It barely took long until reached a hotel called: Palmer's Hotel. It was was very wide, and looked like any other hotel. They walked inside and finally realized, they didn't ask what room number their room was.
"Let's ask them." Sasuke said leaving anyway. "Welcome to Pa-" "Yeah thanks." Sasuke said cutting him off. "I'm sorry. We're trying to find my sisters room, but I don't know the room number."
"Let's see, what's her name?" "Kimie." "Kimie? No last name?" Sayuri rubbed the back of her head, continuing to smile.
The man made a face and typed many keys on the computer. "Ah, yes. The only person here with no full name is a Kimie." "Yeah." "The room number is 165, it's on the fourth floor." "Thank you."
Kimie took Sasuke's hand and dragged him to the elevator. They got in a elevator, filled with awkward silence.
"So, what is your last name?" "Hmm. Oh, uhhh." "Do you not have one?" "T-that's not really it, it's just t-that." "Or do you not want anyone to know?" "Bingo!" She said proudly.
"Hmm." Not to mention all the qualities that Sasuke liked about her, but she was also mysterious, and hard to read. That's one more thing he started to like about her.
He gave a faint smile and walked out the elevator when it had stopped. Sayuri stood there momentarily until she realized where she was.
They passed by door to door going by 158, 159, 160, 162, 163, 164, and finally 165. At the end of the hallway.
They stopped at the door and stared at the door knob. Sayuri took a step closer to the door.
Sasuke remained watching. She swung her head back. Sasuke was curious what she was going to do.
Finally, she swung her head forward and repeatedly hit the door with her head.
"AHH!" Sasuke yelled. She continued to bang her forehead on the door.
"W-we, a-are, a bunch of, i-idiots! How did w-we forget to g-get the k-key!" Sasuke tried to pull her back. "Sayuri you can hurt yourself that way."
Minutes passed by and Sayuri kept banging her head on the door, finally she stopped.
She grunted and stepped back. Revealing a red mark on her forehead.
"So, do you think they'll mind if I pick the door?" "You mean you knew how to!?" "Well duh."
She dug into her hair and pulled out a bobby pin. She curved it and stuck it into the door knob. Second later the door was opened. She grinned ear to ear to Sasuke and walked inside the room. The room was messy, clothes on the floor, bathroom door wide open, showing the clothes inside of it on the ground.
"Only one day, and she already made a mess this big."
"Which one is yours?" Sayuri looked around, looked under things and looked inside things. Finally she found her suitcase on the top of a armoire. She pointed to it and looked at Sasuke. She climbed on the large dresser and got to the top. She picked up the suitcase and looked at Sasuke. "Catch Sasuke!" She said already throwing it. Half-ready Sasuke lifted his arms out to catch it. The suitcase fell down on him, making him fall to the ground.
Suddenly more weight fell on his chest. She had dropped on top of the suitcase with her legs sticking out.
"Ahh." He said quietly. "Sorry, I thought it was the fastest way.." She said giggling. He lifted the suitcase with her on top of it and placed it on the bed.
"Alright, we have your stuff now." Without warning Sayuri hit her forehead. "Ahh."
"What now?" He said getting closer to her. "I forgot, since the hotels not even that far, I can stay here. There's no point of staying at your house." "Oh. But wait, do you really wanna stay here?"
"Pshh no. But, I don't wanna keep having to make you do stuff for me." "It's fine."
He picked her up and set her standing on the floor. He picked up her suitcase and pulled out the handle to drag it around.
"No it's okay Sasuke, this mess isn't that bad!" She said waving her hands.
"Nope c'mon." He said monotone. "You are a very stubborn person Sasuke Uchiha." His brain had stopped momentarily after she said his last name, but his body continued to move.
How did she know his last name? He hadn't finished saying it when they first met, she knew Naruto's full name also, did she meet them both when she was here a long time ago?
He felt a warm welcome on his elbow. He turned around and saw Sayuri looking at him, worried. "Sasuke." She said very warm and gentle.
