It's half an hour till midnight, so I made my deadline! I didn't start typing this until about 7 or 8, with lots of distracted breaks...I really need to fix my procrastination problem...

Hopefully this is better than the first version of Chapter 11 which I now believe was complete crap. In fact, reading through my story I'm surprised I have as many followers as I do, but nonetheless I'm very thankful to all of you!

So, without further ado, I present Chapter 11 Version 2.0!

Naruto closed Gaara's door, still a bit pink in the face. He took a deep breath and tried to calm his tingling nerves. He had probably over reacted, but it was so unexpected! For Gaara to suddenly jump him and start nibbling like he was a piece of meat and then kiss him was more like a joke. Perhaps if Gaara had a sense of humor he might have assumed it was one and laughed instead of running out the door, but humor and Gaara mixed as well as oil and water. Hell, those two words didn't even sound right in the same sentence.

'Well, whatever. Gaara was drunk. He probably won't even remember in the morning.' He cracked open Gaara's door and peered in to see how he was doing. Seeing as Gaara was sleeping where Naruto had left him, he figured there wasn't much else to do for him. Naruto's mood lightened and he hummed a tune in his head as he headed back to the dinner.

The sun had set outside and a worker passed Naruto with a respectful nod, lighting lanterns as he went. Naruto found a nearby pair of Jounin and informed them that Gaara was in his chamber and asked if they could guard his door for the night. They agreed, leaving Naruto on his own.

He quickly returned to the dinner and was assaulted by the smell of food and his sensitive nose picked out the smell of sweat underneath perfume. He wrinkled his nose and slid into his seat next to Kana.

"You forgot to tell me that the Kazekage has a bit of a problem after drinking." He told her, picking out some food from platters and putting it on his plate.

"Did I? Do tell about what happened." She said with a fake air of innocence, a grin playing at her lips.

"The Kazekage seemed to mistake me for treat until I managed to escape." He glared at her out of the corner of his eyes. Kana laughed and reached for a cup of sake.

"Yea, I could've told ya, but it's just so much more amusing this way, ne? Hey, let me take ya drinking tonight as an apology!" Kana grinned at him and swirled her cup. Naruto frowned. He wasn't a huge fan of alcohol. He never got a hangover nor was he drunk for long (probably due to Kyuubi), but the taste of it always took some getting used to.

"Well, maybe…" Kana apparently took that for a yes because she downed the rest of her cup and grinned even wider, showing sharper-than-average canines.

"Great! I know the perfect place where we can go. I'll take ya there right after this!"

Naruto shook his head with a small smile. She was incorrigible. "Fine. You win."

=^v^=

Sasuke woke up to a throbbing pain in his side. He clenched his teeth and sat up, resting a hand over the wound as though that might ease the pain. He looked at and clicked his tongue in annoyance. Did she really have to cut him so deeply? The damn cut made him pass out in front of someone! Well, only Naruto had seen it so it didn't matter much, but still, he would teach her a small lesson next time he saw her. No one got with hurting him like that, even if he had been the one to come up with the plan.

Sasuke focused his chakra to his hands and soon pale green chakra covered them. By hovering them over the cut, it slowly began to mend its self until not even a scar remained. It took a while, and incredible chakra control, but there wasn't much else for Sasuke to do at the moment. Until his mission was completed, he was stuck by Naruto's side. Just thinking of the blonde made him smirk. Even if he had attempted a 180 degree change in his style and personality, he was still an idiot to Sasuke.

However, maybe he wasn't as stupid as he had originally thought since he had managed to fool everyone. Sasuke had been listening in on conversations around Suna to try and figure out what Naruto was up to. It hadn't been difficult to do, pretty easy actually. By using his Mangekyo, he could make their eyes perceive him as something else while their minds registered his chakra signature as someone else's or simply didn't register it at all. He generally chose the form of an animal because people might stop talking if someone else came near, though he would never assume the form of something powerless, like a rodent or song bird. An Uchiha would never be caught in a moment of weakness.

He had learned from listening that Naruto, otherwise known as 'Kurai', was an ambassador from Konoha. Naruto didn't plan for his role all that well, he noted. He was obviously too young to be taken seriously, he was about nineteen or twenty by now, and whoever had chosen his outfit had picked something bound to receive attention. Naruto probably hadn't trained for playing an ambassador either, and sooner or later his cool façade was bound to crack. Sasuke gave a short, cold laugh. No, Naruto was still as dim as he remembered.

Still, Naruto's current look wasn't bad. In fact, it might be considered good, which made Sasuke's mission easier. His old look was better though. Well, whatever. He had done this before with worse partners. All he had to do was make Naruto irreversibly attached to him. Naruto was already pretty attached, but it wasn't enough. Sasuke planned to make him so dependent on him that he would follow him anywhere he asked, down any path, no matter how dark. If he could also bring the Kyuubi over to his side, then he would have a deadly weapon,.

A dark smirk spread over Sasuke's lips. Once he caught Naruto, he could take his revenge to even greater lengths. Naruto's precious friends would be devastated when they saw what Sasuke had turned him into. Oh yes. Sasuke would have fun with the blond, but first, to catch the little kit. He knew how to do it. It would take time, but Naruto would become tied to him.

He would make Naruto fall for him. He would fall so hard that he would never be able to get back up. Once Naruto looked only at him, he could warp his mind into a darker state. The Kyuubi would probably help him out there. After all, if Naruto was more evil, like Sasuke, then he would be a lot more willing to embrace the Kyuubi's terrific power. Sasuke planned to start when Naruto next stepped through the door.

He would get Naruto to sleep with him, and along with some wooing, the blond would slowly come to him. Sasuke told Kana to get Naruto drunk. That would surely help.

It was perfect. Nobody could get in his way now.

Yes, shortest chapter yet, but I believed this was the best place to leave it 'cuz I'm sadistic like that.

I really don't know where I'm going with this story. I just write it, then rewrite most of it, stare at the screen blankly trying to figure it out, and then rewrite some more.

Until next time, HeiLong-Kun!(yes, I changed it from RyuuOokami to HeiLong) :3