Sasuke and Naruto had been working at Hikari Mansion for almost two weeks.

The two jounins moved with ease around the beautiful house, and already call the inhabitants by the name. Which meant they were now well aware that their target was living under the same roof as them.

For two weeks, they had become sensitive to the circumstances around them. Such as the fact that the Hikari clan was being made hostage and the Rain shinobi were taking advantage of the luxurious house at their disposal. The main family got to keep their normal lives at the expense of their house, fortune and knowledge.

Sasuke was getting angrier and angrier with their current situation, especially because some of the shinobi kept groping him and asking him to join their private parties. Naruto ended up walking around beside him to stop him from breaking any wrists. The blond had to hear him every frigging night plotting ways to torture them once they finish this mission.

Tomoyo, the missing kunoichi, was rarely seen, since she was mostly around the basement, where the Hikari clan kept their private jutsus and some developed devices.

They had now their plan completely formed; they were just waiting for their opportunity. The main problem was the child: little girl with months of life, with black hair and black eyes, very rosy and cute, who was always with Tomoyo. They hadn't figured out what was the purpose of the child presence, but as soon as they got their hands on the kunoichi's plans, they would be enlightened.

The two jounins finally saw their chance rouse when Tomoyo announce happily, or hysterically as Naruto would say, that the first part of the plan was completed and she would proceed to extract the child's essence the following Sunday.

Considering his previous experiences with Akatsuki, Naruto had the feeling that extracting the child's essence meant no good for the aforementioned child, and so he convinced Sasuke to strike that Sunday. It was best to have the kunoichi busy, since she was a talented ninja, and they didn't need her power when they already had so many opponents. The problem was how to get rid of the many shinobi at the Kage's orders

Their solution was a decoy. It was decided that Naruto would produce shadow clones, and they would lure the guard squad to the deepest forest, giving them time to retrieve their weapons and put the sleep-gas bombs around the house.

They spent the next four days preparing themselves. Sasuke made Naruto repeat all the emergency actions from their original diagram and train stealth with him every night. Except for the Saturday night, when the raven send the jinchiruuki to bed early and followed him shortly after.

Next morning they woke up very early and more exited than normal, the kind of excitement that anticipated a battle.

During breakfast, Sasuke planted a gas bomb in every room and programmed it to explode three hours from then. He got back to the kitchen, continuing his work. It was Naruto time to act now. Excusing himself to the bathroom, he locked himself in the small room.

"Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" – and two blonds appeared in front of him. He made them henge as Anbu, and told them their mission. The clones left trough the window to complete their duty.

As soon as Naruto returned to the kitchen, all the maids had a scared look on their faces. Sasuke quickly (and loudly) explained that they were all in danger (?) because some enemy ninja had attack the house and now the Hikari shinobi and the Rain shinobi had left to find them. The Kage showed up then and ordered the girls to go and do their jobs.

One hour and a half later, the family and the remaining nins had dismissed. Sasuke and Naruto excused themselves to their room, once their tasks were completed. They jumped out of the window and ran to their hideout. Naruto dispelled the seal, while Sasuke dispelled the jutsu they had put around the area to prevent any civilian infiltration. They dispelled their disguises and started to put on their jounin uniform, and also their masks.

"How many of them left to the chase?" – Naruto asked, while dressing his fishnet shirt.

"I saw about fifteen of them: seven from Hikari and eight from Rain."

"Shit! That leaves ten from Rain and three from Hikari in the house. I hope the bombs work out."

They finished dressing and equipped themselves with their weapons and prepared to return to the mansion and wait for the explosion.

Sasuke was leaving the dark of the cave, when he felt a hand on his wrist and then other on his waist, making him turn and pressing him fully against a smaller body. The blond that owned said body pushed their lips together and coaxed Sasuke's mouth open, making their tongues swirl together, in a kiss that carried the passion of their future nights together and made promises of what would be. They said nothing, Sasuke only nodded in reassurance.

When they arrived at the house, they sneaked to the back of the Mansion. That's when they heard the muffled bangs of the bombs going off, which meant it wasn't going to attract unwanted attention. They got in the house trough the back door, entering the kitchen, to face five women unconscious on the floor. For safety, they tied them together and put them, as comfortably as they could, on the storeroom.

They moved to the second floor, the top floor, and started raiding the rooms, as they had already planned. There were three rooms in each side of the magnificent staircase.

They went to the left and opened the first door. No one could be seen, but Naruto smelled someone and could faintly hear a heart beat. Cautiously, he approached the bed to look under it, when a huge man jumped from the closet behind him and head-locked him. The blond tried to fight back, but the man was taller and lifted him of the floor. He was making hand signs to perform a jutsu when we realised that it could attract the Tomoyo's attention. He tried to reach his pouch, but the man stopped him. All this happened in seconds, after which Sasuke turned around to face Naruto and what he saw almost made him faint. That could not happen, and so he buried his human feelings, turning himself into a killing weapon. Swiftly, he took a kunai from his pouch and aimed for Naruto's forehead. At last minute the blond moved to the right and the blade pierced the man's skull. The man fell, instantaneously dying. Naruto didn't heard or smelled anything else. Sasuke recovered his kunai and they left the room. The blond placed a seal on the door, preventing anyone to get in or out.

They repeated the process in the other rooms.

On the fifth room, they had another surprise, though. As soon as they entered, they were ambushed by two Rain nins, who had heard them in the other rooms. Sasuke quickly took his sword, without using chakra and with a graceful turn of his body, he sliced one of them. While this took place, Naruto grabbed three shuriken and locked the man on the wall. While his opponent struggled to get free, the blond looked at his friend. Why the hell did he used the sword? Exhibitionist bastard. He aimed to the enemy shinobi's leg and threw another shuriken, successfully limping him. Sasuke glared at the mess the other was making. Why hadn't he killed him yet?

"Just shut up and put him to sleep." – the raven did as he was told, ignoring the crying need to tell the blond he hadn't said anything, and the nin faced the red eyes of Sasuke. He got tied up and the two teens left the room.

They ended up finding two Rain shinobi, besides the previous three, in the lady's room, probably trying to find something worthy, one Hikari nin, in the first daughter's room, probably during a lover's rendez-vous, and two old ladies, who were the grandmother and one friend of hers, all of them asleep. They bounded the shinobi with chakra restraints and the other with ropes, just in case. The jounins left them locked in the rooms.

The first floor had one office, where the Lady and the Lord of the house had been talking with their shinobi captain, who was the Lord's brother. They were now laying side by side, bounded up with chakra restraints as well. It also had a playroom where the three youngest children, one girl and two boys, had been playing; they were unconscious as well. When he saw the sleeping children, Naruto's heart missed a beat.

"I forgot the children!" – he exclaimed. – "The gas won't hurt them, right?"

"Of course not, dobe. I thought about that."

"I sometimes think that you think my code name is dobe, Teme!" – Sasuke only smirked.

The two remaining rooms were a library and a small living room for the ladies. They found the grandfather and the old uncle in the living room playing chess and the nerd cousin reading in the library. All of them were restrained and the rooms sealed.

The jounins found the last six shinobi in the main living room and repeated the procedure.

They hadn't felt any sudden outbursts of chakra so they hoped the little girl was okay. They headed to the basement to ambush Tomoyo. That's when Naruto sudden stopped death in his tracks.

"What's wrong, dobe?"

"My clones just dispelled. They killed him. They know it was a trap and they're heading here." – he said quickly. Sasuke had anticipated this. They were supposed to split up. – "I'll fight them." – the blond added.

"No, they are too many. I have much more experience in fighting larger numbers. I'll stay." – no way he was going to left Naruto to fight fifteen men who were good ninja.

"It's because they are many that I have to stay." – Naruto got angry. Did Sasuke think he was not good enough? – "I have better endurance. You are better in quick fights. You should go fight Tomoyo." – Sasuke knew he was right. He just didn't want to split. He was not being objective and he knew it.

"What if-"

"No." – Naruto interrupted him. Sasuke sighed resignedly. He gave a quick peck on the blond's lips and left for the underground floor. So much for the teammates behaviour only.

- Naruto's scenery -

Naruto walked outside to wait his enemies in the front entrance. He would not fight them in a family house. And he was going to give his best not to wound the Hikari nins beyond amends.

He pulled his shurikens out and threw them around the trees. The weapons had small strings attached to them and made a web of invisible threads. It would delay them enough so that Naruto could feel their positions with his senses.

"Let's have some fun, kit." – Kyuubi said. Naruto smirked.

He soon felt the strings vibrate. Five from the left, five from the right and five from the centre, and approaching fast. He took out his gigantic shurikens and pointed them at two trees at each side of the main path. He waited and waited, until the five shinobi, all of them from Rain, appeared on the path.

"Rasengan-shuriken!" – he made the trees collapse and crash the men.

Two of them, however, saw the trap and avoided it in time. He had to take them out of his way fast, because the others were approaching. Opting for an attacking tactic, the blond started to run in their direction. Taking out two kunai, he aimed for the men's hearts, but they avoided it, straggling to the centre, getting themselves exactly where Naruto wanted them.

"Kage bunshin no Jutsu!" – and the two shinobi found themselves surrounded by dozens of blonds, who prepared to attack.

Both of enemy ninja dominated the fire element, so, with an amazing burst of flames, almost every shadow clone was destroyed. Two sets of hands appeared from the clouds of smoke, surprising the nins and trapping them to the ground. They manage to get free of the clones to dodge two kunai flying in their direction. Naruto had trusted the kunai to pierce their skulls, but the only thing he did was give away his position.

The nins launched themselves at Naruto, who, adopting a defence stance, blocked their punches. One of them managed to kick the blond's knee making him loose his balance. To prevent himself from falling, the jinchiruuki propped himself on his hands and kicked the two men in the face, showing an amazing agility. They were projected back by a rush of wind, who pressed them against a tree. Neatly, four shurikens locked them onto the trunk, and as the wind dispersed the two Rain shinobi saw a blond glowing with red chakra press their pulse point on the neck until they fell unconscious.

Instinctively, the blond snapped his head to the side to smell the air. They were coming. Without any other warning, ten shinobi jumped of the trees to surrender the blond, crawling in a feline attack position. He wasn't using any of the Kyuubi chakra though, only his senses.

One after the other, the nins attacked. Naruto was blocking, punching, kicking, shunning their attacks. One after the other, they were thrown above the blond's head, kicked to the side or projected back.

Hoping that Sasuke had already made his presence noticed, the blond gathered the fox chakra and in an amazing outburst, all the nins smashed into the tall trees. Naruto was panting hard, he couldn't do this very often; it required great effort to keep the explosion at low levels. The shinobi recovered and got back to the fight.

"Rasengan!"

A ball of chakra collapsed against the first shinobi, piercing his stomach and leaving him bleeding on the floor. Diverting his gaze from the dying figure, Naruto brought his attention back to the other ninja. He jumped to a high twig and took out three gigantic shurikens aiming for them, even though he was hoping they could evade the weapons. Five of them did, but two were harmed, one lost his arm and the other got a deep cut on the abdomen. The other two were nowhere to be seen. However the bond could feel them moving behind him. He turned around and threw two kunai to their heads only to see them dispel in a cloud of smoke. From below, those same two ninja grabbed his feet and put a kunai trough his stomach and another trough his thigh.

Naruto lost his balance and fell from the tree. His claws allowed him to grab the trunk. He put one foot on the tree trunk and gathering chakra on his feet made himself be projected above his opponents' heads and to fall behind them. Once he got on the floor and ignoring the excruciating pain, he snatched his katana and making it roll above his head, he avoided the blocks of his target by bending over, and perforated the other's stomach.

He looked up and could see that there were still six to go.

There were three on each side of him. Two from both sides attacked. Naruto jumped and doing a split in the air hit them in the head. On of them fell, hitting his head and got knocked out. The other got stabbed in the forehead by the kunai he had used to attack Naruto, who took it from his own leg with a growl of pain.

While Naruto was distracted, the tallest one got a hold on him. The poor man didn't see the katana shifting and piercing his thigh. He jumped back in pain to see an arrow puncture his arm and his abdomen. Aiming for the others with his crossbow, Naruto made three of them smash into the trees by the chakra infused on the arrows, hitting their heads and falling unconscious.

The last one moved to the centre avoiding his disabled comrades.

"It's just us, blondie."

The man made some hand signs and the earth crumbled below the jounin feet. He jumped from rock to rock to avoid the opening fissure and brought himself to a strong branch. He had twisted his ankle but Kyuubi was already on it. The man made needles of the rocks and threw them to Naruto, who avoided most of them by hiding behind the trunk. The blond was panting hard, trying to recuperate the control over the situation.

"Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" – that would gave him time to think.

And thousands of Narutos appeared, surrounding the ninja. All of them took their gigantic shurikens and aimed for the man. He avoided most of them, while others just did non-deathly cuts. The remaining nin looked around for the real blond, but he didn't find him. Because said blond was falling from the tree canopy. The shinobi looked up, to see a elbow crash into his face and to feel a kunai pierce trough his eye. He didn't feel anything else.

