A/N: There's the next piece. Sorry, at first I thought I'll make it twice bigger, but in the end decided to divide it into two chapters. I want to polish the second part a bit more.

Anyway, please, enjoy!

Sasuke and Sakura landed before the house of the Uchiha district that Sasuke occupied. Although Kakashi did not appear to be waiting for them and was nowhere to be seen, the front door was slightly open. This suggested that he was already inside, so they also entered the house. There, in the hall, Sasuke spotted two pairs of shoes on the floor. How considerate, - he thought - although he had an enemy who could destroy the whole place in the house, thanks to his teacher, he now should not worry about the floor getting dirty. Sasuke sighed. Then, balancing on one foot and trying not to drop Naruto on the floor, he somehow managed to take off his shoes. And after getting rid of Naruto's shoes as well he went to the living room, where, he thought, he heard some noise.

Sure, when he opened the door, he saw Kakashi. The jounin was sitting at the low round table with a teapot on it. Behind him, near the large opened slide door leading to the garden, was lying the blond boy.

"And I didn't even say 'feel like at home'."

"Maa, maa. Try being a bit more welcoming, I'm your teacher after all." Kakashi replied, not even glancing away from his book.

"Hn" Sasuke decided to ignore his apparently ill-mannered teacher and made his way to the farther corner of the room, where his futon was still on the floor as he did not bother putting it in the closet that morning. Sakura followed after him in the room, closing the slide door behind her. She looked around almost in awe, before sitting on the opposite side of the table from Kakashi. Meanwhile Sasuke was pondering whether he should put Naruto on his futon or not. Considering that having to wash the sheets because a certain guy in dirty clothes, after their training and the fight in the forest Naruto's clothes were far from clean, was lying on them did not sound like a good idea, Sasuke decided against it. He then simply put Naruto down, seating him on the floor with his head against the rolled up futon for a pillow. 'Maybe I should just wake him up already? He's not really hurt or anything.' Sasuke wondered, still kneeling before the blond boy. 'Or should we wake that one first?'

"Leave him like this for now." Kakashi called out. "Come. Sit."

Sasuke involuntarily accepted the invitation. Getting angry at this man seemed pointless. Thus, he also sat at the table, watching his teacher pouring tea for him and Sakura. Sasuke's brow twitched in irritation. 'He couldn't have come here more than 10 minutes before us, but look at this. Did he barge into my kitchen right away to make himself tea?' Sasuke made a mental note that the next time the jounin tried to hide here from Guy-sensei, he would kick him out without mercy.

"So what are we going to do, sensei?" Sakura asked after a five-minute silence. Although the only thing on her mind was Sasuke, who happened to sit next to her, she had to give up on getting his attention as all this time the said boy, seemingly rather annoyed, was only slowly drinking tea and shooting glares at his teacher in between the sips. That is why rather than sitting in this awkward silence, which she feared might have lasted really long, she decided to at least try starting a conversation, besides, the girl had to admit, she was actually curious.

"Well, before those two wake up, I'd like to explain something, so you won't get shocked later." Kakashi replied cheerfully as all this time instead of just glares, which he decided to ignore to mock the Uchiha, he was waiting for a properly asked question.

The two genins nodded at their mentor, showing that they were eager to hear him out.

"Alright," Kakashi continued, seeing that his students were listening to him attentively with genuine curiosity. "This is just my assumption, but, I believe, that this teen over there is Uzumaki Naruto."

"Eh? What do you mean, sensei?" Sakura asked confused.

"I mean that one too" Kakashi nodded in the direction of the older boy.

"No way!" Sakura gasped surprised, but unconvinced, while Sasuke remained silent, observing the boy with more interest now.

"Have you guys heard about jutsu that allow time-space travelling?"

"Hmm" Sakura looked thoughtful. "Yeah, but of course!"

"In the academy we were told that this is one of the hardest kinds of technique. Only very skilled ninja can perform them, besides these jutsu are rather unpredictable and dangerous. Therefore their use is almost completely forbidden" Sakura entered her know-all student mode.

"Such techniques usually never spread beyond the members of the family who developed them." Sasuke added. "Besides most of them rely on the blood line."

'Like the sharingan' Sasuke thought to himself. Actually, his parents never told him about the existence of such a technique in their family, nor could he find any information on it in the dozens of scrolls that contained descriptions of different jutsu, used or developed by the members of the Uchiha clan. However, he clearly remembered Itachi once telling him about it. He could not recall the name of the technique, but knew its general concept. The jutsu was superb. He doubted any human could actually perform it. First the sharingan was needed, but if it was just that. A monstrous amount of chakra was also indispensable. A normal person would most likely die even before he derived the necessary energy. Thus, the only question was:

"If what you're telling is true, how on earth did Naruto learn and managed to use such a jutsu?" Sasuke asked.

"Sorry, but that's what we'll have to ask him." Kakashi shrugged his shoulders apologetically.

"Waaah!" The trio at the table was startled by a shriek, coming from their teammate.

When Naruto woke up the first thing he saw was what he assumed to be his mirror reflection. But then it dawned on him that the figure was lying still and did not follow his movements at all. That got him interested; on all forth he silently crawled closer to his look-alike. He held his breath in awe, hovering over the unconscious teen, the stranger looked exactly like him, but more mature, of course, as he appeared some years older. Yearning to speak to this strange person and learn who exactly he was or, probably, also wanting to determine that the guy was not an illusion, Naruto decided to wake him up. However, while, as the best means of doing so, Naruto was about to pinch his cheek, at that very moment the teen jostled, raising himself on his elbow, and opened his eyes. Naruto barely managed to move away avoiding bumping their foreheads. This unexpected movement of the object of Naruto's interest was the reason of him making that unmanly sound and attracting thus his teammates' attention.

TBC

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