"Sasuke?" Naruto yelled.

"Yeah?"

"What are you doing here?" I asked quietly.

"I wanted the treasure for myself but it looks like it's caught more intrigue."

"What do you want with it?" Lee asked.

"Why is that any of your concern? I'll bet you just want it to make Sakura fall in love with you."

"N-no!"

"Liar."

"Sasuke! Don't change the subject! What the hell do you want with the Treasure of Ringo no Kei?"

Sasuke was silent for a moment then replied, "My brother."

"You mean the dead one?" Naruto asked.

"No you moron, the one that flew over a mountain. YES, ITACHI!"

"But didn't you kill him?"

"I don't care! I need him back!"

I noticed that Lee was slowly backing his way toward the treasure; Sasuke was too busy getting mad at Naruto to notice him. I tried to help keep our enemy distracted. "So, what's the purpose of this? You think that you'll have a pure heart so you can get the treasure and wish for your brother to live again?"

"Yeah. That's right."

Naruto shook his head and asked, "Sasuke how can you have a pure heart when it is tainted by anger and grief? "

Sasuke lookeddown briefly, then glared up at Naruto and yelled,"Shut up! You don't know anything about me. You and the rest of Team 7 may think you do, but you don't!" Sasuke grabbed me and held his katana at my neck. "Now step away from the treasure or she is going to die."

Naruto shook his head and said, "Don't Sasuke. You're not stable right now."

Sasuke smirked. "I'm as clear headed as I can be." He frowned for a moment, and then returned to his natural, bored expression. "So what's it going to be? The treasure or her life?"

Naruto's eyes flitted between mine and Sasuke's. For a split second, he looked behind us, where the treasure was supposedly. Lee looked at me with worry. I couldn't blame him. I myself was concerned if I would live through this.

"Fine," Naruto muttered and threw Sasuke the shovel that we were going to use to dig up the Treasure.

"NARUTO! WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU?" I screamed.

"Ah ah, Hinata. It was his choice." Sasuke said. He released his tight grip on me and threw me over to my team. Naruto quickly ran over to me and checked to make sure I was OK. He whispered in my ear and I nodded. I knew that I'd be OK since I had Naruto-kun.

Sasuke's eyes widened as he took the first scoop into the dirt. Lee, Naruto, and I slowly began to back out of the cave.

"So, Sasuke, can we leave now?" Naruto asked.

"Whatever, I don't need you here."

We didn't wait for him to say it twice. We all ran down the path back to the village and stopped when we saw Guy-sensei. He glared at all three of us.

"W-we can e-e-explain." Lee stuttered.

~Author's notes~

sweetwithobsessions: cliffhanger!

Hinata: you hardly gave me any time with Naruto-kun *starts chasing after me with a katana*

sweetwithobsessions: *screams*

Naruto: what's going on?

Hinata: *drops katana* nothing…

Sweetwithobsessions: *mutters* yeah right, well I better go before I die! *runs*

Vyoletpanda96: *sits in a lawn chair next to Choji eating chips while watching the whole thing*