Heeeeeeeeeeeello again, my friends. :-D As always I present to you, me, the always cheerful TheCupcakeViking and my very important moment of weird blabbering. xD

This chapter got a little shorter than the last one. But if I have to choose, then I just like Kisame in the first something before that line-thing. xD

Did that make sense? ... It did not, did it?

Okay, done with the blabbering, back to the point! Kakashi is a little not-so-Kakashi as I wished, but at the same time I wanted him to have that "protective brother"-thing as we know all older brothers suffer from. And the fighting scene I didn't describe so much (I'm sorry T^T), but my English unfortunately reached it's limit in that area. I tried to Google something, but in that area, Google dosen't seem to have an answer I can use (understand). Sorry 'bout that ...

Ehm ... Yeah ... I think that's all I have to say. My eyes are starting to sting a little from tiredness due to the time, which is clearly over my bedtime.

Oh, and by the way, I just LOVE Noemi-chan. She's so sweet inside my head. x3

As always I do not own Naruto (Masashi Kishimoto does), only my own characters like Noemi and all the others I haven't made yet. :-)

Enjoy! xD

Not too far from the border between the Land of Fire and the Land of Rain four men sat on the ground and waited. They wore black cloaks with red clouds here and there and their aura was thrilling. One of the men, a tall blue guy who looked a lot like a shark, turned to a guy with silver hair and dark eyes, lifting his fists.

"What the fuck do you think you're doing, Hidan?" the fish guy yelled.

The guy named Hidan just raised an eyebrow and smirked evilly. The two others ignored them, busy with sensing the chakra of trespassing shinobi's. The sun was high on the sky and it was so warm that, especially the fish guy, they had a hard time.

"What the fuck are you talking about, Sushi Boy?" Hidan asked camly.

"You've stolen my water bottle, Baka!"

"Kisame, calm down." One of the guys with long black hair in a low ponytail and onyx eyes said without looking at the two others.

"Itachi, he stole my friggin' water bottle. Have you any idea how I feel in this warm weather? I feel like I'm fucking roasting!" Kisame shouted, unable to calm down.

"Oh, then that's why there this delicious smell of roasted fish in the air." Hidan pointed out and smirked at the sight of Kisames face turning violet of rage. "I know a fucking fantastic recipe with roasted fish." Hidan said rubbing his stomach and with that evil smirk still on his face.

"You son of a bitch!" Kisame shouted and punched Hidan directly in the face.

As a result of Kisame's punch, Hidan flew six meters backwards and directly into a tree. Hidan's face showed sign of ecstasy like pleasure. Kisame snorted and marched away in the opposite direction, most likely to find water somewhere. Itachi sighed and felt the beginning of a major headache and closed his eyes to concentrate on the chakra from the trespassing shinobi's.

"Hey, Itachi, who exactly are we supposed to catch?" Hidan asked and stood up.

He walked over to Itachi and looked at him with a look as if he was bored. He scratched his head when Itachi didn't answer and shrugged. He walked over to a tree, sat down and closed his eyes.

"Sakura-san." Noemi said and looked at the kunoichi by her side. The other woman gave her a smile and Noemi couldn't help but wonder what it was like to be a ninja.

"Yes, Noemi-sama?" Sakura answered and looked at the girl.

"How is it like to be a ninja?" the priestess asked trying not to sound too curious. A little surprised by Noemi's question, Sakura had to think before she could answer that. In front of them, Naruto and Sai were discussing as always making it hard to think for all the noise they made.

"Well, it's hard sometimes. Ninjas are trained at an early age to be the tools for others to reach their dreams. We are supposed to be calm all the time, no matter the circumstances. That means if we are on a mission and one of our teammates are injured or dies while on the mission, no matter what we are not allowed to show any weakness. Even if the teammate are a friend, a teacher, a brother or sister, a mother or father, a son or daughter or even a partner. We are not allowed to lose focus on the mission. The mission is always the most important. That is hard, yes." Sakura said and smiled at the other female. "But even so, ninjas are quite normal. We love, we hate, we laugh, we cry, we get married and start our own families. You see? Ninjas are just as normal as you are but with the difference that we are born in another world, so to speak. We risks our life with every mission, but we celebrate each time we or our families or friends are coming back home safely."

The other female looked down, not sure what to say. It sounded horrible that these people had to live their lifes as mere tools. Noemi knew that she couldn't live like that and even if she pitied them a little, she admired them too.

"Do you have any family?" Noemi asked and blushed over the question, but she wanted to keep talking. She liked them all, but especially the kunoichi beside her, she found it easy to talk with.

"Yes. I have a mother and father." Sakura said and smiled. "What about you, Noemi-sama?"

Noemi fell silent and looked down. When she finally opened her mouth to answer, Sakura gave her a silent sign that she should be quiet. Noemi's eyes widened and she stepped a little closer to Sakura while she nervous glanced around her. Kakashi and Yamato were also en their marks, even Naruto and Sai had stopped and looked alarmed around them. Not far from their position they could see the three shinobi's from Amegakure come running towards them. But as they all tried to find the danger they all had sensed, they heard someone laugh.

