-1"Okay, so you 3 will be protection the…sacred magic special scroll!!!" Tsunade told Shikamaru, Neji, and Sakura.

"But why do I have to?" Shikamaru whined. Tsunade started to glare at him.

"Because of the sacred magic special scroll!!! Do you even know how AMAZING it is?!" Tsunade shouted at him, with spit flying out of her mouth. Shikamaru turned to Sakura.

"Is it possible for hokages to be crazy?" Shikamaru asked her.

"Shut up and listen to her, you lazy bum," Sakura replied calmly. Shikamaru shrugged and stared out the bright morning sky. He seemed to be in one of his strange cloud staring trances…O.O

"Tsunade-sama, when do we start this mission?" Neji asked calmly as usual.

"NOW" Tsunade screamed at them. They all stared at her with faces like O.O and ran out of the room.

At the Konoha gate…

Sakura waited by the gate, it was close to noon. Shikamaru and Neji hadn't come yet, and she was getting impatient.

"Geez, just how long can you keep a woman waiting?!" Sakura said aloud.

"Not to long…" a voice said from behind Sakura.

"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!!!!!!!!" Sakura screamed. "W-W-WHAAAAAAAAT?!"

"Oh, sorry, Sakura didn't mean to scare you…" an embarrassed Neji answered.

"Oh, it's alright Neji! All you did was nearly giving me a heart attack!!!" Sakura said with a twitching face. Neji looked down, blushing.

"Don't take it to seriously, Neji, anyways, who could take someone with pink hair serious?!" Shikamaru said with his normal boring tone.

"Don't push it, Shikamaru," Sakura replied, grinding her teeth. Then she started walking out of the village. Neji and Shika-chan (I just HAD to write that…lol) looked at each other, and then started to follow her.

Halfway through the forest…

"Hey, um, Sakura? How long do we have to keep following you?" Neji asked curiously. Looking uneasily around the forest.

"Oh, just until Shikamaru learns some proper ma…!" Sakura replied, being cut short by a kunai flying towards her.

"EEEEEEEK!!!!!" Sakura screamed. Neji pulled her away from the kunai. But it was too late; the kunai was stabbed into Sakuras arm…

To be continued…!