Ahhhh! It's here! What you've all (hopefully) been waiting for! Chapter four, Yay! Sorry it took long, I promise the next one will be out sooner! I really appreciate all the views I've been getting and also some reviews that made me really happy! Like seriously I was in my bed crying tears of joy for my first review ever and follower! So I hope you enjoy this chapter, OK on with the story!.

Sasuke's eyes fluttered open as the morning light rested upon his sleeping figure, slowly sitting up he gave a yawn and a stretch before looking at the other bed, which was completely empty, he knew that the Dobe would never wake up before him so he must have not went to bed last night. Sighing, he shook his head at the blonde's stupidity, Probably got distracted by a fly and ran after it into the night, Sasuke thought, smirking to himself at the insulting thought. He swung his legs over the bed side and stood up stretching his tired muscles once again as he began to get dress, putting on his usual clothing. After getting dressed and having a wash, he made his way through the corridor and down the stairs, passing the main reception he picked up one of the free fruits available and took a bite out of the apple, he continued to make his way to the library ,when he arrived he leaned on the wide doorway and took in the sight before him. Sakura and Naruto had bags under their eyes and were leaning back in the chairs covered by papers, with eyes half lidded and tired, he could see that they were still as if in a comatose state, pale in colour they barely moved and honestly looked something like zombies. Kakashi was...well Kakashi...still looking as normal as ever still reading his Icha Icha like no energy was taken from him, he looked up and gave Sasuke a nod of acknowledgement, before going back to his book which he happily continued to read. Sasuke looked back at Naruto and Sakura and raised his eyebrow.

"Long night, huh?" Sasuke said taking another bite from his apple as Naruto and Sakura made some kind of groan in response, Sasuke looked back at Kakashi who watched his students lay lifeless and sighed quietly.

"They've been at it all night without much progress" Kakashi informed Sasuke who was looking at the two pitifully as he saw how they couldn't tell left from right at the moment and would be surprised if they knew their own names, he figured that they needed to be brought back to life or they would be useless, Well more than usual...

"We should probably get some energy in them, before we start working on the case again." Sasuke suggested watching the two sprawled out and sighing at their lace of dignity, did Naruto even possess dignity? Sasuke doubted it.

"I'll take Sakura, you take Naruto" Kakashi answered gaining a nod in agreement from Sasuke, Sasuke looked at the Dobe and sighed, he knew there was only one thing that could spark the blonde's infamous energy, to give him what was considered heaven sent to Naruto.

"Oi Dobe, let's go get ramen, my treat" Sasuke told Naruto, even though he detested the cheap food, it would bring a smile to Naruto's face and refresh him for doing the mission, Naruto suddenly came to life and jumped out of his seat in excitement and eyes sparkled with hunger and happiness, Sasuke rolled his eyes and beckoned Naruto to follow, which he did happily hopping after Sasuke. Kakashi chuckled and looked at Sakura who was still in her dead state, he held up a lilac coloured book, which had a little heart shaped gold lock, which could be picked by a 5 year old, clearing his voice he stated.

"I have Hinata's diary and the key" That had gained her attention, she suddenly leaped from her chair and jumped for diary and the little gold key, holding the two items her eyes widened and filled with magic as she caressed the precious objects with sparkles surrounding her as she giggled almost evilly. That got her attention alright... Kakashi thought as he cautiously watched the woman mumble to herself with glee.

Naruto was hopping after Sasuke who was thoroughly annoyed with the blonde's excitement already, Sasuke suddenly stopped to look at the map and Naruto bumped into him causing Sasuke to whip his head round in anger to glare at Naruto who jumped away, not wanting to piss him off in case he didn't get his ramen and if that means not arguing with the cold bastard, then he would make sacrifices. Sasuke turned his head back to the map to try to find some kind of place that would sell ramen, he maybe a cruel boy, but a boy who kept his word. Sighing as he might not be able to find a place, Naruto suddenly rested his forehead on Sasuke, causing Sasuke to stiffen and look up in shock. Naruto didn't seem to be moving any time soon and Sasuke was freaking out on the inside with the unfamiliar contact.

"What are you doing?" Sasuke asked sternly as he didn't even turn to look at Naruto, who still was in place on Sasuke's shoulder, Sasuke cleared his throat to try and gain the idiot's attention since it was less violent then stabbing him in the head with a kunai.

"Huh? Wha...?" Naruto said dazed as he opened his eyes as he felt the result of not sleeping all night begin to effect him, and honestly he just needed to close his eyes just for a moment and as he lifted his head he put it back down on something, it was some kind of cotton fabric, but at the side of it was something really really soft and it tickled his face a bit, he also inhaled the scent, but he naturally had a heightened sense of smell, not as amazing Kiba's but it was impressive for a human, what he smelt was vanilla, it was sweet but not overpowering like some of the nasty perfumes he's smelt before, but this god damn scent was intoxicating as well as vanilla, he smelled something more vibrant, like wild berries it was fruity and fresh, both smells were a contrast, but they melded together to create such a addicting scent that Naruto was slowly getting drunk off, Mmmm tasty... Naruto was about to take a nip of the heavenly scented object when he heard a noise that sounded like someone talking, but it was muffled since Naruto wasn't in the most 'ears open' state, another noise was made before he felt a whack on his head, bringing him back to reality, he suddenly stood straight and whipped his head around for the offending assaulter, he saw no one but one annoyed Uchiha giving him a glare. It took Naruto a few moments to realize that it was in fact Sasuke who hit him and gave him a pouting look, but Sasuke shook his head disapprovingly and tsked at his childish behaviour.

