Hey!! Wow finally! My first Naruto Fic! Well anyway I'm very willing to take suggestions for this story etc but not with the pairings I've already decided, so for other pairings etc, I am willing

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto…

Summary: A hitch appeared in Orochimaru's plans; Sasuke didn't give into his immortality Jutsu. Giving Konoha Shinobi 3 more years. 5+1/2 years later they set out on their last hopes to 'bring him back even if it kills them.' Literally. Pairings inside. NaruHina. SasuSaku.TenNeji. SaiOC. ChoIno. ShikaTem.

JAPANESE TRANSLATIONS FOR SOME WORDS ARE AFTER THE CHAPTER

Chapter 1: Reacquainting.

TWO AND A HALF YEARS AGO

Two shinobi stood in the center of a sinister room. Light was supplied in the form of monitors and flashing lights.

"Orochimaru-sama. Sasuke-kun's body and mind is not willing to take you in yet." Kabuto informs his master as Sasuke/Orochimaru screams in agony. After the blood-curling howl, there was silence, accompanied by the stubborn, persistent beeping of the medical equipment.

"Ka…Kabuto. How can he resist my just?" the snake sannin asked withering on ground and tearing at Sasuke's dark hair.

"Ah… I don't know…" the silver haired medical prodigy said unsurely.

"Well" Orochimaru said in a raspy voice, "fetch me another container to deal with for now"

"H-hai"

"Shizune! Sakura!" screeched Tsunade.

Body flickering into the round dimensions of the Hokage office. Two female figures, one brunette and the other with pink hair chorused a cheerful "Hai!"

"Round up Shikamaru Choji Ino Neji Tenten Hinata Kiba and Naruto and meet back here in half an hour! Oh and Sakura, bring Sai too."

The two apprentices exchanged a brief glance, nodded then with the slightest suggestion of a hand seal; they puffed out of the Hokage office.

Landing outside Naruto's quarters on the third floor of the ANBU department, Sakura flinched at the queer segments of information that found their way through the oak door. "Hina-chan my thing goes in the second hole down!"

Vein popping in her forehead she rapped on the door that opened to her right on whining hinges. The door opened to reveal a worn out Hinata.

"Sakura-chan!" she said surprised. "Ano, I'm just … h...here…to… help ah… Naru-kun clean up." Sakura smirked, knowing something was developing between her two friends, nothing dodgy, of course or else Hinata would not have being conscious enough to open the door. But how you ask? Hinata had stopped stuttering and fainting around her friends. In the end it was down to trust, the trust of knowing her friends won't judge her. But then again, when you have been of nearly two years worth of assassinations and S-rank missions with these same friends, you begin to trust them with your life.

Hinata blushed and shrived away from Sakura's amused smirk. As if reading each other's thoughts, Hinata sighed out of relieve as Sakura said:

"I'll drop it, for now."

"Sakura-chan!" exclaimed Naruto popping into the doorway, slinging one arm over Hinata's shoulder. No Naruto did not need to ask who was at the door. Footsteps were enough for Naruto, or any ANBU to tell the build and gender of anyone. In addition to that, Naruto had sharp senses that were only sharpened by the Kyuubi, so defining Sakura's familiar scent and voice was a basic simple task. Sakura's expression grew serious:

"Tsunade, now, non ANBU uniform." She glanced at her watch and her seriousness flew out the door. "OH CRAP! I've wasted five minutes talking. Still got to get Neji Tenten and Sai, Kami-sama, its going to take years prying Sai off his latest work."

"Training ground two 'Kura-chan!" Hinata said waving, as Sakura flew down the stairs.

"Tired?" a man with long brunette locks asked a huffing women sitting up against a tree.

"Hai" Tenten smiled, despite being exhausted from the spearing. 'Neji's displays of emotion were never more than one or two words.' Tenten thought with a soft chuckle that bounced the buns on her head. 'But they were always genuine. He would never stutter, even when portraying his emotion. He has only acknowledged one female in his life like that, and I'm not going to let him regret it."

Dropping down against the roughness of the tree. He asked, smiling every so slightly:

"What are you laughing about?"

"Nothing" came the short reply. Tenten bit her scarlet lips to refrain herself from giggling. She loved it when he was in a playful mood, well as playful as an ice cube, well melting ice cube can get. And because the moods never came often, all the more reason to treasure them.

Neji turned to her, his pale lean fingers made to tickle to force an answer when Sakura flew in, and the good mood flew out, again.

"I just seem to be disrupting everyone's moments of intimacy today" she muttered loudly, making the pair at the tree flush a reflection of the hair colour of the girl standing in front of them.

"But it seems Neji's clicked! Took you a while!" The colour deepened on the female's tanned visage. The male how ever turned to her with a confused gaze, which she ignored, knowing it would contribute more to her blushing. Sakura noted the reaction and sighed, maybe she was moving them along just a tad too fast. Sakura cut Tenten off as the female at the tree made to protest.

"Hokage, non ANBU." Then the pink hair kunoichi took off again to try and drag Sai out of his workshop. Note key word: TRY.

