A/N: There, i update early for you guys!

Review Corner:

Lady Rini: I kinda agree with you. I'm getting a little bit tired of seeing Naruto too much but since the series got his name as the title, we will seeing him a lot.

ZeConfusedNewbie: I'm updating so...don't die, okay?

xXSymmetryXx: Well, i don't plan to make him too much of a maniac. Yeah, I also think they're perfect for each other.

Nuria Sato: I'll be happy to say that there are going to be flash backs of Sasuke watching Sakura so stay tuned for it! You have good guess, ne?

Behind The Cold Eyes

Sasuke looked down emotionlessly at the man on the ground, laying in his own pull of blood mixing with the falling rain from the sky with a katana piercing his chest, right through his heart. The young Uchiha continued to watch with his crimson red eyes as the man took in shallow breath, coughing up blood occasionally. His eyes narrowed when he saw the smirk that had appeared on his lips, covered in blood.

"I've never thought his would happen." He whispered hoarsely, his eyes turning to look at the younger Uchiha above him. Obito had never thought that he would be defeated by anyone, let alone this mere child of the Uchiha. "You underestimated me too much." Sasuke said coldly at him, his glare still directed towards him. The older of the two closed his eyes when he felt a rush of pain coming from his chest and spread through his entire body, making it went numb and lifeless. He couldn't even find the strength to keep his eyes opened. He was dying, he knew that much.

But he knew that Sasuke was right. He—no, the whole Uchiha men had a bad habit of belittling their opponents and that played to their disadvantage most of the time. He chuckled bitterly at his own fate. He didn't think that the young Uchiha near him would be capable of doing such things to him. He was strong, he gave him that, much stronger than he expected. The eternal Sharingan had done him wonders. He should have known better than underestimating him like that, Sasuke was an Uchiha after all. Not to mention he was the only one who could utilize the power of their blood line to the ultimate power.

Obito was starting to lose focus on all of his surrounding but he could still hear the faint talking from below the cliff that he and Sasuke had been fighting on. One of the voices he could recognized as the pink haired team mate of the young Uchiha. It seemed they were still fighting. Using all the energy he had left in his body, he cracked open his now black eyes and looked at the scene below them, he didn't fail to notice that Sasuke was also looking at the same direction.

"Is that all of them?" Sakura asked the other medics behind her, dropping another Zetsu clone that she had killed to the bloody ground. The blood on her hair was starting to come off with the rain soaking it, the pink strands stuck to her face and she had to use her hand to put them behind her ear to see better. "Yeah, I think." One male medic answered while pulling his sword from a clone. She let out a sigh and looked around the battle field around her. There were kunais and shurikens everywhere. The blood was everywhere, but it was wearing off from the falling rain.

"Let's go help the others." She gave all of the other medics a big smile, which they returned with grins of their own. They nodded and started to pick up all the fallen kunais and equipment on the ground. Sakura turned around and did the same, still unaware of the two pair of eyes that were looking down at her. When she finished putting her weapons back into her pouches, she glanced behind her. "Are you done?" she asked, taking her time to observe their appearances to check if there were any injuries but saw none. "Yes, mam!" they nodded. She smiled. "Let's go then!" they all dashed away.

"Looks like they won." Obito said. At this rate, he knew the joint shinobi was going to win this war. Not that he cared anymore, he was dying soon anyways. Sasuke just stayed silent, still looking down at what was happening below them. The old Uchiha flinched when another wave of pain hit him; he was having more difficulty trying to breath. Sasuke finally removed his gaze from the girl and looked at the dying man on the ground. He turned on his heels and walked to the directions where Madara was currently at, probably still fighting the two Jinchuuriki. He got one down now.

"Sasuke." He stopped when he heard his ancestor calling out to him; his voice was so faint he could barely heard it. He could feel Obito's gaze on his back but he ignored it. "You care about her." The dying Uchiha continued, looking at the clench fists on Sasuke's side. The man on het ground knew he wasn't aware of his own actions. "Don't assume such things." He heard him said monotonously not even bothering to look at him, but he was more than aware of the inner emotional turmoil that he was going through, the confusion that Sasuke was having was obvious to him.

