(A/N):Chapter two! I just want to say thanks to everyone for adding the story and etc.. and also for the review from Jinchurikigrl. I know I didn't leave that big of a time slot in between chapters to allow time for a few others, but I just really felt like writting another one today ^^ So I hunkered down with a bowl of spicy kimchi soup and did exactly that. Hahaa, okay so I like ramen too, but really- not many people don't. At least not that I know, meh anyways, I'm off track- bad! Once again thanks to all and before you kick my butt for taking too long, I'm gonna just kick it in gear. Time to get my fingers moving.

DISCLAIMER:~ As much as I'd love the credit, I, unfourtunately, DO NOT own Naruto.

Recap-

"Pein-sama. I'm on my way"

"I expected to be waiting longer than that Itachi. Did you really finish him that quickly? What happened..?"

Itachi considered. His face fell into a smug expression. "No. We were interrupted.."

"Oh? By whom?"

"His former teammates."

Chapter 2 ~Recon~

Sasuke's POV:

I gritted my teeth, so much so that I thought they would crack. If they did I wouldn't be surprised. How could he? Today was the day I finally got revenge for my clan. The day I finally killed him. And he had the nerve to just run off? How dare he! How dare he!

My grip on the Kusanagi tightened, the thin fabric from my gloves thrashing against the handle, creating a harsh friction and tense sound. All I could do was run over his last words . Over and over... "...Have fun.." Oh, but I was already having so much... I sighed, in both an attempt the calm myself and figure out what he'd meant, which was obviously something unrelated to him. I let out a sharp breath through my nose, no way in hell was I calming down anytime soon. There was no telling when I'd have another chance to destroy him.

"Itachi..." I growled his name through my teeth, so low frighteningly low, like it was natural.

Suddenly I became aware of approaching chakras, familiar, but they didn't belong to Team Hawk. Not a second later, a voice shouted angrily, "Teme!"

"You...Have fun..."

...Oh.

It dawned on me. Slowly, my head cocked over my shoulder to land my ever present glare on Itachi's description of 'Fun'. Was this some sort of sick joke? It must be. Were they...? My thoughts trailled off for a moment. No, they weren't clones, or genjutsu. Their chakras were real, I could see them, feel them.

Hell no.

I pivoted on my right heel to face them both fully. My expression was blank as paper, if you didn't count the twitch hinting at my frustration. They just didn't know when to give up, did they? I kept my posture loose, though coiled, I probably appeared unfazed. I really didn't care to waste my time keeping too much of a guard up around them. They weren't worth the effort. Though I found myself muttering my annoyance.

"You people need to learn how to differentiate between useless recon's and not."

"Shut up! How can you be so smug! Drop the damn act and lets go. I don't feel like slamming you into an early retirement just yet," Naruto burst out. I swear I could already see the tell tale signs of one of his little speeches beginning to form. The Dobe always did have something like a Jesus complex. I swear, if I have to stand here and listen to this crap, I'll kill them both right now. Where the hell is Hawk?

I sighed and put a hand to my face in a laguid, lazy movement. Moving it up and through my hair, resisting the urge to laugh outright at his threat. "Now, how do I avoid this... I wasted too much chakra on Itachi. Fighting is too risky. Which brings me back to my earlier question; where was Team Hawk?" Glancing back at my two ex-teammates through narrowed slits I reasoned that there must have been more of them, and reaching out further to feel for any surrounding chakra, the theory was confirmed. So, Kakashi was with them, too.

Joy, the whole pack is here.

"Naruto... Sakura," I drawled, suddenly very bored. This seamed to piss of the Dobe, but Sakura could have passed in indifference. Besides what I'd come to know as annoyance -through experience- edging on her aura. Was she too scared to react? "Tch," I scoffed under my breath with narrowed black eyes. Pathetic.

