Unfortunately, I was on vaction for five days, and when I got home, the first thing I thought was, "OMG, my fanfiction." Then I realized my animal crossing probably had a lot of freaking weeds. Ignore me...

SCHOOL D: It's going to make updates slow. Again.

And...This sequel will either be really long, or it will have a third part. Then the third part won't be long...No, I'll fit it all in this. Let's just say it will be almost double the length of the first part.

"What the hell are you doing!?" I growled, glaring daggers at the one who had snuck up on us. And really, what the hell was Sai doing at almost two in the morning, at my old trainning grounds? Did he somehow magically know I was out here, and that Sasuke had come back? Was that just my luck?

"I should be asking you that." His eyes flickered from me to Sasuke, and lingered on him. I'm sure Sasuke's eyes were making similar movements. "I've been looking everywhere for you." He was referring to me but still watching Sasuke. "Lady Hokage wants you under ANBU protection."

"Wha-? Why?" I stuttered.

"There's an emergency." Sai replied.

Sasuke's voice returned to flat and emotionless. "I'm not putting anyone in danger."

"I suppose you're an emergency too, but I'm talking about something else."

Something besides slight hostility was behind Sai's eyes. It was the same dark look I had barely got a glimpse of when Yamato showed it. Like Yamato had known something I didn't, and Sai knew it too. I turned to Sasuke, and just by looking you could tell he was in on it.

Then I realized it was about him. Yamato had given me the strange look when I declared I wasn't giving up on Sasuke. Sai was showing it after saying, 'I suppose you're an emergency too.'

There was something about Sasuke that they knew and I didn't. I'm kept in the dark about things a lot, and it sucks.

"What's the emergency?! Should we hurry?" I asked, letting the thoughts return to the back of my head.

"Not necessarily…" Sai wouldn't take his eyes away from Sasuke.

"Well?" Sasuke growled.

Sai finally loosened up. "I don't know why it's so horrible, but apparently it's freaked the Hokage. A shadowy figure in a black cloak with red clouds is-"

All I needed to hear was shadowy figure before I knew exactly what he was talking about, and Sasuke figured it out at Sai's last words.

"What!?" Sasuke was suddenly vicious. "Have they seen his face!?"

"That isn't any of your business, missing ninja." Sai's creepy grin spread across his face, and Sasuke reached behind him to touch the handle of his sword.

"Knock it off, both of you!" I growled. "There's more than just him, it could be anyone from Akatsuki."

"Why is Lady Hokage so worried?" Sai asked, while Sasuke continued to fume.

"They're after me." I replied, and suddenly the faded fear of being captured and extracted returned. "You've seen the power."

Sai nodded. "They've only been spotted. They could be anywhere right now, but Hokage has all of the village-and it's surrounding counterparts- locked in and down. ANBU are everywhere. I don't think we have to do much about it yet."

"All this over me." I muttered, then turned. "Sasuke?"

"What?" He still sounded infuriated, there being a chance that Itachi was here.

"If you're going to leave, do it now." The words barely got up, and I'm sure they came out with different levels of self control. I never expected myself to say anything like that to him, let alone under these circumstances.

He noticed, and he gave me a half good answer. "There's no point in going away if my destination is here. I'm not going anywhere, not yet."

'I won't let you go ever,' was hard to restrain. I would have been latched on to him and keeping him from so much as moving if Sai hadn't been around, and we weren't under the circumstances we were now.

"Naruto, you should probably go to Lady Hokage. Sasuke, I'd stay hidden out here, and keep watch for the figure."

"Can't he come?"

"No." Sai replied, and Sasuke nodded. It was that thing I didn't know about again.

"Hey." Sasuke's voice stopped me in mid-step, and I turned around to look at him. He reached forward and ran his fingers through my hair. I could have jumped him. "Don't do anything stupid, okay?"

The old Sasuke seemed to come through the exterior when I needed him. "Same to you." I whispered.

