual run in. Already astounding the few Travelers using the gym, He jumped from the overhead to the main floor of the gym and decided to use the weight set. He had never seen one before, and found it fascinating. 'Wow, if they have these back home, I need to find a way to get into the hotel, either that or a second job to get employee access.'

Now 10 AM, he quickly showered, dressed and left to go back to the library. Books he had requested should have been pulled from storage already. Suna's library was small. So they kept an index of the books and storage sealed the books themselves till requested. This also allowed interested parties to know what was being checked out.

Getting his book, he sat down at a table in the corner, Light on the wall overhead. Looking at this it detailed Suna's demonic containment seal. The only problem he could see was it failed half the time, the seal failed to account for variations in affinities and amounts of chakra demon's had. Still it was more than he had hoped for, Pulling out his notebook, he spent 2 hours tracing the seals, and writing down all the notes on the specific characters in the seal.

Done with this book, he opened the 2nd book he had requested, Weapons and forging. It was getting expensive, to have fresh Kunai and shuriken smuggled home. If he could at least learn how, maybe he could come up with a cost effective alternative. Building Maintenance in the hotels had forges to fabricate parts that weren't available, plus the farms all had forges, Sure seemed like a good idea for untraceable weapons.

Reading and Note taking took the better part of the day. It was nearly 4pm when he left the library. He was hungry, his eyes hurt, he just wanted to take a break, seeing a small restaurant across the street, and he went in and ordered. This time. He felt eyes on him that he didn't like the feel of. He ate quickly, paid and calmly walked out the door. Turning in a semi circle, he was looking for a path that led to less travelled streets, if this set of eyes had evil intentions, and then maybe it was time for his first kill. He had already made the same mistake his mother had, and he hoped whoever this was, wasn't related to it. Temari was just too pretty to kill.

Heading away from his hotel, He rounded a corner into an alley several blocks away from the library. Dumpster in the middle, in was perfect. Seal less shadow clone to stand at the alleyway entrance, a shunshin to the roof above. 2 men came from opposite ends of the street from the clone. Clearly a team, so where were the rest of them? They couldn't get to the roof tops on mobile chase across streets without using shunshin, he hadn't sensed chakra use. Peering off the roof, in a henge of a maintenance worker supervisor, he had several clones making like a painting crew coming off the roof in standard scaffolding kept there. 'Good, they're buying it' as the now unaware to their exposure Intel team closed in on the alleyway.

As the lead two made their way to the clone, one shoved a needle into the clone, the clone burst. The smoke was intentionally excessive to cover Naruto's shunshin down to grab a startled Needleman. Up on the roof, knowing he couldn't interrogate the man there, he pulled out a modified scroll and sealed the man in it. Quickly, as that was being done, the clones in the scaffolding de-henged and made a break in separate directions, drawing the remaining 3 team members with. He bolted to the rooftop access to the building, taking the appearance on a non-descript office worker, and calmly walked down and out the front door of the building. Heading to his hotel, he found Temari waiting alone in the lobby for him.

"Well, isn't that convenient." He thought.

"Hi Temari, waiting for someone special?"

Smacking him on the shoulder and blushing, "No, just you."

"I have a package scroll I need to study, want to come help?"

"Going to his room, they entered, and Naruto pulled out and slapped on the wall Silence and Barrier seals. "

"Why the seals Naruto?"

"Oh, I need to study who is in the scroll, See if he's one of yours or if I have to go hunting."

"Who is? One of ours? What are you talking about."

Quickly unsealing the scroll, the yet unknown agent appeared. "This fine gentleman was part of a 4 man team stalking me today. I don't appreciate being stalked, bad things happen to those who stalk me. "

Temari paled at the KI being exuded, she prayed to Kami, that Baki-sensei hadn't ordered a team." I don't know of any team from Suna covering you Naruto, No one from Suna except for family knows you're here. Trust me; we will need to know who this is to."

"If Suna comes up clear, you can have him, but I want to memory seal any memory of my identity he may have."

"Fair enough, Can I go get Baki-sensei? He's the Kazekage; maybe have him get a team to interrogate properly? Legally you're a civilian; you can come and go as you please. Plus ask yourself this; in the short time we've spent together, do you think I'd betray you?"

Walking over, he looked her straight in the eye, seeing no deception, He nodded, "I'll tie him up. Don't take long, His teammates are out there."

45 minutes later, a knock on the door was answered by a clone. Seeing who it was opened the door and admitted Temari, Gaara and the Kazekage.

"Kyu-san, I thank you for capturing this spy, Suna has no operations related to you, I have a team on the roof to take him to Interrogation. Temari and Gaara will inform you of any discoveries."

"I thank you for your assurances, Kazekage-sama. But forgive me if I'm a little skeptical about this. "He knew he was in a bad way, the only way out right now was the window. Tight, but still he had to plan if this went south.

"If it makes you feel secure, I can assign Temari and Gaara as a detail for you as thanks for catching a spy and exposing 3 others. "

Looking at Temari, Naruto could sense no ill intent. "Thank You Kazekage-sama, it will be more than adequate. Please let me know if there's anything you can share from them."

Later that night:

Near the gate entrance, Kankarou was walking the perimeter for his night rounds, from the shadows, A voice called out,"So my student, what have you learned?"

"Sasori-sama, the subject matches the description of the bingo book. The team you imported from Grass to test him failed to capture him. He passed the first test by capturing and handing over the spy to the Kazekage. The other 3 were captured shortly after interrogation began. The subject's clones led them into traps where Suna Shinobi was in groups in public."

"What of his abilities?"

"Other than shunshin and his clones, no other shinobi skills were shown. He has purchased books on sealing and wind manipulation. His capture of the spy and traps of the other three indicate ANBU level stealth and planning on the fly."

"Anything else I should know?"

"My sister is interested in him, my brother the Shikaku host has also befriended him, The Kazekage has assigned them as his guards as thanks for catching your team."

"Very Well, Return to your duties, I will meet you in 2 weeks at this spot."

And with that, Kankarou continued on his rounds, Sasori slid into the dark.

A week passed by rather quickly from that point for Naruto. Temari made him smile like he hadn't in a long time. It reminded him of his training with Itachi, Someone to talk to without covering everything. Gaara, well, when he wasn't stoic, opened up and they shared moments of their early childhood, common factors were people and Shinobi could be really stupid, and that thankfully each had someone to care for them.

Entering his hotel room after the 2nd spar of the day in the private Sabaku training grounds, he never noticed the genjutsu that was hiding the Iwa team in his room. Caught by surprise with a chakra suppression seal, He was tied up and knocked out.

The team picked him up and made their way out of the building. Unluckily for them, Gaara had several sand clones watching Naruto.