A/N: Hello again, thanks to xXxXxRoxasFanGirlxXxXx for commenting first review hehe

Okay, I have a schedule for this fic, it's going to be updated twice a week and here is how it goes. I have two other non-anime fics so I update them then this one and it does a thing like a circle kind of, I don't update on sunday though. just Mon to Sat so this fic will be updated on Wed and Sat^^ Also I have chapters planned till chapie 13 and I like where it's going.

Unbeta'ed, you've been warned.

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto. All of it belongs to Masashi Kishimoto, except this plot though xD

Ah, I wanna explain the title, how it works. So the title says what's important in the chapters and when I say That man it may refer to any men in the story though man is usually Sasuke or Naruto, just to not confuse you guys^^

He was going to stay at the university dorm for his infiltration. Just so no one get suspicious and it would cause too much troubles if he had to live with one of his friends from the team since then it would mean create another identity for that person as well. And he was better alone for now anyways.

Today was just a day to introduce the school to the new students and welcome all of the students, old or not. Naruto remembers very well the first time he went to his university. It wasn't as big and as full as this one, and instead of people laughing or smiling at each others, there was more of a sense of danger around the corridors. It was the kind of university you choose when you don't have any other choice. And it was the kind where you had to be ready to face any kind of situation with so many delinquents looking for a fight or someone weak to beat up.

He didn't like calling them delinquents though, because he had been part of them for a time. That was before he realized it wasn't going to bring him anywhere and left the group he had been following. It wasn't what he'd called his hardest time, but let's say it was so bad that when Tsunade came and asked him if he was willing to do anything to get out of that situation he just accepted.

And he didn't regret his decision now, he had been a quick learner too so he was able to not make Tsunade regret her choice of taking him in a team she was rebuilding. From what he knew, due to the best of them being arrested they had to lay profile down for quite a few years before coming back. Fugaku had been doing researches on the team who send the thief he caught, bu since they went different path on a common agreement he couldn't find any of them and the team disappeared to form the one which he was part of now.

Naruto didn't know much of before his orphanage life. He wasn't sure too how he knew some of the Japanese traditions since he wasn't even living here when Tsunade found him. He was wandering in the streets of the city of Paris. Some might think Paris is the city of lovers, but from his experience all he can say is that it's the city where it's hard to live when you don't have any friends, any relatives and piratically don't know what to do with your life at one point.

When he was a kid, around ten years old, the nuns told him they found him behind a car, holding himself like he was scared of something and silently looking at nothing special but just blinking in the blankness of his brains state. They had been worried he wouldn't find back his voice since he had been two years without saying anything. He didn't even remember how he got behind that car and if the nuns hadn't told him he would have never known. Well, the thing is after awhile he started warming up to them and they discovered behind the blank mask a boy who could really smile for the stupidest thing. Caused troubles like no one else did because he was too spontaneous and tended to try anything he wanted to do.

He was also pretty persistent when he wanted to get something. One nun especially, she was old enough to be a grand mother, took great care of him until he was of the age to leave. She's the one who paid his high school fee with the poor money she had and she would insist on him attending his classes because she thought he could get out of this life he didn't choose if he was obedient at school. When she died he was only sixteen and too old to stay at the orphanage and that's when his world went downhill.

Without anyone to show him that life was worth living, Naruto started hanging with the bad side of life. But it did him good so he wouldn't really call it a bad side, maybe a darker side, but definitely not bad. It's then that he learned about living in the streets and learned to handle himself. But one thing he never brought himself to give up on was going to school, the gang he hung on with couldn't understand but the nun who took care of him saved money for him to finish high school and even attend university. He couldn't understand why she was so generous with him, but he thought he had to at least respect her and would go to school until the funds weren't enough once he got in university and he had to leave. He got lost on that road, he really thought he would end up in Paris' streets, without anyone to talk to but the homeless or the abandoned child in the streets, they were also junkies. At one point, that was his reality, the only reality he came across with so he thought it was normal to just sit there in the park with some old homeless people and talk with them like they were best friends.

You'd think they are useless, but they have the best stories ever.

It was a huge change when Tsunade took him in. He wasn't use to rules, he wasn't use to not having his freedom and suddenly he had to get used to living like a civil. And that meant respect laws and not do anything bad in the eye of the people watching you. Well, though stealing isn't for the law, but he meant the law Tsunade wanted him to respect. There are still some rules of her he doesn't understand and some he just will never get used to.

