They snuggle her.

"Okay, I think that's enough time. We should head home now."

"Right. Both of us to Hana?"

"For a little while, yeah. Then I can go back to your apartment and start messing with Kakashi."

"I'd love to be a fly on the wall there..."

She sobers up just before they come into view of the outside, remembering the ruse.

As soon as they get outside he starts ranting about Sasuke. About his stupid hair, how he thinks he's so cool and how they are so much cooler than him and how they're gonna send him and Kakashi back to the Academy. Just you watch!

She's reasonable and vaguely placating but also kind of annoyed and disappointed.

Especially after it turns out Hana doesn't have much new for them - only purposefully vague second hand accounts of stand out fights.

He's disappointed, but makes a show of bouncing back quickly and then jumping around to cheerfully greet and then immediately say goodbye to all the Inuzukas that are around.

Her brats are adorable.

She's a better actor than the genin, and treats "Naruto" just the same as always, and wishes him good luck on his test tomorrow before he leaves.

He says goodbye and quickly runs back to his apartment -- though he takes a couple of detours to help a kitten down from a tree, and grab some ramen, eat the ramen, ramble and show off his headband to Teuchi and then get another order to take home.

She laughs with 'her' family, gets some advice from Tsume, wrestles with Kiba some, helps make dinner, packs for the next day the night before (weapons, 'nutritious' lunches for everyone because Rai is thoughtful like that, and survival gear), and goes to bed at a reasonable hour instead of staying up training.

Sasuke goes home, spends much of the night legitimately anxious and pacing and unable to sleep. He slips out to a training ground, does his best to drive himself to sleep, still only manages two hours - in a tree instead of a bed - then goes to the meeting place several hours before the others are supposed to arrive. He makes a show of standing there brooding for a few minutes, then begins laying traps (having already memorized Naruto's map before he left the shrine).

'Naruto' spends the night jumping around his apartment training and then gets an Inspired Idea and heads out on the town to try and hunt down Kakashi's apartment. He interrogates many villagers. He then gets distracted with training some more, helps someone find their dog and then plays with that dog -- then he panics and runs home to try and get some sleep.

He wakes up at 5:50, hurriedly packs -- badly -- and runs as fast as he can to the training grounds.

'Raizume' remembers everything she needs (...with a bit of silent nudging from Inazuma), mostly successfully stays on task, and gets there a bit early. Not ridiculously so, but a reasonable time to arrive and account for delays.

She smiles at Sasuke when she gets there, notes that he seems in a bad mood, and leaves him be.

Meanwhile 'Naruto' arrives suddenly and with a lot of fanfare.

"Made it!!!"

She mostly remembers what Inazuma had pointed out as Rai-like things to pack, so she'll check with 'Naruto' if he packed everything he might need.

He packed a lot of kunai! And some ramen! Enough ramen to share with Raizume!

Ramen is, unfortunately, not real food. Raizume packed something that will actually help them more. (She's memorized this lecture by now.)

Sasuke, who is in a bad mood independently of trying to act (which is making his mood worse), snorts and grumbles 'idiot' to himself.

Not snapping at him's surprisingly hard. 'Raizume' has to rein herself in, remind herself that this is all an act.

"I packed enough for you, too, Sasuke, if you'd like," she says, voice perhaps a bit too even.

"Not interested," he snaps - and really he's not, he's had enough girls harass him by pushing 'homemade' food on him. Though he realizes intellectually that's not what's happening, he knows that's Naruto, he's on edge already, and it feels like his skin's crawling with nerves.

"Alright. Offer'll be open later, though." And she'll go back to chatting with 'Naruto' - no plans, they made it clear they're too paranoid for that, so mostly light, non-consequential stuff. It's hard, though, and she's nervous and wants to start shouting and acting like herself again and infiltration when it's not just a game is surprisingly difficult.

(She wants Kakashi to show up already so they can kick his ass.)

'Naruto' ignores him and shouts to the air.

"Hey Kaka-sensei! We're ready to kick your arse now!!"

"He's not here yet, idiot," Sasuke says.

"He could be, you don't know."