I never did a story with them being Ninjas so I decided to do it now.. But in this story Naruto went on that journey after the war was over instead of Sasuke and five of his team mates went out to look for him, all for different reasons then what they would say.

12th story of the month.


It's been a year since the war ended and Naruto decided to take a journey on his own. Everyone tried to talk him out of it but no one could get him to stop not even Sasuke himself. No one knew why Naruto decided he wanted to on his journey the only thing he said when he left was that he needed to train and that he would come back when he felt he was okay to come back.

(In Konoha)

"Has anyone heard from him?" Ino said with her long blonde hair tied into a ponytail with her purple outfit on hugging her curves.

"Nope, not even Sasuke," Shikamaru said yawning. Sasuke glared at Shikamaru for that comment.

"We're ninjas and we still can't find him anywhere." Sakura said.

"That is because he doesn't want to be found." Shino said.

"Maybe we should send Shikamaru to go get him." Hinata said.

"Why Shikamaru?" Sasuke questioned.

"Because Shikamaru is smarter than all of us he can get into other people's minds." Choji said.

"Then we should just send Ino," Sakura said.

"Yeah she can get into his mind and bring him back here while she's in his body." Hinata said.

"Are you guys serious? You realize he has the nine tails fox in him and the fox won't let her in his mind. I am better off doing a genjutsu on him so he will come back." Sasuke said.

"We should see if Lady Tsunade has heard anything from him and see if she will let us go after him or at least some of us." Sakura said making everyone want to do it.

"But who should we decide to go?" Lee asked.

"Me and Sasuke of course but who else wants to go." Sakura said.

"Shikamaru should go," Choji said.

"Shikamaru, do you want to go?" Sakura asked.

"Sure I will go even though it's troublesome." Shikamaru said leaning against a tree.

"I will go," Ino said.

"What about you Kiba? You can smell him when we can't sense his chakra?" Sasuke said.

"I will go," Kiba said as Akamaru barked to confirm that he was going too.

"I want to go too." Hinata said.

"You're not going to be able to go. You're the heir to the Hyuuga clan so there not going to allow it." Neji said. "I will go in place of Hinata." Neji said.

"I wanted to go Neji but my rival beat me to it." Lee screamed.

"Lee shush," Tenten said.

"So we decided, that six of us would go but we would all ask if it's okay." Sakura said.

"What about me I am on Naruto's team too?" Sai said.

"But one of us has to stay to make it even. We all can't go but we can still see if all of us can go but as of now we have to at least have half of us to stay here." Sakura said.

"Okay let's go talk to Lady Tsunade and Kakashi." Sasuke said and started to walk with everyone to the Hokage tower.

Everyone didn't know how it was going to go but they were hoping Kakashi and Lady Tsunade were too busy to focus on the gravity of them all wanting to go and find their friend. When they got to the Hokage tower Lady Tsunade was throwing something at Kakashi and didn't notice that all of them came in.

Sakura stepped up in front of the other ninja in the group. "Lady Tsunade, Sensei Kakashi, we need to talk to you both."

"Yes what is it Sakura and all of you?" Lady Tsunade said while choking Kakashi sensei.

"We would like to go after Naruto." Sakura said.

"When you say we, who do you mean exactly?" Kakashi sensei inquired.

"All of us," Neji said.

"You all know you all can't go right?" Lady Tsunade said.

"Why?" Lee said.

"Because you all have priorities here." Kakashi said.

"Well we expected that so can half of us go then?" Sakura said.

"Who are the people going?" Kakashi asked raising his eyebrow.

"Me," Sakura said.

"Me," Sasuke said stepping forward.

"Me," Neji said walking forward to the other two.

"Me," Kiba said coming by the others.

"Me," Shikamaru said in a lazy tone but stepped forward anyway.

"And me," Ino said walking forward.

"So, you all had this planned already?" Lady Tsunade said not shocked.

The group nodded.

"What do you think Kakashi?" Lady Tsunade asked.

"I think only four of you can go so decide within five minutes who will be going. We can't let this many jonin out of the village at the same time." Kakashi said.

The group looked at each other and were shocked by the revelation of two of them having to leave the group because all of them had something the group needed.

"Please Kakashi sensei, we all need to be in this group." Sakura said stepping forward.

"Tell me what everyone is doing for the group." Kakashi said shocking all of them.

"I am going to track him when we can't track him by his chakra." Kiba said.

"Okay you can go." Kakashi said then glanced at the rest of them.

Kiba stood on the other side of the office waiting to see who else would be coming with him.

"I can find him using my head and guessing where he would go too." Shikamaru said.

"If you want to go and move your lazy ass then so be it your granted permission to go also." Kakashi said.

Shikamaru did the same thing as Kiba and stood to the side by Kiba.