"Dobe, don't fall asleep on me, I'm not your damn pillow so stay awake or you can get your own stupid ramen" Sasuke said turning on his heel and walking on into the main place for food shops, Naruto followed behind and growled.

"Teme! Don't you call ramen stupid!" Naruto barked back huffing away until another thing hit him as he followed Sasuke, That was Sasuke's scent... Naruto blinked in surprise as he realized that he had been breathing in Sasuke's smell, he felt a light blush go across his cheeks as he remembered the way he had described it. S-Sasuke's scent is not tasty at all!, I want to eat ramen not Sasuke!... Naruto thought as he was wide awake now and was not gonna fall asleep again, like ever, he would glue his eyes open if it prevents something as horrific as that to happen or maybe him not sleeping was the problem, yeah that was it! His mind was saying crazy things because he was tired! There problem solved, eat all the ramen he can and go to sleep, done!. Happy with the plan to eat his heart out then to sleep it out, he happily continued to follow Sasuke who had found a place. After walking in and ordering, Sasuke winced at the 8 bowls of ramen being destroyed by Naruto as he sat in amazement, I mean Sasuke seen him eat even more before he just never gave it any attention or thought, but when you actually watch the ramen-eating machine go at it, you wouldn't be able to deny it was eye-catching and certainly others in the place thought so too as they watched Naruto eat away oblivious to the attention he was receiving. Naruto had a mouth full of ramen when he glanced up at Sasuke and blinked.

"Wut?" Naruto said temporarily stopping as he saw the way Sasuke was watching him, it was a mix between disgust and wonder, Sasuke just stayed silent for a while before tearing his eyes away shaking his head.

"Nothing, go back to destroying your food, Dobe" Sasuke stated turning his attention to what was going outside, which was hardly interesting, but was better than watching the blonde dobe wonder. After Naruto merrily finished his ramen, he was grinning at the food, before letting his head slam on the table causing Sasuke to jumped slightly, Sasuke looked at Naruto annoyed before curiosity took over and he sighed.

"What?" Sasuke asked plainly looking at Naruto give a sigh of his own, but sounding more like a dread-filled groan.

"This case is already getting to me, I kick butt! Not find it, damn it!" Naruto exclaimed, head still on table, Sasuke shook his head, but he did agree with the idiot for once, they were ninjas, not detectives, but this still is a mission that they need to complete regardless if they wanted to do it or not.

"Alright, just get the layout of the bank out, we'll look over this together" Sasuke instructed Naruto who perked up and quickly got out the layout out, grateful for the help. Laying the large paper across the table, they both leaned over the table and analysed the layout of the bank, Naruto sighed and motioned towards the entrance on the layout.

"This is the main entrance, but the witnesses said they didn't come through here." Naruto explained, Sasuke nodded and thought about other possible entrances.

"Let's look at the other possible routes then, how about the emergency exit?" Sasuke asked looking back up from the layout.

"The fire alarm would have gone off if it had, and there were no reports of anything going off." Naruto answered, Sasuke looked back down.

"What about the ventilation system? That wouldn't set anything off." Sasuke asked again, but Naruto shook his head as if he had already been over this.

"Sakura thought so too, but she found out that the closest vent is 30 feet in the air and also it's too small to climb through" Naruto replied running his hand through his hair, gaining the attention of a few passing girls, who giggled and looked at Naruto salaciously, Sasuke rolled his eyes at the annoying behaviour, he looked at Naruto and internally shook his head. He doesn't even notice all the attention, even when we're in Konoha...

"It's amazing how oblivious you can be" Sasuke said out of the blue making the blonde look up confused, Naruto looked at the giggling girls making them blush and raised an eyebrow at Sasuke and turned his head back to the layout.

"I'm not that dense, ya know" Naruto explained going over the layout again without even looking back up at Sasuke as he answered, if he did he would have seen Sasuke surprised and having a light blush go over his face in embarrassment for assuming that Naruto was too stupid to see the attention that he was getting and also because like he said before when Naruto acts serious, he becomes a bit of a mess. Naruto was too focused and tired to be the hyperactive moron he usually was, so something like arguing with Sasuke was too much trouble, even for him.

"It would be helpful if we knew how they got in the bank without being noticed in the first place, but since the staff were blindfolded before they saw them and the one witness statement we have says they didn't pay them much attention, we are pretty screwed on this one, any input on how we should fail this, I was thinking going out in a blaze of glory kinda thing" Naruto voiced, putting face in hand and looked at Sasuke who was still processing the fact that Naruto isn't the densest person alive or ever lived. Sasuke blinked and looked blankly at Naruto, who motioned his hand for Sasuke to say something.

"S-Stop being such a drama queen and let's just go over what happened, well what we've been told." Sasuke stuttered, leaning back into a more comfortable position, Naruto followed suit and leaned back as well. "Alright then, so three men enter somehow without being noticed, they tie and blindfold the staff, grab the money and leave without raising any flags, how do you pull that off?."

