Scarlet walked quietly down the market. It has been about a week or two since the Hokage's funeral and she was still quite sad about it. Although he left her his summoning Enma which she was happy about. Yue and Kero had been training her with the summoning jutsu for a while. She was still a bit slow on summoning Enma fully. The first time was just pure luck.

"SCARLET!"

She grunted when she felt a force knock her down face down on the ground. She lifted her head up and spat out the dirt "Naruto! Get. Off. Of. ME!" she yelled. Naruto sheepishly giggled and got up off the girl. Scarlet got up herself "Need something buddy?" she asked.

"Well I wanted to know if you wanted to get some ramen with me? Kakashi sensei's been training Sasuke lately and I'm bored" he explained.

Scarlet smiled "race ya to the ramen stand!" she yelled bolting off. Naruto ran after her shouting "NO FAIR!"

(outside Konoha)

Two figuires in black cloaks with red clouds stood on a hill giving a full view of the village "are you sure he's here?" the tall one asked. The short one nodded "yes I am sure"

"Don't you feel anything about returning to your former home?" the tall one asked again. The short one lifted his hat slightly revealing the eyes of the sharringan "no…I don't"

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A bowl of ramen later and Scarlet was already full up however Naruto just kept going. He had already had five bowls.

"How you eat all that I'll never know" she mumbled.

"well well! Lookie here" a voice boomed. Scarlet turned her head recognising the voice. Naruto turned with some noodles in his mouth. At the entrance came the number one perve Jiraiya.

"It looks like you do eat nothing but ramen!" he said. Scarlet giggled while Naruto frowned "what do ya want pervy sage" he asked stubbornly. Jiraiya just smiled "I came to ask if you wanted to accompany me on a little mission"

Naruto turned away "why should I?" he said. Jiraiya shrugged and began to leave "oh well then. I guess I could ask Sasuke and teach him an awesome new jutsu" he said. Naruto was instantly on his feet "Ha! Wait! Wait! New jutsu? I'll go!" he said frantically. Scarlet rolled her eyes. There was no way that Naruto would let Sasuke learn the Rasangan. She mentally zipped her mouth so she wouldn't give anything away, Naruto had to figure it out on his own.

"You Scarlet Kotare right?" Jiraiya suddenly asked. Scarlet nodded "yup!" she said with a grin. Jiraiya smiled at her "I hear that there maybe some of your cards are somewhere in different towns. Care to tag along to see if you can find any?" he asked. Scarlet nodded enthusiastically "yeah! Just let me get some things packed!" she said running away. Naruto grinned `at least I'll learn a new cool and improved jutsu!` he thought, fantasizing about finally beating Sasuke.

"Heres your bill" Ayame said. Naruto looked at his bill and found that it was a bill for six bowls…but he only had five. It finally clicked

"she left me to pay her bill!" he yelled.

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Sasuke leaned against the wall waiting for Kakashi to train him. He began to think of Scarlet. `Yue has been training her a lot since she got Enma from the Hokage. Everyday she's getting stronger` he thought. He was pleased that she was getting gradually stronger but there was still the matter of capturing the rest of the cards.

He heard running foot steps and spotted the very girl running with a bag on her back. "Scarlet!…" Sasuke yelled. Scarlet immediately skidded to a halt "did I hear my name being mentioned?" she said. Sasuke chuckled "over here Scarlet." he called. The card captor skipped over to him "Hi Sasuke" she greeted.

"Where you off too?" he asked pointing to the bag on her back. Scarlet grinned "I'm goin on a mission with Naruto so that means there might be a card or two on the way since all of them aren't here" she explained.

Sasuke frowned "you sure that's a good idea? Who else is going?" he asked

"Naruto's teacher. His names Jiraiya. He's a bit of a perve but you know I can punch his lights out" she said punching her fist. Sasuke chuckled again "okay just b careful ok." he warned.

Scarlet blushed `wow he really does care about me. Ah! Don't blush he'll notice!`

She smiled and waved while running.

Sasuke let a small smile stretch on his face.

"Well Sasuke you ready?" Kakashi asked popping up beside him. Sasuke frowned at the shop "lets go somewhere else. I don't like sweets" he said. Kakashi sighed "ok lets go then"

Sasuke walked away but Kakashi stayed put noticing that the two people sitting in the café disappeared without touching their tea. He narrowed his eyes "Sasuke I'll meet up with you later. There's something I gotta do" he said and quickly poofed away.

Sasuke stared at the spot where he disappeared "what's up with him?" he mumbled