Walking away from Sasuke was like walking away from an oppositely polarized magnet. I had my chance to never let him out of my sight, to hold on forever, and to make sure he never left the village again. Now I just had to hope that he would stay until he found out who was underneath the cloak.

"Damn it, there you are!" Tsunade slammed her hands down on her desk. "I send the whole village into lockdown to keep you safe, and your outside of it at your training grounds!"

"You think I can predict when Akatsuki is going to come after me? It's only one." Sai and I stood before her. There was a slight scent of alcohol in the room. Tsunade was pissed, but I knew it was mostly an act, she was just overly worried about me. I'm one of the few people on earth she has a soft spot for.

"One that we've seen. There could be more." She corrected me. "What could you possibly have been doing down there at nearly three AM?"

"What are you doing AWAKE at three AM?" I retorted, avoiding the topic of Sasuke.

"One of my night guard rudely woke me up to tell me!" She growled.

"Lady Hokage?" Sai asked hesitantly, raising his hand slightly.

"What?" She snapped.

"What do you propose we do now?"

She sighed. "Wait. When the man- or woman, for that matter- is spotted again, I'll send an ANBU unit to see if they can be killed. Naturally, we want to avoid casualties to the common folk, and our ninja."

We both nodded.

I suppose you were right to worry.

Why do you have to be inside ME? Why can't you be inside…like…Uh…

Exactly.

"Naruto?" Tsunade added.

"Eh?"

"You're not to leave this building." She ordered. "Sai, report to your Root squad."

"Right." In a flash, he was gone.

She sighed again, head slumping down in exasperation. "All this for you, kid."

"I said the same thing."

Sorry Tsunade, but the moment you're gone, I'm going to perfect my breaking-in-and-out-through-window-skills.

It wasn't the getting out of the window that was hard. Tsunade left shortly after Sai, Shizune needed her for something. I assumed she didn't think I would want to get out, because she didn't know Sasuke was a factor. The window was a piece of cake to break, and discreet.

The hard part, was once I was sitting in the window sill, I could see ANBU everywhere. I guess that was my protection, around the perimeter. I thought about getting on the roof, then reaching the ground from there, or perhaps staying on the rooftops. Would I be seen?

It was definitely worth it. The window was within chakra enforced leaping distance to the roof. Trying to land smoothly and quietly, I attempted the jump.

"Mph-"

"Shhh!"

The moment my feet- No, toes, hit the roof, I had someone clamping their hand over my mouth, and pinning me against them so I couldn't move. Are you freaking kidding me? What am I? A girl? I would have known if it was Akatsuki, I would have seen the cloak when I looked down. It wasn't them.

I looked down carefully at the guards, and they seemed suspicious, though they let it go and relaxed again. I'm sure my captor was doing the same. Oh right.

I was about to rip away, but the hand on my mouth let go, and rose one finger in a universal sign for quiet.

I knew who it was just by the black fingerless gloves. I would have groaned, but that would have got us discovered.

Sai looked around once more before leaping off the roof onto the railing of the tower, and then to the ground using random ledges, hidden from the guards. He let me go, and we ran somewhere we wouldn't be heard.

"Aren't you supposed to be underground?" I hissed, still keeping my voice low.

"That's where I'm supposed to be." Sai grinned. "I like to break rules sometimes."

"What were you doing up there?" I ignored his usual cockiness.

"Well, I hoped you were smart enough to go up there, and you did. I was waiting for you." He replied.

"Why!?"

"I'm not slow. I knew you would want to get out. But what are you planning?"

"I'm-" Good question. So long as the plan involved me -even if it meant kicking his ass- keeping Sasuke within this village, I was happy. "I want to find out who's here for me. Before Sasuke does."

"Can I help?"

"You don't have a choice. You screwed yourself over when you pulled that little stunt on the roof."

"You smelled good."

"Yeah, well, you smell terrible. Can we find them now?"

Sai nodded.

Flashback

"Haven't you noticed-"

"Huh?"

"Never mind."

End

I do now.

Sai really REALLY Likes to suprise people. He suprised Naruto three times in this one chapter.