Takes place after Sakura confesses her love for Naruto in the Land of Iron, i put my own twist on things. I don't own the characters or anything. Enjoy.

Naruto swore and threw his fist against the wall, all his emotions rising at once to try and become the dominate one. He couldn't believe that after everything that had happened, this was what it turned out to be.

The girl he loved was on her way to kill his best friend after confessing her love to him which he found out was just a ruse to get him to return to the village quietly. How messed up could things get?

Kakashi and Yamato stared at him, they could say nothing to comfort him, they both knew that, but they couldn't leave him alone for fear of what he might do.

Naruto had been furiously tracking Sasuke for so long, it took him forever to find him. He tried to rationalize that there was no way Sakura could find him so fast.

But this time is different, a voice in his head whispered, she knows where he is; he attacked the summit, everyone knows where he is. And she has Kiba, he could find Sasuke quickly.

Naruto swore again, another fist hitting the wall, he had to stop her; had to stop him from killing her because he knew that there was no way Sakura could take down Sasuke in a fight, and since he heard about Sasuke joining to Akatsuki there was little doubt in his mind that Sasuke wouldn't hesitate in killing her.

"I have to go after her," he said aloud, though mostly to himself. Kakashi looked gravely at Naruto, Yamato looked at Kakashi seemingly to await his approval on Naruto's plan.

"She couldn't have gotten that far." Kakashi said, moving towards Naruto and placing a hand on his shoulder, "we'll go after her as soon as we finish fixing the building."

"I've caught his scent, I don't think he's that far from us now." Kiba said as he led the way through the trees, Sakura's nerves were biting at her and she was thankful that for now all she had to do was mindlessly follow the boy and his dog.

"Listen Kiba," she said, swallowing the lump in her throat, "Sai..." she added, nearly forgetting that her teammate was with her. "When we find him I want you to stay back, this is something I need to do alone." Sai said nothing, but Kiba stopped in his tracks and turned back to stare at her incredulously.

"Are you joking? You seriously think you can kill Sasuke by yourself? We should just wait for the others to meet up with us before we attack him." Kiba had planned for Neji and everyone else to meet with Lee who broke off from their group after they left Naruto to tell them what happened.

"I have to do this, Kiba, please understand." She tried to meet Kiba's stare but she couldn't bring herself to do it.

"Naruto would hate us if we just let you walk in there and get killed." Kiba said, trying to reason with her, she tried to laugh but it came out as a broken sob.

"He already hates me, whether I live or die won't change that." She looked at Sai who looked back at her calmly, "I know you told him everything, you probably mentioned that it was my intention to kill Sasuke myself." Kiba stared at Sai with an open mouth, only slightly surprised that he had gone behind their back to tell Naruto.

"I believe he deserved to know." Sai said calmly, though he did look a little ashamed.

"Then we just have to hurry up, Naruto will follow us soon, there's no way he would sit still thinking I'm trying to kill Sasuke."

She went to keep on walking but Sai grabbed her shoulder, pulling her back so she could see the look on his face.

"What do you mean 'thinking'? Doesn't he 'know' that you are?" Sakura stared back at him, shocked that Sai would be so perceptive to pick up on that, and mad at herself that she would let something like that slip. She said nothing, no matter what they thought they didn't know her plan and even if they did there was no way to let Naruto know now.

"What are you planning on doing, Sakura?" Kiba asked, staring at her with the same confused expression as Sai. She pulled herself away from Sai and started walking in the direction Kiba had been leading them.

"It doesn't matter, it's just something I have to do alone."