"Is something wrong?"
How did she know? Does she know what he's thinking? Or is his face revealing it? No, that can't be it. He kept thinking. He gazed into her eyes.
"I'm fine. I'm just thinking about what the traps are going to be like when we go to Nozomi." Her face didn't change. She knew he was lying, but she gave a fake smile to him anyway.
xxxxx
They left the hotel and went back to the raven haired boy's house, just to put the suitcase down and leave again.
They were back on the trail and continued their mission. Unexpectedly their names were called out.
"Sasuke, Sayuri!" They turned around to see where it was coming from. Sasuke made an angry face, she smiled ear to ear.
"Yo!" She cried waving. "Naruto." Sasuke muttered under his breath.
Naruto caught up to them and smiled. "Where're you guys going?" "Getting some rare fruits." "We have rare fruits in the village?" "It's a long story." "What kind of fruits?"
Sayuri dug into Sasuke's pocket and pulled out the paper and handed it to Naruto. Sasuke made a moaning noise that made you know he was embarrassed.
"Wow!" Naruto yelled. "Who's it for?" "Kakashi." "Wanna help us Naruto?" Asked Sayuri. "Sure! If Sasuke doesn't mind!" Naruto looked at Sasuke. "It's fine!" She said hitting his back and making his body go forward.
She grabbed Naruto and Sasuke's hand and dragged them along the trail, swinging both of their hands.
Along the way she explained all the details and the previous adventures that she had before they met him.
While they were on the trail the road started to become thinner and there was no buildings, people, or well anything else. Just a narrow road.
A fog started to appear. "We're getting closer." Sayuri stated. Naruto and Sasuke faced were very serious, and they were constantly alerted from then on.
"Is No-zomi someone we need to worry about too?" "If she remembers me, then were good, but if she doesn't...kept your guard up.
They both nodded. The fog started to get worse, Sasuke remember the quick battle they had when they first met, then he thought of a way that could get rid of the fog.
"Sayuri remember when we had that battle when we first met?" "Yeah?" "Is there a way you could undo this fog?" It finally struck her, there was a way to get rid of it. Except, it was a 50/50 chance.
She stopped walking. Sasuke and Naruto stopped too when they realized she did. They shifted their bodies and turned their head to see what she was doing.
She stood still then finally did multiple hand signs, after she was finished she heaved her chest and took a big breath. The noticeable fog started to go inside her mouth. Soon she had a mouthful of smog.
Again she did handsigns, but this jutsu was a fire style jutsu. What was she planning?
In her head she said: Fire Style: Phoenix Flower Jutsu. The fog had came out her mouth but several balls of fire did too. The fog that came out her mouth disappeared from the fire she had made from her jutsu.
The smog was gone and the road was clear.
"How did you do that?" Asked Naruto in amazement. "Oh, well you know the jutsu where you can make your own mist?" Naruto nodded. "Well I can do that jutsu. And then I thought I could reverse it, and it turns out I could. But, I couldn't keep it for long. So then I decided to use a fire style jutsu." "Why?" "Because all the mist is around me instead of everywhere, I used the fire to evaporate the whole thing in one." "Hmm." "Get it?" It took a while, but Naruto finally nodded.
They continued walking on the path.
"Does this look any familiar?" "I don't know, it just looks like a road..." Sasuke walked a little closer next to Sayuri.
Sayuri was in the middle while both boys were walking next to her, but Sasuke was closer than Naruto was with her.
It didn't take long for them to realize that someone was watching. They all glanced at each other, trying to make it not look obvious.
"Can you pinpoint them?" Said Naruto to Sayuri. "Yeah, I know exactly where they are, but I don't know how they're hiding, or if they're hiding in or behind something." "Can you find that out Sasuke?" "Yeah, but I don't want them to see my 'trump card' so soon." "Do you know how many people there are?" "No." Said Sayuri. "Two." Sasuke said clearly.