"You forgot the part where a group of ninjas come along and flap about because they have no idea what they are doing." Naruto replied pessimistically, Sasuke almost laughed at his out of character comment, almost. Though it wasn't Naruto's fault that he was acting like this, since he was tired and probably annoyed with the mind messing case. Sasuke was about to say something when suddenly the two girls from before sat in the booth with them, still giggling like imbeciles. Annoyed at the sudden intrusion, Sasuke glared at the girls, but they didn't notice it as the perky brunette leaned towards Naruto and battered her thick lashes pouting her lips a bit, though Sasuke was completely uninterested in the girl and girls altogether he had to admit that it was an attractive technique to use. Naruto blinked, but smiled politely towards the girls, the girl brunette began to talk to him as Naruto responded. Sasuke's blood was boiling as the girl next to him shifted nearer, she had short spunky blue hair, she had emerald green eyes that had a mischievous look in them, she didn't look like the typical kind of girl that came up to Sasuke, but hey, she was probably annoying just like the rest. She leaned closer into Sasuke's ear and Sasuke expecting something flirty and stupid was surprised by what he heard.

"I'll get straight to the point, I'm meant to be here to distract you while my friend makes good with yours, so don't worry, I'm not interested." The girl said leaning back, Sasuke turned his head towards her surprised as she smirked playfully. Suddenly two two across from them got up.

"Hey Jen! We're just going over to the bar, k? Come on!" The brunette squealed pulling Naruto by the hand as both skipped over to the bar and began to talk. Sasuke shook his head as he saw the blonde laugh with the girl, Baka... The girl next to Sasuke chuckled and looked back over at Sasuke.

"Your friend into airheads?" She asked putting one knee to her chest watching the two converse, Sasuke followed her gaze and put his face in hand.

"He is an airhead" Sasuke replied causing the girl to laugh and turn her head back to him.

"Well then it match made in heaven!"

"By a retarded angel" Sasuke responded sarcastically, making the girl laugh, and for some reason making Sasuke give a tiny smile, she looked at Sasuke for a moment before outstretching her hand.

"I'm Jenny, but call me Jen" The girl said with her hand still in position for a handshake, Sasuke looked at the hand without moving making the girl roll her eyes. "Hey dude, it's just a handshake, not asking you to marry me" Jen said, Sasuke looked at her and cautiously shook the hand.

"Sasuke..." Sasuke mumbled, not happy with giving his name away so easily, I mean she could be a spy in the form of a cute girl that was there to take away the one kunai he had. What? It could happen. Sasuke put his suspicions aside for a moment, and eyed the girl who gave him a smirk, Sasuke took a sip from his drink while still watching the girl.

"So how long you two been together?" Jen asked resting her hands behind her head as she let herself be entertained as Sasuke choked on his water and coughed violently, composing himself after pounding on his chest, he glared at the girl who was smirking evilly.

"We're not together" Sasuke answered hoarsely, his throat burning slightly from the coughing, the girl closed her eyes and continued to smirk.

"If you say so" Jen joked, snuggling into her seat, not really caring if she fell asleep or not, she was care-free like that, Sasuke looked at her annoyed.

"We're friends"

"Hot"

"Not those kind of friends!" Sasuke said blushing furiously, he sighed as the girl seemed to go off into her own world, he looked out the window and forced himself to calm down. She's almost as bad as Sai... After a few more minutes, the duo walked over from the bar and the brunette grabbed Jenny. She waved enthusiastically to both boys and giggled a bit more.

"Hee Hee!, Hope to see you guys again! Come on Jen, there's a sale on open-toed shoes" The brunette squealed, while Jenny scratched the back of her head and was dizzy from being woken up and pulled on her feet so suddenly. She looked at her energy filled friend and sighed.

"I can barely contain my excitement, hey if we're lucky we might find some dignity" Jenny responded sarcastically as she rolled her eyes, but this didn't damper her friend's mood as she pulled her away giving another wave to the boys. Naruto sat down and chuckled as Sasuke watched the girls go, They're complete opposites...

"Luna was really nice!" Naruto exclaimed smiling as Sasuke looked unimpressed and uninterested, he looked out the window and saw Luna dragging Jenny down the road in a rush.

"I think I found Sai's soul mate" Sasuke mumbled as he remembered what the girl had been implying, Naruto raised his eyebrow at the comment and was about to ask why when suddenly the device beeped gaining both their attention. Sasuke pulled out the small blue device and pressed the button.

"Remember to go talk to the last witness, while me and Kakashi work on the security system's time line"

They recognised the voice to be Sakura's, Naruto thought nothing of it before he remembered that the man knew Sasuke's mother, he looked up at Sasuke who stared blankly at the device, before standing up and putting the money down on the table.

"Sasuke are you-"

"Let's go" Sasuke interrupted walking pass Naruto who quickly grabbed his things and set off after Sasuke, though he was still concerned, he knew that if Sasuke didn't want to talk about it, there was nothing he could do until it was last resort to talk to him. The entire walk was silent as Naruto didn't know what to say or what to do, he occasionally glanced over to Sasuke who didn't seem to be acting out of character, Naruto still felt weird though, he was about to finally say something, when Sasuke had beat him to it. "There it is" Sasuke stated, stopping as the top shop shack came into view, Naruto looked forwards before looking back at Sasuke. Naruto knew that he couldn't tackle Sasuke's emotions head on, that would be the equivalent of a hunter running at his prey, it just doesn't work that way. Sasuke would just shut him out like he usually did, he'd have to slowly work up to it, many years of Sasuke turning his back on him in frustration had taught him that. So Naruto racked his head for a second, before coming up with an idea.

"So what was in the box?" Naruto asked innocently, trying to lure Sasuke into a conversation, but he would do it slowly as he didn't want to be scorned by the boy, Sasuke averted his gaze, even though they were both looking and walking forward.

"I don't know" Sasuke mumbled while Naruto raised his eyebrows in confusion.

