A/N: ImsosorryImsosorryImsosorry! School is... blah (But I'll have you know that even though I SHOULD be studying for my midterms, I'm writing this) Should I make a livejournal or something for this so you guys will know where I am (and yell at me) if I take awhile to update?

I promise I'll make it up to you guys!

Warnings: Slash, OOC-ness

Reviewer Stuff: Thank you, every individual person that reviewed. I decided to answer reviews through that spiffy 'reply' button. The wonders of technology.

Disclaimer: Stop mocking me! -whimpers and hides in a corner-

Previously:

"What are these?!" They both struggled to push the accessories of them.

"Weights!" Naruto oozed excitement, "Well come on! Put them on! Once you do we're doing stamina training. In other words, you're running twenty laps around the room."

Oh yes, Sasuke was impressed by Naruto's hidden evil.

Chapter 12

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Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha sat in the grass at the edge of their 'training field', watching two teenaged wizards try and run their fifth lap. Naruto was lazily drawing smiley faces into the grass with his katana while Sasuke was reading a book called, 'Potions and You'. Both had changed into their henge forms, knowing it'd be easier to teach without a mask on.

Sasuke was brought out of his reading when his friend yawned. "Man, we could do five laps before we were even in the academy," he commented, watching the grass regrow over the smiley face.

"Well I bet even in their first year of school, they could dodge the spell you got hit with..." the Uchiha retorted.

"Shut up! I messed up one time and I'm hearin about it the rest of my life!" he pushed Sasuke in the shoulder before going into a pout.

Besides the sound of harsh breathing coming from the other two boys, the shinobi sat in silence. They continued watching the runners struggle until Sasuke coughed, "Naruto... speaking of that spell..." he dully noted that Uzumaki shifted uncomfortably, "That spell would normally kill the person it hit, or at least that's what I heard from Harry. At the very least, someone would be out for a month or two with severe burns, but I've been meaning to ask you..."

"Y-yes?" Naruto asked nervously.

"When we brought you to the hospital, we watched your back heal up in seconds and you know you can talk to me about thi-"

He was interrupted when Naruto bolted up and came a nervous smile to his best friend, "Ha! You can ask me later! I've gotta go talk with the slow-pokes..."

With that, the blond ran to the opposite side of the room, where the other two boys were almost ready to collapse.

'So stubborn...' the Uchiha thought, determined to find out what Naruto was hiding.

Harry and Draco turned their heads when Naruto fell into step with them.

"Wow! You guys sure are weak!" he commented happily, oblivious to the glares he received. "I bet you can't wait 'til we increase the weight of-" He stopped mid-run and mid-sentence, staring ahead blankly.

The other two paused as well, curiously looking at their teacher.

Naruto blinked, "That was... strange..." he absently said. There was a pause before he came back to his senses, "Ah! Right, back with running!" He pushed the wizards forward, ignoring their groans, before he looked down at his stomach with worry.

Harry and Draco gave each other a quick look, having no idea what had just occurred.

"If you don't move faster, we'll just have to miss lunch to finish your training..." Naruto commented, hiding his reaction to what had happened.

It was going to be a long day, both Harry and Draco knew.

After another grueling hour of running and other miscellaneous things Naruto made them do, said blonde pushed Sasuke in front of the wizards.

"Alright! Now on to the trickier stuff!" he said as cheerfully as ever, the previous situation wiped from his mind, "We're going to learn more about chakra!"

The students gave him a blank stare.

Naruto continued to grin as he told the Uchiha, "Well, you're going to be stuck with this job, you'll be better at this kind of stuff then me..." he scratched the back of his head and shrugged, "too bad Sakura isn't here, this would be no problem for her!"

Sasuke nodded, sure, Sakura would have made this job easier, but he was starting to feel a bit... worried around her lately. When they had first become a team, back when they were twelve, and Naruto would ask Sakura out, she'd always playfully decline. But recently... he couldn't explain it, the looks Naruto received from Sakura were familiar... he just couldn't remember where he had seen the glances before...

