Hello randomers =) I began this chapter agesssss ago but only bothered to finish it now lol

p.s I have no idea what 'north-east region' means! Most words I use don't make any sense to me so don't worry about it! Review!!!

"We've got to go after him!" Naruto shouted as he fumed up and down the hokage's office. "He's not that far, not now but if we stay here any longer he will be!" He turned to face Lady Tsunade, with anger clear on his face, "but I guess you don't care about Sasuke -"

"Naruto" Sakura cautioned him with a steady gaze. Lady Tsunade took in a deep breath and said what she'd already explained to Naruto and Sakura, which - felt like a hundred times already.

"There aren't enough available ninja to go with you and with the low number of ninja left in the village it would be foolish to send away even more."

"But-" Naruto started to object, but Lady Tsunade wasn't finished yet.

"But I guess you don't care about that!" Tsunade had raised her voice and a vein was popping out of her head.

Naruto and Sakura's ears were ringing for a long while before they could hear properly again. Naruto had a troubled look on his face and Sakura watched him with worry. Tsunade also stared at him but with stern eyes, waiting to hear his reply.

Naruto looked away from them both and mumbled, "I know, I get it. But-" He put his head down for a moment and then looked back towards them. Tsunade and Sakura's eyes hadn't strayed from him. "Just I and Sakura could g-"

"No," Tsunade interrupted him, her hands were on her desk and she gripped them into fists as she spoke, "-out of the question. It's too dangerous."

"We'll -"

"NO! There are only two of you. You're not going, end of!"

Naruto turned away again, bitterly and mumbled under his breath. "You can't stop me." But he wasn't as quiet as he'd thought for Tsunade leaped from her chair and was inches from him before he'd even noticed he was flying into the opposite wall!

"What the heck!" Naruto moaned after his body had collided with the wall, sending dust and bricks everywhere.

Tsunade grabbed his collar and pulled his face to hers out of the wreckage.

Sakura wanted to go after Sasuke too and he wasn't that far away. There had to be a way to persuade Lady Tsunade to let them go... But she was so worried about Naruto and Sasuke that she just didn't have the strength to think about it.

Sakura thought about Sasuke while Tsunade flung Naruto around in the background. Tsunade was just about to hit Naruto again when Sakura approached her.

"What if we could find someone to go with us?" Sakura asked.

"No." Tsunade said.

Sakura tried again: "Someone who's not got any missions and has a skill that would help us to stay safe."

"No, Sakura. The numbers are still too little, it's too dangerous."

Tears silently fell down Sakura's cheeks. "Please" she whispered. Tsunade stood up straight, away from Naruto who was crouched on the floor rubbing the new bump that was on his head.

She stared into Sakura's watery eyes for a moment then sighed and walking back to her desk. "I don't know" she shook her head slowly back and fourth. Naruto looked up into Sakura's face and saw the tears trailing down her cheeks. He immediately felt guilty. He stood up. Sakura walked to the window, she was pretending to be looking out at the village but Naruto and even Tsunade knew she was trying to wipe away her tears, in secret.

It was quiet for a long five minutes, while Lady Tsunade still sat shaking her head. Sakura was still at the window wiping away the tears that never seemed to end and Naruto still watched her feeling guilty.

Then suddenly Lady Tsunade pushed her chair back a little and started searching for something in the bottom drawer of her desk. After a couple of seconds she dropped an enormous file onto the desk, so enormous that it makes you wonder how big the desk's bottom drawer?

Naruto and Sakura looked towards Lady Tsunade, to understand what the big slam was that they'd heard. Tsunade opened the file and began to scan through names. Naruto and Sakura watched curiously.

After about fifth teen minutes are so, Tsunade stopped scanning through the papers that were all from the one file.

"Shizune!" She called towards the office doors and just two seconds after being called Shizune came through the office doors.

"Yes, Tsunade-sama?"

Tsunade was cleaning up her desk as she spoke, "send for Hyuga Hinata."

Shizune left, to do just that but not without feeling the desperation and worry that had soaked up the room's entire atmosphere. She barely noticed the hole in which Naruto had plunged into.

"Hinata?" Naruto was the one to ask. Sakura's eyes lit up with hope.

"Yes. She's the only one out of her team who hasn't had any missions lined up for awhile and she's been using up all that time training, so she's very capable. Her byaugan will come in handy for keeping safe and aware. She's the perfect candidate and the best I can do with the little number of ninja still in the village."

Sakura's eyes sparkled with joy and relief. She'd figured out what was going on the second Lady Tsunade had told Shizune to send for Hinata. She smiled broadly at Tsunade who smiled back.

But there was still someone who hadn't a clue what was going on! Naruto stared blankly at Sakura confused about why she was smiling and even more confused as to why Tsunade was smiling. He rubbed his chin in thought.

Hinata had been down at the training ground that she always goes to, because except for her and her comrades not a lot of people went there. She was just about to go for a run and was stretching to prepare herself for it when a bird flew down on to one of the stumps that they used for training and chirped at her.

She glanced over at the bird and immediately spotted the little note that was tied to it's left leg. She took the note, read it, then ran to the Hokage's office.

Hinata stood nervously outside the office doors, she was about to knock, she took in a deep breath and knocked twice before being told to 'enter' by the Hokage's voice.

Hinata opened the door and walked into the room with her best 'ready for anything' face. But no matter how hard she tried to stay in the moment, nothing could of stopped her cheeks burning up when Naruto glanced over to her - finally putting the bits together that explained what was going on here.

"Oh...!" he shouted in Hinata's direction - causing her to jump in surprise and embarrassment. Then he span around to Tsunade, "Hinata's will help us! She has byaugan!!!"

Tsunade and Sakura sighed loudly n shook their heads. Hinata made her way to stand in front of the Hokage and waited patiently for her orders, while being very careful to not look back at Naruto.

Tsunade put on her 'serious look', "Hyuga Hinata, Haruno Sakura and Uzimaki Naruto you are to search along the north-east region. You are only looking for clues! When you have searched everywhere in the north-east region your mission is complete." All three of them nodded.

"Naruto"

"Yes?" Naruto's eyebrows were frowned downwards towards his nose and his jaw and hands were clenched. Tsunade took note of his body language and repeated: "You are only looking for clues. You hear me?" He took a moment and then nodded.

He didn't wait to be told to leave the office and prepare he shot past Hinata and Sakura in a flash. Tsunade had watched him go, with stern-eyes.

"Yes! Finally some action!" Naruto practically sung to himself as he packed his backpack in his bedroom in his apartment. He skipped into the kitchen leaving his bag on his bed, opened the fridge and took out the only thing in there - a milk carton. He gulped down what was left of it and then grabbed his bag from his bed to go down to the gate to await the Sakura and Hinata.

But before he could make it back through his bedroom door a silent seriousness smoother over his expression and made his grip on his bag tighten.

He looked over at the photo of him and his comrades back when they were 'Team 7' he remembered feeling like he hated Sasuke and then feeling like he'd finally been noticed by the person who always looked down on him, everyone looked down on him but he was used to it. But when Sasuke noticed him, he felt nothing could stop him from accomplishing his dream.

He walked over to the photograph and smiled. "I will save you Sasuke, my friend."