Dear Diary,
Neji, Lee and I trained together today. Gai-sensei still has not returned from his mission and I'm beginning to worry. The mission was supposed to end three days ago, at least, Gai-sensei was supposed to be back then. He wouldn't tell us anything more then that he was going on a A rank mission with Asuma and wouldn't be back for three weeks. It isn't like Gai-sense to be late for anything, but worrying about Gai-sensei is really affecting my training. I can hardly concentrate. I can tell that Lee is more worried than I am because three times during our training Lee tripped. He tripped! The first time he tripped he was running towards Neji to attack him and he tripped over his own foot. He never trips over anything! Neji is worried too but he doesn't really show it. He hardly ever shows any emotion, so when he does, you know that something either really good or bad has happened and I think that he doesn't want to worry Lee anymore than he needs to be.
I really wanted to get my mind off of what could be happening right now to Gai-sensei, so after training I went home to shower and change my clothes. While I was there my mom said that dad was going on a "recon" mission just to check out a "suspicious" area near a village far from here. My dad hardly ever goes on recon missions anymore, he usually only goes on rescue missions. I think my mom only told that was so that I wouldn't worry too much. I know three days does not sound like a long time to be missing when your a ninja but there have been a lot more ninjas going rogue in so many villages that no one is sure what to do. I'm still only a genin, so no one will tell me very much. All the information I have is what I heard second-hand.
To cheer up Lee, Neji and I decided to take him to Ichariku's to get something to eat. When we got there Lee decided that he was not hungry and he just wanted to go home. So Neji and I went in without him and it was almost like a date! Not really though, Neji and I have done a lot of things without Lee. Mostly training, its not like we hang out with out Lee or anything. Actually Neji is starting to spend more time with Lee than he does with me. I'm not jealous or anything, though. Lee really could use more friends.
While we were eating Team Seven came in and totally interupted the serious conversation I was about to have with Neji. Well, it wasn't really Team Seven because Kakashi and Sasuke were not there, so it was more like just Sakura and Naruto. Naruto and Sakura seemed to be excited about something. I asked Sakura and she said that Kakashi had found Sasuke and was bringing him back to the village. I knew that he had been missing for a while, but it didn't even occur to me that Sakura and Naruto actually missed him. I've always gotten the impression from him that he didn't even like Sakura or Naruto. They must have missed him a lot to be that excited when they heard that he was coming back. They also told us that Kakashi sent along a message that said that when they found Sasuke they was a big fight and some of the ninjas in the rescue mission were injured. I never really liked Sasuke or Kakashi but Kakashi is a vital part of Konoha's defense and Sasuke could be to if he ever learned to work in a team. It would be a big loss for Konoha if something happened to Kakashi and he couldn't be a ninja anymore. He is one of our village's best ninja.
Bye for now,
TenTen.