Author's Note : Silver is keeping me up with the story. I'm already near chapter 11 since she downloaded Notepad on my phone and can now write on the go. Motivation is needed. ^_^ I hope you guys don't mind the fast-pace/short chapter but I just can't seem to get out of the habit. ._. Silver is also working on The Other Apprentice with me and you should be able to tell later in the story, since they will be more detailed.

I do not own Naruto or any Original Characters.

Chapter 4 :

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'That was close.' Tamiko stated bluntly.

Kage had just reached land far beyond Amegakure and was entirely wiped out of energy. 'I shouldn't have used jutsu, or ran.'

'You had no choice Dear. They could have killed you, or worse, used you. And if you wouldn't have used your birth-given right that is jutsu, then that fish, Mother knows where it's been, could have killed you. They could have poisoned it for all we know.'

'No.' I shook my head, still in a feline form. 'I can see now they would have just asked questions. Pein wanted me to join his organization, he wouldn't kill me.'

'Well, look on the bright side Dear, you were right about something.' The beast's snicker was loud in her ears.

'And what would that be?' A light-blonde brow raised slightly. A loud cackle rumbled in her brain. 'They did not realize who you were until after you had left.'

'Oh shut up Tamiko!' She growled and slammed her paws together. 'Transformation Release!'

With a thick cloud of white smoke, Kage was no longer in her incognito-cat state. Her clothes were lost back in Fire country when she hid by that hot spring. She sighed deeply, thinking of her clothes now; they were surely burnt to ash with the forest. 'There is a hot spring somewhere close by.'

"Thanks." Kage said, following her sense of direction by the shift of air temperature. It took a while, but she found the gathering pool of steamy water in a rock-lined incline of the forest. She smiled and stepped into the welcoming water, relishing the warm liquid as it soaked against her chilled skin. Goosebumps rose on her tanned skin from the sudden change. "It's nice to finally be able to relax." Her voice was smooth and carefree. Kage dunked her head underwater for a moment; resurfacing only when she ran out of much-needed air. "What do you think you're doing?"

Her neck made a sick snap as she quickly threw her head back. Kage's stormy grey/blue eyes traveled up a body starting from the ankles. She met a dark gaze owned by a man that seemed only two years younger than her or so. He had a towel draped loosely at his waist, just below his very-noticeable abs. "I was taking a relaxing moment for myself until you interrupted it."

A smirk ran along his lips. "I've jacked off in this water so many times, you're relaxing in my seed."

"Hot water as pure as this boils out inferior and disgracing substances." She snapped, moving across the water to the other side. The guy dropped his towel and slipped into the water. Kage faced away from him. "If it destroys inferior substances, then why haven't you dissolved yet?"

Kage glared at the man and hopped out of the water. She used her entire right arm covering her breast while she used her left hand to cover her other area. "I don't want your putrid gaze on me. Turn around."

He leaned back on an arm and widened his smirk. "Should've brought clothes."

"I will kill you if you don't stop staring at me you pervert!"

"And I would love to see you try woman."

Kage let out an angry groan and closed her eyes. 'Transformation Jutsu." A puff of white smoke covered her, and by the time it had lifted into the skies and cleared from her a black jaguar with smoky grey/blue eyes had taken her place. Water dripped from the cat's fur as it glared at the younger man. His expression was slightly amusing, making Kage twitch a whisker. A shocked expression had slithered it's way on his stoic face. The large cat stalked around him, their gazes locked together. When Kage made it around the spring and to the towel the man had discarded only moments before, she ended her jutsu and returned to normal. She wrapped the towel around herself tightly, not noticing it caused to push her large breasts up slightly and turned from him to leave. Tamiko had told her something about a nearby village.

After a few steps she was face to face with the man. His raven-like eyes boring into her own. "And you have the guts to steal from me?"

"I don't even know you."

He put his hand to her throat and smashed her into a tree. Kage raised her hand and slammed her thumb into a pressure point, pushing chakra into him. The man fell to the ground, paralyzed.

"Tell Guren I said hello, Sasuke Uchiha."

He looked at her and somehow came up with a familiar shocked expression. "Who are you?" He managed weakly.

Kage waved a finger at him, walking away from the limp body. "If you can catch the cat, it will tell you everything you mentally desire." She chuckled. His glare was heavy on her back as he tried to break the paralysis. It would take a while before that happened. Kage couldn't help but giggle at the thought of really leaving a naked boy by the spring.