How Will I Know
By: esmtz
Naruto POV
I think it was just me but I thought I saw a hand wave in front of my face and if it actually did man I didn't pay attention my eyes were completely glued on Neji.
"He just got back like 15 minutes ago Lee" I hear Sakura say and I finally manage to turn my head to look at her who was also completely blushing.
I finally notice that it was Lee's hand that was in front of me as he pulls back grinning at me and then smiles at her.
"I see so everyone decided to come eat here" Lee said.
"Yeah pretty much" Sakura said.
"Hey guys I'm gonna go ahead and head on home im exhausted from the trip" I say as I get up and everyone says goodbye and I leave but as I do I notice that someone was following me as I turn and see Neji who completely gets nervous and I smile "Neji do you want to come hang out with me at my place?"
"Well ok then I don't really have anything to do" he sighs and he walks next to me and we head on to my place.
While walking I kept glancing at Neji blushing like mad still not believing that he was actually gonna come over to my place but then he suddenly turns his head the other direction and I look at him wondering why he did that.
"Neji something wrong?"
It takes a few seconds before he responds.
"No" he looks back at me seriously.
"Well ok…" I shrug as we continue walking but for some reason Neji kept looking in the same direction.
We soon arrive at my empty apartment since I had taken a lot of my stuff from here on my trip. I drop my bag on the bed and sit down and Neji looks around the place.
"So this is where you live Naruto its small"
"Yeah I know but I've been living here since I was small this is where the old man took care of me" I said lying down on my bed still looking at him.
"Really?" Neji says a little surprised looking at me making me blush.
"Um yeah" I avert my eyes and I see the picture of my group on the table and I get up and I go look at it.
Neji walks over to me and looks at it.
"It's your team with Uchiha still here" for some reason Neji sounded jealous when he said that and I smiled sadly.
"Yeah I still miss him though I am gonna find a way to bring him back" I grin as I go to look out the window and I do a double take.
"What is it Naruto?" Neji comes my way and looks out the window and I look at him.
"Oh nothing Neji" I look out the window again and see that the person was gone and I shake my head.
"Well alright then" he looks at me worried.
Either my eyes were deceiving me or I really did see the older of the two brothers, Itachi Uchiha. After I met him a few years ago I knew that I wasn't going to mistake him for Sasuke as well as figuring out that I was the one he was after then and more than likely is still after now. I shake my head as I turn to Neji.
"Hey Neji there's been something I uh wanted to ask you for some time now" I blushed like mad and noticed that he was also turning red.
"What is it Naruto?"
I was just about to get closer to him when suddenly the door burst open and both Sakura and bushy brow showed up both completely white and before Neji or I could ask we were stopped by Sakura.
"It's Gaara he's been kidnapped!" Sakura yells and she grabs mine and Neji's hands and rushes us out of my apartment followed by bushy brow.
"WHAT when did this happen?!" I ask horrified.
"I don't know Tsunade just got the message from the sand village telling her what had just happened" Sakura replies.
"We need to go see her now" bushy brow says and I nod still not believing what had happened.
We arrived at granny Tsunade's place and were immediately informed of the situation. Kankuro apparently chased after the kidnappers but then was taken down and poisoned and we were to immediately go to the sand village.
"We're going too" Gai says as he looks at Kakashi "you guys might need our help"
"This Akatsuki group is definitely not going to be easy to handle Kakashi" Tsunade says with her hands clasped and her head laying on them looking at him.
"Well alright then we'll leave as soon as everyone is ready" Kakashi nods in agreement and he and Gai playfully start flirting with each other making Tsunade pissed.
"NOT NOW YOU TWO!"
"What? You're just jealous because Jiraya happens to flirt with a lot of girls instead of concentrating on you isn't that right?" Gai grins as granny Tsunade turns red.
"Be quiet and get going already!"
We all laugh.
"Granny Tsunade has a thing for pervy sage!" I tease and she glares at me.
"GET GOING!"
"Alright we're leaving sheesh!" I said as both our teams leave the room.
We all meet up 20 minutes later at the gate.
"We're all ready Kakashi you guys took your sweet time!" Gai says as Kakashi, Sakura and I show up.
"Sorry about that Gai I was looking for something" Kakashi says rubbing the back of his head chuckling a little and I roll my eyes.
"Ok then lets move!" Gai says and we all start running.
Narrator POV
No one noticed as Itachi Uchiha and his partner silently followed after them as well as Sasuke Uchiha, who was well aware of what was happening, also followed hoping that he wasn't too late.
"Please let me get there in time!" Sasuke says.