Naruto tensed as the kunai Sasuke threw grazed his cheek, his pulse racing as they exchanged blows at an escalating pace. Sasuke was throwing a flurry of punches faster than Naruto could ever remember.

With increasing worry and exhaustion piling on, Naruto could feel the kyuubi's chakra beginning to flow out of his pores and filling him with renewed vigor.

"This village has nothing to offer me now Naruto! You'll never find me" spat out Sasuke with a dark vehemence.

"I'll never stop looking"

-

"That was 5 years ago" Naruto thought to himself, looking up from his desk at the picture of Sasuke he kept hung on the wall. His small cubicle in the Konohagakure First National Bank feeling like a tighter prison than that of the Kyuubi inside him. He hated this, he was a B ranked jonin ninja with not one but TWO jutsus under his belt, however, Konohagakure law required that he also maintain a normal workplace job in order to ensure the villages prosperity.

He had always been good with money, so working at a bank made sense for him. He enjoyed the work, and it was a nice relaxing break from his usual S-ranked missions which required a lot of time and even more skill to complete. Suddenly, a disturbance down the hall woke Naruto from his daze. Naruto's office as Financial Advisor was at the furthest side of the building from the entrance, next to the water cooler. Yet his super ninja skills allowed him to sense the urgent visitor before any of the other people.

"NARUTO, COME QUICK, WE FOUND HIM!" A voice shouted through the building. Naruto stood up suddenly, knocking over a jar of pens, and his frog doll. "Dattebayo!" Naruto shouted back, taking off his suit jacket and putting on his orange sweater, then fastening his headband. Because it was common policy for ninjas to also have jobs in the workplace, the head of the branch, Saizo Goldberg-san had already known he may have to leave on urgent business. So Naruto has no trouble leaving his things and running out the door to meet the person who had called him.

-

Naruto sprinted down the hall, kicking off his polished Guchi loafers and hopped as he pulled his Jikatabi onto his feet, he swatted secretaries and co-workers out of his way as he sprinted to the source of the noise, gracefully sliding between a young female co-workers legs, "back in the saddle" he muttered to himself, smirking. Eventually he made it to the source of the noise, rubble and debris surrounded him, dust still filling the air, he scanned the room, squinting through the dust filled room.

The dust cleared and he stared wide-eyed at the other end of the room, half the wall had been destroyed, he noticed scorched markings surrounding the gaping exit into the outside world, they seemed all too familiar. "NARUTO!" he span quickly to his left, it was his co-worker Chōji Akimichi, his fat body flopped against a wall, morbidly obese from years without their intense training.

"It was too fast" Chōji began, "Someone broke through the wall, someone, like we used to be, someone with training. I've never seen such power!"

Naruto scrunched up his face, "Why didn't you stop them? WHY?" Naruto said grabbing this shameful mess of a man by the collar. "They were just too fast Naruto, I think he's going to the safe, I would have stopped him... I'm just not the same as I used to be... It's my fault..." Naruto loosened his grip. "I'll find them, stay here, you might have forgotten your training, but I haven't forgotten mine." And with the that he sprinted out the hole into the streets below.