"I'm just stating the truth." He said, averting his gaze from the Uchiha and back to the dark sky, feeling the droplets of rain on his face and dripping down to the ground, mixing with his blood. Sasuke turned around to face him; a glare was on his face while his Sharingan was still present. "Shut up, old man." He hissed through his closed teeth, his anger boiling when he heard him chuckle, as if mocking him.

"Ah, the denial stage." Was all Obito said afterwards, closing his eyes with a smirk on his lips. A growl reached his ears and he knew that it came from Sasuke. "You don't even know what you're reactions mean, don't you?" Obito asked calmly, his eyes still remained closed. He couldn't see the younger man raising his eyebrow in confusion at him.

"What do you mean?"

"You'll understand someday, kid." He opened his eyes and looked directly into Sasuke's still confused orbs. He didn't know for sure what he was talking about. But Sasuke had a feeling that he was referring to the reactions that he had while watching Sakura fight, reactions that he couldn't understand what it meant. Gritting his teeth, he closed his eyes and turned around once more, leaving the dying man alone to the direction of the fight that was going on not so far away from them. He had something important to do and he couldn't let the things that Obito was saying get to him; he was probably deceiving him and messing with his mind like he had always done after all this time again.

Obito just smirked watching Sasuke's retreating back. He knew Sasuke knew what he was talking about but he just ignored it. The young teen wasn't the type to let his mind dwell on something that was useless to him, especially things that involved his own emotion that confused him. But the dying Uchiha knew that someday he would figure it out what it meant and he had no choice but to face and accept it.

A chain of cough emitted from his mouth, making blood spilled all over his body. He felt all the energy leaving his body as his breath turned shallower. He closed his eyes, accepting the darkness that was clawing him for a while now. 'I'm coming, Rin.' He died with a smile on his face.

Chapter 4: Pursuit

Sakura blew a random strand of hair that fell on her face boringly, lying on the bed of the dark room that she was kept in. Sasuke left for about an hour now. She was getting bored to death. She had regained her energy but her chakra was still low so she couldn't do anything. She could try to escape but she knew the chances would be minimal. And even if she did succeed, she couldn't get far until he catch her again. She groaned and closed her eyes.

'What the hell is taking them so long?!' she growled inside her mind. She knew by now that her master must have sent someone to come after her already. She had a pretty good feeling who she had sent. Naruto was undoubtly one of them, and Tenten too. But she had been missing for a long time, what was taking them so long to find her. She knew that Sasuke was the one who was keeping her and he made sure no one could find them, but this was Konoha she was talking about. There were so many skilled shinobi that would sure to find her within one day that even someone as careful as Sasuke couldn't hide from them. She still cursed the Uchiha for being so smart.

Thinking of Sasuke made her head hurt. He had been acting so strange, especially before he just left an hour ago. He was close to her; she almost faint from it. She knew he didn't like touching but he was so physical with her now and that really scared her. He was still cold and emotionless but his actions towards her were different. He even kissed her! Okay, that was probably to make her drop her guard and only on the cheek but he kissed her! She knew Sasuke had better moves than that to make her let down her guard.

But what frightened her more was the unknown reason why he did this to her. She didn't know what it was since he didn't tell her. She could only think of a few reasons why. One being the restoring his clan thing, but she scoffed at it and didn't even bother to think about that. There was no way he would choose her, he told her himself once that she was weak and annoying and it proved that she was the last person he would pick.

The other reason was he was holding her hostage and maybe planning to trade her for some important information that he needed. But if he wanted to do that, he would have done it by now and she didn't think that he thought of her being valuable enough for the village to do so. It was impossible but it could happen. The last purpose was to lure Naruto out. That sounded more convincing but when she confronted him about it, he declared that it wasn't important. And after that she was lost.

He was so confusing. Not to mention what he said to her about this being her new home and stuff and it all the more made her confused. She tried as hard as he could to think about what he said, trying to figure out what he meant with that. Looking underneath the underneath, as what Kakashi had taught her. But she couldn't decipher what he meant behind his words no matter how hard she tried.

Shaking her head, she lifted herself of the bed and decided to take actions. Whatever reason he has, she could care less about it, she needed to get out of here and get back to her home where she belonged. Although some part of her felt a bit safe and calm when she was with him and was happy that he actually kept her with him and maybe just maybe, he was finally letting her in. But she never let her mind think it was true, she knew more than that to believe such a thing would happen. The sign of belonging she felt must have been the rare traits of fan girl moment that was still inside of her.