Next to move was Ino, "I can get into his mind and try to make him move unless the nine tail fox blocks me out." Ino said.

Kakashi didn't say anything for a while then Kakashi looked at her with thought. "Sorry Ino but you should stay here and make use on your medical training." Kakashi said.

Ino backed away from the group and went back by Choji and Sai.

Neji walked up next, "I can track enemies and Naruto using my Byakugan." Neji said.

"You can go," Kakashi said and Neji walked to Shikamaru and Kiba.

Sakura stood forward, "I am a medical ninja that is required to go in case anyone or Naruto is hurt so I want to go." Sakura said.

Kakashi was shocked by her answer and quite proud of his old student. "You can go," Kakashi said and she ran to the other side where the other three stood.

Now all that was left was Sasuke and everyone seemed to be waiting for what he was going to say.

"I have no particular reason for wanting to go accept bringing that idiot back here. Your just lucky that I asked and didn't just go after that shithead." Sasuke said with a determination that they all seen when he was talking about killing his brother.

"Sasuke, I understand that you want Naruto back but that isn't a good reason that I should send you out on the field to go after him." Kakashi said.

"You want a damn reason because all of you let him chase me when I was gone so let me do the same." Sasuke said.

"That's not a good enough reason. You may not go," Kakashi said.

Sasuke glared at his old teacher he was highly upset about being told he wasn't allowed to go.

"Kakashi, this place isn't home without him and if he's not here I don't want to be here, is that a good enough reason for you to understand that I have to go after him? If he's not here, then I'm not meant to be here." Sasuke said shocking everyone in the room no one knew that's how Sasuke really felt.

"Okay you can go. But be sure to bring that crazy boy back well man I should say but I won't because you three are still the kids that I trained in my eyes. Be gone all of you," Kakashi said and everyone left the room.

"That's what you really wanted him to say huh Kakashi?" Lady Tsunade asked.

"You saw threw my act huh?" Kakashi said.

"You miss Naruto too huh?" Lady Tsunade asked.

"Yes I miss him and I am sure everyone here misses him too. Especially the people that came in this room today they are his family and they miss him. He will see when they catch him just how much they miss him." Kakashi said.

"Yeah I miss the brat too." Lady Tsunade said sighing.

As everyone left the Hokage tower they went straight to their homes and picked up their bags so they could bring what they needed for their mission to find Naruto.

(Outside of Konoha)

Naruto was walking in the middle of the desert heading for Suna. He didn't know why he was heading to see Gaara or even bothering to go to Suna, but he longed to be with someone he was familiar with.

"Gamatatsu, tell Gaara I am coming to him." Naruto said and the toad was gone in a second.

"I am coming to see you Gaara." Naruto said out loud.

(In Suna)

"Kage, there is a frog out here for you." One of Gaara's guards said.

"I am a toad you idiot. Gaara, Naruto said he will be here within a day, he just wanted to let you know that." Gamatatsu said.

"Tell him I will be waiting for him." Gaara said and the toad was gone.

"So you will be here in a day. It will be nice to see you buddy." Gaara said out loud.

"Who is coming?" Temari said walking in the office.

"Naruto," Gaara said.

"You know he has been missing for a year, right?" Temari asked.

"Yes that is why I am glad that he is coming to see me." Gaara said.

Temari walked out the office and went to send out a letter to Shikamaru to tell him that Naruto was coming to Suna.

(The Next Day)

"Sakura, get your ass moving before we leave you here by yourself." Kiba said irritated.

"Shut up dog," Sakura said with an attitude.

"Guys, Temari just wrote me saying that Naruto was heading to Suna. We should hurry up before he decides to leave. If he catches that were heading, there it wouldn't surprise me if he took off." Shikamaru said.

"Let's get going then," Sasuke said ready to go.

Sasuke was the first person to take off in the forest then was Kiba and the rest were off with them. Sakura being the slowest along with Shikamaru. Neji was in the middle with Kiba and Akamaru were behind Sasuke. Sasuke was the lead of the pack to say the least.

(In Suna)

"Hello friend," Gaara said at the entrance.

"Hello Gaara, how have you been?" Naruto said looking to his friend.

"Good, how about you?" Gaara said walking up to Naruto.

"Tired but good otherwise, do you have ramen anywhere? I'm starving," Naruto said giving Gaara a hug.

"We have ramen at the market." Gaara said.

Naruto hoorayed and followed Gaara to the market. As Naruto walked to the market he didn't know what was coming for him and what was coming for him was coming fast.


Reviews..

What did you think of this first chapter? Did you like what Sasuke said and do you think it sounded like him? Oh yeah and Neji is alive in my story I love him to much to kill him off. Sorry if I spoiled that part of the show for you if you didn't know.

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