"What do you mean?, Like you don't know what it is? Well have you ever seen it before, was it like some kind of-"

"I don't know, because I haven't looked"

"I mean it could be-Wait! What? Why not?" Naruto questioned stopping in his tracks and he jumped in front of Sasuke, who once again averted his eyes. "Sasuke?..."

"I'll get around it, but... for now let's concentrate on the mission" Sasuke said, in avoiding the question, he stepped past Naruto who sighed and shrugged, he followed Sasuke into the shack as he heard a hearty laugh.

"Hey, lookie here! It's Sasuke and Barbie, heh heh, what can I do for ya, oh right the bank robbery! Here I saved ya some time and wrote down what I know" Tao said while handing them a scrappy piece of paper with scribbles written all over, Sasuke took the paper, giving it a look put it in his back pocket and looked back at Tao. Sasuke looked a Tao, though his face was expressionless, his eyes were full of emotion, Tao saw his eyes and his smile faded. "You want to know about your mother, don't cha?" Tao asked, Sasuke give a slight nod of his head before Tao motioned for Sasuke to follow him into the back room, Naruto was about to follow when Tao gave him a glare, "Stay here, Barbie" Tao warned, Naruto pouted at the request, but only for Sasuke's sake, listened and stayed put. Sasuke continued to follow Tao as Naruto waited impatiently, folding his arms. After walking through the back room that was bigger than Sasuke's expected, the man pulled out two wooden crates and sat down on one. Sasuke was silent before realizing that he was meant to sit down, quickly sitting on the other crate, he looked at the floor, averting Tao's gaze, Sasuke exhaled and looked up with determination.

"How did you know my mom?" Sasuke questioned, looking Tao in the eye, Tao took a deep breath in and put his hand in an upright position on his knee, he grumbled to himself as he rubbed his rough stubble.

"Your mother would visit Gecia a lot, with you and we became friends, though your mother was one of the best, she was still young so she struggled to raise you a bit, since Itachi was raised by weapons and expectation."

"You knew Itachi as well?"

"Only from what I heard from your mother, you on the other hand, I looked after sometimes, you'd always beg for either ya old mammy, me or sometimes that old fishermen dobe when you wasn't with your mother" Tao chuckled, but Sasuke gave a light gasp at what he man had just said.

"Did you say dobe?" Sasuke asked wide eyed, No one says that insult,but me... The man gave a nod and a 'hn', before looking back at Sasuke.

"Yeah, I heard you call Barbie that, what you thought you just came up with the insult, ha ha, you got that from your old Sensei Tao!" The man chuckled at the name, while Sasuke knitted his eyebrows together in confusion as the 'Sensei' and the fact that this man had used the term 'Dobe' before him, I mean Sasuke knew that he wasn't the only one you use that insult, he just never heard anyone else say it, it was his name for the Dobe...Tao stared at Sasuke before registering his confusion and cleared his voice. "You would follow me around and call me Sensei and sometimes even Sempai, ya would hear me insulting customers all the time and you started picking up some of my bad language, ha ha, got in trouble with Soma for that one, my favourite was 'Dobe', short, sweet, rolls off the tongue, but I'll gladly allow you to have territory over my signature insult, but only cause I'd do anything for my little student." Tao explained, patting Sasuke's head playfully. "I still remember the day you came to me and said 'Teach me Sempai to glare like you do!' Oh! The cutest face I ever fucking saw, I swear to god, you were pouting when I laughed at ya, but how couldn't I? You were holding ya little dinosaur plushie and jumping up and down like a flea" Tao laughed at the memory as Sasuke blushed in embarrassment at the way he acted when he was a child. I'm glad Naruto's outside... Sasuke stopped thinking for a moment and looked at Tao who was still laughing, Sasuke felt a sense of warm closure seep into his heart as he sighed contently before Tao settled down a little bit.

"Thank you..."

"Hm?" Tao looked at Sasuke who had a more relaxed look on his face, not full of it's usual grim and anti-social expression that would always be on his face, it seemed to show that Sasuke had came to some kind of conclusion that he was content with. Tao smiled warmly, before scratching the back of his head a little, "Ah well, if you wanna, you can always come back for more stories, I mean, you don't have to, it's just a thought-"

"I would like that" Sasuke said calmly, making the man grin a bit as he got up from the wooden crate, he stretched his lower back a bit and gave a sigh.

"Welp, I'm sure Barbie is about to burst her last brain cell from boredom, so go rescue the little girl." Tao yawned out as he patted Sasuke's head before, going further into the back room, until Sasuke took his cue to leave and walked out of the room as he saw Naruto balancing multiple jars of his head.

"Don't break anything, Dobe" Sasuke sighed as he watched the blonde entertain himself, Naruto put the jars back before almost dropping them from Sasuke's sudden appearance, he gave Sasuke a annoyed pout and huffed.

"Hey! I was just having some fun!" Naruto whined as Sasuke shook his head, Simple things entertain simple minds I guess... Sasuke thought as he began to walk out the shack, feeling better from when he first came in, Naruto tailed his and gave Sasuke a weird look, Sasuke returned the look with his own saying 'What?', Naruto just shrugged and put his hands behind his head as he walked.

"Nothing, you just seem in a better mood, if you are capable of having one of those" Naruto said mumbling the last part, but Sasuke heard loud and clear and punched his shoulder lightly, before looking forward once again.

"Maybe because I got to spend time away from you, Dobe"

"Yeah right, I'm awesome and you know it"

"I highly doubt that"

"There's a reason awesome has 'me' in it!"

"Is there a reason why your so annoying?"

