When the morning finally came, Rido didn't bother waking Naruto. He wouldn't bother to get up anyway. Instead, she threw open the curtains and turned to leave, but just then something outside caught her eye. She stopped and looked back out into the blinding sunlit scenery, seeing nothing at first.

She shrugged and turned to leave again.

"Well, well, well, what do we have here?" A familiar voice chimed.

Rido spun around to meet the gaze of the same ninja who had tied her up before. The one Naruto had referred to as Kakashi-sensei. He was peering lazily through the exposed glass. His eyes switched from the sleeping Naruto to Rido and back again.

"Hello there," he said; only Rido couldn't tell whether he was smiling or not because of the mask that hid the lower half of his face. Was he being sarcastic?

Rido didn't say anything in return.

"Oh, not the talkative sort huh? Guess I should have realized that from before." He laughed childishly and then was serious. "What are you doing here?"

"I thought that Naruto told you I wasn't a spy. I'm just visiting."

Kakashi shook his head. "No, I mean what are you doing here, in Naruto's bedroom?"

Oh. OH!! Oooooooooh…She hadn't exactly thought of a good way to explain their living together yet. She hadn't thought that she was going to need to explain it. "Well, um. Uh, it's uh, um. You see…"

Kakashi cocked his head to one side, expectantly. "Hmm?"

"We're um, kind of err, living together."

Kakashi made a face that said if he was drinking something at that moment he would have definitely sprayed it all over the glass. "What?!"

Rido smiled innocently and shrugged. However, Kakashi didn't look amused. "What do you mean you're living together?"

"It's not like that. It's only because I don't have anywhere else to stay. Uzumaki-sama, I mean, Naruto, graciously offered to let me stay in his home. He was very kind to offer so I couldn't refuse."

Kakashi looked at Naruto who was practically fallen off his bed and snoring like a wildebeest. "Yeah, Naruto is kind. Well, I should be going. Sasuke is…well he's up to something. Unfortunately, whatever he's up to is my problem now. I can't just ignore it anymore."

"Sasuke? I heard Naruto say something about him before."

He nodded. "Naruto's friend-slash-rival. I guess he saw that something odd was going on too. However, it's not like Naruto not to care. I wouldn't be surprised if he decided to spy on him himself."

"Why would he go through all that trouble?" Rido asked, confused. "If this Sasuke is up to something than is it really Naruto's business to go trying to find out what it is?"

Kakashi shook his head and sighed. "He's a pretty determined kid. It's not in his nature just to give up on his friends….or rivals."

Rido glanced at Naruto again. He was starting to stir now. Kakashi looked up at her. "See you around." He said with a two-finger salute and then darted away.

"Mmmmm, Rido-chan? Is that you?"

Rido looked to see Naruto sitting up and wiping his eyes.

"Naruto, I was just leaving."

"Leaving? To where?"

"Oh, to go and visit the training grounds. I wanted to try and brush up on my training while I'm here." Please don't let him ask to come! Please! It's going to be hard enough trying to control the sentinel without an audience!!

But Naruto's face lit up. "You're going to train?! Can I come help you practice?"

Rido sighed internally but nodded.

"Yes! Let me get dressed."

Later as Rido stood in the center of the circular grounds, a raging river encircling half the circumference, Naruto sat on one of the tree stumps to watch. He was practically bouncing out of his own skin with excitement. "Come on Rido-chan! Hurry up!"

Rido ground her teeth hard and closed her eyes. As she was beginning to realize, Naruto could be unbearably irritating sometimes. She let out a slow breath trying to concentrate on her throwing. Okay, focus. Rido swiftly pulled out eight shuriken, held them between her fingers and then tossed both fistfuls inward at an angel toward each other. The metal met with eight audible chinks and then bounced off each other, spiraling into each bull's-eye with a soft thunk.

"Whoa!" Naruto gasped. "Whoa Rido-chan! You kick ass at targeting!"

Rido smiled in Naruto's direction.

She pulled out a kunai this time and held it at arms length in front of her. Then she let it drop before back flipping and kicking it directly into the shuriken she had just thrown, splitting the metal in two.

Naruto gaped in disbelief. "Impossible! How the hell did you do that Rido-chan?! That metal is supposed to with stand the largest amount of stress and you broke it with just one kick! That's not possible!"

Rido froze, cursing herself for over doing it. Was he suspicious?

"You're so awesome Rido-chan!!!! Can you teach me that? Huh? Can you, please?"

I guess not, Rido thought contentedly. "Okay, okay. I guess I could try to teach you, but it's not really something that can be taught."

Naruto looked stumped. "Huh? If it's not something that can be taught than who taught you Rido-chan? Didn't you have a sensei?"

"Um…yes. Of course, I had a sensei. But having an excellent target sight takes more than lessons and practice. It's a gift."

"Ooooooh. A gift." Naruto mumbled while nodding as if he understood perfectly.

The truth was, Rido's perfect ability to hit any, literally any, target, came half from her superior bloodline and half from the demon sentinel. The beast's third 'all-seeing-eye' was said to carry the ability to see directly into a person's soul. Rido had noticed immediately after having the beast imprisoned inside her that she had knowledge of the exact points that she needed to hit to nail a mark. Her mind automatically knew where to move to angel exactly to a specific point.

"So what can you teach me?" Naruto chimed in.

Rido thought this over. If he was really willing to work, and his personality proved he would, then she could teach him one thing….

"Okay. I'll teach you a Hidden Soul Village secret."

"Really?!! A secret?!"

"Yeah. All you need to do is promise me you won't tell anyone, and I'll teach you."

"I swear on my life I won't tell!!"

"Okay. I'll then teach you the divination jutsu."

"Divination? Divination jutsu?"

"Yup. It's heavily powerful jutsu that allows you to summon the essence of the god of light and of dark and utilize their power. But it's hard. Extremely hard. You'll need to learn an entirely new jutsu style, spirit style which is not an easy thing to learn."

"If this jutsu is as powerful as you say then I'll learn it! I'll master this jutsu in no time at all! Just you watch!!"

Rido smiled at his iron will. This kid was something else.

"Hey Rido?"

"What?"

"If I asked you to come with me on a …mission…would you come?"

"What kind of a mission?"

"Oh, just a little undercover mission."

There was a moment of heavy silence as Rido took in Naruto's words. "You're going to spy on Sasuke aren't you?" she asked dryly.

"Will you come?" Naruto saw no point in arguing.

Rido sighed at the task ahead of her. But she figured she owed Naruto anything he wanted considering she'd befriended him just to kill him. Even though he didn't know this sad fact yet and Rido no longer intended to hurt Naruto, she still felt she'd betrayed him and would do anything to make it up to him.

Rido also knew first hand that spying always lead straight to trouble. "Alright I'll go, but I'm warning you now, you might not like what you find."