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The girls ran through the trees for hours until they were half way to their destination. Sakura looked at each of her friends. Ino was starting to get tired and started to complain. Hinata was very tired and looked like if they went too much longer she would pass out. Then she turned her head to Tenten. The weapons mistress also looked like she was tired too.

"Okay you guys theirs supposed to be a clearing up a head. We'll stop there and rest until later tomorrow morning." Her friends nodded their heads in agreement and were glad they would soon be resting.

A few moments later they had reached their destination and had started setting up camp. Hinata went to the nearby stream to get water, Tenten went to get fish, Ino went into the woods gathering firewood, and Sakura set up the tents.

"Hey forehead, I got the firewood."

"Kay pig put it over there."

Ino sat the firewood down by a tree and went to help out Tenten.

A half hour later they had eaten and were sitting by the fire discussing their plans.

"After we are done with the land of waves where do we want to go?"

Hinata walked back over to the fire after she had set up her bedroll. "Well we could go to the earth country for a few months."

"Okay now that we know where we're going we should probably change our names and take off our leaf head bands."

"Oh should my name be Katsumi or Hana? Oh or Kaori?"

"I don't know Ino. Do you think Ayame or Misaki would be a good name for me?" Sakura started tapping her finger on her chin to think.

"Well I think I'll go with Mai or Hiroko. What do you think Hinata?" Tenten turned to Hinata who was thinking about it.

"Well I would go with Hiroko."

"Thanks Hinata I'll go with Hiroko. By the way what names were you thinking about?"

"Well I thought about Kei or Nao. But I think I'll go with Kei."

Teten smiled at her friend. "Good choice Hinata the name suits you well to."

"Well Sakura I think I've narrowed down my choices. I'm going with either Katsumi or Kaori." She turned to Hinata and Tenten.

"Which do you like better Katsumi or Kaori?"

"Go with Kaori I like it better."

"I agree with Tenten, I mean Hiroko."

"Okay so I'm Kaori. Forehead, have you chosen your name yet?"

"Yeah Kaori, I'm Misaki."

"Okay now that that's settled who's taking what watch?"

"I'll take first watch."

"I'll take second."

"I'll take third."

"And I get the last."

"Okay so Kaori is first then Misaki, then Kei, then me. Our shifts are each two hours long. See you guys in the morning."

Every one but Ino headed to the tents to get some rest. She scouted around the campsite every once in a while and when she wasn't she was sitting in a tree or by the fire.

Her shift was over and she went and woke up Sakura for her shift. She did a similar routine to Kaori's and often gazed at the stars wondering what her friends were doing right now.

With the boys

"Are we there yet?"

"No dope."

"Sasuke quit being a teme!"

Shikamaru sighed. "Quit being troublesome Naruto."

A few minutes later.

"Are we there yet!?"

"No dope."

"Troublesome."

"What'd you call me Shikamaru?!!"

"I said you're troublesome."

"I am not!"

"Naruto you are right now." Naruto looked over to Neji and decided to be quiet for a while. (A/N We all know that won't last long.)

Two minutes later

"I'm hungry I want ramen!"

"Shut up dope."

"Troublesome let's stop here for a short break. Is that okay with you Neji?"

"Hn"

"I'll take that as a yes."

Naruto took off in search for firewood to cook his precious ramen on. While he went looking for some you could her him singing

"Ramen ramen ramen, yummy yummy ramen!"

The others sweat dropped at his childish tack ticks.

For a few minutes everything went quiet. Neji and Sasuke were leaning against trees and Shikamaru was sleeping. Little did Shikamaru know he was in for a rude awakening call.

Naruto by know was just humming the song he made up when he saw Shikamaru sleeping. Now was the perfect chance for his revenge of being called troublesome.

Naruto being the stealthy ninja that he is crept from tree to tree when he got close enough he sat down the firewood he was holding and climbed the tree that Shikamaru was under.

He hung upside down from the lowest branch and yelled his song in his ears.

Shikamaru sat up quickly and turned to Naruto with a very annoyed and angry face.

"Uh oh!" Naruto took off into the woods with Shikamaru on his heels. A few minutes later Shikamaru came back to camp with an unconscious Naruto tied up and gagged. Neji and Sasuke smirked and gave a small chuckle.

"Let's get back to the village before the troublesome idiot wakes up." The other two nodded and they started back to their homes.

Two hours later in Tsunade's office

Tsunade was amused at the site in front of her. "Ah, you're back and you managed to drag the Uchiha back as well."

"Hn, I came back on my own."

Tsunade raised an eyebrow. "Why and for how long?"

"Nothing else to do I've already killed my brother and Orochimaru so I might as well stay."

"Very well then since you killed two S-class criminals and came back willingly I'll shorten your sentence. You won't be allowed to go on missions for eight months in less Neji, Shikamaru, and Naruto are with you and you'll be on probation for a year. Speaking of which were is Naruto?"

Shikamaru sighed. "He was to troublesome so I knocked him out and tied him up." He motioned over to the door were they had dropped him by and Tsunade started to laugh at the site.

He looked like a rope caterpillar with a big bow on his back and was drooling while mumbling something along the lines of dancing ramen. Tsunade dropped to the floor laughing while the others gave a few chuckles at their comrade.

Shizune ran in to the room thinking Tsunade was either drunk or was being attacked. When she slammed the door open she had hit Naruto in the head hard enough to wake him up from his fantasies.

She looked at Tsunade who was laughing and pointing at something near her. She followed Tsunade's direction of where she was pointing and started laughing as well.