"Shut it! Teme!" Naruto exclaimed punching Sasuke's shoulder equally as playful, Naruto smiled to himself as they walked back with the normal routine of Naruto telling stories and Sasuke half-listening, waiting for the part where he decides to shut up, but in all honestly, Sasuke enjoyed Naruto's stories, even if the were exaggerated and stupid. Though his Dobe had a way to make him listen, even when he didn't want to. After the Inn came into view, Naruto had stopped mid-sentence in the middle of his story and groaned, "Aw man, we have to go back over the case again, when we get back!" Naruto whined as he had tears in eyes at the thought of going back to work, Sasuke just rolled his eyes and sighed at his childishness.

"Yeah, well suck it up since we have a job to do, whether you like it or not" Sasuke said with no sympathy as Naruto continued to whimper in sadness, Sasuke shook his head and walked on with Naruto slouching behind begrudgingly as he kicked the dirt a couple of times while mumbling to himself, Geez, what a child... Sasuke thought as he entered the Inn's library as he saw a disturbing sight, Sakura hunched over in a corner evilly giggling to herself as she held something close to her as a menacing aura hung around the pink haired girl, she seem to shake a little with what seemed to look like blood running down her face from her nose. Well I'm terrified... Sasuke shivered a little as he saw that she began to rock herself, still chuckling to herself sinisterly, Naruto came in standing next to Sasuke seeing the scene before him, he just watched as his face was twitching from a mix of confusion and fear.

"Well, that's weird, even for me" Naruto voiced as he saw that Sakura paid them no attention, Sasuke looked at what was in her hands and knitted his eyebrows together in confusion.

"She's holding some kind of diary, It must be someone else's since Sakura threw out all her diaries because you went ahead and filled them all with wet dough mix" Sasuke explained as Naruto when slightly wide eyed and watched Sakura more closely.

"That diary is..." Naruto mumbled trailing off causing Sasuke to raise his eyebrow at him, when Naruto's face slowly went into a grin, "Heh heh, Sakura sure has interesting taste" He said resting his hands behind his head, Sasuke stood and glanced between both of his teammates in confusion.

"Care to explain?"

"Give it a few weeks and you'll see"

"Huh?" Sasuke voiced in confusion, Sasuke hated being left out of the loop, it's not like he cared, he just was just...curious, not nosy, no...just curious. Sasuke nudged Naruto's arm expressing that he didn't want to wait a few weeks, Naruto grinned,putting his hands behind his head. Sasuke was about to threaten Naruto to tell him, when Sakura noticed their presence and squeaked throwing the lilac diary out the window, she stood up and cleared her voice.

"Ahem, I assume you have the witness statement" Sakura said professionally, trying to distract the boys from her moment of creepiness, but both of them just watched humored by her attempt at normality, when they knew Sakura was a bit of a weirdo, why she tries to hide it baffled the boys, since her weirdness made her fun. Sakura coughed as her eye twitched from the amused looks of the boys, she sighed and let her posture relax, "Look dickheads, you got it or not?" Sakura asked annoyed, letting her blunt personality take over. Sasuke nodded and walked over handing her the paper, she looked the the scrappy piece of paper before taking it into her hand, she sighed and shrugged "Information is still information I guess, even if it looks like a raccoon's ass that was dragged through coffee..." Sasuke rolled his eyes and folded his arms.

"That was how we got it" Sasuke explained, while Sakura eyed the paper before, putting it on the wooden table, she waved her hand before collapsing into the wheely chair.

"Kakashi went on a quick food run, but while he was here we found out that the bank's security system was tampered with, it was really strange though, the alarm for the robbery wasn't even touched, but a few random wires were cut, they weren't connected to anything important just a few electrical doors apparently and those were open to the public so cutting the wires was pointless" Sakura informed, as the two boys sat down on two wheely chairs, listening to what she had to say. Sakura sighed and looked at both boys before biting her lip a bit, "We also found out that the robbery was roughly 6 minutes, but only two minutes in did the actual robbers come in and also the amount of money taken could have not been stolen in that amount of time, no matter how fast. There's also the matter of how they escaped, since me and Naruto came up with jack squat on any theories regarding how they escaped." Sakura further explained as she ran her hand through her hair and sighed, she slouched in her seat and rested her eyes. "Any ideas?" Sakura questioned, eyes still closed, Sasuke and Naruto thought for a bit before Sasuke spoke up.

"Well, let's estimate what the robber's movements were in the 6 minutes" Sasuke suggested, Sakura gave a slight nod as Naruto rolled forward on his chair giving a grunt in agreement. For the next few hours, Team 7 worked hard with their Sensei, but alas their effort was wasted, since every time they took one step forward it was 3 steps back in progress, eventually after solid hours with no break, Naruto stood up in frustration.

"GAH! I can't take this anymore! I need a break! I'm going back to the ramen place!" Naruto yelled as he turned round and stomped out the room, leaving Sakura to grumble at the loud outburst since she had a headache while Kakashi continued to work over several pieces of paper as well as Sasuke sighing as he in turn stood up as well.

"For once, the moron is right, I need a break, I'll be back within the hour" Sasuke said calmly as he glanced at Sakura who looked completely drained, Sasuke was about to walk out when he took pity on his teammate, "You should take a break too, Sakura" Sasuke stated before walking out completely, Sakura watched him leave and sat back in her chair before giving Kakashi a 'I'm gonna sleep' look and dozed off as she was in need of much sleep.

