Note: I sadly don't own Naruto or any one from that anime…I came up with the idea for this fanfiction when I was dancing around my room listening to my iPod yesterday. :D
It was another normal day at the Leaf Village. There hadn't been a mission in a while so everyone has been training a lot as of late.
Naruto walked down the street after his fifth daily bowl of ramen. Thinking about stopping to see if there were any missions coming up when a spot of pink out of the corner of his eye drew his attention from his thoughts. Knowing who it was right away Naruto ran up to his team mate who he hadn't seen for quite some time.
"Sakura! It's been far too long!"
The pink haired girl looked up at his, a pile of books in her arms. Her green eyes lit up when she saw that Naruto was the one addressing her. She smiled at him as she returned his greeting.
"Hello Naruto. I was just talking about you with Tsunade."
Naruto almost started to jump up and down out of excitement. He knew what that meant. It meant there was a mission coming up and they are going to put him on it.
"Really? What kind of mission is the old lady putting me on?"
Sakura glared up at him for not being more respectable towards his elders but let it slide as she answered his question.
"You never miss a beat when it comes to fighting, don't you Naruto."
She giggled and shuffled the couple of books she had into one arm and graved a yellow folder that was sitting on top of the stack of books with the other hand and then handed it to Naruto.
"There's rumor of a ring that can give any living creature anything they demand of it. Tsunade doesn't want anyone to actual use the thing but she wants to make sure that this is just a rumor so that no one with bad intentions can get a hold of it."
Naruto nodded his head at her to show he understood. Sakura smiled up at him and told him to talk to Tsunade more if he wanted more information as she shuffled her books around again in her arms and pulled up off the top walking forward and started to read it as she walked away from him.
Naruto flipped open the folder and noticed one thing out of the corner of his eye on the first paper. This wasn't a mission for just one team. Tsunade had written down names instead of teams and there was about ten names written. He repeated them all in his head.
-Choji A
-Hinata H
-Ino Y
-Kabuto Y
-Kiba I
-Lee R
-Naruto U
-Sai
-Sakura H
-Shikamaru N
-Shino A
-Temari
-Garra
13….There were 13 ninja written on this piece of paper for this mission. Some of them were not even from this village. Naruto pondered this for a minute. Maybe it's a misprint. Maybe it was just to get everyone together again as one big happy family….highly doubting the later Naruto could only come to one good conclusion. She knew someone else was after the ring and she knew they were powerful.
All but one light was alit in the Haruno home. Sakura sat there looking through book after book after book. She had learned something that no else knew. No one else could possible understand. She had a secret that could give her the upper hand if she ever got the chance to play it... and she intended to.
Tsunade could have punched Sakura for giving Naruto that file. He has been in her office for what seemed like hours asking about the mission.
"Why are so many ninjas going? Why are ninjas from the Sand coming with us? When are we leaving? When is Garra's group getting here? Where is the ring being kept? What kind of security does it have? How many-"
"SHUT UP!"
"Then answer my questions!"
"Who said I have to answer to you?"
"Come on Grandma you HAVE to tell me!"
"No I don't HAVE to do anything!"
"Will you two stop it?"
Sakura walked into Tsunade's office with Tsunade at her desk and Naruto almost on top of her desk. Tsunade glared at Sakura obviously silently yelling at her for giving Naruto any kind of information before her ok. Sakura nodded at her as a short apology.
"There here Tsunade."
Sakura said as she approached the desk. Tsunade stood up and sighed in relief.
"Good then go! All of you!"
She looked at Naruto when she spoke her last sentence. Sakura rolled her eyes and called the visitors into the room anyways. Tsunade must have been so busy with her aggregation towards Naruto that she forgot that she didn't brief anyone on the mission yet. After the visitors from the sand village strolled in the rest of the leaf ninja going on this mission were soon all crowded into the room.
"Ok Tsunade everyone is here. Care to do your job now?"
Tsunade shot a quick glair at Sakura but it didn't faze her at all. Tsunade looked around the room at all the ninjas she was sending. She thought for one split second that maybe she was sending too many….but then she remembered who else has their eyes on that ring.
"Ok everyone! You are to go to the land of thunder and bring me back a ring that has the power to give its barrier anything they wish of it. NO ONE and I repeat NO ONE is to put it on! If any other ninja from any other villages get in your way...-"
She stopped and looked out the window, contemplating how to put this.
"Show no mercy."
The sand village ninja understood and nodded right away showing their understanding but the leaf village ninja were taken back a bit by Tsunade's words and hesitated a bit. In the end all ninja bowed to Tsunade and were on their way.
Shikamaru was assigned captain of the group and he asked Sakura to back him up as co-captain. Then they left for the land of Thunder but only Sakura knew what they were truly getting themselves into.
