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The teens walked slowly to the little park near the ice cream shop. Sakura and Ryo once again went off by themselves and sat on the swings while Naruto, Sasuke, Nico, Kae, Dan and Diran all sat on the grass and enjoyed their snack.

“So uh, you guys are together huh?” Diran asked the boys, “Since when?”

“Umm, since yesterday really,” Naruto smiled at his boyfriend.

“Yeah but it’s been a long time coming,” Dan smirked nonchalantly.

“Serious?” Diran asked tensing, obviously the animosity was not merely one sided Sasuke noted.

“Oh yeah, the sexual tension was insane, I thought everyone had noticed,” Nico laughed then smirked evilly, “Seems to have worked itself out now though.”

Both boys blushed and Naruto busied himself with his ice cream.

“Thought so,” Kae and her cousin hi-5’ed each other and grinned, “Kani is going to be so mad, he owes me now.”

“Hey you guys bet on us?!” Naruto asked indignantly.

“Right, well everyone finished? Come on Naruto lets take the rubbish eh?” Dan offered cutting off the soon to be argument.

“Aw come on, can’t Sasuke do it?” the blonde whined.

“No way dobe, I already bought you popcorn and an ice cream I am way over my nice quota for the week,” the Uchiha flipped his hair jokingly.

“Bastard,” Naruto pouted.

“You know you love me,” he smirked and patted his blonde on the head as patronizingly as he could.

“Oi Naruto come on and at least pretend to do something useful,” Dan called out starting the long trek to the bins.

“I’ll come too,” Diran offered quickly as Naruto stood to follow.

“Nah it’s alright,” the blue eyed boy grinned, “I don’t mind.”

“But-”

“Don’t worry they’re big strong boys, they can handle themselves,” Sasuke laughed as he carefully watched the other boy.

“I’m sure they do all the time,” Nico laughed and the others joined in.


“Naruto,” Dan said urgently once they were out of earshot, “You guys are here about the disappearances right?”

“Huh? What do you mean?” he asked raising an eyebrow.

“Don’t pretend otherwise Naruto, I know you’re here to investigate,” he said tensely.

“I don’t know what you’re-”

“Dude! I’m not going to out you guys or anything I just want to give you information. I know what this is going to sound like but trust me it’s not what it sounds like,” he ran his free hand through his hair, “Take care of Nico, she’s going to be in danger in time.”

The blonde blinked and watched his friend, “What? What do you mean? How do you know?”

“Intuition?” Dan smiled wryly, “I don’t know how I just do. Same as I know why you’re here and I knew about you and Sasuke. And in case you didn’t know, your guardians are most definitely a couple in every sense of the word.”

Naruto’s jaw dropped, his eyes wide, “Iruka? He wouldn’t….they…Kakashi……it’s just…..they…….shit.”

“Well said,” he chuckled throwing the rubbish in the bin. Dan turned in a different direction, “Say bye to the others for me, I have to be getting home now. Remember, take care of Nico, please?”

“Kbye dude, don’t worry about it,” Naruto said, the other boy waved and walked off. The blonde thought as he made his way slowly back to the others.
What had he meant?

“What’s wrong dobe?” Sasuke asked as Naruto rejoined their little group.

“Bastard, why’d he have to drag me halfway across the park if he was only going to leave anyway?” the blonde pouted, “Lazy bastard.”

“Maybe he just wanted to hit on you where loverboy couldn’t hear,” Kae suggested smirking.

The Uchiha growled and pulled the smaller boy into his lap kissing him soundly.

“Geez teme, possessive much?” Naruto asked a little breathlessly.

“Well done,” Nico congratulated her smaller cousin.

“Too easy,” she grinned.

Diran looked shocked, embarrassed and slightly disturbed, he blushed and looked away while Sasuke adjusted the blonde so he was sitting properly in the raven’s lap so he could comfortably rest his chin on the boy’s shoulder.

“We’d better head home too,” Nico said reluctantly.

“We’ll walk you guys,” Naruto offered and Sasuke groaned.

“Do we have to?” he asked tightening his grip on the slim waist.

“Yes teme, be nice!” the blonde admonished.

“I can walk them home if you like,” Diran quickly offered.

“Sure you can come too, you know what they say, safety in numbers,” Naruto chuckled.

“Right well, all in favour of letting Nico be taken by the monster?” Sasuke and Kae raised their hands.

“Kae!” Nico exclaimed.

“What?” Kae defended, “I just think it’d be interesting is all.”

“I feel so betrayed,” the blue haired girl sighed.

“All against?” Naruto, Diran and Nico raised their hands, “Uh Nic I’m not sure you get a vote.”

“You’re just mad cuz we won,” the blonde stood up grinning, “Come on teme lets walk the girls home.”

“What do you mean girls?” Nico said in the deepest voice she could muster.

“I didn’t think you were going to say anything,” her cousin reminded her cheekily.

“Oh don’t worry I already knew she had balls, have you heard what she calls Sasuke-teme?” Naruto laughed.

“So not funny dobe,” Sasuke said lazily latching onto his hand until the blonde pulled him up.

“Lazy bastard,” Naruto mumbled rolling his eyes.
Sasuke just smirked and dusted himself off. They were about halfway to Nico’s house when Sasuke’s phone rang.

He pulled it out and looked at the screen before he answered, “Kakashi?”

“Yeah, stick close to the others until they get home, try and keep them together for as long as possible. There’s been another attack, we’ll tell you more when we find out what happened, make sure Sakura and Ryo stick with you, stay as a group. Tell the others there was an attack if you need to just make sure no one goes off alone, we’ll call when we get home, until then see if you can stay at Nico’s.”

“Okay, have you called the old man? Just to let him know what happened and that we’re all okay,” Sasuke asked him glancing at the others, Kakashi would understand he was sure.

“Yeah, he might be sending another team if things get worse but I think we might be nearly at the bottom of this.”

“Right, well just so long as he’s not worried, don’t worry I’m keeping an eye on Naruto,” Sasuke told him, said blonde poked his tongue out, “I’ll tell the others, see you both later then.”
He flipped the phone closed and immediately walked off in the direction of Sakura and Ryo, he yelled back over his shoulder, “There’s been another attack, stick together everyone.”

“What? But that’s impossible…” Diran said panicking.

“Don’t worry, I’m sure whatever it is won’t attack us if we stay in a group, all the attacks have been on one person at a time when no one else was around,” Nico soothed him as they followed Sasuke to join up with the others.

Naruto tried not to think of the timing of it all. But what was he supposed to think when his friend had disappeared minutes before the attack telling him to watch Nico? Only slightly suspicious, Naruto kept his suspicions to himself, he would say nothing until he was absolutely certain. He owed him that much at least.


“Right well I’ve told them, we’d better head over to the police station,” Kakashi said pulling a black shirt on as Iruka walked out of the bathroom drying his hair.

“Good, did you tell them where it was?” he asked grabbing his own shirt.

“No I figured we can give them the details later it’d probably be a bit suspicious for them to know too much about it, things slip out when people get worried,” the grim older man told him as they left for the police station to view the latest crime scene.