Sasuke walked down the road and sighed, he needed to relax for a bit and though while on a mission he prohibited such a thing for himself, he felt mentally exhausted while dealing with this particular case, he just couldn't figure it out for the life of him, he immediately went into a foul mood as he felt embarrassed for not being able to work something out. As he trudged forwards he noticed he was going down a familiar path,the shops and sometimes the people were familiar, looking up and observing his surroundings he finally realized where he was, oh of course I'm here...where else?...Sasuke mentally hit himself as he noted that he should pay more attention and not wind up at the freaking pier again!. Sasuke grumbled a little to himself before he sighed, he walked down the pier slightly nervous, since their last conversation hardly ended well, with him running away. Perfect Sasuke, just perfect, while you were at it you should have just slapped the man and kicked his puma, that would have made it really special...Sasuke was so caught up in his thoughts that he didn't see the person in front of him, he bumped into the person before stumbling back a bit and beat himself up again for not paying attention, he looked up to see it was the fisherman from the other day, the one that was referred to as dobe by Tao. He blinked as the grumpy face turned into surprise before turning back into slight annoyance, but not enough to show offence, Sasuke gave a small bow of his head with a light blush dusting his face.

"G-Gomen, I wasn't looking were I was-"

"Don't apologize, it shows weakness and also kind of wastes my time, but mostly the weakness part, no worshipper of mine will be unworthy" The man proclaimed as Sasuke stood speechless, No...don't tell me... "Yeah, you used to think I was a god when you were young, heh, god of sarcasm more like, but you wouldn't listen, you were very stubborn." The man explained rubbing his scraggly grey beard with a half smirk, half frown look on his face, he adjusted his old navy blue captain hat, before sighing and shaking his head, "I didn't tell you before, because you seemed more in a 'I will murder you' mood and believe or not, I quite like the idea of staying alive, Sasuke" Sasuke rubbed his forearm as he knew that this was one of the other people his mother was acquainted with probably, since it made sense with everything that had been going on lately, so the reaction of surprise wasn't found with Sasuke as he had already met three other people prior who knew his mother and him. Of course he was still caught off guard, but not as much as before since he didn't faint or cry this time. The man cleared his throat as he turned around and began to bring in the tangled rope, "My name is Mitch by the way"

"Oh, I'm-But you already know who I am don't you"

"Yeah, and I also know that you should go probably talk to Shen"

"Huh?" Shen?...

"Ever since he found out about the massacre, he has been moping around, I'm not saying that you should go and hug him or anything, just talk, since you always had that kind of effect on bubble brain, to...ya know...cheer him up or whatever, and oh your secret is safe with me...Skip..." Mitch explained causing Sasuke to go wide-eyed at the nickname, He knows who I am.

"Your not going to say anything?"

"It's not my place to, but he thinks your dead, that Sasuke's dead, you was one of the few things that were Shen's shining beacon of hope, so don't wait too long to tell him, because you should tell him." Sasuke was silent and looked down guiltily feeling bad for not telling Shen the truth, but he didn't know if he could. He turned his head towards the white boat down the pier and took a deep breath in, he turned to walk towards the boat when he suddenly said.

"Thank you..."

"...d-don't show gratitude either, that weak..." Mitch mumbled as he secretly felt his heart warmed about the small thank you, Sasuke nodded even though the man's back was to him, Sasuke then made his way down the pier as he felt the pit at the bottom of his stomach get wider and deeper with each step towards the pearl boat. What would he say? What would he do? These questions ran through his head as he stood next to the boat and gave a shaky sigh, he jumped up and grabbed the side of the boat before pulling himself up, he swung his legs around and landed on the boat, something behind him nudged him at his feet, he looked down to see Sasha who was pushing Sasuke forward until he was met with the back of Shen's head, who was sitting in the leather booth. He saw Shen turn his head to look at him before turning his head back forward.

"Hey Skip" Shen said calmly, taking a sip from his drink as Sasuke felt Sasha put the top of her head into Sasuke's palm, motioning Sasuke to stroke her head, Sasuke began to pet Sasha as he built up his confidence to speak.

"A-About yesterday, I-"

"Don't worry about it" Shen interrupted, giving a nonchalant wave of his hand, Sasuke taken back took a breath in and he walked over and sat opposite of Shen who had a peaceful look about him. Shen cracked one of his eyes open, before slowly shutting it again, "A few years back, I had heard a rumour like this, but I paid it no attention, though ever since I waited for someone to tell me the truth, so I had my years of grieving and besides they're in a better place now, so to fret over it would upset their souls, I know this because no one wants to make the people they love suffer from their deaths" Shen explained to Sasuke who watched him dumbfounded, He really has a sense about him, that relaxes me somehow... "I am mournful about what happened but I know that in heaven, they will be at peace so why shouldn't I be, knowing they are finally happy like I've always wanted them to be" Shen finished, Sasuke had a single tear in his eye, but quickly wiped it away, I'm not crying 2 days in a row... "How's the mission coming along?" Shen asked all of a sudden causing Sasuke confusion as he slowly worked out what he meant.

"O-Oh, it's... going pretty crappy actually" Sasuke answered honestly as he felt like he would literally drown in his own guilt if he lied to Shen again, This is why he didn't lie! Shen chuckled lightly at the response.

"How come?"

"Well, the three robbers managed to get in and out without raising any alarms also with lightning speed that is physically impossible, not to mention we haven't even got the slightest clue on how they escaped" Sasuke explained as he sighed leaning back into the booth, Shen gave a lopsided smile and chuckled some more.

"Sounds like more than three robbers to me!" Shen joked, causing Sasuke to whip his head up.