Trying as hard as she could to get off the bed, having difficulty to since it was dark in the room and there was no light at all, she crawled all over the bed, her hands searching for the edge the bed. She ended falling down the bed with a surprise yelp when her body hit the hard floor. "Ooow~" she rubbed her sore back and pushed herself off the ground, looking around in the dark but still couldn't see anything but black.

'Great.' She crawled on the floor aimlessly and tried to find something to hold onto. She smiled in success when she felt the hard cement wall, using it to pick herself up and searched for the lights. She kept moving forward with her hands, her body following her movements to look for a switch or something. She saw Sasuke turning on the light earlier but she couldn't find it.

The sound of the door knob twisting open reached her ear, and the sound was next to her but she didn't react fast enough and the door swing open, hitting her side and made her fall over to the ground with a groan. Today was not her best day. She nursed her back, which was throbbing again because she fell on the exact same sore spot, and looked up at the person who opened the door.

Sasuke stared at her with a raised brow, wondering why on earth she was on the ground like that. When the girl finally recognized the man to be Sasuke, with help from the small flickering light from the hall behind him, she got up and glare at him. "What the hell took you so long?!" she demanded, he only shrugged and walked passed her to the bed, closing the door and locking it. "None of your business." He turned on the light easily on his way, having to remember where it was.

When the light turned on, Sakura looked over to the man sitting on the bed she was laying on earlier, with a package next to him. With a raised brow, she asked, "What's that?" she pointed at it. Sasuke followed her finger for a moment before looking back at her. "It's your new clothes." He answered emotionlessly, trying not to look at her current clothing or else the images from changing her would enter his mind again. He was already having difficulty getting rid of them earlier.

"How nice you." Sakura said sarcastically and walked over to him, taking the package, opened it and looked at what was inside. Sasuke watched from the bed as the girl raised her pink eye brows, probably at the content that was inside the package. After a few seconds, she finally averted her gaze from the clothing and looked at him. "Where's the bra?" she asked bluntly.

…

Sasuke cursed himself in his mind for forgetting such a thing while Sakura just laughed. "What? Did you forget?" she asked in between laughs. The Uchiha only glared at her but she still continued her laughter. "Do you forget to buy your boxers too when you buy your own clothes?" she wiped a tear that fell from her eyes, ignoring the growl that the Uchiha made in warning. She enjoyed watching Sasuke like this. It was amusing.

But Sasuke didn't think this was amusing at all. So he forgot to buy it? What's the big deal? It's not like he had ever gone shopping for woman clothing before, he never thought about buying a bra whenever he bought his own clothes since he was a man. He waited until Sakura got over her ridiculous antics and stopped laughing. "Oh god, I hadn't laughed that much in years." She said and pulled out the clothes, throwing the package way to the ground. "Where are my old clothes?"

"Throw them away." He said without hesitation. Sakura looked at him with wide emerald eyes. "Why the hell did you throw it away?!" she yelled at him in anger. He looked at her blankly. "I think there's no need for them." He said, turning away from her. "You're lucky that I'm even buying you those." The pink haired medic twitched in annoyance, a vein popping on her forehead. "How am I going to go without a bra?!" He shrugged.

"Answer me!" she screamed at him, he groaned. "What's the big deal about it anyways?"

"Well, try being a woman and having to walk around without a bra." She growled at him. He stayed silent and looked away. Sakura sighed and slapped her forehead. "Take me to the store." She commanded. He turned around and looked at her like she was crazy. "There's no way I'm going to do that." He said seriously. The anger inside Sakura increased tenfold. "And there's no way I'm going go walking around without a bra! I could wear these things that you bought me but there's no way I'm going to wear it without a bra!" she yelled defiantly at him.

Sasuke sighed; he was getting on his nerve. "I'll go buy them for you." He offered instead. He couldn't figure out why was wearing a bra so important. It's not such a big deal was it? Sakura glared at him. "Hell no, you don't know my size!" and Sasuke snapped.

"I changed you. It's not like I don't know your size." He said without much thought. Sakura gaped at him and that was when Sasuke realized what he had said. He could feel the anger that the girl near him was releasing. "So you admit you did do something to me!" she pointed her finger at him, trying not to pounce him and beat him up because she knew she was useless without her chakra. She'd just end up getting injured herself. She was already actually suspicious by how he knew what size of clothes she wore when she looked at the clothes earlier but she shook it off because she thought he had a good guess but she was wrong.

