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Naruto had figured Kakashi would be back at the inn so he headed back there, which to his luck he sees Kakashi walking back there, his head is down and he honestly looked a little sad.
"Kakashi sensei!!" Naruto called out, a big smile plastered on his face. Tho to Kakashi's luck, Naruto always had a very contagious smile.
Kakashi waved his hand towards Naruto, the picture of Itachi now secured in-between his fingers. "Naruto, what are you doing out here?" Kakashi questioned, suddenly realizing Naruto wasn't coming from the inn, but from another direction.
"I think I got some information you'll be proud of me for getting my hands on!" Naruto smiled brightly once more.
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Suigetsu and Sasuke had continued to run, not knowing if they were being followed or not by Kakashi they kept to the trees. Sasuke couldn't risk going back to Konoha, and Suigetsu couldn't risk losing Sasuke.
Suigetsu suddenly stopped realizing Sasuke had fallen behind, which wasn't like him since Sasuke was typically faster out of the two of them.
"Sasuke?!" Suigetsu called out, looking back towards Sasuke, he backtracked a bit himself to bring him up to Sasuke's side.
"You okay?" He asked, placing a hand on Sasuke's back, Suigetsu's eyes traveled down to Sasuke's knee, quit a lot of blood was dripping from Sasuke's hand which held on the wound tightly.
"I'm fine, we should keep going..."
"Sasuke you're in no conditions to keep traveling like this." Suigetsu's heart dropped as he heard Sasuke choke back a sob.
"W-we...We can't risk him following us." Sasuke started to stand up, a shock of pain shooting down his leg causing him to lose his balances.
Suigetsu was quick to catch him and pull him close to his chest. "You're in pain Sasuke, we should find a place to stay, and take a break."
"Where would we go? We just lost our last place for safety?!" Sasuke shouted, his voice sounding to close to breaking for Suigetsu's liking.
"We didn't lose the cottage, it's still there, and-"
"But he knows we were staying there, if he doesn't catch us now, he'll come back for us there!"
Sasuke had quickly cut off Suigetsu's sentences and started ranting, his words spoken so quickly Suigetsu struggled to make out his words.
"Shhh Sasuke, listen real quick,..." They were both silent, Sasuke's breath finally slowing down enough for him to try and listen to whatever Suigetsu was trying to point out.
"There you go, breath..." Suigetsu started rubbing Sasuke's back, so it was trick to get him to calm down, clever Suigetsu, Sasuke thought to himself as he let himself lend into Suigetsu's touch.
"Now that you can properly hear our surroundings, I think you've noticed, no-one is following us, clearly he had better things to do then to follow us."
Sasuke let out a sigh of relief. "I'm sorry."
"Don't be, I say we go back to the cottage, we can pack a few things and then find a new place to stay, we need to get the pin bored anyways."
Suigetsu helped Sasuke stand, wrapping one arm around the back of Sasuke's neck and taking his other arm in hand to help balance him.
"Okay that works, you know, you can actually be smart sometimes Suigetsu."
"Pfft, sometimes, I'm always smart."
The two started to chat as they made there way slowly back to the cottage.
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"WHAT?!!" Kakashi yelled out, startling all the kids in the one hotel room. Naruto suddenly felt like he did something wrong and quickly dropped his head worried Kakashi might hit him or something for being stupid.
"I um...I mm...." Naruto stuttered out, worried one wrong words and he'd never hear the end of it from Kakashi.
"Are you okay?" Kakashi asked, Naruto was confused why that had been the first thing Kakashi asked him, he was prepared for a scolding.
"Hu? oh yeah I'm fine, but I'm not sure he is..."
Sakura quickly hit the back of Naruto's head. "OW! The heck Sakura what did I do?!"
"Idiot, you could have been killed, you should have turned around the second you saw him and came straight back here!" Sakura crossed her arms and paced the room a bit before she saw Kakashi glaring at her.
"Sakura, that wasn't very nice, apologize to Naruto." Kakashi wasn't use to acting like a parent, but here he was watching over six children, he couldn't help feeling like some mother traveling with her kids, why he felt like a mother, he didn't know, it just felt right in his mind.
Naruto's eyes lit up, as he was finally going to feel the satisfaction of Sakura being forced to apologize.
"But Sensei, he was acting recklessly, he could have been killed, and he made a stupid decision!" Sakura protested, but it was to no avail, as Kakashi simply sighed rising one finger pointing towards Naruto.
"Naruto might have made a very reckless choice, but he gather the best information any of us could ask for, he might have been killed, but he didn't die, Naruto might have done things without my, or anyone's permission, but he still did a good job, sometimes you need to break a few rules for the better of a mission, I'm proud of you Naruto."
There it was, there four words he was dying to hear. 'I'm proud of you' Naruto smiled so brightly, he felt like crying, his eyes teared up, and he jumped forwards landing a tight hug to Kakashi, the sudden movement startling Kakashi as he let out a small gasp as the blonde was quick to tight his grip.
"Thank you..." Naruto said, his voice hardly loud then that of a whisper, probably due to the fact his face was shoved in Kakashi chest.
Kakashi patted the top of Naruto's head. "You're welcome." Kakashi chuckled, he didn't know why the boy was thanking him, but he found it adorable.
Kakashi pulled the hug away and watched as Naruto quickly whipped at his eyes, the sight all to familiar for him.
"Alright Naruto, you say you don't think his okay, what do you mean by that?"
Naruto cleared his throat as the others in the room came closer to hear more clearly. "Well, he tried to hide half his face with his hair, but I could bruises on his face and his neck, oh and there was some little kid who he said was his, but he wasn't the dad of the kid, he was the mom, and thinking back on the small conversation, I don't understand much of what had happened."
Kakashi, and the rest of the room was silent, and suddenly shocking all of them Hinata was the first to speak. "A kid? Like, he had a baby?"
Hearing Hinata say the same words Naruto say Kakashi finally realized what was said. "Holy Shit, Itachi had a baby?!" Kakashi quickly stood up.
"We need to go, quickly, I need some answers myself."
And with that, Kakashi gathered his team, and they headed out.