Sayuri was impressed. She couldn't even sense how many people there were, but he knew exactly.
"Maybe they don't even wanna fight." Sasuke and Naruto walked slower and listed to what she had to say. "I mean, we're from the same village I don't know why they would want to attack us." "Well they're trying to protect something, they have no choice but to attack their own." Said Sasuke catching up with Sayuri.
"We just have to be careful." "Right." They both said.
"They're coming closer." "What do you wanna do? Attack, or wait?" "Attack." "Naruto, you're bait." Before Naruto could reply, Sasuke and Sayuri disappeared so fast away that you could see their molecules.
"B-bait!" Naruto yelled quietly. Naruto gasped. Two men came in front of him. One man with messy light orange hair, wearing a grey shirt and white pants. The other one had straight brown hair wearing the same thing, but with red shirt.
Naruto got scared, his foot slid back and got ready to attack. He slowly moved his hand to his kunai pouch.
"Don't you even think about it." The brown hair said calmly yet firm. Naruto's hand quickly stopped in place. The one with the orange started to chuckle.
"Oh yeah!" Naruto continued to reach for his kunai. He grabbed it quickly and threw it at them. They took out their kunai's and blocked it. Wasting no time, Naruto summoned his famous move: Multi-shadow clone jutsu.
More than dozens of Naruto shadow clones holding kunais surrounded them.
Naruto smirked. "Ahh!" The Naruto shadow clones charged against the enemies.
Couple of the shadow clones managed to scratched the orange hair man's arm. "Toshio!" The brown hair boy called. He gritted his teeth and performed a water dragon jutsu.
"Don't worry Ryuu!" He called back. The water dragon hit a group of Naruto clones. Making half of the number of shadow clones gone.
Toshio stood in front of Ryuu. He made a few hand signs and a hard wind blew out of his mouth. Before it could reach the rest of the Naruto's, a water dragon came towards Ryuu. Before that could hit him, another water dragon hit it, and made both dragons disappear. The one performing the first water dragon, was Toshio; the orange haired boy, the second one, was made from Sayuri.
"Mmm." Said the orange haired boy, carefully coming closer to Sayuri. Sasuke ran up and held his arm out in front of Sayuri. "Oh, someone's a little feisty." He said, Sasuke continued to be impassive.
Toshio, Ryuu? Sayuri thought.
Sayuri lowered his hand away from her. "Why are you guys bothering us?" "Mmm. You're trespassing." "Trespassing what? It's just a road." "Don't you know what's up ahead?" "No." Sasuke said cutting off Sayuri.
"Wait. Is a store up there?" "..." "We're trying to go see Nozomi." The two boys stood still, making them also.
"Why?" "We're looking for some fruits." "How do you know her name?" "I met her a long time ago." The two boys looked at each other.
"What's your name?" "I'm Naruto Uzu-" "Not you, her." Ryuu said gently pointing to Sayuri.
"Sayuri." "Hmm."
Abruptly he appeared behind her. Sasuke looked over his shoulder and gritted his teeth. Behind his neck was a kunai that Toshio was holding.
"Calm down." Toshio gently picked up a red strand of Sayuri's black spiky hair. He got closer to her face, his lips were an inch away from her neck.
Sasuke angrily grunted. "Don't worry." She said reassuring him.
She turned her head to face Toshio. Their faces were inches away. He smiled and scanned her body, he liked what he saw.
"Toshio." His brother said firmly. He looked up to see his brother. They both nodded. He lowered his kunai and both of the boys lowered their fighting stances.
"Yeah okay, you guys can pass." "Woo-hoo!" Naruto yelled. "Why?" Sasuke said, still not trusting them.
"We-" "Ahhh, they weren't gonna hurt us anyway." Sayuri being so sure. "Yeah." Toshio said dragging it out.
"What, why not?" Naruto asked. "The moment we saw Sayuri, she seemed familiar. When she told us her name, we were sure we knew her."
"They weren't gonna hurt an old friend. Right Toshio?!" She said playfully grabbing his arm.