"I just changed you. I didn't do anything other than that!"

"Don't you lie to me! There's no way you would know my sizes this well unless you…unless you…" she couldn't finish her sentence without blushing at the thought of the actions that he might have done to her. But he couldn't know her size unless he touched her and… God, this was so awkward and so embarrassing. Sasuke sighed and shut his eyes from the headache that he was having. He knew what she was thinking and he couldn't help but let his mind wander to the images when he changed her. Why did he have to forget the bra of all things? "Just take me out." Sakura said finally, managing to calm down her nerves and anger.

He opened his eyes and looked at her in an almost tired way. "Fine." It's better if they both drop the subject because he was sure if they discussed the topic any longer, he didn't know what he would do to her.

"Find anything?" Kakashi asked the four other shinobi, who was trying to find any clue to what had happened to Sakura. They were currently at where Tsunade had told them Sakura had fought. They knew that the Anbu had already investigated this area but they couldn't risk being careless. They needed to make sure they didn't miss anything. The only thing they found was the scroll that she was supposed to be delivering. The old Jounin had to admit that the place was practically destroyed. The ground was ruined, no doubt from the pink haired medic's inhuman strength. Whoever Sakura had fought must have been strong.

"No." Naruto said dejectedly, hoping down from the trees that he had been on and landed near his teacher. The blonde looked up when he heard Kiba walking over to them, he looked at him expectantly but he frowned when the dog lover shook his head. "I can't find her scent anywhere." He said while Akamaru barked in agreement. "Of course, there's not gonna be any scent. The day when Sakura left and probably encountered the enemy, it rained and her scent must have worn off." Kakashi put his hand on his chin.

"I don't see anything either." Neji said from behind them, walking to their side with Tenten next to him. His Byakugan was still on. "I can't find Sakura's chakra signature." They stopped when they reached their side. Tenten sighed in disappointment. "What do we do now?" she asked. "Look for her aimlessly? We don't know where she could possibly be."

"Maybe we should go to Wave. There might be a chance that she went there, if she defeated whoever she fought that is." The masked man suggested. "Good idea. I heard there's a small village there." Neji commented while everyone nodded in agreement. "Alright then, let's go!" they dashed away.

Sakura looked at the bra that she had just pulled from the rack of clothing at the store Sasuke had gone into. She was wearing the clothes that the Uchiha had picked for her, with a cloak over it and the hood up over her head to prevent anyone from seeing her unique pink hair. She had fussed over it at first when Sasuke forced her to wear but gave up when he threatened to use his Sharingan. She sighed and walked over to the counter, calling for Sasuke to come over and pay for it.

Sasuke, who was wearing his usual white zipped up shirt that Sakura had given back to him with the same cloak, went to the counter and pulled out his money, putting in on the table. Sakura gave the cashier a big smile when he handed her the package. "You have pretty eyes." the man complimented as he looked into the emerald orbs; almost getting lost in them. He had never seen anything like it. Unlike the others, hers were bright and were shining. And the brightness in them only lit up when she smiled. "Thanks!" she said gratefully.

A growl from beside her made the girl looked at Sasuke, who was staring at her in annoyance. "Are you done?" he asked coldly and she raised her eyebrow at the sudden change of mood. She bid the cashier goodbye when the Uchiha grabbed her forearm and dragged her outside. "Hey, let go!" she hissed and looked up at him only to see him glaring behind him. She raised her eyebrow and looked over her shoulder to see he was death glaring the now scared cashier, who was cowering in fear under the counter. 'What's up with him?'

When they got out, she finally managed to release his hold on her and glare at him. "What was that for?" she asked with her hands on her hips. Sasuke just stared at her with an unreadable gaze, different from the threatening one that he gave the man in the store. "You can't talk to him or else you'll give away your identity. People will remember you if you talk to them too long." He said. Sakura rolled her eyes. "Like I care. I'm the one who's being captured here. Having someone recognize me will actually do me a favor." She countered.

He glared at her and turned around. "Come on." He stopped walking when he didn't feel her footsteps following him. He looked over his shoulder only to see her walking the other way. He growled in frustration and walked over to her until he was close enough to yank her arm and dragged her with him. "What the hell? Let go!" she squirmed. "I told you to follow me." He hissed at her, stopping his walk but didn't let go of her arm. "And you expected me to? Hello, who wants to follow their kidnapper? Definitely not me!" she glared at him while still trying to pry his fingers off her arm with no success. God she was so useless without her chakra.