His thoughts were interrupted when the blonde addressed everyone in the room, "Well you guys have fun with Sasuke, I'll be back in an hour so so!"

"Where do you have to be?" Sasuke asked, not once had Naruto brought this up.

"Um... you know, here and there. Bye!" and with one last wave, he was off.

There was silence as the boys watched the door, but it was soon broken when Draco absentmindedly said, "You should really get him a leash..." ...which earned him a whack on the back of the head from their instructor.

Naruto quickly told Emiko the password as he rushed into his room. Back at the Room of Requirement- that hadn't been normal...

Sure, every once in awhile his seal would flare up, but it wasn't much to worry about, but once he had stepped into the room and had felt all the magic within it, he could feel the seal appear, he didn't even have to look down to know.

He closed the door to his own, personal bedroom and threw off his shirt and armor, standing in front of his full length mirror to see the seal, perfectly visible, on his navel.

He growled, taking a better look at the symbols on it, "Did something break?" he mumbled to himself, scanning the markings. After a minute he cursed loudly, "I KNEW I should have worked on my Fuuinjutsu more!" (1)

"Stupid fox, you're up to something..." he muttered before warily pulling his garments back on. The comment made another twinge in the seal, "Just shut up..." he said to the demon.

He decided not to go directly back to the training room, rather, he wandered around the halls, occasionally poking his stomach.

Back with Sasuke and the wizards, they relocated themselves to the book area of the training room, sitting at a rounded table. (2)

Harry and Draco looked at each other, wondering who would start off the lesson. Finally, Harry took the lead, "Well... ahem, I suppose we'll be starting off."

He started by having Sasuke run through the first year's Transfiguration book, after that, Charms, then Draco interrupted, explaining a bit about potions. While Sasuke had excellent chakra control, that wouldn't give him an advantage in potions, Draco explained.

Sasuke was mumbling something along the lines of, "Who said we even needed to learn Potions," when the doors burst open.

"I'm back, I'm back, you all can stop sulking about my absence!" the intruder said easily, then fell into his chair with a laugh.

"... Care to enlighten us about where you were?" Sasuke asked, annoyance clear in his voice.

"Miss me?" he asked with a wide grin before before hit in the head.

"Please continue the lesson," the raven-masked boy said calmy to their teachers.

Harry and Draco had watched the display curiously, wondering if the other one had noticed all the... hints... between the two.

Draco was the first to speak out, "...It's almost lunch, why don't we stop for today?" He, personally, was starving after their work out that morning.

"If you guys could study the books we went over, that'd probably help, otherwise, we'll do this again next week?" Harry commented, speaking for the first time in awhile.

After getting a nod of approval from the shinobi, the wizards bent down to take off their weights.

"What do you guys think you're doing?" Naruto asked, obviously grinning from ear to ear.

After a look between Harry and Draco, the latter supplied, "Taking them... off?"

Naruto burst out laughing, "Taking them OFF?! Yeah right! Get a load of them, Sasuke, they think they get to take them off..."

Sasuke continued the explanation, considering that Naruto had fallen onto the ground in a fit, "You shall be wearing those every hour of every day, it will increase our stamina."

Naruto pointed to his vest and armor, "See these? All weighted, so don't complain," was said before giggling again.

"We must be getting back to our jobs." Sasuke dryly said, but added as an afterthought, "We'll... see you around." And without a word the two disappeared in a puff of smoke.

There was silence between the two rivals.

"Is the blonde one really qualified for this kind of thing?" Draco blurted out.

"Well we both saw him in action at that attack..." Harry quietly answered.

"If you think about it, in that battle, they didn't use any of their chakra at all, only combat moves..." They both walked out of the door, Draco holding it open for the brunette.

"Thanks," he mumbled, not noticing, "That's... kind of scary..., what do you think they're like when they go all out?"

Neither answered.

