A/N: Just something I thought of after watching the first season. I absolutely love the 'relationships' formed all throughout and the hidden ones you really have to squint for!

'You see'- English

Kojuuro- Thoughts

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Warning: Moody Masamune and Yukimura, some language

Disclaimer: None of these characters belong to me... T~T

Quirk in Oshu

"So what you're saying is that…we're lost."

"Well that is…" Sasuke looked around the heavily wooded clearing, scratching the side of his cheek. "We're not exactly lost. I just don't know where we are…danna."

Yukimura frowned, backing his horse up several steps as he slung his spears across his back. "But that is the same thing as being lost, is it not?"

"…No…?"

The young brunette sighed, his frown deepening as he gazed at the weather-worn reins in his hands. They were supposed to be delivering a precious scroll to Oshu under orders from his lord, and whereas the trip should have only taken three days, his 'suddenly' bodyguard thought it would be nice to try a different route for once.

"We always take the same path danna- not that it's a bad thing necessarily. But if something were to happen, it would be good to have an alternative route." Sasuke chirped.

Alternative route his ass.

"Danna?" Sasuke raised a brow at the other man's silence.

Yukimura released a heavier sigh. "I'm sorry…it's just that…we've been wandering around for so long. Masamune-dono is probably waiting for us anxiously as is oyakatta-sama!"

Sasuke began to walk again, taking in his surroundings to try and make it seem as though he knew what he was doing and where he was going. "You shouldn't get so worked up danna. We haven't been gone for that long."

"It's been a week!"

"Really not that long."

"Sasuke…we've gone a full week without food or shelter!"

"At least it wasn't for a month," Sasuke muttered, glancing back at his unusually livid master.

Yukimura started to twitch. "At this rate, I believe it could be."

"Look, I know how to get us out of here danna, alright?" The green-clad shinobi was beginning to get irritated. So what if he had a small screw-up in directions? He was a ninja. They would be in Oshu in no time! Although…that's what he had said to himself for the last four days…

"Then why haven't you?" Yukimura shouted, viciously jumping off his horse to glare at his bodyguard. "If you could have gotten us out of here, then I'm sure that you would! Face it Sasuke, we're LOST. We're going to die, and I won't be able to fulfill my duty to Lord Shingen, and I will become a disgrace to the Takeda, and the scroll will be lost, and it's- it's all because you decided to take us on a DIFFERENT ROUTE!"

Startled by the outburst, Sasuke sweatdropped and reassuringly held his hands up. "N-Now it won't be like that, okay danna? I promise we'll be in Oshu by tonight."

"Don't lie! I know you got us lost on purpose! How unfaithful-"

"Danna! How could you suggest such a thing?" Sasuke found himself glaring. "I know I messed up big time but I would never intentionally get us stranded. Do you honestly think I would let the two of us starve for a week on purpose?"

"S-Sasuke-"

"We'll complete this mission danna. I'll get you back to Kai safely."

Taking a deep breath to regain his lost composure (with a promise to punish himself later for losing it in the first place), Yukimura nodded and turned to his horse, beginning to absently pat at her coat. "Alright. I believe you Sasuke. I- I'm sorry again for my inexcusable behavior."

"No problem!" Sasuke pumped a fist out in front of him, his other hand going to his hip. "Now let's get out of here!" Sasuke suddenly paused, looking up at the tree-filled sky. "Wha-?" He froze, hands twitching as a heavy rain began to fall- followed by a thundercloud and bolt of lightening. Since when does the rain come before the cloud?

"Sasuke…"

"Hmm?" The shinobi turned to his master, who was oddly, still facing his horse.

Yukimura felt his fingers clench around the edges of the saddle he was holding. "Why is it raining?"

"Huh?" Sasuke took a hesitant step forward. I wonder if food and sleep deprivation really did get to him…danna… The shinobi felt his brow furrow, worry becoming a clear expression on his face. "I don't know…?"

His face deadpanning, Yukimura violently twitched before lunging around and flying towards the surprised ninja. "WRONG ANSWER!"

Sasuke uncharacteristically shrieked and jumped back on his toes. "Danna!"

"Silence!" Yukimura roughly drew his weapons. "Prepare to answer to my spears!"

"For what?"

"Here I come!"

Sasuke somersaulted into the closest tree, staring down at his danna in fright. "Not good!"

Masamune Date sat on the edge of the porch, arms folded and head down as he listened to the sound of the falling rain. Yet another envoy from the Takeda house had come asking for news of their warrior in red and he had none to give. He dare say that he was…worried himself. If something happened, Yukimura would be alright wouldn't he? After all, wasn't that ninja Sarutobi Sasuke with him?

…

That would explain it.

Masamune sighed, looking to the left of him with the corner or his eye. "What is it, Kojuuro?"

"Masamune-sama," the older male addressed. "Will you be coming with us?"

"Ha?" Oshu's One-Eyed Dragon glanced back.

Kojuuro lifted a brow, stepping forward a little more. "We were going to watch the sakura tonight. The others are waiting outside…or is it that you-?"

"Send my apologies to the gang," Masamune abruptly interrupted, looking away. Silence reigned for a long time afterwards, one sound being the pattering rain drops and the howling wind. The brunette remained oblivious that his friend was still there and was watching him carefully until a bolt of lightening cracked overhead and brought him out of his reverie.

It was only after Masamune counted four minutes in his head, he spoke again with the intentions to soothe Kojuuro's thoughts. "You guys go on ahead and party. I'll wait until he comes and drag us both down to have an even bigger party, okay? Until then…It wouldn't be right to leave when that hot-head could come in at any minute. Besides, I wouldn't want him and that shinobi to damage anything of ours. You see?"

"O-Of course." Kojuuro offered a small smile. "I will tell those outside Masamune-sama." He started to walk away. "But if our red warrior doesn't show, you'll have to promise me that you'll sleep tonight."

Masamune jerked backwards, arms coming undone. "K-Kojuuro!"

"Have a good night Masamune-sama," his retainer said, sliding the door as he made his quick exit.

The lord of Oshu forced his arms across his chest, almost sulking as he looked back to the view his porch gave. What was Kojuuro trying to say? He had slept perfectly fine the entire week! If one were to ignore the thrashing in his futon beforehand that is… But was it really his fault? That stupid kid could make anyone worry! If that wasn't true, then why would old man Takeda be sending five envoys every six hours to check?

Masamune clenched his fists against the insides of his elbows before slowly, and hesitatingly, uncrossing his arms. "Sanada Yukimura…" he muttered, raising his eye to the half-crescent in the dark sky.

"You'd better be safe," Masamune added under his breath.

Even he couldn't hide the flush on his cheeks in the dark.

Sasuke dodged another blow from his master, leaping back yet again as he zoomed through the trees. It was barely the crack of dawn, he hadn't stopped once, and Yukimura was still chasing him. What is he even running on? Shouldn't danna be- I don't know- not able to move by now? He looked up ahead, eyes widening as he saw a glinting spear blade headed straight for his face. "Gah!" Bending backwards on the branch he stopped on, Sasuke avoided the blow and changed the course of his direction to one unknown.

This went on for several more minutes until Sasuke found himself face-to-face with a wall. He fumbled with a pouch under his clothing, blindly groping for some weapon of defense. In the place of several kunai- was oyakatta-sama's scroll? Clutching the scroll that he had somehow managed to not miraculously lose in the attempt on his life, Sasuke dodged a head jab by his danna and flipped over the wall.

Landing lightly on his feet, the ninja took in the peaceful view of the private quarters he was intruding in before groaning and rotating his sore shoulders.

"Phew…" Sasuke wiped the sweat off his head. "Didn't expect to make it out of that."

But what he really didn't expect, was for a wild brunette, shouting profanities that Sasuke was sure he had never been taught, to jump over the wall after him.

"You…cannot…run…!" Yukimura panted. "Give in!"

Sasuke twisted his expression into morbid fascination. "Like hell I will- and how did you get over that wall?"

"Then prepare to face the consequences!"

"W-Wait!"

Masamune woke to soft rays of light filtering onto his shifting form. The first thing that went through his mind was: I didn't sleep well last night and Kojuuro's going to point it out. The second: Damn him for being right! After stretching his arms, the brunette gruffly fixed his kimono and squinted against the sun's beams breaking through his sliding door. What's the point in having doors that don't do their job?

He had just stood to his feet and opened the door to his porch when the wall closing in his personal garden was blown in. A giant wave of wind blasted his hair and kimono back as the brunette began to guard himself against an attack. Masamune looked up startled, ignoring the large cloud of smoke and pieces of stone that came flying his way, as a familiar green shinobi flew overhead.

Sasuke glanced down with a bead of sweat on his temple, stretching one arm ahead as he reached for an imaginary sanctuary that wasn't there. "Ah! Masamune-sama! Here ya go!"

"Ha?" Masamune stared at the small scroll that had fallen in his hands. Is this-? He looked up at the sound of a raging battle cry, mouth opening as his missing red-clad warrior zoomed through the air in a chase with the shinobi.