"Look, we can do this the easy way or the hard way." He said in a more calm tone. Sakura looked at him with a questioning gaze. "What?" he leaned closer to her and she leaned back away from him, not feeling very comfortable with the sudden closeness. "I'll give you two options. One, shut up and follow me. Two, I use my Sharingan on you." He whispered. She looked at him with determination for a few more moments, waiting to see any wavering of his threat. She sighed in defeat when she realized he wouldn't back out on this. "Fine."

He smirked in satisfaction and turned around and walked to the direction of the hotel. He felt small fingers clawing his hand that was holding her forearm to get him to let go, he only tightened his hold on her, his smirk broadened when she growled. She was such a feisty girl. But she was very amusing indeed. "Dammit, let go of me!"

"How do I know you're not gonna run off." She twitched. "I don't have any chakra. You know I won't run and even if I do, you'll catch me anyways."

"I can't risk it." He only said and she sighed at his stubbornness. He hadn't changed at all, if he made up his mind, he wouldn't change it. He was still that prideful jerk she knew when they were genin and was still the same up until now. At least there was something that didn't change about him, but unfortunately it had to be his bad qualities.

All of the sudden he stopped, making her hit his back and rubbed her nose. "Ow, what the hell was that for?" she demanded, shaking her fist at him but he still stayed silent with a glare on his face. She raised her eyebrow at him.

Sasuke narrowed his eyes when he felt a few strong Chakra signatures coming towards the village. He closed his eyes and calmed his thought. He knew it was Konoha shinobi, he just knew it. There hadn't been anyone coming after him for a long time and there's no doubt that they were here for Sakura. He tried not to panic when his instinct kicked in, his instinct of protectiveness over Sakura and the urge to keep her away from them.

"Sasuke-kun?" his name coming out of her lips made him snap out of his thought and opened his eyes and stared at her worried face.

"Are you okay?" she asked. He was starting to act strange again and she couldn't help but become worried. She knew deep inside of her that she still thought of him as her teammate and still felt the need to care over him, no matter how wrong it was. Her heart always dominated her mind.

"We need to hurry back." He said and tugged on her arm to walk a little faster than that. She stared at him with a confused expression. "Huh? Why?" she asked. He didn't answer but only increased his speed, making Sakura stumbled at the sudden change of pace before catching up with him. Sasuke was thankful for his eternal Sharingan that had increased his sensing skill and he could sense things better than Sakura. He needed to hurry. He knew it would take them long to get here, but he didn't want them to catch up. Pulling Sakura into his chest, she squeaked in surprise, and wrapped his arms around her waist and teleported them back to the hotel.

They appeared right inside the room. Sasuke let go of the pink haired girl and quickly walked over to the closet and pulled out a backpack. Sakura stumbled dizzily on the floor, putting her hands on head and shook it to get rid of the dizziness. "Aw, man." She groaned and looked up to see Sasuke stuffing clothes and money inside the backpack. She looked at him with a questioning gaze and Sasuke was aware of that. "What are you doing?"

"We're leaving." Her eyes widened. "What?! I just woke up not so long ago and we're leaving?" He shot her a glare but she didn't flinch. She sighed in frustration and made her way over to him, standing with her hands on her hips. He didn't bother to look up at her and she twitched. "Why are we leaving?" she demanded. He only continued to stuff the things inside his bag and stood up, swinging it over his shoulder, looking at her with an unreadable gaze. "I don't need to tell you that."

"Don't give me that crap! Tell me!" she yelled at him, her anger increasing every passing seconds. She didn't understand him. Why was he acting this way so suddenly? He was really confusing her. First with his out of character closeness, then his sudden mood swing and now this. What was wrong with this guy?

Sasuke sighed and closed his eyes. "You can't know." He said calmly, discreetly gathering up his chakra. Sakura looked at him unsurely. "W-what?" he opened his eyes and she found herself getting lost in that red orbs of his, the tomoes spinning rapidly and it made her head dizzy. She lost consciousness and fell on top of his chest. He put his arms around her, turning off his blood line back to his dark eyes. The Uchiha hooked one arm under her legs while the other supported her back as he lifted her up and carried her bridal style outside the room, but not before throwing a kunai attached with a tag on the wall.