"So what do you think we should do for the next lesson?" Draco asked offhandedly...

Naruto snickered. He and Sasuke had agreed to split up due to the fact that many students were lounging outside, luckily, naruto got to watch the Great Hall.

He made three Kage Bushins of himself. Two were sent out as himself and another henged as Sasuke to 'watch' the hall while the last and he henged as two Ravenclaw girls, having seen the real ones outside in the courtyard. With things all set up, he positioned himself and his clone at the Ravenclaw table table in hearing range of Ginny Weasley.

...Oh yes, this was going to be fun.

The doors of the Great Hall opened, revealing Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy in a deep discussion about second year spells.

It only took approximately three seconds for them to notice the silence in the room.

They blinked, wondering what was going on, until each noticed he was talking so kindly to his rival.

Harry whispered what Naruto guessed was a goodbye before separating to their regular tables. It was time to put his plan in motion.

He started up conversation with his Bushin, "That... never happened before..." he said, just loud enough for Ginny to hear perfectly.

The clone replied with, "I know! But they look so cute together!"

Naruto grinned evilly on the inside before continuing, "Besides the fact that there's only a ten percent chance, according to my data, that they could get together, I think they'd be totally perfect for eachother!"

"They're like... totally opposites, one bringing out the strengths in the other," the clone added a romantic sigh for effect.

They both squealed before running out of the Hall.

Ginny watched them murderously. Who did those Ravenclaw brats think they were?! Why, she was going to... to...

Wait...

Why were they coming back into the Great Hall? Why did they look so clueless about all the talk of the incident?

Ginny looked around, obviously she was the only one that noticed. Finally, her eyes caught those of a guard.

The guard gave a salute and a... wink? Then he disappeared in smoke.

Her eyes narrowed, this guard was in on this, she knew it.

After the day had ended, Naruto and Sasuke were in their personaly common room reading over their Charms books.

"Saaaaasukkke! I don't get it..." Naruto whined before going into a full-blown pout.

"Well maybe if you hadn't left then you'd know how..." Sasuke replied simply.

"Explain it to meeee..." Naruto continued.

After Sasuke finally gave in, he taught Naruto what he had missed. Eventually, both had gotten tired and departed for their rooms.

Before going to bed, Naruto took a look at the seal again. Hopefully, this would all go away soon.

His mind drifted back to the memory of what happened in the Great hall and he winced. He had made a mistake, right after he had gotten rid of the clone, he saw the real Ravenclaw girls he had henged walk into the Hall.

He could only hope that the Bitch, a.k.a. Ginny, had missed it, but all the thoughts that had been transfered to him from the clone had shown him that Ginny had caught on. (3)

Sakura sent the owl off with an evil smile on her face.

'This is too simple' she thought to herself.

Her plan had worked perfectly, first she wrote a letter to... 'Albus Dumbledore', what a strange name, suggesting that another 'portkey' could be sent so someone could bring the two hired shinobi more of their necessities, considering they'd be gone for a whole year, they'd need things from home every once in awhile.

After a few drinks, Tsunade was easy to persuade to sign it.

All she had to do now was wait.

As she watched the owl fly off, all she could think was, 'Don't worry Sasuke, I'll be with you soon, I'll save you...'

A/N: Oh my god, I'm the luckiest person in the world right now. I got an email awhile back, from a lovely person named Rose, who's making a doujinshi for this story! Did ya hear that, bitches?! Why don't any of the rest of you make me things like that (Probably because I don't ever update anymore, but... whatever)? I know, I know, reviewers are like my children and should love them all equally, but screw you! She's my favorite -sticks tongue at other fans-

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1- Sealing and stuff is called Fuuinjutsu , right? Someone tell me if I'm wrong

2- I'm sure you can't tell, but this is where I got stuck, I wasn't sure what to do for the magic lesson, sorry if it's horrendous

3- If you haven't seen recent chapters, when Naruto releases a Bushin' chakra, all the knowledge of the clone goes to him

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