"Teme?" Naruto prodded uncertainly. He took a protective step to partially place himself infront of Sakura. And I smirked. My gaze snapped back to Naruto, my Sharingan had been deactivated for awhile now, and I felt no need to change that. It only felt a little strange to see them again with dark eyes rather than the ghostly stare that was my Sharingan. It had been months since last I'd seen them at the snake's hideout, and then it had been all out. But, I had seen what they could do back then, they weren't any match for me. I bet I could even take them now if I wanted... regardless of my chakra.

"You...waste your time, ne? Neither of you have changed, and I will not go back to Konoha. You two, can't possibly change any of that. It's always been the same. You are all beneath me. You, and Konoha. And..." I lowered my head for a moment, not sure if they knew yet already, but... "I won't return to a place that ordered the masacre of my clan." He let that sink in, proud that he'd stumped them. Only, the looks on their faces... weren't what he was expecting. At all.

"Idiot." This was Sakura's voice, agitated and fed up at the same time as somehow completely calm. "We know that. The one who ordered it has been put under high security lockdown. Not a soul enters without the hokage being present. Even then I'm sure you realise how hard that might even be," Sakura stated almost boredly, arms crossed and looking away somewhere off to the side. It was the first thing she'd said so far. Hn, so she can talk.

"Teme! You calling me weak?" Naruto, of course, ignored the little enlightenment segment and skipped right to the core of what I'd said. His face twisted into a narrow snarl.

"You really are an idiot," I muttered exasperated, then turned mocking. "Yes, Naruto. I called you and Sakura pathetic, little-" Sasuke's eyes widened a fraction, as his sentece was cut off by a loud cry.

Sakura's POV:

Call me weak, will you? I don't freaking think so. Cha! I flew past Naruto on chakra propelled feet, swiftly dashing over the rocky terrain and heading straight for a good punch in the face.

"Shannaro!" I clenched my teeth. He'd gone too far. That bastard was so infuriatingly blind it drove me mad! Couldn't he see that Naruto cared about him? That we both did? Or was he just blowing us off like some child would a toy he'd grown tired of playing with? "You Bastard!" Just then a shadow clone of his dashed infront of my line of attack, getting in the way, rather than waste the blow on him, I smirked and danced backwards a quarter step and smashed into the earth below me.

There was a loud satisfying crack beneath me and it played domino's as I'd wanted towards Sasuke. Eliminating the clone instantly with the mere impacting shudder through the ground. The earth crumbled beneath us and simultaniously, we leaped into the air. For a moment, time froze. Everything slowed down to minimal and I noticed every detail. Adrenaline. The air passing across our faces rocked our hair back and forth. Slowly, glimpses of our even placed glares were seen by the other. Mine; narrow, even and hard. Sasuke's just the same, only twinged with a surprise he could never understand. I'd changed alright. And he would learn the hard way.

My eyes sparkled with minor victory, however shortly lived. In the same second we threw kunai at each other. Only at the whim of a memory, I'd laced mine with a surprise. Our kunai deflected off each other, the tang eerily contrasted next to the silence around us. The moment they clashed my surprise took effect and beneath the kunai's collision, in the shodow of the other, I'd hidden another kunai. I felt the corner of my mouth pull up,

Cha! You tell him Sakura! Who's laughing now? Uchiha jerk! Inner rambled on inside my brain and I tuned her out, as much as I agreed with her, this moment was just too priceless to miss.

The shadow kunai jutsu zipped clean through the air, and skinned his cheek as he attempted to avoid the worst of the blow. Blood pushed itself through pale skin, forming a thin line of red, a single drop edged down towards his jaw.

His eyes were wide and with a scary calm I breathed out: "I'm sorry, Sasuke, what were you saying?" I was a good 20 feet from him now, and Naruto came up to flank my side. I didn't let Sasuke have any chance at answering,

"Naruto. This starts now. Talking won't sway him. Looks like you'll get to drag him back like you wanted." Naruto only looked at me a little shocked. He obviously hadn't seen any indication to my outburst beforehand. After all, I'd beat him to it. Then he nodded with a bright yet sneaky smile plastered on his face. He cracked his knuckles turning his attention back to Sasuke who'd wiped the blood from his cheek, only to stain the sleeve of his white Oto shirt.