He sprinted downstairs in a hurried manner that he didn't even sense someone at a corner and bumped into him. The person turned out to be an old man, wearing what seemed to be the hidden sand head band, glaring at him. "Watch where you're—" he stopped when he recognized who he had bumped into. He gritted his teeth. "Uchiha Sasuke." He hissed.

Sasuke just stared at him with a blank face. "Move." He demanded. The sand shinobi remained in his place, not willing to comply with him. "Why should I?" he asked mockingly, preparing to fight with him. The Uchiha growled in anger, he didn't want to waste time at first, but this guy was asking for a death wish. He adjusted Sakura in one hand while the other went behind him to unsheathe his katana. The shinobi in front of him started to become alert when Sasuke pulled out his weapon but he didn't even get to react before his head was chopped off in a blink of an eye.

Blood splattered from the neck and all over the wall, as the sand ninja's severed head fell down to the ground, his body following afterwards. Sasuke dashed away after that, leaving the corpse on the ground, carrying Sakura at the speed of light away from the hotel and the village. He jumped from tree to tree, increasing his pace as fast as he could while holding his pink haired teammate close to him.

Naruto landed onto the ground with the others. He looked at the village in front of him. Everything was actually very peaceful. "Guys, come here." Kakashi said and he turned to look at the team captain gesturing for all of them to come closer. He went over to him and stood next to Kiba. "Let's split into group to search for her and meet back here in an hour and if you find anything, contact us." He turned to Neji and Tenten. "You guys will be in one group." And then he looked at Naruto and Kiba. "You two are together. I'll be fine on my own." He did a few hand signs and pressed his palm to the ground, a puff of smoke appeared along with Pakkun, his summoning dog. He stood up and looked at them. "Let's go!" he dashed away and everyone went to their own searching direction.

"Have you seen a girl with pink hair here?" Tenten asked a random man selling jewelries. He put his hand on his chin and closed his eyes to think of her qestion before shaking his head. "Sorry, not one with pink hair." He said apologetically and Tenten sighed. "Sorry to bother you." She walked over to Neji, who was standing a few feet away from her in the street. He raised his eye brow at her, as if asking her what the man told her. She shook her head. "No."

Neji scratched his head with one hand. "We're getting nowhere." He sighed and looked around him, watching the people walking by before his silver eyes landed on a clothing store. "Maybe she's not here." Tenten said dejectedly but then she realized that her long haired team mate wasn't listening to her but was looking at what was behind her. She looked over her shoulder and saw a small store. She raised her brown eye brow and turned to look at Neji.

"Maybe we should go check it." He said and walked pass her to the store, Tenten just followed him silently. When the two entered the store, they looked around them. They didn't find anything strange about it. The bun haired girl made her way over to the cashier, said guy looked at her with a bored expression and then his eyes landed on her head band and her serious face. He coughed and put on a polite facade. "Welcome, how can I help you?" he asked in a professional voice.

"Have you seen a girl with pink hair?"

"Pink hair, does that even exist?" the cashier asked curiously but stopped when Tenten glared at him. "No, sorry." He looked away from her intense gaze. The girl sighed and turned around to walk away, slumping her shoulder in defeat. "He has never seen her." Tenten whispered to him. Neji let out a tired sigh and patted her lowered head. "I'm sure Naruto and the others already have some information on her." He assured and she nodded.

Although Neji wasn't sure himself, it was the least he could do to cheer Tenten up. He knew how close she and Sakura had become and to know that her best friend went missing, it was devastating her. Even if the young Hyuuga wasn't so close to her, he still viewed Sakura as his important friend. She was a kind woman, cheerful and caring towards others. She gave good advice and a good conversation partner. He was also worried about her.

Kiba's nose twitched as he tried to gather up the scent around him while Akamaru did the same, Naruto was next to him, looking expectantly at him. The brunette sighed and shook his head in disappointment. "I can't smell her. Not even a faint one." He looked over to the blonde, who was looking on the ground with a painful expression. 'Sakura-chan…' he shut his eyes tight and gritted his teeth. He already lost a lot of important people close to him and he wouldn't allow her to be one of them.