Out of the surrounding forest came four people with black cloaks with red clouds on. Sakura cursed and grabbed her kunai from her bag and stepped back while pushing Noemi back too.

"Noemi-sama, please, we have to hurry to hurry to the three Amegakure shinobi's." Sakura said out through gritted teeth.

"But what about the others?" Noemi began, feeling the panic inside, making it hard for her to breathe.

"Noemi-sama, they are trained ninjas. Kakashi-sensei possesses the Sharingan, Naruto is a Jinchuuriki, Yamato can manipulate with tree and Sai has some bad-ass art." The kunoichi said and smiled without taking her eyes from the opposing danger. "Don't worry, they will be just fine. But you have to go with the other ninjas while we hold back these guys. Got it?" Sakura asked, but didn't wait for Noemi's answer as the three ninjas from Amegakure approached them and grabbed Noemi's left arm.

"Noemi-sama, please, this way!" a male ninja said and nodded to Sakura who in return hurried over to her teammates.

"Kisame, the priestess are getting away." A man with black hair in a low ponytail shouted. Sakura wondered where she had seen him, because his face seemed like she knew it from somewhere. He briefly looked directly at her, revealing his Sharingan.

Sakura gasped when she stared right into the eyes of Uchiha Itachi. She felt the ground shake and in the next moment, the ground parted under the feet's of her friends. Her body couldn't move as she watched her friends scream in fear while falling to the burning lava beneath them. She felt tears blurring her eyesight, when she suddenly felt a warm hand on her shoulder. She looked back up and saw Sai. She turned her head again and saw her friends – all alive.

"You looked into his eyes, Sakura-chan." Sai said and squeezed her shoulder lightly. "The blue guy ran after the ninjas who took Noemi-sama. You need to go after him and stop him or at least hold him up until one of us come."

Sakura nodded, glanced at her friends one last time and then pursued the guy who was a danger to Noemi.

Kakashi did no longer hide his Sharingan and he knew that he was the only one who could stand a chance against the famous Uchiha in front of him. A small chance it was but no less a chance. He knew that they all were pretty screwed right now, with one Akatsuki member after their client. Sakura was strong, he had felt that first hand, but he didn't know if she had a chance against Hoshigaki Kisame alone. He clenched his fist and gritted his teeth. He had to believe in his former student.

Naruto were already fighting Hidan, a Akatsuki member and a guy who it was rumored that was immortal. Kakashi didn't know if it was true, only time would show, but then again, since Naruto was a Jinchuuriki too, the enemy would probably try to catch him too. Sai and Yamato were fighting an unhealthy looking guy that sent chills up his spine. A movement in the corner of his left eye, made him raise his arms and block a kick from the Uchiha. The guy whirled around, standing on his hands and kicked upwards with his right foot and made Kakashi flew high up into the air. Itachi teleported himself to Kakashi's flying body and punched in the stomach. Kakashi fell to the ground with a chilling sound as his body collided with the ground. Itachi landed safely in a tree three meters away.

"Sensei!" Naruto shouted but didn't have time to check up on his former sensei as Hidan attacked with a wicked smile on his face and pure madness in his dark eyes.

"Wh-what do you want from Noemi-sama?" Kakashi asked with trouble and breathed hard.

Itachi didn't answer right away instead he just stared at Kakashi. He sighed as if Kakashi was a little child and Itachi running out of patience for the child. He touched his forehead lightly. Maybe the guy had a headache.

"Kakashi-san, let me ask you something." Itachi started and sighed again. "That girl, you called her Noemi, comes from the Land of Woods. The small country doesn't have any warriors and depends on the neighboring ninja villages. That girl is nothing but a priestess from a small temple. The temple has no treasures, they have no power, they have nothing. Why do you believe, we want anything from that girl?"

Kakashi furrowed his eyebrows in confusion. They were not after Noemi-sama at all? Then why did they attack? Kakashi knew right away when he saw the four men walk out from their hiding place that they had been waiting for them. If they had just randomly come across his team, then they would only have been two, not four. And Kisame had pursued Noemi and the Amegakure ninjas and then Sakura had pursued Kisame to stop him and protect the young girl.

His eyes widened to the point, where one might fear that they would pop out of his skull, as he solved the puzzle Itachi had laid before him. They weren't after Noemi. They had never been. Somebody had told them about their mission which had led to this attack. Kisame weren't after Noemi either, it was just something they wanted them to believe.

He turned his head abruptly and looked the direction Sakura had left. A somewhat unknown feeling of pure and primitive fear filled his entire body until he felt like he couldn't breathe or move. His heart skipped a beat or two the moment he heard Itachi put words on one of his biggest fears in this world.

"We want Haruno Sakura-san!"