"What did you say?"

"Hm? Oh I was saying that it sounds like more than three robbers" Shen responded as he took another sip from his beer, Sasuke suddenly felt like a clock was ticking in his head.

"The maps are inaccurate and lacking a few details..."

"The staff never saw who blindfolded them..."

"How do you pull that off?..."

"Just some electrical doors, nothing important"

"Sounds like more than three robbers to me..."

It suddenly clicked, he gasped lightly before standing up in realization as the answer came to him, Shen looked at Sasuke with a raised eyebrow, Sasuke looked at him and then looked at Sasha who jumped up at the sudden movement.

"I worked it out!" Sasuke exclaimed causing Shen to grin.

"Well what are you waiting for?" Shen said motioning his head towards the side of the boat, Sasuke nodded before taking off, he jumped off the boat in a hurry before running at speed that would rival lightning itself, How didn't I think of this before!?...Sasuke ran for a full minute avoiding clashing into anyone skilfully, when suddenly a black and orange blur stepped in front of him, crashing with the figure they hit the ground, Sasuke looked at who he had ran into and was surprised to see it was Naruto who was rubbing his head before looking at Sasuke baffled.

"What the hell Sasuke?!" Naruto yelled, but Sasuke had too much adrenaline pumping through his veins to be concerned with the question.

"Come on!" Sasuke exclaimed grabbing Naruto by the arm and forcefully lifting him up, he saw the look of bewilderment on Naruto's face as he dragged him through the streets with Naruto calling Sasuke's name out in confusion. Within minutes they reached the Inn and Sasuke darted forwards into the library with Naruto trying to keep up with the speeding boy. Finally reaching his destination, Sasuke put his hands on his legs and began to pant from running with all his might without proper pacing himself, Sakura and Kakashi stopped what they were doing at looked at Sasuke concerned, Naruto came rushing in after and put his body weight on the side of the door.

"Sa...uke...what...was so...god damn important...that...you had to drag me through...the freaking village" Naruto questioned in between pants as he looked at Sasuke evilly, Sasuke gaining his breath spoke.

"I know...how we can find...the robbers" Sasuke said out of breath from the small sentence, all eyes looked at Sasuke amazed by what he had said, as none of them had even come close and for Sasuke to rush in to say he worked it out was incredible, even to Naruto. After Naruto and Sasuke had calmed down and caught their breaths, all eyes and ears were belonged to Sasuke as they waited for him to speak. "All right remember how we couldn't figure how they robbed the bank so fast with only three people?"

"Yeah..." Sakura confirmed slowly nodding her head.

"Well, what if there were four robbers instead of three?" Sasuke asked causing everyone to look confused glancing around to see if anyone else got it, Sasuke saw their confusion and carried on, "Think about it, if one robber had gone in before the other robbers and set everything up for them, they could get in and out so quickly that it would baffle the authorities before they could caught them"

"Wait, assuming that there was another robber how could they walk in without being noticed, tamper with the system, pack the money and blindfold the staff?" Sakura asked, leaning back into her chair.

"It's was someone who would have all access to the security system, the money and the staff" Sasuke answered, making everyone quiet for a moment before Naruto jumped up in realization in what Sasuke was saying.

"Oh! Oh! Someone who works at the bank" Naruto exclaimed in excitement, proud that he worked something out for himself, Sasuke nodded and carried on explaining.

"Not only would that explain how they managed to do it so quickly, it would also explain how they escaped" Sasuke said, but once again had gotten confused looks amongst his teammates and Sensei, Sasuke sighed before starting up again.

"Sakura said that only a few electrical doors were tampered with, but the only electrical doors were the emergency exits, so they must have escaped through there" Sasuke voiced gaining 'Oh's and 'Ah's from his comrades as they began to understand what Sasuke was getting at.

"I might know who the 4th robber was..." Kakashi trailed off thoughtfully as his students looked at him, impatiently waiting for answers, Kakashi got up and picked up a piece of paper that had one of the worker's information on it, "I remember this particular girl had an inconsistent statement with the others, I assumed she was just shaken up, but her background information was sketchy too, since she had no qualifications to work at a bank, not to mention the fact that she had been working there for only two months" Kakashi informed, looking back at his students who all seemed to be in agreement for what need to be done. Within the hour, they had made it down to the bank and explained what had happened and were currently watching the scarlet haired girl being arrested as she pouted with childish tears running down her eyes. The short fat manager who watched the girl with sympathy, turned to Team 7 with a joyful face.

"Oh, thank you for helping us out here, please take this as gratitude!" The manager said handing each one a envelope, everyone looked at the envelope surprised as it was rare to get anything from their clients as they were getting paid to do it already, everyone opened their envelope and went wide eyed at what they saw.

"Holy shit! That's 10000 ryo!(In our world that would be like $1000" Naruto exclaimed, while Sakura elbowed him for his use of swearing, Naruto held his stomach trying not to hurl his lunch up as Sakura gave a small bow to the manger who was smiling at the response.

"S-Sorry about him!" Sakura apologized, giving Naruto a glare making him shiver in fear from what a beating he was gonna get. The manager gave a wave of his hand and chuckled.

"It's fine, he's just showing his happiness, I know this isn't much, but it's the least I could possibly do" The manager said, obviously oblivious to the huge amount of money he just gave them as Sasuke and Kakashi were silent not used to seeing such kindness from their clients, even after all these years, the man gave a quiet sigh as he looked at the girl being read her rights.

