Fourth chappie ready to roll!!! Please be seated at all times. Our trip might get a little cute, and there's a 100% chance of SasuNaru, but please dont panic. If you can't stay calm, please keep you squeals to an indoor volume. Thank-you again for flying with Dark Angel. Enjoy!

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Chapter 04: I'm Home...

"What was the hold up Sasuke?" Kakashi said as he, Sasuke, and Sakura ran through the trees, the snow crunched beneath their feet.

"Sorry... I had to take care of something..." Sasuke said in apologetic tone. Kakashi said nothing more, which Sasuke appreciated. The raven glanced at his pink haired swordsmate. Sakura's eyes were red and puffy, and there was dark circled under her eyes. Sasuke couldn't remember the last time he's seen Sakura in such low spirits. Even though he didn't like her much, Sasuke didn't like to see Sakura so depressed.

"Kakashi!"

Sasuke, along with the other two, stopped and looked back to see Shikamaru and Shino running towards them, along with their assistants, Kiba and Ino.

"Yo..." Kakashi greeted as they stopped in front of them.

"We heard about Kai.... We're sorry about your loss...." Shino said in his monotone voice. Sasuke stared at the ground, while Sakura sniffed.

"We are too.... But I doubt Kai would want us to mope around like this..." Kakashi said.

"Yeah! He'd probably be yelling at you guys to go kick some butt for him!!" Kiba said with a grin.

"Kiba..." Shino warnered, making Kiba shut his mouth and murmer a small 'sorry'. Kakashi's only visible eye arched. Sasuke never knew what happened to his swordsmaster... He's known him wearing a mask and an eye patch all his life. Rumors say he lost his eye to a tiger that was set as a trap from an opposing village, but those were just rumors he's heard.

"No... Young Kiba is right... Kai would be yelling at us right about now.... So lets not disappoint him, ne..." Kakashi said, glancing at Sasuke and Sakura. Sakura smiled weakly while Sasuke couldn't help but smirk. They were right. He could pretty much imagine his dark haired swordsmate yelling at him to stop wasting time and go kill them.

'Avenge me damnit!!! I didn't die for you to just weep over my dead body!!!'

Something like that.... Sasuke's smirk saddened as he clenched his fists.

'Don't worry Kai... I will avenge you....' Sasuke thought, his smirk gone, replaced by a dark expression.

"How troublesome... Are we gonna stand here all day or what?" Shikamaru drawled. Kakashi chuckled.

"No.... lets get moving...." Kakashi said, and with that, the swordsmen began to run again. Sasuke ran right behind Kakashi. He wanted to be near the front of the line... He wanted to be one of the first to attack... He wanted to kill the man who killed Kai. Sasuke glared at nothing, as he thought of who could possibly have killed a skilled swordsman like Kai? It didn't really matter did it? Who ever it was, they were going down. Sasuke will make sure they do...

"Stop." Kakashi whispered suddenly as he stopped and crouched behind some bushes. The rest followed his example, and peeked through the bushes silently. They were at the river that served as a border between the two countires. Sasuke scanned the river bank and spotted, along with everyone else, a group of men were gathered around a fire on their side of the river.

"Lets get a bit closer..." Kakashi whsipered, jerking his head to the right. The others nodded and they all silently crept to a few bushes not far from where they were, and close to the unwelcome party.

"Why did we have to come out here?! Why couldn't they have sent Jugo to do the job!? Or maybe even Kimimaru!" the group heard one of them speak, a young man with silver hair, turquoise eyes, and sharp teeth.

"Ah stop complaining Suigetsu! You're the one who was dieing for some action!" another said, a woman with red-pink hair and glasses.

"Speaking of action...that really was not neccassary, Karin...." a man with silver hair and glasses said.

"Tch, that boy had it coming! He should have never interfered," the girl named as Karin said. Sasuke's eyes narrowed angrily and dangerously. So she was the one... Karin... She was the one who killed Kai? Or maybe they were talking about someone else....maybe they didn't even kill, they could've just knocked them out... maybe.... possibly... The one known as Suigetsu snorted.

"Way to keep undercover, now everyone will surely know that we're here!" he said, clapping. "Congratgulations Karin! For failing us like always!"

"Why you!!!!"