Naruto started to stir at all the noise and woke up with a huge headache and a bunch of confusion.

"Whaa?"

Tsunade and Shizune were now recovering from their laughing fits and stood up. Naruto's vision and some of his confusion were finally starting to clear up. He tried to use his hands to help him get up but then realized he couldn't. He panicked and started flopping around the room like a fish out of water crying anime tears and yelling.

"AHHH!!!! GET IT OFF OF ME GET IT OFF!!!!!!!" Everyone in the room sweat dropped at his stupidity.

"AHH!!!! IT'S TRYING TO EAT ME!! AHHHH!!!!"

Shikamaru sighed. "You're too troublesome." Naruto was to busy panicking to hear him and continued screaming.

Ten minutes later

They decided they had to let him out of the rope cocoon and he was now sitting in a chair in front of Tsunade's desk along with Neji, Shikamaru, and Sasuke. They started giving her mission details and she had Sasuke tell her what he had been doing since he had killed Orochimaru.

After they had finished their discussions the room got quiet, too quiet. Everyone looked over to Naruto.

Shizune decided to speak up. "What are you thinking about Naruto?"

"Well I was wondering where are the girls they're normally here to see if we made it back okay."

Neji spoke next. "Yeah, normally by now Tenten has come and asked me if we were training the next day."

Shikamaru sighed. "I was also wondering why Ino wasn't here being troublesome."

Tsunade handed some papers to Shizune. "I gave the girls a long term mission and they left just a few hours before you guys got here. They waited for a while and couldn't wait any longer so they left."

All the boys but Naruto seemed okay with the answer they received.

"But why couldn't you make them stay so I could say good bye to Hinata-chan?!"

"Like I said Naruto they waited as long as they could and had to leave."

For the next fifteen minutes Naruto complained and received a bump on his head from everyone else in the room for being annoying and not shutting up.

With the girls

It was finally morning and they were starting to pick up camp and erase all signs that they were there. Hinata and Tenten went to the stream and collected water to be boiled for drinking water. Ino and Sakura took down the tents and started to make sure everything was packed.

Within minutes they were on their way to the land of waves.

Later that day

"Hey Misaki do you think it would be okay to stop and train for a little bit?"

"Yeah Hiroko this looks like a good spot and I think we're a little over do for some training anyways."

With that the girls started to spar and train. Just then Sakura gave out a yell of pain and started to clutch her sides. Her vision started to blur and she felt like she was spinning. The last thing that she saw was her friends running to her and yelling.

"Misaki! What's wrong?!" Tenten looked up to Ino because she was a medic.

"Hiroko she passed out and I have no clue why. I mean she was fine and then she clutched her sides and fell unconscious."

Before Tenten could answer Hinata did the same as Sakura and passed out. She looked over in Ino's direction before passing out as well.

When Sakura woke up she noticed she was no longer in the forest training with her friends but was now in a pale blue room and her friends were sleeping on beds in the same room. She heard footsteps and took out a kunai as self-defense.

A boy their age walked into the room and she put her kunai back.

"Ah you're awake my friends and I went out into the forest to train and found you and your friends unconscious so we brought you back here so my uncle could make sure you guys were alright. By the way my name is Katsuo."

She looked at Katsuo. He was tall and had chestnut brown hair. She smiled. "My name is Misaki and my friends are Kaori, Hiroko, and Kei." She pointed to each as she said their names.

"Well while we wait for your friends to wake up and for mine to get here why don't we talk for a while." She smiled and nodded her head. They talked about why she and her friends were out there and about themselves.

About an hour and a half later Hinata started to wake up. "Kei you finally woke up!" She jumped off the bed and ran to hug her friend.

Soon every one else woke up and Katsuo's friends had came.

Ino was a little confused and asked a few questions. "How'd we get here and who are you?"

"We'll explain everything once me uncle gets here." She nodded her head and sat down. A few minutes later Katsuo's uncle walked in and they all sat down at a circular table in the room.

"My name is Hiroki and I'm Katsuo's uncle."

Sakura spoke next. "My name is Matsuki and these are my friends Kaori, Hiroko, and Kei."

Katsuo spoke. "My name is Katsuo if you didn't already know and these are my friends Kenji, Ryo, and Takeo."

After the girls had said how they had got there Hiroki spoke. "So you girls are traveling to get stronger." They nodded there heads.

"When I checked to make sure that you girls were alright I noticed you girls were clutching your sides do you still feel any pain?"

Tenten spoke. "Yeah on my lower back." The other three replied. "Us too."

They lifted the backs of their shirts and gasped. "That wasn't there earlier!"

Sakura had a pink cherry blossom flower surrounded by fire, Ino had a white lily surrounded by wind, Hinata had a lilac surrounded by water, and Tenten had a magnolia surrounded by earth.

Hiroki studied the marks on their backs. "Ah it's a good thing the boys found you, you have the markings of the elements. If you would like to you girls can travel and train with the boys and I."

Ino spoke up first. "That sounds good to me what about you girls?"

"I'm okay with it. What about you guys Hiroko and Kei?"

"Sounds good to us!"

"Okay then we'll spend a few weeks here and then we'll move on to a different country." The boys and girls nodded. "Rest up we'll start training tomorrow."

With that the boys and Hiroki turned to leave but before they did Katsuo turned to the girls. "Our room is the one next to you girls if you need anything."

They left and the girls got ready for bed because they knew tomorrow was going to be a long day.