"It's a shame that Diana turned out to be one of the robbers, well I hope she finds happiness in her future!" The manager expressed optimistically gaining shocked expressions from Team 7, Sasuke was the first to recover and shook his head slightly.

"Why am I not surprised?..." Sasuke mumbled, making Sakura blush from embarrassment, Naruto bit down in his lip trying not to laugh while Kakashi gave a amused look, while the manager burst into a loud laughter and sighed contently at the insult he put his hands on his large hips.

"Ahhh, funny young lady..." The manager said to himself, making Naruto burst into in previously repressed laughter, Sasuke's eye began to twitch as he was often mistaken for a girl even though the man was known for being forgetful, which really annoyed him to no end, Kakashi chuckled lightly while Sakura just sighed at the unintentional insult and shook her head as she looked at Diana.

"We still haven't found the other robbers so we couldn't possibly accept these very generous gifts" Sakura stated towards the manager, Naruto's laughter died down and thought a bit before walking over to Diana, everyone watched Naruto confused as he approached the girl in handcuffs, she looked at him wearily as the rest of Team 7 followed Naruto to see what he was up to. Naruto smiled kindly at the girl who blushed at the kind gesture, before averting her eyes as he was the reason she was getting arrested so blushing was probably the worst thing to do.

"Listen, since this is your first offence, we'll reduce your sentence, OK?" Naruto said sweetly, continuing his seductive smile towards the girl who gave a small smile of her own to Naruto as she ran her eyes over his body giving a small lick of her lips.

"Really?!" Diana voiced excitedly as Sakura and Sasuke looked at Naruto as if he was insane to give her a reduced sentence, since they only used that when making deals, Naruto gave nod of his head towards the girl who giggled a little bit.

"Well only if you give tell us where the other robbers are..." Naruto trailed off as the girl blinked before biting her lip, she glanced at the floor before looking back up at Naruto and gave a small nod, Sakura realized what Naruto had done patted him on the shoulder before stepping next to Naruto.

"Great! So you'll tell us where the location of the other robbers are?" Sakura asked, but in response got a cold glare from the girl making her flinch back a little, the girl looked back at Naruto salaciously and gave a smile.

"I'll gladly tell you..." Diana said lustfully making Sakura give her a glare of her own while Sasuke rolled his eyes at the girl who hadn't caught on that she had been played by Naruto, who would probably forget her name, Stupid bitch... Sasuke and Sakura thought as she kept on giving Naruto winks and flipping her hair back as she gave them the details on the whereabouts of the other robbers, a few hours later they received word that their warehouse had been raided and the money was safely returned while the robbers were put in prison. So with the mission complete we can end this tale...well almost...in fact we are going to be here for a while so sit tight!.

Since it was already night, they decided to stay one more night and leave tomorrow, but of course it wasn't that simple, because after Sakura and Kakashi went to their rooms, Naruto and Sasuke had went to their rooms and discovered that since the place had maids to make the beds, they never had to worry about keeping the room clean, including their beds, but it seemed that their two separate beds had become one and after storming downstairs to the main reception to complain, it turned out that one of the maids had broken the beds by accident and a queen sized bed was all they had left in supply, both boys were outraged when Naruto suddenly felt the consequences of staying up for two days straight and sighed unhappily, telling Sasuke that they would just have to deal with it. So that was how they ended in in this situation... Sasuke and Naruto were lying in the bed, face to face as they looked hatefully at one another, Sasuke finally sighed and closed his eyes.

"This is your fault" Sasuke stated annoyed as Naruto growled a little at the comment.

"How is this my fault, Teme?"

"You exist" Sasuke answered sharply, causing Naruto to roll his eyes slightly, Naruto suddenly smirked to himself as he looked at the closed eyed Uchiha.

"At least people recognise my existence as a boy" Naruto replied snidely, yeah he knew that was low, but it would be worth it to see the angry look on his face, but instead when Sasuke's eyes snapped open he just buried half his face in his pillow and looked more upset than angry.

"...not a girl..." Sasuke mumbled into his pillow, Naruto was taken back by the response, it was ironic though, because when Sasuke said that, he looked very much like a girl, but Naruto decided not to bring it up and instead internally sighed as he looked at Sasuke guiltily.

"Sorry...I didn't mean it..." Naruto said softly, Sasuke glanced at Naruto before removing his face from the pillow, revealing a smug smirk.

"Ha, got you to apologize" Sasuke said smugly as he saw Naruto go red form anger and suddenly turn his back on Sasuke and huffed away at the loss.

"Stupid Teme, I actually felt sorry for you..."

"Your the pitiful one, Dobe" Sasuke responded turning his back on Naruto as well, smirking at his insult as Naruto made a annoyed grrr, before giving a slight kick, Sasuke kicked back slightly harder, then Naruto kicked, then Sasuke kicked, then Naruto, then Sasuke, then began a kicking war between the boys that lasted into the night, before they finally dozed off to sleep, not knowing they were in for a small surprise the next morning.

Ohh my gloooob! This chapter made me think and I don't do that very often so understand my pain! Well I'm just happy I got this done, so pleeeease review because they really do make me write faster! Also the next one will definitely be out faster since, I'm taking a week off from school! Which I have been late to since I've been writing these into the dead of the night, also BEER! Haha I'll let you get on with your lives now, something I do not have, OK, thanks for reading, the next chapter will on the mini surprise for the boys because I'm evil, Kakashi gonna find out something about Sasuke! And finally Naruto and Sasuke are going to hang out! Unfortunately not a date, but we can all pretend it is! OK Moshi Mosh!.