Hey again guys, thanks for all of your reviews! They doubled!

For those of you who don't like some things I'm doing right now cough cough NewSon cough cough, don't worry, I have a plan for all of this. You'll have to endure some Sakura bashing for a while, if it irritates you…I don't know, but I'll try to lighten up.

Naruto4051- He's gone. Plain and simple. Sad to see such a cool guy disappear tho…

Without any further ado, Chapter 3!

Chapter 3

"Uzumaki Naruto? Hmmm…Uzumaki Naruto…oh, here he is. He's in room 146."

"Hm" Sasuke replied coldly without even looking up. He walked by the receptionist into the hallway with his hands in his pockets as he made his way towards room 146. He had some questions that needed answering.

Kids these days, no manners anymore…thought the receptionist with a glare to Sasuke's back.

He entered Naruto's room, only to find him fast asleep. He was sprawled out over the sheets, snoring loudly and drooling onto the floor. Sasuke walked over to Naruto's bedside and unceremoniously dumped the glass of water on the bed stand onto Naruto's head.

"Agh! What the…eh? Sasuke?" blurted out Naruto as he jumped up from his deep slumber.

"Oy Naruto" replied Sasuke, as cold as usual.

"What are you doing here Sasuke?"

"I…wanted to ask you something." Sasuke paused. "I wanted to know…where your power comes from. How are you so strong?"

"I…I…I guess it's because of my friends. I will do anything for them, because that's my way of the Ninja!"

"No Naruto. You and I both know that's not how you beat me. How are you so powerful Naruto? How did you surpass me?"

"Sasuke, I really don't even remember beating you…all I remember is everything going red, and then later pain in my chest…"

"I don't remember the fight completely either. But you still did beat me"

"…."

"What aren't you telling me Naruto?"

"…."

Sasuke glared at Naruto who only looked down at his lap, silent and motionless as stone.

"Meet me on the roof."

Naruto looked up, but Sasuke was gone. He jumped off his bed, and tested his legs. Finding them to be fully healed, he went over to his window and opened it.

Obaachan won't like it if I leave my room, so I'll have to sneak out

He gracefully jumped out of the window and adhered to the outside wall using the tree climbing method he had learned with Sasuke so long ago. He walked up the wall, and finally reached the roof. He leaped up and landed behind Sasuke who just kept his back to him.

"What's all this about Sasuke?"

"Naruto…we never got to finish our fight up here. We were…interrupted…"

Flashback

Naruto leapt up towards Sasuke holding his Rasengan in front of him, ready to meet Sasuke's Chidori. They were both so entranced with defeating the other that neither noticed Sakura running towards the two destructive attacks until it was too late.

At that moment, a blur raced in between them and swung their two attacks off target. It was Kakashi. Both attacks left their marks in the water towers that they struck, but Sasuke was proud that his made much more damage than Naruto's. Or so he thought.

As he was leaving the fight, he noticed that Naruto's strange chakra attack had left a huge eruption on the opposite side of the tower, putting the damage from Sasuke's Chidori to shame.

End Flashback

Sasuke slid into his fighting stance as Naruto looked on dumbly.

"Come Naruto"

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"Tsunade-sama! Uzumaki Naruto is missing from his hospital room!"

"Huh? Wuzzat?" slurred Tsunade, still groggy from her peaceful sleep.

Shizune continued at here frantic pace. "Tsunade-sama! Uchiha Sasuke visited Naruto this morning…and now their both missing!"

"What! Get an ANBU team on it right now!"

"Isn't that a little…excessive?"

"Last time this fight happened, Kyuubi almost manifested. No, this is definitely NOT excessive. Let's just hope those two don't kill each other before we find them"

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"Kage Bunshin no jutsu!"

Ten Naruto clones appeared around Sasuke and prepared to rush in all at once. But Sasuke had other ideas.

"You can't fool the Sharingan eye Naruto!" he screamed as he rushed towards a Naruto behind him. He relaxed a bit when he felt his hand hit solid flesh, instead of it making contact and then passing straight through the smoke. He was very relieved, as, Sasuke was not as confident as he sounded. His Sharingan was not truly capable of discerning clones from the real thing, but he took a lucky guess.

After he struck the real Naruto, the remaining clones sprung at Sasuke. He sucked in a deep breath and performed the jutsu he had learned as a small child.

"Katon: Goukakyuu no jutsu!"

The remaining clones were blown away by the intense flames created by the fireball that Sasuke had created. However, as Sasuke turned around, he saw yet another army of clones rushing at him. Yet again, he repelled them.

"Katon: Goukakyuu no jutsu!"

A wall of smoke and dust were all that remained in front of him. Suddenly, from behind the thick curtain of cloud leapt a figure holding out a shining blue orb.

"Rasengan!" yelled Naruto as he drove his hand towards Sasuke.

Sasuke, caught completely off guard, took a step backwards and held his arms out in a defensive position, and closed his eyes, preparing for the impact. The impact that never came.

Sasuke opened his eyes and saw a large blue orb inches away from his face, and Naruto's arm being held back by a tall ANBU in a bird mask. Naruto looked up at him, then at Sasuke, and immediately released his technique.

"Hokage-sama wishes to see you Uzumaki Naruto"

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"Hello Naruto"

"What is it Tsunade? You ruined my fight with Sasuke!" Internally, Naruto was actually glad that his fight had been stopped, as he had almost taken the battle too far. Had the ANBU been one second later, Sasuke's head would have been blown off.

"I have a new mission for you Naruto"

"Yahoo! What kind of mission? Is it a super hard double S rank mission? Please let it be extra hard!" squealed Naruto as he leapt forward and screamed straight into Tsunade's ear.

"Don't get too excited just yet Naruto" Tsunade cautioned as she gave Naruto a folder containing the mission details. Naruto eagerly took it and continued to whine.

"Why not? What kind of mission…a training mission? With Ero-sennin?"

"Yes Naruto"

"But…but…why! I want to go fight Orochimaru…and plus…" leaning over, Naruto continued in a hushed tone, "Ero-sennin is just weird"

"Heh…you really should give him a little more respect…but yes. Jiraiya can be a little…eccentric. But right now, he's the only one that can train you"

"But why Jiraiya! Why can't I get a good sensei?"

Tsunade paused and rested here head on her two folded hands. She had to use her trump card.

"Jiraiya trained the Fourth"

Naruto opened his mouth to protest, but no words came out. He paused, thought, and opened his mouth again. But again, no words came out. Finally, he was able to talk.

"Wh-when do we leave?"