It wasn't a very elaborated attack, but maybe Naruto could spicy it up a bit for Sasuke.

The blond jounin then fell on his back while his breath evened out. The air smelled like blood and mud, misery and darkness. He would never get used to kill. He got up. It was time to go help Sasuke.

Naruto put quick bandages on the wounded, tied them with the unconscious, and closed the dead's eyes. He summoned a toad, Gamabunta, and asked him to take them to Tsunade.

He then ran to the house.

- Sasuke's scenery -

"No." – Naruto interrupted him. Sasuke sighed resignedly. He gave a quick peck on the blond's lips and left for the underground floor. So much for the teammates behaviour only.

He walked by the living room and the kitchens to find out that everyone was still asleep. The raven slid down the stairs and took in his surroundings. A glorious arcade led the way to the three rooms on the basement: a clan meeting quarters, a private library and archive and the chakra accumulation device, which was the front door.

Sasuke summoned a small snake and made the jutsu to see trough its eyes. The snake crawled below the door and Sasuke could see Tomoyo, frenetically drawing seals from a centre figure where the child lay. The Kage was laying lifeless on the floor near the altar and he was bleeding from his ear. Silently opening the door, Sasuke stood there with his sword ready to attack.

"You took your time to get in here." – Tomoyo said. Sasuke got nervous. Had she always known their plan? Did she know that Naruto was outside? – "I've been feeling you outside the door for ten minutes now. Scared?"

'Of what? You? Please!' – Sasuke thought. But, opposing to Naruto, he did not have the need to talk with his soon to be victims. Instead, he launched himself to the kunoichi. She snatched her own blade and their weapons crossed in the air, making sparkles flew from the impact point.

They engaged in a skilled fight, their moves graceful and precise. Sasuke dodged a blow meant to his heart and jumped above his enemy, cutting her shoulder. She shrieked in pain and turned around catching his leg with her blade. The wound was only superficial though. They jumped back, measuring each other.

"Who sent you?" – Tomoyo asked. – "Was that retarded village of mine? Konoha? They are as simple as this man's village." – she pointed to the Kage. – "They want power but are too afraid to search for it. I'm not though."

"You have no idea what power means." – Sasuke retorted, unable to stop himself since that speech was touching a very special nerve in him.

"Please! Not that lecture again." – she yelled as they started to move around in the room facing each other. – "I know what it means: it means that no one will ever be able to defeat me and all the nation will bend to my command."

"That's just brute force."

The raven ran forward after speaking those last few words and tried to slice her in half, but she was fast and turning her body slightly to the left, she stabbed Sasuke superficially in the abdomen, since he changed his route at the last minute. The chakra device glowed and the child cried and Tomoyo, in her excitement of seeing her objective almost complete, lost her focus. Sasuke saw a chance and rolling the sword above his head, he beheaded her.

It was for this sight that Naruto entered the room.

Sasuke had a hand pressing his bleeding stomach and the woman laid dead in the floor. His teammate was looking disgusted to her head.

"Powerful people are those who don't have to blackmail other into acting for them, because they'll do it freely. One can do anything if he's not alone."

He then turned and saw Naruto at the entrance.

They looked at each other, measuring each other in their murderous persona. It was always scary for each other to see such a cold and calculating expression in each other's face, when they cherished so much the love they usually saw in the other's eyes. Naruto was still processing Sasuke's last sentence.

The blond ran to him and hugged him. When they broke the contact they were already on their normal state, the cold masks and murderous eyes gave place to lively blue eye and glowing onyx ones. When their eyes locked, was when Naruto understood that Sasuke had been seriously wounded and he got a worried, the emotion plain visible in the blue pools.

The jounins approached the altar. Together they lift the child and erased the seals. The entire room lost its glow. The blond, who was holding the little girl, put her down on the inactive altar once again. She was very quiet, looking at her saviours. The blond smiled at her and she returned the smile in her own baby way.

Then, Naruto made Sasuke take his hand so that he could make an improvised curative. It was only after that, that he checked the Kage's pulse. He was still alive.

"We have to dispose the bodies." – Sasuke looked around. – "And take all this scrolls to the Hokage."

"Yes, but the bodies are going with us." – the blond declared. It was normal procedure to burn the enemies' bodies. But they had time and toads to do the job, so Naruto didn't see why their families couldn't hold them decent funerals. – "They were fighting for their leader and died as heroes, so we are going to send them to their village." – Sasuke smiled. Sweet and just, moronic blond. He just kept making Sasuke fall in love more.