"Danna, why won't you stop?"

"These walls will not stop me! Face me like a true warrior Sa-su-KEEE!"

"I wasn't talking about the walls!"

Masamune protectively shielded his face with his arms as the opposite wall was blown in. There was a round of chaotic noise- then nothing. His eye widened at the lack of destructive sounds, bringing his searching gaze to the baby blue sky once again.

And found it empty.

Masamune was still staring at the sky fifteen minutes later.

"M-Masamune-sama!" Kojuuro shouted as he ran up beside the young man. "Are you alr- what are you holding there?"

The brunette took the time to glare at the object of attention in his hands before actually realizing what it was. Practically breathing fire, Masamune threw the scroll into the air and with a mad glint in his eye, proceeded to call to his sword and slice it in half. Then in quarters. And when he grew fed up with cutting it evenly, he shredded the sacred scroll completely.

Kojuuro took an unsteady step back. "Er- M-Masamune-sama?"

Trembling from head to toe, Masamune quietly ground out, "Sanada…."

His retainer gave him a questioning look.

"Sanada…" the One-Eyed Dragon repeated.

Kojuuro gave a look of understanding. "There's no need to worry anymore. Yukimura-san is lying in front of the main gate, and although he's knocked out cold, he seems to be unharmed. The shinobi Sasuke is with him as well."

Masamune whirled on his friend with his eye flaming and sword raised. "Sanada… YUKIMURA WILL PAY!"

...;D...

Sasuke sighed, scratching his cheek as he nudged the unconscious form of his master. "Geez danna…"

He stood from his crouched position when he saw two forms racing towards them. "Right. I can explain this Masamune-sa- OI!" The shinobi jumped back to avoid being sliced by the dragon's blade as a shouting Kojuuro and young lord raced past.

"Masamune-sama!"

"Don't try to escape me!"

"Why are you after me?"

"Stop running will you?"

Kojuuro picked up his pace, glancing over his shoulders with wide eyes. "I would if you weren't chasing me!"

Both he and Sasuke shrieked as the dragon lord spat fire at them.

-The next day-

Kojuuro brushed the remaining ash off his shoulder, shifting from where he sat. "I apologize for all that has happened over the last two days, Takeda's shinobi. We realize we must have given you quite a scare."

Last night was most eventful with an ever moody dragon trying to kill them both. It was even worse when Masamune's anger carried over to the following morning. Needless to say- they hadn't escaped his wrath.

Sasuke twitched but kept the smile on his face, his own clothing smelling like burnt wood. Who is he calling Takeda's shinobi? "It was nothing really. Besides, my danna gave me more of a scare than anything else."

"I know how you feel…" Kojuuro darkly muttered.

"Er- right."

Kojuuro gave him an evil eye. "You know how I feel…right?"

Sasuke looked behind him in search of an escape route. Luckily it came in the form of a completely miffed overlord, dragging an unconscious brunette by the collar of his jacket. "Masamune-sama-" Sasuke turned just in time to have the red warrior thrown into his arms.

"Take this stupid hot-head and leave. His wounds have been bandaged and he gave himself plenty of rest when he dropped his face on my door." Masamune turned his back to the three of them. "Make sure you tell old man Takeda that his scroll has been damaged in an accident and I'm sorry it wasn't properly taken care of. There's a bill for the destruction of my private walls attached to the inside of that dumbass's headband along with a sufficient amount of money to pay for the moron's spears which I snapped- I meant which I accidentally broke while trying to put the idiot in a bath."

Kojuuro sweatdropped at the part about the spears. He had seen his lord threaten the sleeping warrior with his own spears and then break them over the brunette's head while breathing fire yet again. The bath was no way involved.

Sasuke glanced at his master in his arms and then at the back of the One-Eyed Dragon. He hadn't failed to noticed that Yukimura's nicknames had changed three times in the whole speech and that it was all said with a hint of fondness. Wait- fondness from Masamune? Not real likely is it? Yukimura's mine!

The shinobi then twitched at the mention of the scroll being destroyed. They traveled a full week, suffered from deprivation of everything but each other, risked being eaten alive by each other, and nearly died- just to deliver a scroll which the unusually temperamental dragon self-destructed?

Said dragon smoothly intervened in his thoughts a second later. "By the way, I fed him last night and this morning. There wouldn't be a need to worry about lack of energy from Sanada once he wakes up."

Sasuke visibly twitched the same time Kojuuro paled. So he fed my danna but not me? Why I ought to punch that guy right in the- wait a second…

Kojuuro snuck a curious look towards his lord, fingers tightly grasping his pant cloth, but didn't risk himself by asking his question aloud.

Sasuke, on the other hand, seemed to know nothing of his own wellbeing. "How do you feed an unconsciou-" he cut himself off as the dragon slowly cranked his neck around and glared at him with a glowing eye. "N-Never mind Masamune-sama…"

Masamune scoffed, thoughtfully humming in the back of his throat. "Any other questions, Sarutobi Sasuke?"

"Not really-"

"Then LEAVE!" The brunette shouted, drop-kicking both Sasuke and Yukimura out the nearest sliding door before slamming it with a resounding BANG!

Sasuke grumbled as he stood and rubbed his aching backside, planning on going back in to give that tempered dragon a piece of his mind when the sliding door slid open again.

Masamune stuck his head out to give him a biting glare.

"When Sanada Yukimura wakes up," they both glanced at the unmoving body in front of them, " if he wakes up- tell him to visit me. That bimbo owes me his surrender from one of our earlier spars and has to pay the punishment on his end of the deal. If he does not get this message, I'll personally come to Kai to find out why. You see?"

How this boy younger than him managed to pull off such a glare with only one eye was a mystery to Sasuke. But he wisely kept this comment to himself and instead gave a reluctant, "Hai."

Masamune's scrunched face changed to hold a cocky smirk. "Good boy. Have a nice day."

Sasuke inwardly shouted vulgarities as the door slid shut.

...o.o...

Kojuuro gave a warm smile as his lord's weary face looked into his. "You look tired Masamune-sama. Maybe you should get some rest…I know you didn't get any with Yukimura-san in your room last night."

Masamune's face flared. "Just what are you suggesting?"

"I wasn't suggesting anything like…that," Kojuuro assured him with his hands raised.

"Hmph…."

"Masamune-sama," his retainer spoke again. "Would it be to bold of me to say that I find your methods of showing Yukimura-san your love a tad bit strange?"

When the dragon turned to look at him with a perfectly blank face, Kojuuro knew he was in for some serious trauma, and so, backed up with fish eyes and a hand reaching for the door.

Sasuke was peacefully making his way out of Date's private land with the red deadweight on his back until he heard two familiar voices creating a ruckus behind him.

"You dare speak to me like that?"

"But I asked beforehand and you never answered Masamune-sama!"

"TOO BOLD!"

Kojuuro charged forward blindly, skillfully weaving around Sasuke and Yukimura to avoid hitting him. "Think about what you're doing Masamune-sama!"

"You order me as if I'm below you?" Contrary to his retainer, Masamune continued to barrel ahead full speed as if he were attacking on his horse, waving his six swords around like a madman. Even when he saw Sasuke and Yukimura, he didn't stop. He just frothed at the mouth with flames coming from behind his head and shouted, "GET OUT OF THE WAY MONKEY!"

Further down the path Sasuke heard Kojuuro shout, "Run! Masamune-sama's lost it!" to all the nearby soldiers and civilians.

The shinobi made a great effort to jump out of danger's path- and failed. Lack of food and proper sleep stripped him of his much needed reflexes and skills, and just like that, the two warriors from Kai were run over by the two from Oshu.

Masamune cursed as he stepped on Sasuke's hands and felt the bones break. "Shit! Now I have to pay for that too! Damn you….KOJUURO!"

Sasuke groaned. "Damn him? Damn you…" he mumbled with his face in the ground.

"And that's why danna and I never take any back roads," Sasuke explained to the twitching blonde in front of him.

"Sarutobi Sasuke…"

"Hm?" The ninja flipped down from the tree he was hanging off of to face the fuming girl. "What is it, something wrong?"

Kasuga slowly held a fist in front of her. "I only asked how your hand was… NOT for a recollection of your stupid adventures of how you got lost and failed your mission!"

Sasuke placed a hand on his hip. "But we didn't fail the mission."

Kasuga lowered her hand. "But the scroll-"

"Was the wrong one," Sasuke chuckled. "Turns out Masamune destroyed one of my scrolls on ninjutsu or something like that. Come to think of it…I don't remember even having that before."

"N-A-N-I-?"

"H-Huh? What is it?"

Kasuga lunged forward with fire in her eyes. "That was the scroll I gave you to hold onto until I got back from MY mission!"

Sasuke dived into the thick underbrush. "I didn't know!"

And yet another attempt on his life was made.

"Why is it always me?"

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