"Suigetsu is right! You should've never killed that boy, Karin. We we're supposed to stay out of site in every possible way!" the glasses guy said.

"Shut it Kabuto! If I hadn't killed that annoying brat, he would've ran off telling the enemy all about us!!" Karin spat. Sasuke clutched the handle of his Katana tightly. Karin killed Kai...that was a definite. There was no doubt, especially since she just openly admited it. Sasuke grinded his teeth together. Karin killed Kai....she killed him....and for that she will pay....

"With her life.." Sasuke whispered as he jumped out of the bushes, unsheathing his katana. Sasuke wasn't really sure what happened in the next few seconds. He remembered, Karin's shocked and horrified expression. Kakashi shouting at him... He remember bringing his katana down and felt something warm splatter on his face, as well on the ground.... He remembered it started to snow...

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Naruto lay motionless in his futon, the sheets were up to his chin, his azure eyes clouded with worry. He wasn't sure how long he had been laying there doing nothing...probably hours... A lady had came to bring him food, like Sasuke had promised, thankfully he was under the sheets, so she never saw his winds... He had ate, and then laid there with his eyes closed, watching everything Sasha saw. He had opened his eyes about a while ago...stopped seeing through Sasha's eyes... He didn't want to see anymore of what Sasha was seeing... The last thing he saw was Sasuke jumping out from the bushes with his sword raised towards that girl and was bringing it down on her... Naruto opened his eyes just in time, but he couldn't get Sasuke's expression out of his mind. Sasuke was furious, you could clearly see it in his face, in his eyes. But you can also see the pain...especially in his eyes... Naruto didn't like that expression on Sasuke's pale features...a smile suits him better.

"Sasuke...." Naruto mumbled to himself, gripping the sheets tightly. Sasuke reminded him a lot of his friend... appearance and personality wise. Sai was always by his side, just like Sasuke when he was sick. Sai would always protect him, talk to him, make him feel at ease. Sasuke had that same affect on him... But then there was a day when Sai went away. Naruto waited and waited...but he still hasn't come back. Naruto missed him so much, it hurt his fragile heart to be so far from Sai... "That's why I have to leave.... I have to leave because Sai might've came back..."

Naruto closed his eyes, and he saw the cloudy sky above the roof. The same sky Sasuke...and Sai were under... He wondered why Sasha was looking up, but before he could ask her, she turned her hear head downwards abruptly. Naruto's eyes snapped open immediately, a horrified expression on his face. He really did not want to see that...but there's no hope now, because he already did. Sasuke was covered in blood...and he was being held back by a silver haired man and man with a ponytail. There had been a dead body in front of Sasuke and his friends. It was horribly disfigured, that Naruto could hardly believe it was that girl from the other team with glasses only a while ago. Naruto hesitantly closed his eyes again. Sasha was seeing the scene from the side... There were two opposing people; both had silver hair, but one had glasses and the other looked rather shark-ish. By the looks of it, the guys with the glasses was horrified, while the other was just surprised. Sasuke was yelling at them, and was trying to get at them, but his two swordsmate wouldn't let them. Then everything became a blur, meaning Sasha was relocating herself. When things became clear, Naruto realized that Sasha relocated herself behind the enemy and facing Sasuke. From this angle, Naruto could see all the anger and pain in Sasuke's face. Naruto winced, but didn't open his eyes. The glasses man was now yelling back at Sasuke, while the shark guy stood there boredly. Didn't he care that his teammate was just killed?!

Naruto wasn't the only one disturbed by this. The glasses man began yelling at the shark guy, probably asking him if he cared about the death of their teammate. Shark dude only shrugged and said some simple word...probably no... Naruto hated people like that. That they didn't care about their teammates, or anyone for that matter... Sasuke seemed to be on the same boat, cuz he struggled harder against his teammates. The dark haired man, holding Sasuke back said something to him, making Sasuke stop strugling, but he looked to be in worse pain. Then suddenly, Sasuke turned his head just slightly and Naruto found himself staring into pained dark eyes. At first they contained pain...pain that made Naruto's heart twist, but then they became wide from shock and surprise. Naruto came to one conclusion...Sasuke saw Sasha.

The shark guy, from the corner of Naruto's eyes, said something before he suddenly lunged with a huge sword in hand towards Sasuke and the others. Naruto felt his heart skip a beat.