"Ne, Sasuke-teme? What were you going to say. I'm curious..."

(NORMAL POV:)

Damn, Sasuke thought bitterly. How in the world did she do that? "You know damn well what I was saying! Even you can't be that stupid," He finished in a mumble. He wasn't sure whether to fight them or not now. His chakra was low, yes, but he had two other clones lying in wait. If he timed it right and caught them off guard, that would be that. But he'd already seen how easy it was for Sakura to destroy them without having to necessarily be within a certain distance. Long range, short range, -whatever. If she sensed it coming, that plan was over. And Sasuke didn't like the idea of testing his chakra limit by masking his clone's chakra.

Sakura was contemplating on which way to go about it first, she figured she'd wait until Naruto did something. She thought it was always easier to branch off her own movements from his, they worked very well together. She supposed it was because since Sasuke was never around, they'd gotten to train a lot together a lot more. They weren't just part of a team, they were really like family. In every sense of the word excluding the blood relativity. They spent almost every waking moment together, most of which Sakura was completely perturbed by him. But, hey, he was Naruto. When he had nowhere to go, she was there for him. He'd stay at her place countless times. Either to just hang out or practice jutsu and stuff. They knew each inside out. Which is why the moment Naruto cloned himself for what she guessed was rassengan, she did the same, making two clones and backing him up.

They charged forward and were met with two of Sasuke's clones, Sakura's had lost out but managed to take them out along with themselves. When she got close enough to Sasuke she jumped up high, opening the way for Naruto to take the plunge. In the air Sakura turned to gaze down and watch. And what she saw, left her dumbstruck.

"Water Style: Ripping Torent!" A white haired teen shouted loudly as a huge mass of water collected at his blade then struck out to send Naruto flying back, completely drenched. Naruto staggerd, attempting to rise. His arms shook and failed him as he glared up to meet the cocky gaze infront of him. Naruto's wind element Rassengan had managed to blow and part most of the water jutsu. Had he been prepared against it, he'd be fine maybe even won out. But he was holding back, wanting to only incapacitate Sasuke, not kill him. The water jutsu's power level won out and stunned him for a moment.

Sakura landed lithely several meters behind Sasuke and the Water nin. The two enemies now separated her and Naruto, she bit her lip trying to concentrate. The new enemy, she assessed, was just water style. She could read it in his chakra. He stood infront of Sasuke, guarding him...from the front. But what were the chances that she'd gone unnoticed? Slim to none.

"Suigetsu," Sasuke began. "Your timing needs work." Just then he spared a glance over his shoulder to bore his stare into Sakura, halting any advance she might have thought to try.

"Sorry, Sasuke. I came right when Kisame-Sempai took off. Tch, woulda nailed him too, cowardly bastard."

"Ha! Excuse me? You were getting you ass handed to you, idiot. If he hadn't run off that would have been then end of you... " Karin's expression turned sneaky as she appeared out from the forest and into the clearing. She waltzed up to her teammates, "Too bad, cause then I would have had Sasuke-kun all to myself!" and squealed as she clung to Sasuke's side, appearing to almost be literally hanging off him. "Well except for Juugo, by the way, where is he?"

"Fighting, Kakashi," Sasuke said as he pealed her off of him.

"Oh, you mean that damned 'copy-nin'?" Karin prodded just for the sake of speaking with him. She knew full well who Kakashi was.

"Hn."

"Hey! Four-eyes, get your eyes checked again. I was all over Kisame-Sempai, I-"

"Save it, in another few minutes you would have literally been all over him. In pieces. The guy could hack you in two blindfolded."

"Why you!" Suigetsu rounded on Karin, and Sakura saw her chance. While Sasuke silenced them both she leaped high over them all landing at Naruto's side. He was half sitting up, so before he could waste their time she slung his arm over her shoulder quickly. This didn't go completely unnoticed, Sasuke stared back dangerously and flung a trio of kunai at them. Thinking fast Sakura jumped up, still holding Naruto, and missed the first two. Flipping backwards, she dodged the third and landed in a crouch much farther away than she had just been a second ago.