Enough with memories. But it wasn't helping when he felt nostalgic in the university's corridors. His first day had been like falling deeper in hell until they understood he didn't really give a shit and he wasn't really that easy to beat like they thought he would be. All that because he was skinnier than he is today. It's around the age of eighteen that Tsunade found him and since then he's been growing up a bit too much as if his puberty hit home too late.

A picture of him back then and a picture of him right now would make you think he was the father of the little boy he was back then. Sure, it's true at twenty four, you look much more mature than you looked at eighteen. Just that his change was too radical that's all.

"All students are to head to the gym for the professors speeches please."

Naruto looked up at the voice coming probably from speakers that were in the corner of each corridors. And how the hell are new students supposed to know where the corridor was? He looked around to find people rushing to a spot and decided on following them. It would be better than to walk alone and lose himself in this huge building. What's the use of having such a grand building as a university anyways, even if it was a prestigious one.

She was lost.

No matter how her round eyes tried to not get blurry because of the unfamiliar area she couldn't help but silently sob as she searched for where her daddy went. She hadn't meant to run away from school and come to her dad's one but she just felt too sad and she thought he would be there if she came. Now she was lost. If her dad knows she left school he was going to be angry, really angry.

People were just running along and ignoring her, or not seeing her because they were all in a rush and one person even lightly pushed her aside. She fell on the ground and that's when she really started sobbing, softly and silently at first then louder and louder but still no one would stop to look at her or try to find her dad for her.

She slowly tried to stand up again but they ran around her and this time the push that came was stronger than the first one. She waited to fall again with a light powerless whine coming from her lips as she tried not to fall and grip anything. Her fingers closed around a soft fabric and she gripped tightly, enrolling her small arms around someone's leg and not letting go no matter what.

The person she was gripping tried moving his leg but couldn't, so without looking down he lightly shook it then groaned before roughly shaking it off he then looked down but it was too late he had already almost thrown her on the ground. If someone hadn't been looking and hadn't caught her before she fell on the ground, lifting her up and looking at the mad man who was as careless as to not even notice a little girl trying to not fall with the crowd pushing her.

"Be careful." The man with the little girl told him and the other cheeks warmed in embarrassment when all eyes came on them and continued walking as if nothing happened and he wasn't guilty at all.

His eyes returned to the frail body in his hands and he looked down to find tear strained face with big deep dark eyes staring at him, so contrasting with the light blonde hair that covered her round head. It was obviously a girl, she had long hair that fell in her back and wore a white dress that had black spot on them because she fell too much.

He softly smiled at her, "Pretty girls shouldn't cry." she tried to wipe her tears with her hands but he stopped her and looked around to find a place where he could put her down and he did so when he spotted a fountain in the middle of the corridor where they were, he softly posed her on the bridge of the fountain and took out a handkerchief to wipe her tears.

"Are you lost?" He asked and she nodded slowly, her big eyes slowly getting rid of the water pool dancing in their iris. "I was-looking for daddy." She mumbled, biting down on her bottom lip as if she just said something bad and shouldn't have but already let it slip out of her mouth.

"Well, where's your daddy?"

She bit down one more time on her bottom lip and looked around before pointing towards the room where she just came from.

"In the gym?"

She nodded once again and her wavy blonde hair moved around her face.

"Let's go find him then." He lifted her off the bridge of the fountain and holding her hand headed towards the gymnasium. The professors were had already started to give their speeches so they quietly went inside to not disturb the students listening, he brought her in the last row and made her sit next to him.

The one talking in the mike ended his speech and bowed lightly under the applause before leaving, then a brunette came in front with her paper to announce that the next one to speak would be Sasuke Uchiha, from the psychology domain. A young man then stood up to come in front of them to say his speech and as soon as he rose, hushed sounds began to be heard too, soft whispers and soft murmurs he didn't pay attention too because the little girl next to him was already pointing at the man.

"That's daddy!"

That's also when Naruto remembered where he saw that little girl. So she was Keiko Uchiha and that man was her dad so Sasuke, the second son of the man he was going to steal from and the one who he needed to get close too in order for this mission to be a successful one.