Everyone (besides Sasuke and Ryuu) started laughing.
"C'mon, we'll take you guys to Nozomi." Said Ryuu. "Really, thanks guys!" Sayuri continued to grab his arm, but she grabbed Sasuke's too. Then they continued to walk, soon everywhere around them was mostly water besides the long line of land that they were walking on. Sayuri let go, but Toshio was still very close to Sayuri, which seemed like Sasuke was the only one to notice. "Sayuri when did you meet these guys?" Sasuke said getting closer.
"Oh, maybe four, five years ago." "So Toshio, right?" "Yeah." He said hostilely. "So you two knew it was Sayuri, when you first saw her?" "Yeah." He said easing a little. "How? I mean it's been years how could you remember her?"
"Her hair." Ryuu answered. They all stopped and stared at her hair, she grabbed a piece of it and also gazed at it.
"She's the first person we've seen with spiky black hair with red/orangey streaks."
Now that Sasuke noticed it, it was the first he'd seen someone with that kind of hair. Come to think of it she was the only one with jet-black hair like him, except the only difference was the light red streaks in her hair.
Unexpectedly, Sayuri started to walk ahead. They decided to join with her and drop the conversation. "You okay?" Sasuke whispered to Sayuri. "Yeah." She acted like nothing was wrong, but he could tell that there was something.
"Do you not like your hair?" She lifted her brow. "Why would you say that?" Sasuke didn't replied. Naruto turned around, behind him was a mist. When he looked in front of him, it was clear and beautiful skies.
"Hmm. Sayuri." Sayuri and the rest stopped and waited for Naruto to continue. "Why is there a fog again?" He said pointing behind him.
She looked at Toshio. "Do you really need it?" "Yes, it makes people get scared and lost." "Ugh." "Naruto it's fine, we're not going in that direction anyway."
"I'm just saying Sayuri, it's kinda creeping me out!" He ran up and grabbed her arm.
"Naruto, you're such a-" "It's fine." They continued walking. "Say Naruto. Are you afraid...of ghost?" "Hm! I mean, they don't exist but.." That was all he needed to say.
Sayuri glanced at Toshio. He nodded and gave a small smile, trying to keep a poker face together.
He quietly walked over behind Naruto. "You know Naruto." Ryuu began. "Do you know why no one comes to our shop?" "Hmm, now that you mention it, who wouldn't wanna go to a shop full of rare and delicious fruits." "Well, there were actually many mysterious things that happened.
"L-Like what?" "There once was a couple who was the owners of the shop..One man, one lady." Naruto started to shiver.
"They were different from everyone else -" "The man was actually half-human, half-." Sayuri said trying to tell the story. "-Demon." Ryu added on again.
"H-Half human? Half d-demon?"
"Right. The mom was actually a human, but she fell in love with a demon. But, he wasn't actually a demon, he was a 'human' like everyone else. Just cursed with an unexplainable gift, soon he expanded his gift to his lover." "What was the gift?"
"He could kill anyone by saying their name, and saying their cause of death." "Saying their name?" "Right. Except, he has to say the name at least three times in order for it to work."
Naruto started feeling heat tingiling on his back. The tingling was actually coming from Toshio's body heat from him coming closer.
The mist started to pick up in front of them. "Tell me NARUTO-" "Hey will you keep it down!" Naruto said getting frantic.
"Naruto you actually believe this story." Sasuke asked. "N-no, it's just that, what happens if it is true?"
They passed by block of stone. "You know, this is where her tombstone is buried." "Y-You don't think.."
They started to hear a faint voice.
"Naruto Uzumaki. Naruto Uzumaki."
"What was that!?" Naruto screamed. "What was what? Didn't you hear that?" Everyone shrugged. Naruto wrapped tightly to Sayuri's arm.
"Naruto. You're just hearing things."
"Naruto."
"That was the third time I heard my name! Oh no!" Naruto ran and hid behind Sayuri.