Sakura glared back at him. They were outnumbered, and she couldn't trust Naruto not to do something idiotic to get back at this Suigetsu person. She waited until someone came to back them up. Placing her other hand on one of Naruto's wounds to heal him in the mean time, while still keeping a watchful eye on Sasuke and his team. A thought occured to her then that Sai had been up against Karin, and now Karin was here... Sakura tensed even further. "No way."

"Where is Sai!" She called over to the three. For a moment there wasn't any answer, until Karin's expression showed a bit of understanding.

"Oh, that kid? Yeah, he bailed to help the copy-nin against Juugo. And when I saw Suigetsu running back to help Sasuke-kun" she cooned his name, "I couldn't let him have the glory of saving him all by himself."

Sakura resisted the urge to point out that he had actually saved Sasuke by himself. She was beginning to irritate her. To distract herself, she thought for a moment on how Sai and Kakashi would fair against the missing-nin named Juugo. If Sai had felt the need to abandon his fight to help Kakashi, then he must be trouble.

Naruto was perfectly capable of moving now, but Sakura kept her hold on him anyway, "Naruto, it's three against two, and Kakashi and Sai might be in trouble-" He cut her off,

"So what? We can take 'em! Besides Kakashi has Sai and Pakkun. And Captain Yamato is supposed to be here soon, right? They'll be fine! And all I have to do is make up the difference with a bunch of shadow clones..." Naruto wriggled from Sakura's grip and made the sign. Around seven clones appeared to back the two of them up. Sakura sighed nervously. He had a point, and this could be the last chance they ever got in awhile to bring back Sasuke.

Finally considering the fight, Sakura realized something very important. Sasuke's chakra levels were on low. He'd wasted too much energy on Itachi already. Piece of cake.

"Piece of cake," an unfamiliar voice cheered kindly as he approached us from the side. Had she spoken aloud? No... Then who..? She glanced to the side to see an orange haired boy, sporting a receding curse mark. A bit like Sasuke's. Juugo, Sakura thought. The bulky teen walked over to stand at Sasuke's side, then the thought hit her.

"Naruto, no. We have to help Kakashi and Sai. I have a bad feeling."

"Aa," was all he said. He knew full well what the arrival the third member of their ex-teammate's squad meant. He'd dealt with them, and now Sakura had to get to them as soon as possible before it was too late.

"It's time we back off. At least for now, Naruto," she said to console him. She might not be as anxious for Sasuke to come back, but he was. Just walking away wouldn't sit well with him, but he wouldn't leave Kakashi and Sai and Pakkun-if Pakkun were still there- alone and most likely injured.

They stood, still facing team hawk. Neither side said a word, leaving only glares to act as the source of communication. Then, slowly, both Sakura and Naruto made the hand sign to transport away and closer to their former sensei. Naruto, gone in a puff of white smoke, while Sakura faded away inside a curtain of wind carried sakura blossoms. Her eyes lingered angrily on Sasuke. Now, she was making a promise to Naruto. She would get him back, for his sake. Not hers.

Once in the cover of the forest they bolted to where their teams chakra signatures were, both very weak.

"Damn," They both said in together. Each for different reasons, however. Sakura because she could sense how bad off Sai and Kakashi were, Naruto because he'd had to abandon Sasuke, he couldn't sense chakra as well as she could.

In the clearing, Team Hawk took off before any of the leaf-nin returned. They'd caught a lucky break, one Sasuke hadn't expected. In fact, somewhere deep inside the recesses of his mind he was almost hurt that they'd just dropped him like that. He could maybe -maybe- reason Naruto doing so, but Sakura? It just wasn't done. Yet she'd instigated their retreat and persuaded Naruto to leave. His mind automatically passed it off as fear and weakness.

"Hn," he grumbled as he noticed his team's background prattle. He had no idea who he answered or what question he was answering, but payed enough attention to know he was asked something. The rest he just ignored. It was a long run to their mountain based hideout and he would go mad listening to them the whole way otherwise.

"Kisame," Itachi addressed his partner monotonely. Itachi had used up much of his chakra against his little brother, and didn't feel like wasting anymore to perform the required entry jutsu. He scoffed internally, there were so many precautions the Akatsuki took. It was almost ridiculous, even if it was needed.

"What?" Kisame barked. "You want me to do it? C'mon! I'm low too-" Itachi only gave him a hard stare.

"..."

"Shit. Fine, but lighten up a little, huh?" As Kisame undid the seal guarding the entrance, Itachi crossed his arms under his cloak and waited, looking ahead of him at nothing imparticular.

"Hn."

Once the doorway was safe and visible, Itachi reached out through his cloak to rest his hand on the wide stone door. Kisame did the same, and a faint blue glow surrounded their hands as the jutsu placed upon the door read and identified their chakra. There was a brief pause before a thin white line sparked down vertically in between their hands. From there the heavy grey stone doors moved inwards to open wide for them.

After making their way through the halls they reached the room where the rest of the Akatsuki had gathered.

"Itachi. Kisame," Pein greeted them, adding a nod.

Itachi nodded in return while Kisame asked; "How is he, Pein-sama?" Receiving solomn faces around the room, Kisame frowned. "I can't believe Sasori-san let a girl kill him-"

"He isn't dead yet, yeah! We just have to find someone who can fix him," Deidara exploaded, coming out from his solitary sulking. As soon as it was out though, he went back. He was trying emensly to find a way to fix this himself. To help his partner get well.

Just then, Konan came out of the back room. She'd heard what Deidara had said, but appeared unfazed. She already knew she wasn't capable. "Pein is working up a list of skilled medic-nin that would be willing to help us. This isn't over yet Kisame. Don't jinx it..."

Kisame grunted his response, but said nothing. He had high doubts, everyone could see. Finally before any fighting or bickerring started, Pein sighed and began. "We have another problem..."

All eyes snapped to him, well Itachi's more like 'slid' over. "Danzo has been neutralized. They discovered his treatury and have left him in a state which he could no more harm a child. Adding to the list, he's under high security. Complete lockdown. He is useless to us now."

This created problems for numerous reasons. They no longer had an informant, or another hand. Danzo had also been apart of the Akatsuki, although, indirectly. They needed to fill his spot now that there was absolutely no chance at recovering him. The rest of the Akatsuki knew this as well, and just as faces were starting to fall a high pitched, annoying voice called out.

"Tobi-san knows who we can ask! Tobi-san knows who-"

"Shut it, bird for brains!" Hidan yelled at Tobi. He was pissed off enough as it was, he didn't want to deal with Tobi going on 'broken record mode' again.

Pein sighed, "Yes Tobi. What is it you have to add?"

Everyone was watching Tobi and Pein, except for Deidara who still had his blue eyes trained on the ground, not caring about anything save his partner. And Itachi who was glancing at Deidara with a bored expression. But inside Itachi was trying just as hard to find a solution to what he was sure had Deidara so occupied. Sasori needed a medic, and he was quickly finding an answer.

"Itachi-san's little aniki! He's strong! Tobi knows...! He almost killed Deidara-Sempai."

Deidara was still way too deep in thought to notice he'd been mentioned, let alone degraded. Itachi, however, did hear and he turned his eyes to Pein who automatically looked back at him, feeling the eyes of the Uchiha on him.

"I think that's a bad idea," Itachi said evenly. Pein knew that Sasuke was out to kill him, they all did.

Pein shook his head, "It is. But, I don't see how he'd ever have a proper chance at you, Itachi. Too many obstacles, even if you were both on the same team." Before Itachi could disagree, Pein amended, "Though I won't place you in such a position. Tobi."

"Hai! Leader-sama!"

"It's your idea. You will be in charge of retrieving him."

"Wahh! B-b-b-b-ut, Tobi is a good boy.Why does Tobi get stuck with the Uchiha-san? Can't someone come with Tobi? Tobi is scared..."

"No," The entire group of Akatsuki barked, Deidara finally coming out of his thoughts, though very quiet. He still couldn't resist adding in his bit to slam Tobi.

Itachi had only said 'no' because he thought Tobi would deserve any injury he got while 'retrieving' Sasuke. His fault Itachi would have to deal with his little brother daily from then on. He hoped Sasuke refused and gave him a beating for remembrance.

"You leave tomorrow, Tobi. By yourself. Unless...someone wants to help out..?"

Hidan, Kakuzu, Kisame and both Zetsu's scoffed. "HA!"

"As if, yeah," Deidara.

"Have fun," came Itachi's dark reply. Tobi sank to the floor in shock and whined before Itachi continued to Pein. "Pein," Itachi knew Sasori's condition must have been severe and that Deidara wouldn't like it, but... "I noticed something interesting upon leaving my brother then..."

Pein stopped him. "The kyuubi's team? Yes I know. I'm already aware. You think that their medic-nin is acceptable."

Itachi nodded once. "Word has it that she trained under the sanin, Tsunade," Pein stated.

"That is true, Pein-sama. I've seen her at work. And they aren't too far now." Itachi spoke in monotone, waiting for the moment when their conversation would click inside Deidara...maybe if they were lucky it would go unnoticed...?

"Nani? Are you serious? No way! That bitch is the one that caused this to happen! Find someone else, I won't let her touch him." Deidara was fuming, and had crossed his arms in both defiance and an attempt to hold in anything else he was dying to add.

"All the more reason that she should be the one to make up for it, Deidara. And we aren't asking you. Or anyone. The sanin's aprentice is perfect. She even found the antidote for Sasori's poison, if I remember correctly. She's sharp and has probably surpased Tsunade by now," Pein argued. There was no going against him, but Deidara must have lost his mind.

"I can't believe this! She'll sabotage him if anything! Like hell would she heal him, or do anything else we ask her to. No, Pei-"

"Enough! I don't care to listen to your useless attemps at swaying me. We need Sasori to get better properly and fast. At this rate, Konan has lost too much chakra -he won't make it to the end of the week, never mind two more!" Pein took a deep breath. Stopping there. He knew what Deidara was feeling, but he didn't have the time or patience to sit around and argue with him.

Deidara mumbled under his breath, but otherwise, shut up. "Stupid Pein-sama and his damn rules...freaking girl...stupid..."

"Itachi and Kisame- you'll both go and bring her back here. Rest tonight and leave tomorrow morning."

"Hai, Pein-sama. Demo... that little mist brat managed to bust my leg. I can go, but..." Kisame warned. He'd been reasonably injured in his fight with that Suigetsu brat. Yeah he would have won, but avoiding every attack wasn't possible with the kid. His leg was bashed with the flat side of the sword, he ignored it most of the way over, but now it was killing him.

Pein nodded, he'd better send someone else to lend them a hand... "Deidara will go with you." They nodded and Itachi glaced at Deidara, who was immediately shouting his opinion.

"No way! Not a chance, yeah! I refu-"

Pein had turned to head into the back room with Konan, and now he looked back over his shoulder. Glaring menacingly at him from the side, shadows hid most of his face that barely revealed his wonderfully evil smirk. No one argue's with him, and... "No one talks about me behind my back..." With that, Pein dissapeared through the large doors with Konan.

Deidara paled. 'He... h-heard me, yeah,' he thought to himself. His eye twitched and he glanced over to his two temporary partners. "Can't someone else go? Please, yeah!"

"Nope, we've all got our own missions," Kakuzu said absentmindedly.

"Yeah, right, like what? I'll trade you."

"No. It's classified."

"Sure it is, yeah. More like finances..." Sure enough, Kakuzu held up a folder he'd pulled from his cloak titled 'Financing'. Deidara sighed,

"Hidan...?" he tried.

"Forget it, Deidara. You heard Pein-sama. I don't want any fucking part in this. Stitching my head back on all the time is a pain in the ass."

Deidara grimaced, a bead of sweat formed on his brow, "Zets-" he paused and looked around quickly. "Where the hell did Zetsu go?"

"Oh," Kisame began passively as him and Itachi started to leave. "He left a long time ago. Smart bastard." The rest of the Akatsuki began filing out leaving Deidara hanging. Tobi stayed behind a moment and ran up to Deidara to pull on his arm.

"Tobi is sorry, Deidara-Sempai. Tobi would have traded with Deidara-sempei, but Tobi has important mission tomorrow!" Deidara shrugged roughly out of Tobi's grip.

"Hmph!" and he stalked off to his room, arms crossed tightly.

"Thank you," Sakura said to the three ANBU leaving with Kakashi. They had come with Captain Yamato. Her and Naruto had returned to Sai and Kakashi in time to administer some healing aid, Sai was fine, but Kakashi needed to get to the hospital where there was more equipment that could help him. Not long after did Yamato show up with the ANBU. He'd be fine, but they were all still worried.

"Hey, Sakura."

"Hey, Naruto." Sakura smiled dimly as she plopped down on the sleeping bag next to his.

After a few minutes of just looking up at the stars through the leafy forest ceiling, Naruto spoke. "Sakura, I'm sorry. I couldn't-"

"Don't worry about it Naruto, I'm totally fine. Just get some rest and think about getting him tomorrow." Before Naruto could say anything more Sakura rolled out of her make-shift bed to speak with Yamato. He was just on the other side with Sai. When she approached him quietly, he appeared to have something he didn't want to spill.

"What is it, Captain Yamato?" She asked cautiously.

"Uh, Sakura-san... Pakkun... is having some trouble finding Sasuke's scent," he finally admitted after what seemed like forever. "Until we find out which way he went..."

"We can't go far," she finished for him. Though this annoyed her, thoroughly, she didn't mind all that much when it came down to it. But Naruto would be jumping off walls. And spending the next day or so with an agitated Naruto from sitting practically still for any long period of time could drive her insane. She sighed. "Alright, goodnight Cpt. Yamato." Suddenly, her question was unimportant and forgotten. She just wanted to escape her thoughts and get some sleep.

"Sakura?"

"It's nothing, Naruto. Night." And Sakura yawned, making Naruto chuckle and lay his head down on his pack, using it as a pillow.

"Night, Sakura."

(A/N):

TRANSLATIONS:

Aniki- Brother

Demo- But

Hai- Yes

Ne- huh?/right/ say- (ie): Say, Sasuke. Did you do something with your hair?

Shannaro- Cha!

So this chapter took me way longer to write than I thought it would. A lot of the beginning was just filler, so I guess that's what made it so hard to write. I'm going to start the third chapter now, while it's still fresh in my mind. I think waiting two days before writting the second chapter screwed with my train of thought. Never again! Cha!

Please comment. review. I love hearing from you. And thanks to some insight I got from reading another persons A/N, I know have an open mind about flames. They can make a person better, yeah? Build from the bad. I think this chapter was good, I mean I had lots of trouble at the start because it was, you know 'filler', but maybe it was too detailed? Or do you guys like detail? I'm a detail person, but it might have been too much. I can't really say. I'm biased. Duh. Oh! I know! I'll ask Sasuke!

*No you won't.*

Already did! Ha! What do you think, Sasuke?

*I'm biased too moron. But you could have at least made me act a little more kick ass. Tch, letting Suigetsu save my ass. How degrading.*

Don't worry Sasuke, your time will come. I promise you.

*You better, else I'll-*

SO! Deidara! How 'bout you..?

*un.*

woah, that was a bit too Sasuke-ish.

*Well he already said my answer, yeah! I'm Biased! Just like everyone else in this story. Besides. I hate you. Making me go on that damned mission. AND its with the UCHIHA! How DARE you pair me with him.*

ALRIGHT! I'm sorry Dei-kun. But I gotta go, the longer I wait, the longer all my readers do.

Comei! (sorry, the in-formal way, sort of)

REVIEW! XD And I ENCOURAGE flames, XD Until someone breaks my heart.. Kidding!