Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.. i think all of us who writes these stories wish we do thou.....

Enjoy, its my first story... hope you like!!

Chapter One

She sat there, waiting, but little did she know that he wasn't coming. She waited for hours, days, weeks, months, years even, but he never came.

It's been 7 years since Sasuke left, she waited for years but he never came back, so she did what needed to be done, she gave up and moved on. She's now 20.

The sun was waiting to rise, the sky had that pre-sunrise glow to it making it all the more beautiful. It was supposed to be just another day in Konoha. Sakura was getting ready to go work her shift at the hospital when there was a knock at the door. Groaning she goes to the door to see who would bother her at this hour, 5:30 am (her shift starts at 6 btw.. hehe) She opens the door to see Naruto. "What do you want?" she asks "I have to get to work soon, and what are you doing here so early?" He just grins sheepishly and rubs the back of his head, "HI Sakura-chan, uh Tsunade-sama wanted to see us. She told me you would be awake getting ready for your shift, so to go ahead and get you now." "Oh" was her only reply.

I wonder what Shishou wants?

Probably for you and loud mouth over there to go on a mission… Why else?

Well duh, but why this early in the morning?

Have no clue besides you would've been at work for half the day.

Oh shh, smart-ass…

You know you love me… XD

As she walked with Naruto to hokage tower not even listening to him go on and on about how he missed his breakfast this morning, because she was sitting there arguing with herself and deep in thought about what Tsunade wants.

15 minutes later they're at her office wondering what's going on. They knock on her door and enter after she yells for them to.

"Ahh so I see you're here," the blond hokage states "sorry for the early summoning, but I have a very important mission for all of yall."

"All, Tsunade-sama?" ask Sakura.

"Yes Sakura, we are just waiting for Kakashi now." While Sakura and Naruto both anime drop to the floor both complaining how he's always late and it would be at least noon before he's probably even up, not to mention here.

Tsunade just smirks and points behind them, they turn around to find none other than Kakashi Hatake "Yo" he lazily says like he's bored and doesn't want to be here. And of course their jaws drop like omg he's early! He just smiles his eye crinkling smile and scratches the back of his head.

"All right, time to get to business. Team Kakashi, I have a very important and highly dangerous mission for you." She stopped and gauged their reactions:

Naruto the number one hyper active knuckle-headed ninja, tried to hide his excitement as best as he could and not interrupt. This was his first A-ranked mission in what seemed like forever to him, which was actually just a little over one and a half months ago.

Sakura her apprentice, who almost is able to surpass her, who is like a daughter to the hokage, just waited patiently for her sensei to tell them the details of the mission. She knows why Tsunade pauses before she's about to brief a team for a new and relatively dangerous mission.

Kakashi, Konoha's very own Copy-cat Ninja, just sat there looking very bored and was barely able to stay awake at this hour, when in fact his attention was completely and fully on Tsunade and what she was about to say.

She continued "We have found information about Orochimaru's whereabouts. It seems that he and Sasuke are planning to attack Konoha within a years' time. And I need you three to stop them, AT ONCE!"

All three of them were shocked with this news, the only thing they could think of at this point was…

Why, Sasuke?

"I'll give you three till noon to get ready and leave, you may take Sai and Yamato with you if you wish, but I figured this was something personal you three would want to take care of. But Jiraiya will be meeting up with you three when you are closer to their hideout." Tsunade said while handing Kakashi the map. "Dismissed" she practically yelled, while they all bowed and quickly left to gather their belongings, for their most crucial and hardest mission yet.

Its short, i know, hoped you liked.. please feel free to rate and review...... wont hurt my feelings if you don't.. but i'd like feed back since this is my first ever story.