There was a silence. But it broke, when Toshio started to laugh.
"Ha ha..ha ha!" "What's so funny!?" Sayuri started to giggle too. Ryuu also couldn't help himself.
"What? What's everyone laughing about! I'm not crazy! I know I heard my name!"
They started laughing even harder. Sayuri started clapping from being overjoyed.
"N-Naruto!" Toshio started. "Haha! We're just joking around! Me and Sayuri was the one saying your name!" "You mean the story isn't true? "Of course not you idiot." Sasuke complained.
"Oh. Ahh! Why did you have to make a story like that?" They all started laughing, Naruto gave in and started laughing too.
They continued walking into a small mist in front of them. It wasn't as bad as the fog behind them though. The path started to become more wide and looked like a normal road and more visible. There appeared a another road turn towards the right, but that road entered into a unsafe forest.
Ryuu and Toshio took the lead and started going thru that road. Sayuri grabbed Sasuke's hand and nudged him and Naruto to follow them.
"Why are we going down this path?" Naruto said getting closer to Sayuri. "This is the way to go." She explained. "I get it. You have it down this unsafe kind of road, so then no one would likely go down it." "Right. Hey you're not that dumb as I thought."
Sasuke muttered something down his breath, he continued to walk.
The forest was mucky, and it was hard to see the sky. It was even hard to see where the path was leading. Ryuu and Toshio stop, making everyone else too.
They looked ahead and saw a big broken down house with no sign of the forest around it. Even though it was broken down it still looked like a nice place to live in.
Ryuu walked up and opened the door. "Mom!" He yelled.
"M-Mom!?" Sasuke and Naruto said at the same time. "Yeah."
An old lady appeared with very light orange colored hair. She seemed about in her early thirties and looked very happy to see other people around.
"My my! Sayuri? Is that you?" She walked up and hugged the old lady. "Nozomi. Sorry I haven't visited in a while..." She said rubbing the back of her head.
"Ahh, at least you came to see me today." "Actually, I came here to get some fruits." "Aww-" "But I mean I was excited that I could've saw you, Toshio, and Ryuu again!" "Yeah my boys were always talking about you after you and your sister left." "Oh so they missed me did they?" She said smiling and turning towards them.
"Come on in!"
They walked inside and the more deeper they went, it was more store like.
"Alrighty then what fruits do are you looking for?"
Sayuri took out the piece of paper with the list Kakashi gave her and handed it to her. "Ahh, I haven't seen this kind of list in a long time. Who is this for?"
Sayuri looked at Sasuke, they both shrugged. Kakashi was the one who gave them the list, but they didn't know who it was specifically for. "Hmm, I can only think of two people who would want this kind of food. 1. your sister and 2. that boyfriend of hers."
Wait, her sister has a boyfriend? Which village does he live in? Does Sayuri have a boyfriend? Sasuke kept thinking of more unsolved questions in his head. But he made sure that soon, he would answer them.
The sun started to beam into the house/store, and it started to get more sunny inside.
"I love the weather in the village." Sayuri admired. "What's your village like?" Sasuke asked.
"It rains a lot. It's foggy. It has scary looking people." "Hmm." Naruto said.
"Are you staying in the hidden leaf again?" Toshio asked getting closer to her. "Yeah, just temporarily. I don't know when I'm leaving though, just hopefully not soon." "Maybe I'll swing by the main village and say hey." Toshio said.
"How about you say goodbye?" Sasuke said quietly. She had heard him and kicked him without looking. "I'm gonna be busy the whole time I'm here, so it wouldn't be good for you to come and barley see me then have to go."
"Well that's okay." He said shifting his head down. "How about you come see me, i'm not a busy person." He chuckled and moved away. "We'll see."
Nozomi walked over into barrels filled with fruits. She picked out some fruits out and put them into a bag. "So are you guys gonna stay a little longer?" Sayuri looked at Sasuke and Naruto.
It was the 'you wanna?' kinda look.