'No.... Don't!' Naruto screamed. Everything became a blur again, but he saw flashes of things... Like Sasuke's horrified expression. The shark boy's, confused and shocked look in his eyes. But Naruto didn't know what was happening.

"Wh-what are you doing Sasha!?!" Naruto asked in a panicky voice. The great thing about their communication was that no matter how far, they can always hear each other.

I just knocked the boy away from Sasuke, no big deal.

"A-Are you visible?" Naruto asked, relief swept over him, but fear still gripped his heart.

Of course not! Minus Sasuke, everyone right now is wondering what just happened. Heh, the boy here is wondering what pushed him away.

"That's a relief..." Naruto mumbled, as he watched the shark boy yell at Sasuke. But Naruto could tell Sasuke wasn't listening, mostly by the expression he was sending towards Sasha. But then, his face became absolutely blank, and he turned towards the two silver haired enemies. Sasuke said something, and his teammates let go of him, staring at him wearily. Naruto watched as Sasuke picked his katana, which the blonde didn't realize was on the ground till now. Naruto flinched slightly when he saw all the blood that coated the sword. Sasuke didn't seem to care as he turned to his enemies and began to talk.

Sasuke is arresting them for tresspassing and murder...

"Is that good?" Naruto asked wearily.

Better than trying to kill them like he did to the female.

"A-ah...." Naruto agreed. When Sasuke finished talking, the shark guy began to yell but then two of Sasuke's swordmates suddenly appeared behind him and pressed their katana's to his neck, another two did the same with the glasses guy. Naruto notticed that Sasha got closer to Sasuke till she was right by him, looking up at him. Naruto notticed Sasuke's eyes flicker to her for a split second before he spoke with the masked silver haired man on his team. And with that, Sasuke's teammates began to shove their prisoners away, leaving Sasuke alone...with Sasha. Naruto's heart pounded as Sasuke met Sasha's eyes and said one single word that Naruto could actually understand.

"Thank-you."

Naruto opened his eyes, his face warm and his heart pounding as he stared at the wall of Sasuke's room. Even though he might've been telling Sasha thank-you, he felt so happy...

"He's alive....that's why..." Naruto mumbled with a smile as he closed his again...this time to sleep, his dark wings slowly disappeared.

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Sasuke tiredly opened the door to his house and stepped in, Sasha following after him. Snow dripped off him and he gave a weary sigh. After killing Karin, his teammates held him back before he could try to kill the other two. Sasuke could have, and would have killed them if it weren't for his teammates...and Sasha. When he saw Sasha, he had immediately snapped back to his sences and had felt a bit numb when he realized what he had done and tried to do as well. His mind became numb when he saw Sasha push Suigetsu away, and no one had seen Sasha... He was glad he arrested those two instead of killing them. That would have caused problems. But then again, he was in for a long lecture from the Empress when she found out about his kill.

Sasuke sighed and glanced at Sasha, who was staring at him with her red eyes, her tails swishing a bit. Naruto was in for a lot of questions. Sasuke's eyes widened.

"Naruto..." Sasuke whispered as he then ran over to his room. If Sasha left Naruto alone, it must've been for a reason! Maybe something horrible happened to the blonde and Sasha was only trying to get him to come home immediately. Sasuke slid the doors open quite loudly...only to find Naruto asleep. Sasuke glanced around saw an empty trey of food right by the sleeping blonde. Sasuke's stance relaxed as he stared at the blonde. Saddly, that loud bang of the door, disrupted Naruto's dream and the blonde began to stir. Sasuke stood there, feeling guilty for waking the blonde, as Naruto slowly opened his sleepy eyes, and glanced at the raven. But right when seeing the raven, Naruto's face broke into a bright smile.

"Welcome home!" Naruto greeted happily, as he sat up and yawned. Sasuke's face went slightly pink as the raven stared at the smiling blonde. That smile, he had never seen before, at least not towards him...

"I'm home..." Sasuke said softly, as he smiled warmly...happily. Naruto blushed at Sasuke's smile, but continued to smile nontheless.

"Kyuuu." Sasha yapped as she briskly walked by Sasuke and jumped onto Naruto's lap, greeting the blonde with a small lick on the face. Sasuke's smile slowly disappeared as he watched Sasha and Naruto. Naruto really was in for a lot of questions....

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