"How about we leave and wait for your dad outside?" He suggested and she simply nodded, she was a brave one wasn't she? But a bit too innocent which wasn't such a bad thing, innocent was something needed in order to survive in this world. When you knew too much you became an ultimate enemy to yourself and to the others as well. When you don't know as much as you're supposed to know, you're just an enemy for the others since for you all that count is what you believe in and not what you learned.

And she believed she could trust Naruto and followed him.

They sat behind the scene where professors would come back once the introduction was done and they were granted permission because Keiko explained that she was Sasuke's daughter. One of the guard probably went to warn him that his daughter was there too. All they had to do now was to wait while he finished his speech and ended the ceremony and while waiting the two ended up talking like they always knew each other. She might seem innocent at first but Naruto found out she was a smart one.

She knew she was four years old and she could spell his name without bumping against the 'r' in it, she was also curious about his hair and told him he had the same hair colour as her mother and her so he might be of the same family as her.

"I don't think so." he laughed softly and regretted when she pouted lightly and looked down disappointed.

"So you can't be my brother?"

Naruto shook his head ruffling her hair with an apologetic smile, "Sorry, it doesn't work like that."

"But I want a big brother. Daddy has uncle Itachi!"

She was really too accurate for a four years old girl, though she liked to point out clearly that she was going to turn five years old soon. Her soon was in one month plus.

"Can you be my brother?" She asked looking up at him with hopeful eyes, but before Naruto could answer the room was soon invaded with the professors who were done giving their speeches and she jumped out of her seat to run to her dad. But instead of taking her in his arms like she wanted him to do, Sasuke crouched at her level and looked at her with a serious expression. "Did you skip school?"

She knew he would be angry of course, so she didn't answer and looked down.

"Why?" He asked again and this time she looked up with a deep frown.

"Because I hate school! The kids are mean and they don't like me." She lowered her eyes on the ground and made Sasuke sigh softly. What was he going to do with her?

"How did you get here?" At that her face lit up as if she hadn't been ready to burst into tears just earlier and she looked behind her to point towards Naruto but there was nobody where he had been sitting earlier.

"He was there!"

Sasuke frowned at the empty spot she was pointing at and sighed.

"For now let's get you back to school."

"But dad!"

"Keiko, stop arguing with me, you don't skip school."

She reluctantly followed him when he grabbed hold of her hand.

He would have stayed if it wasn't for his phone suddenly ringing and he didn't want to let anyone hear his conversation, not when the number he read on his screen was a private one.

"Miss me already?" He cracked as soon as he heard his friend's voice at the other line.

"No, just taking news. Tsunade forced me to do so." Shin's annoyed tone made him smile as he walked to where his dorm was supposed to be. He still had his luggage because he didn't got time to see where his room was, he wondered if he was sharing it with someone too. "I'm not a baby, I can perfectly take care of myself, tell her that." He ended the call, knowing very well that it would piss his friend off that he just hung up on him, but he wouldn't call back because it would mean an argument and he wasn't one to argue about anything.

He was on the second floor and took the elevator. There were two corridors, one on his ight and the other on his left and by the number he had, 21, he was sure it would be on the left so he simply walked on that side and found it in the middle of two other room. He tried the knob to see if it was locked but it wasn't so he opened it slowly and yes he had a roommate. His clothes were already on one side of the room, on a small bed that looked pretty much like the one he had. But he didn't hear anything that sounded like water running so he probably wasn't taking a bath, maybe he went out.

Anyways, Naruto was tired like hell and if there's one thing he knows he need it's a bath. He hasn't been able to take one all day long and he didn't feel that good knowing today had been a rather warm and humid day. The room was able to fit two people so he didn't think they would have any trouble with sharing it, plus the other man seemed to be an organized one. His clothes were already kept in his drawer, at least some of it. It seems there wasn't enough space since his bag was left on the bed half opened as if he had been a rush to get out.

Naruto frowned, wait a minute, he was analyzing every single detail. A bad habit he knew it but in his job he had to take notice of every single detail and it was hard to get rid of this stupid habit. Maybe a bath would clear his mind and make it easier to concentrate on not giving himself up by showing his unusual way of looking at people like he wants to know everything about them just to steal what was precious to them.

Once a thief, always a thief. That was his team's favourite quote, but it wasn't such a popular one because of course it's themselves who created it. But they had to stick to it like a credo, and Naruto understood now why it was true and they seemed to believe so strongly in it. When he was younger he was a good pickpocket thief, he could take someone's wallet without even letting a single air brush past the area where he took it out from. He was a quick one and had flexible and agile fingers that knew when to reach and when to come out. He was also good with the traditional way of opening locked doors, that's an old trick. Even movies can't beat the way his teacher taught him to do it.

His roommate was in the room when he came out of it, wearing a simple t-shirt and pair of jeans that he felt comfortable in. The boy was much younger than him since he was in his first year of university he could understand that. But to think that they actually put him with someone at least four years younger than him was really offending in a way. Thank God he managed to avoid to restart his first year. He might be lost at first but he surely wasn't going to be the old one in first year as if he gave up and then came back later just to find back his intellectual side.

So they decided he was to go in the third year. It's crazy how easy it had been to create him an educative background as if he had been going to school for four years non stop and had never given up. The university system wasn't so strong for a prestigious university, maybe they should engage people who knew their job a bit better.

He smiled to the boy who turned around to look at him, a towel around his neck and the boy replied to his smile with a rather small one but a smile nonetheless so Naruto went further and reached his hand for a handshake.

"I'm Naruto and you?"

He wasn't as antisocial as he looked like because he did shake hand with Naruto for a brief moment and introduced himself later.

"Neji." But looks like he wasn't really the type to talk too much. Oh well, better not judge from appearance either.

"So are you also new to this university?"

Actually, Naruto got most of it wrong and a part right. Neji was indeed younger, but only of two years and he wasn't first year he was in the same year as him. Which at first clearly shocked him but he laughed it off later, a laughter Neji did not join because he was dead serious and Naruto thought he was just joking.

"Okay, you're not joking, I see."

Neji cracked a mocking smirk and that's the first real reaction he got from the younger boy.

Neji kindly helped him around the campus and they became rather quickly friend. Maybe because he didn't mind as much about who he hung out with as long as Naruto behaved normally. Or was it because Naruto has this relaxed aura around him that just makes anyone who approaches him feel at ease with him to the point of even laughing at his jokes, and they aren't that great to be honest. Neji knows it, he's been hearing them for the past week before they had to start school.

The man was older than him, but you would say otherwise if you looked at them. He was a bit taller true, but the way he did things were totally different from how a man of twenty-four would do it. It's as if he was twenty-four with his physics but still a bit late when it comes to his manners and such. He even wondered himself why he was hanging out with him until he found out it wasn't that bad, Naruto was an easy-going person and sometimes he could turn out more mature than he sounds like.

"What class do you have right now?"

They were coming out of their room and heading for the campus, today they were starting lessons. It's been so long since he's been to any classes to learn that Naruto found it odd when he entered the building and found so many students with their binders in hand, some had bags on their back. This was different from the university he left and was really different from high school. They weren't lockers in the corridors like in high school and there was no one trying to make someone fall like in his university.

Naruto tried to not put too much analyze and try to seek every single detail but it was harder said than done. When you've been doing this for six years it's hard to give up on the habit.

"Science right now." The blonde sighed and passed his hand in his light locks to put them in order, he forgot to brush them, just great.

"Man, I have French." No way was he taking science anyways, from his past experience he wasn't that good of a student in that domain. "And next?"

"English."

"And next?"

Neji stopped and looked at him, "Why not just ask for my whole schedule?" He arched an amused brow and Naruto grinned at him, "Sure, what's your schedule?" The dark haired boy sighed before taking his timetable out and giving it to him.

"We're in for psychology, fourth period, that's far." Then he noticed something and frowned up at his friend, "You have no break at all."

"I don't need them." Neji shrugged taking back his timetable and putting it back in his binder.

"Four classes like in high school huh." Naruto sighed dramatically, "That's hell man. I need at least one break and I got two, that's enough."

."You mean you only have two classes?" Neji asked surprised, "Yup, don't need more than that." Surely, why was he hanging with such a lazy guy again? "Is that even possible?"

"There's nothing impossible to me, See you in psychology later." And he waved as he left the younger boy standing in front of his classroom with a deep thinking expression.

"Neji!" That was Naruto's voice for sure, one would recognize it after hearing it for one week non-stop and Neji lifted his head at the blonde entering the class. First of all he was late, second he didn't even seem to mind and third he was shouting as soon as he came in. Did he really go to school before? Because he seemed to not know the rules.

Well, it came out before he could stop himself and Naruto let out a soft oops when he found out all pair of eyes were on him, some were impassible, some surprised and some curious as they stared at the blonde head he was now scratching.

"Sorry."

He knew who his teacher was, maybe that's why he immediately apologized. Tsunade said, do not look suspicious and do not attract too much attention on you Naruto and that's exactly what he was doing right now.

"Naruto Uzumaki?" Sasuke's tone came to him and he nodded before letting out a confused 'huh' at his name being called.

"Please abstain from shouting in my class and will you just have a seat?"

Naruto wasn't supposed to get attention this way, but first impression was a good thing after all and he was sure now that the man wouldn't forget his name when he smiled and nodded. He might as well enjoy the way he used to listen to class back in the days.

"Yes, sir."

Longest two hours Sasuke ever had of teaching. He didn't know and didn't care who was this Naruto but one thing is sure he was doing this on purpose, it was totally on purpose. He wasn't listening to the lessons, he was talking to anyone he could and the worst was probably that the students would also listen to him instead of the lesson when he would start talking to them. Sasuke had to tell them to stay silent three times. At one point he just ignored the blonde man and that's when he heard soft snores behind him.

That was the top of it all and he didn't hesitate one second before throwing the chalk he had in hand.

It was instinctive, he didn't mean to do that. And he knew the moment he caught the chalk in the palm of his hand he did a huge mistake. But instead of letting it last over and make the silence around him more awkward Naruto simply grinned and threw it back at Sasuke, "I think you lost your chalk, sir." Damn it, stupid agile hand.

The ring made itself heard and Naruto heaved out a silent sigh of relief of not having to stand anyone's curious eyes again. But Neji followed him slowly, "How did you do that?"

"What?"

"Stopped his chalk."

Naruto shrugged, "Instinct."

"Well, I don't believe you." Naruto laughed softly and looked down at his new friend. "Why?"

"Because no one ever stopped Sasuke's chalk, not even when they saw it coming."

"Really?" That was good to know.

"So, how did you do that?" Neji asked again but Naruto shrugged and grinned at him, "Instinct." To which Neji scowled but said nothing, sighing instead. "Right."

"I'm telling you, he stopped it." Sasuke frowned, phone against his ear as he placed the last plate on the table. "Wait a minute." He put the phone aside, "Keiko, dinner is ready." Then he went back to his phone. "We need to find more information about him." He went on, "It's odd, nobody, not even you can stop something I throw that easily." He was talking to Itachi, because of the incident that happened earlier at school.

"Do you think you can do it?" He listened to his brother tell him he would handle it and sighed, "Okay, thanks." He hung up and sat down at the table with his daughter.

"Dad."

"Hm?" She was sitting just in front of him, legs swinging under the table as if she wanted to ask him something. He knew his daughter really, it was a father's responsibility after all.

"You know there was really someone with me." She was still on that topic because it bothered her that he didn't believe her. "You know, he looks like mom and me. He has blonde hair and blue eyes and he's also this tall." She made a gesture with her hand to emphasize her words and Sasuke smiled softly at that.

"And he's my brother!"

He nearly chocked on his food when she said that.

"What?"

"I asked him." she nodded without any hesitation. "I can have him as a brother right?" She asked as she started eating, because she was hungry after all.

"Keiko, not everyone who has the same hair as you can be your brother." But he knew she had a complex about her hair. It was the first reason why she was being teased at school and it was one of the reason why she sometimes wished she had her mom, because then she wouldn't be the only one to have blonde hair in the world.

"But Naruto is really my brother." She pouted lightly, not hungry anymore because of what he said.

"Did you say Naruto?"

She nodded, "You know him?" She beamed at him with a hopeful expression.

"Yeah, I do. Now eat before the food gets cold." He ended the conversation on that sentence but he was still thinking about the fact that the one who took care of Keiko was the same as the blonde student he had in his class. And by the way she easily accepted him, he had to really find out who this Naruto was.

Let's hope Itachi does that quickly.

So yeah, this chapter is longer than the other one XD And I know it might sound boring for now, but introduction to the mood and setting of the story is needed somehow, I have to warn you guys it's going to be a bit slow though not as slow as to repeat actions over and over again I do know where it's going so I feel safe. XD Tell me if you like it because reviews are loved