Sasuke seemed like he didn't want to, but Naruto was the opposite.
"Yeah!" "Good! Alright lunch will be ready soon, just give me some time." "Oh that's okay, I mean I don't wanna eat all your food." "Honey don't be silly! No one comes here anyway, those two keep driving all my customers away!"
"I'm just keeping you safe Mother." Ryuu said. She lifted an eyebrow. "From what? The forest!?" He made a straight/angry face. "We can't take any chances like the last time."
"What happened last time?" Naruto asked. "We were visited by some..marauders."
The room was silent. "Stop scaring them Ryuu, look kids, it was nothing." "Are you alright Nozomi?" "Baby don't worry about me, I might be an old lady but i'm still good enough to care of myself." "Psh." Ryuu walked down the hallway and stopped mid-way.
Nozomi walked into the kitchen.
"Hey Sayuri's friends." Sasuke and Naruto looked over. "Which one of you is stronger?"
"Psh. Does this guy look strong?" Sasuke said pointing to Naruto. "You have a point." Sayuri giggled.
"Hey! I could take you guys any day!" "Let's see it then!" Said Sasuke. Naruto lifted his fist. "Alright then let's go!" Ryuu smiled and continued to walk. "C'mon!" He yelled.
Naruto started to follow him. Sasuke hesitated and turned around and looked at Sayuri.
"Don't worry, i'll take good care of Sayuri." Toshio said grabbing her waist. "You guys can go and fight!" She yelled to them. They continued to walk away and fight. Sasuke walked over to Sayuri and gentle smacked his arm away from her.
"It's fine Sasuke!"
Sasuke? Toshio kept thinking. Where have I heard that name? Is this the same kid who took on Zabuza and Haku of the mist? Wait, didn't that other kid call himself Naruto? Is he also the one who also fought Zabuza, the one a famous bridge is named after? Who are these people?"
"I'm here to escort you, it's my job to make sure you're safe." "Don't worry Sasuke she's always safe with me."
"What are you two talking about? I'm stronger than both of you." "You wish!" "I could beat you any day!" "Oh really now!" The two boys started arguing with each other, but Sayuri stopped.
She exhaled. "I didn't come here to fight." She said softly.
"Yeah, yeah."
"What do you guys wanna do?" "Whatever you want to do." "Fight."
Before they could think of something to do, Nozomi walks in from the kitchen holding a plate of kids crackers. Cheez-its, graham crackers, and regular crackers.
Her face lite up. "Ohh! Graham crackers!" "How old are you?" Sasuke said patronizing her.
"Oh shutup they might be for kids, but they are freakin good! Oh you're the best Nozomi!"
"You always did like these crackers."
She sat down started munching on the crackers and gave a cheerful smile to everyone. The day had turned out to be more interesting then she thought. She actually knew it was going to turn out this way though, but she didn't expect the way Sasuke was acting almost jealous. She hadn't really seen any people her age a lot, mostly she was with higher-ups, she was happy to see them again. She definitely couldn't wait for later today for her next duty.
Currently they weren't doing anything, so they might as well do something right?
"Naruto, why don't you show Ryuu what you can do? "Alright!" He ran off.
Sasuke in his head: What is she planning? Why does she want them to fight? Before she didn't, did something change?
"Sasuke why don't you take these?" Nozomi handed the whole plate to Sasuke. "Toshio escort these two to the back and let them watch the fight."
"What about you?" Asked Sayuri. "I'll watch from the window, it's too hot today!"
"Right this way!" Toshio said. Sayuri put her hands on her hips and scowled at Nozomi. They made faces at each other but it didn't take long for Sayuri to give up and watch the fight.
They walked down the hall that lead to the door. The sun had gleamed on her face and she felt a cool breeze flowing thru her hair. She missed the weather like this, maybe she would move from her village to this village. Yeah, maybe.
They took a seat in a tree and watched Naruto and Ryuu fight.
Only thirties minutes passed and Naruto and Ryuu was still fighting. Couple times Naruto had the lead but Ryuu took over. Naruto fell on the ground, falling on his face. Ryuu had scratches all over his face and body. They were both panting.
"Told you, you couldn't defeat me. You're such a loser." He gasped. He lifted his arm and held his body with one hand, his whole body was shaking.
"W-What! How can you still get up?" Naruto couldn't say anything, he let his actions speak his words. He finally gets up, panting.
"You're either stronger than I thought, or just a complete idiot." He wiped his face from the blood.
Naruto fell to the ground again. Ryuu started to laugh. "Can't even get up!"
Naruto continued to try to get up. "Just give up already!"
Naruto huffed and lifted one leg to the next. "W-What! How?" Naruto finally was able to stand up again. "I never give up...I never go back on my word...that's my ninja way!"
There was a silence, Naruto closed his eyes and seemed to argue with himself about something.
Half of Ryu's body fell to the ground. "Ah, my chakra is low." He lifted his body up.
"Doesn't matter though! You have no chakra left! Face it, you've lost."
The blonde hair boy continued to stand there. He gritted his teeth and groaned. "No!" Naruto's body was surrounded by his chakra. Except this was different though, it was almost visible. It seemed like it was orange. His wounds healed, his whiskers got darker and longer, his eyes even changed to almost cat like eyes. "What, what are you?"
"Sasuke, i'll be back." Sayuri left before he could argue to go with her.
A mist started to appear around them. What is this? Is Toshio doing this? Ryuu thought. A large circle made out of wood came underneath Naruto's feet, the wood imprint was spiraling into ripples.
Naruto looked around him. He started to feel his chakra going normal again. "Ahh!" He took out a kunai and ran towards Ryuu.
There was dust everywhere from the dirt, it was hard to see what happend, but finally when the smoke vanished, so did the mist, and the fight was over.
Naruto was standing over Ryuu with a kunai up to his face. Ryuu lifted his brow and sighed.
"You won."
Sayuri came back.
"It's over?" "Yeah." Toshio, Sasuke, and Sayuri got out of the tree branch and went down to Naruto and Ryuu.
"Naruto." Sasuke said. "Yeah, yeah." He got up and put his kunai away.
"It's time to go." Sayuri said. "C'mon Naruto, let's go tell Nozomi goodbye." She patted his back and they both walked. On the ground was Ryuu on the ground still, Sasuke was still there, and Toshio was also.
Ryuu gasped, in front of him was a hand reaching towards him, it was Sasuke's. He muttered and took it. He lifted him up and they both stood there.
"Who are you?" "Sasuke Uchiha." Toshio and Ryuu looked surprised. "What about that guy? What is he?" "An idiot, that's all he is." "Psh. There's got to be more." "There isn't. Toshio, why don't you go say bye to Sayuri?"
Toshio normally wouldn't have listened to him, but he knew he was serious so he left, before he did he gave Sasuke a look telling him he wouldn't do anything.
"He's stronger than he looks." Ryuu finally admitted. "Yeah, outside he's an idiot, inside he's, much stronger. That's something I can admit. But, I won't admit the fact that he's stronger or smarter than me. You could actually learn some things from him though." "Whatever." Why do you act like that?" "What are you talking about?" "You act so cold, and hard. You make it seem like you don't care about anybody, but that's not true."
"What do you know about me?" "Nothing, only that you're actually a nice person." 'Humph' "I don't care about anyone." "What about Nozomi? And Toshio? What about Sayuri?"
Ryuu gasped. He realized that it was true, he did love them. They were his family, they were there for him. Sayuri was his best friend even though they barely get to see each other. Toshio was also there, he helped him become as strong as he was now. Even though he doesn't really know Naruto, he did learn things from the match. Sasuke was right, he needs to stop acting this way, before the people he loves is gone from him. If they leave him, he would be all alone.
"You're right." He said softly and quietly.
"Bye."
Sasuke's face relaxed and a smile almost appeared, but before it could he was gone.