- Time lapse -

Two hours, another visit from Gamabunta, lots of curses and lots of time wasted in erasing seals and placing the household members, some of them a little fat, in the living room later, the two jounins were waiting, sitting on the sofas, for them to wake up.

Finally they stirred and one by one all of them wake up, confused by the two masked presences, especially because the smaller one, who, in his clothes covered in blood, had a deathly appearance and was making the baby jump in his lap, playing with her hair and singing stupid songs. The other kept rolling his eyes at such a display. The latest was the first to notice the family gaze. He looked at them, cold and emotionless.

"Maybe someone should take the children to another room." – he suggested. A young maid left the room, taking the children for a bath and a film to distract them. Afterwards, Sasuke continued. – "There were ninja who died in some of the rooms. I trust the Hikari shinobi to follow the cleaning procedure." – the Hikari captain nodded. – "The Kage is dead. As are two of your shinobi. The others were taken to our hidden village to testify since they attacked us." – he looked at Naruto, who had been a strong opposition in the next point. – "My teammate and I are going to include your family in our report so it's plausible that you are going to be called to testify as well."

"I will make sure it's rapid and safe." – the blond said.

"We also need you to tell us if you know this child." – the raven pointed to the baby.

"No, what we know is that she comes from Konohagakure, the same village as Tomoyo." – Lord Hikari said. Naruto and Sasuke exchanged glances.

"Okay, then, that would be all." – the blond said happily. – "We are going to take her and we'll be on our way." – and they got up.

"Wait, sirs." – Lady Hikari stopped them. – "We are very thankful for rescuing our family."

"It was a side effect." – Sasuke interrupted her, coldly.

"Teme!" – Naruto reprimanded. – "I'm sorry for him; he isn't familiar with the concept of sensitivity." – the clan members laughed discreetly.

"Thank you anyway." – Lord Hikari put in, talking more to Sasuke than to Naruto. – "Maybe we can repay your help." – Naruto got serious all of a sudden.

"We did our duty. We are not going to take money for it."

"Alright, then!" – his wife quickly amended. – "Maybe you would like to take a shower, rest and eat before you leave." – the woman said. Naruto almost fainted from the self control he was putting himself trough not to scream 'Yes, Yes!'. He looked at Sasuke pleadingly. Sasuke shook his head.

"Come on, Teme! We have time! They can help us set the baby. I don't know about you, but I can't take care of one now since I reek of blood."

"No." – the raven simply said.

"Come on, Teme! Please!"

"Dobe, stop it."

"Please ! Pleeeeeeeeeease! Pleeee-"

"Alright, alright! Sheesh, sometimes I swear I can't stand you."

"Yay! Thank you, Teme."

"We leave tonight, got it? And no arguments."

"Yes, sir!"

They took long baths and a nap. They had dinner.

After being properly rested, fed, cleaned and wearing cleaned clothes (They burned their vests as they did after each mission. They were uncleanable, Naruto's word.) the jounins join the family in the living room.

The same young maid who took the children to bed handed the baby girl with appropriated clothes, changed, fed and sleeping. Naruto hold her and put her in the makeshift carrier he was using. The child clutched his jacket and snuggled closer. The blond smiled affectionately. Unable to ignore such a loving sight, Sasuke put a hand on the other's shoulder.

"Is your biological clock ticking, dobe?"

"Shut up, Teme!" – the blond said a little flushed. – "We are going to take turns carrying her."

"Why, when you look so motherly?"

"I'm a man, you bastard."

"Not from where I stand, dead last."

"Whaaa? How can you say such a thing when I'm the most handsome, masculine, muscular, intelligent …" – and so on with many more complicated words, the blond kept praising himself beyond the moment when Sasuke forgot what they were talking about. Even the blond forgot his point. Eventually Sasuke smirked, enjoying the knowledge that Naruto was caressing the baby's covered head unconsciously. He would tease the blond at an appropriated time.

"You are also delusional."

"Yes, of cour- Hey! No I'm not! Teme!" – Sasuke chuckled.

"Yes, you are, dobe."

And off they went, bickering and bantering all the way to Konoha.


I was not born to do action scenes. It took me so long to finish it. Still I think i've done it okay. What do you think?

Their adventure with the baby it's only starting... Wait up to see how it goes.