Waiting for him to finish running on his spark. She reminisced about her relationship with the dark haired shinobi. They had a thing going for a while. Until they both realized they were just trying to replace the gapping wound that people of the past have left behind. Sakura, without a doubt, bled agonizingly for the one and only, Uchiha Sasuke. But no one knew whom it was that Sai loved, still loved. This was before Danzou cleared Sai of his emotions. Everyone, including Sai, had a childhood, a taste of love sometime in his or her life. Proof of this was a beautiful pink ribbon. Made of loosely knitted strings of shimmering thread. This slightly worn band of material was always tied at the end of his favourite wolf haired brush.

Sakura was admiring his second named painting as he came in, arms supporting a barely started third.

"Tsunade now or we'll be la-…" she never did finish her sentence. The last syllable died in her throat. The treetops that grazed the top of the canvas seem to move with the silent night breeze. The leaves glistening in the mercury moonlight hit too close to home, toxic to her eyes. It was that night. That night that he left her on the bench. Sensing her discomfort, Sai brought her out of her thoughts.

"We don't want to be late or else Hime-sama will throw a fit." Sai graced her with a real smile. They were beginning to be as frequent as Naruto's feline grins.

Tsunade nodded to Shizune and she exited the room in a small cloud of smoke.

"Alright my best ANBU squadrons! Sasuke-" The fifty year old blond sweat-dropped at the immediate reaction to the word. The five shinobi that originally went on the Sasuke retrieval mission somehow all found themselves a corner to sulk in, in the Hokage's circular office.

Sakura looked as if she was caught in Kurenai's worst Genjutsu. You can imaging your own facial expressions.

The door slammed open. Revealing a familiar trio. A sandy blonde, a tubby male with magenta face paint and a red head. The people already in the room adjusted into a line following the side of the Tsunade's desk.

"Kazekage-sama." Tsunade acknowledged with a dip of the head.

"Hokage-sama." The red head replied in the same professional fashion. Then followed just pure simple silence. Comfortable reassuring sile-

"Oh drop the keigo you two!" Naruto cried out, unable to contain himself any longer.

One of Neji's perfectly formed eyebrows twitched in annoyance at the disturbance of the precious silence he was enjoying. It must have been comical, as Tenten, who normally had flawless self-control, utterly failed to suppress a giggle.

Neji flicked her a sharp hit on the arm with the back of his hand.

As payback, Tenten was going to clap him hard on the back, but found her consciousness did not allow her to do so.

So she bit him instead. Just a nip of the shoulder, which she tiptoed to reach. Tenten smiled, proud of herself, oblivious to the stares and the silence that her actions bestowed upon the room. Neji's other eyebrow twitched, over his left eye.

"I-"

Twitch

"-Tai"

He said indifferently. He starred at Naruto in his adjusted orange jumpsuit, who was staring in disbelief at Tenten.

Silence.

Naruto cracked again under the pressure of silence.

"GARRA!" he shouted, happily wrestling the Sand siblings into a hug.

"OK!" Tsunade begins. Her amber gaze shifted from one pair of eyes to the next. "As you know. This is our last chance to bring Sasuke back, a miracle won't happen again like last time. The only reason why Orochimaru's," she spat out the name, "Furou fushi no jutsu is because Sasuke had lived his life to kill Uchiha Itachi and restore his clan, but having not have succeeded at revenge, his will was the thing that kept Orochimaru out. For this mission you will travel in three ANBU squadrons."

"ANBU?" Sakura questioned, looking pointedly at the Suna Shinobi.

"And what about Gaara's Kazekage duties?" identical jade eyes glanced back at her.

"Iie, I do have duties to attend to, but Kankuro and Temari will be accompanying you." His face held an apologetic smile.

"Then," Sakura pressed on, "we're missing-"

Shizune came in, cutting her statement short. She had finally decided to use the door.

"She's on her way here" the brunette's statement was meet with confusion.

As if waiting for that cue, a small tornado like structure that seemed to contain all five chakra elements, materialized in, then out of the room. It left behind a feminine figure. The person was clad in the black of an ANBU uniform. But it was no uniform they had every seen.

For starters this person's mask had no markings.

A/N:

Sumimasen, but I'm not going to explain things such as ANBU and Konoha or Suna, unless people want me to…

Hai – Yes

Kami Sama – God

Gomen (ne) – sorry

Keigo- formal speech… (Around those lines any way)

Iie – no.

If I have forgotten anything or if any part of the story is unclear or problematic please do not hesitate to say so!!

Suffixes – I know that calling someone with out suffixes means you are VERY close to them. So I'm going to make people except family and really close people, use suffixes and except when people use full names. This might actually get a bit confusing…

GOMEN NE!! I realize that Neji seemed really OC in this chapter, but he really has 'melted' to put it metaphorically, well melting… I couldn't have him nudging Tenten because that would have being too out of character in my point of view, the sharp flick illustrated his mental sharpness and vaguely rugged personality. Lol wow that sounded smart!

Oh and I am trying to portray my character, Yumeko, as absolutely awesome but she isn't all invincible awesome, but she is above the rookie nine and Gai's team's usual level. But just remember EVERYONE is really strong now, as they are Tsunade's elite ANBU shinobi. Oh and LEE decided to be a normal Jounin following in Gai's footsteps, but he might go and back the three squadrons up…

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STORY TO BE CONTINUED…

Chapter Two Preview:

"Sakura, this is your final member." Tsunade said, some what glowing with pride.

"Kakashi-senpai had that mask before!" The Konoha ANBU elites chorused.

Kawaii Kunoichi