"She's probably not in this village." Kiba's voice brought him out of his thought. He looked up at him and nodded. "Yeah, let's go." With that he and the dog lover walked back to the place Kakashi told them to meet up. Kiba could see that Naruto was upset. He was worried too, Sakura was also his friends and he wasn't happy to know that she was missing. A whine from Akamaru made him turned to look down at his dog, who was staring at him like he knew what he was feeling. He patted his head and lowered his head, walking with Naruto to their meeting point.

Suddenly a loud explosion caused their eyes to widen and turned their heads to look for the direction of the place where it came from. It wasn't very far from them. Smokes were coming out and covering the sky with black, they could still see the flames from here. "Let's go!" Kiba ran passed Naruto with Akamaru to the direction of the fire. The blonde blinked for a few minutes before he sprinted after his friend. "Hey, wait up!"

When they reached the place where the explosion occurred, Kakashi was already there, looking at what seemed to be a hotel on fire. His one eye narrowed as he continued to watch the flame dance in the air while people screamed and called for each other to help put out the fire but the copy ninja knew it was too late for them and there's no way to save anyone that was probably still inside the place. He looked over his shoulder and saw Kiba and Naruto approaching him. "Kakashi-sensei!" Naruto yelled as he reached his side.

Knowing what he was about to ask, he said, "I don't know too, Naruto. I got here when I heard the explosion." He averted his gaze from the blond and back to the now ruined building. "Don't you think somebody did this?" The three turned their head to the direction of the voice and saw Neji and Tenten landing on the ground. "What do you mean?" Kakashi asked when they walked over to their side and looked down at the fire.

"An explosion that big could only be made by an explosive tag." Tenten explained, her eyes not leaving the burning hotel. She knew what type of explosive weapon it was, she had read about it somewhere. This was a high level type of explosive tag that could only be found near the Lightning country, whoever the person was; he must have a high knowledge of weapons and their usage to cause this. He must be a rogue ninja to know this much.

"Who could have done such a thing?" Kiba grimaced at the fire, wondering who on earth was so cruel to burn down a hotel full of innocent people. He stepped forward to get a better look but his foot caught on something. He stumbled but thankfully didn't fall down and whipped his head to look at the object that almost made him trip. He lifted his foot up and his eyes widened when he saw what it was. "Hey, guys!" Everyone turned to look at him.

He knelt down and picked up the object, looking at the silver plate that was attached to a red cloth. His nose twitched at the familiar scent that assaulted his nose. "Is this Sakura's head band?" he asked when everyone reached his side. Tenten gasped at what she saw in Kiba's hand. "It is!" she whispered, still looking at the head band of her dear friend. "She must have been here." Neji said, looking around.

"She must have been using this hotel before this happened." Kakashi said, his eyes hardened at the burnt edges on the cloth of Sakura's head band. The person who did this must have something to do with Sakura's disappearance. He just hoped that she was alright now. "God, I hope she's alright." Tenten prayed, the others immediately agreed with her. Naruto took the head band from Kiba and caressed the leaf symbol with his finger. Not another one. He couldn't let anything happen to Sakura. He needed to find her.

"I sense her!" Everyone's eyes widened and looked over to Kiba, who looked just as shock. Tenten was the first one to react. "Where is she?!" the dog lover closed his eyes to focus on the scent, trying to figure out where it was heading. "It's faint but I could still smell it. She's heading east and fast." He opened his animalistic eyes and looked at all of them. "We need to hurry!" he said.

"You heard what he said, let's move!" Kakashi dashed towards the direction where Kiba told them where Sakura was heading to. The others followed him not too long after. Naruto clenched his fist as he jumped to another tree, picking up his pace like the others did so they could catch up with his teammate. 'Wait for us, Sakura-chan!' he bit his lips. Tenten was trying just as hard to keep up. They finally had a lead now, she couldn't waste it. Sakura needed them and she wasn't going to let something happen to her. 'Sakura…'

Sasuke pushed his chakra harder to his feet, increasing his speed. He was aware of the explosion earlier. It seemed like the tag that he had bought worked like he had planned. He needed to destroy the place along with his scent; he couldn't let them know that it was him who was the one who kidnapped Sakura. Doing that was the only thing that he could think of to keep them from catching up with them. He knew there were a lot of innocent people and kids in the hotel but if doing it would make them lose his scent, he wouldn't hesitate to destroy the place. