"Son of a-" Karui was pissed.

'The nerve!' She stood in the training grounds staring up into the tree's where the Uchiha had disappeared. She clutched her katana tightly before spinning around and thrusting the blade right through the training post behind her. "Aaaargh!" She screamed before collapsing to the ground, her body still trembling with rage. As if this day couldn't get any worse.

The war was over but many delegates from the five nations were still in Konoha, to finalize details of the peace treaty.

Killer Bee, her sensei was also there but he had decided to stay for the purpose of training with Naruto for a while. Seeing as how they are both jinchuuriki he thought it would be a good challenge. Team Samui were assigned to be his escorts for the remainder of his stay in Konoha. Even though the were currently at peace the Raikage was still wary of the Uchiha's presence.

And so was Karui. After all she hadn't forgotten the Uchiha's involvement in her beloved master's abduction and even though it was revealed that he was never really kidnapped at all, it didn't mean that he hadn't tried to.

All the same Karui felt bad about what she did to Naruto. He did save the village and all the other villages as well. Even she had to admit, she did react a bit harshly when they had confronted team 7 and tried to extract information on the missing-nin.

That's why earlier that day, when Karui found the blond ninja along with his pink haired friend at a ramen stand she decided to apologize. Which greatly surprised both of them, because even though they barely knew the dark skinned kunoichi, it was pretty obvious that she wasn't the apologizing type. She did make one thing very clear though: she was apologizing for they way she treated team 7 that day. She was not under any circumstances apologizing for being prepared to do whatever it takes to find her sensei.

Naruto, being ever forgiving, accepted her apology. Though when Sakura asked her if she was still 'after Sasuke-kun' as she put it, the redhead's body tensed up.

Though they were forbidden from attacking any Konoha-nin for the duration of the peace talks, the Uchiha heir wasn't a Konoha-nin yet so technically she could go after him. And she had certainly thought about it. But Samui had made her promise not to go after him, at least not until his fate had been decided by the Kage's and village counselors. Karui was desperately hoping that he would not be forgiven and she would be allowed to take him down herself, but alas the Hokage was doing quite a good job at convincing the other villages of the Uchiha's rehabilitation. Of course Kumo wasn't going to be so easily swayed. So she had to wait.

"I'm not allowed to, Raikage's orders." She answered, hoping it would be good enough.

"So you would if you were allowed to?" The pink haired girl asked again. Karui stared at her for a few moments trying not to think about that traitor as she felt her anger begin to flare up. Finally she took a deep breath and answered, "Yes, I would." She answered bluntly not seeing the point in lying.

Both Naruto and Sakura shared the same look of tension as they waited for her to go on. "But I have orders and I'm not dumb enough to go against the Raikage." This made Naruto relax just a bit but Sakura still kept a wary eye on her.

The tension was finally broken when the whiskered ninja gave her a large grin and asked if Karui would buy him a bowl of ramen to make up for the beating she had given him. This made Sakura hit him over the head, screaming about how rude he was.

"I don't mind" Karui said chuckling after watching the two of them argue over Naruto's manners for a few minutes.

"Are you sure Karui-san?" Sakura asked as she released the blond ninja from her choke hold.

"Yeah why not?" She said sitting down beside the two, "after all I'm a little hungry too." Sakura gave Karui a warm smile which she returned before calling the waitress to place her order.

Even though the day was that going well, with Karui managing to make two new friends. It didn't last for after her meal she found out that they would be staying in Konoha for at least two more weeks even though Bee-sama was leaving for Kumo in two days.

When she asked Samui why she simply said, "Raikages orders Karui, you know how it is." Omoi didn't seem to mind though saying, "think of it like a vacation." But Karui certainly didn't want a vacation. She wanted to go home, train, enter the chunin exams and do a couple of missions. She loved ninja work and this 'vacation' was making her stir crazy.

That's why when she found the training grounds she was ecstatic and immediately started training. But with her teammates being elsewhere it was much too quiet for her liking.

Her mind started to wander as she started throwing kicks and punches at the training post and she started thinking about, him.

That traitor that tried to kidnap her sensei, the one person who had always encouraged Karui. The person who gave her, her most treasured possession, her katana.

She remembered seeing the Uchiha on battle grounds during the war after someone had pointed him out, she had to stop herself from attacking him right there and then.

Anger started boiling up inside her and she started mindlessly attacking the immobile target, releasing chakra as she vented her anger.

'And then he shows up' Karui thought bitterly as she tried to push herself up to her feet but failing miserably. She opted for crawling to a nearby tree to lie under the shade till her legs decided to start cooperating again. She stared up into the leaves above her sunlight peeking through to dance across her face. She closed her eyes as a cool breeze blew over her cheek. Anyone watching would have thought that she was peacefully asleep, but really she was thinking about what just happened.

That bastard had the nerve to tell her that HER form was sloppy. Though she was still pretty embarrassed, she knew someone was watching her but at the time she was simply to pissed to care. She mentally slapped herself for not realizing it was him sooner.

And then he has the gall to just run off, 'What the hell was that look.' She started to wonder remembering the undefinable look he gave her before vanishing.

Her mind wandered back to the meal she had with Naruto and Sakura earlier that day. The pink haired girl wasn't as bad as she thought. 'What does she see in that pompous jerk.'

As a matter of fact what did all the girls in Konoha seen in him. Karui has seen quite a few girls in the village swoon as they talked about the Uchiha and never really understood why. He's a traitor, a criminal and completely full of himself. She had to give it to him though for an S-class criminal he was very attractive.

Karui sat up abruptly putting a stop to her traitorous thoughts. "What is wrong with me?!" She said out loud trying to physically shake the thoughts from her head. She started to pick herself up but her legs were still a little wobbly so she propped herself up against the tree.

'I need to get out of this village' she thought as she watched the clouds drift by.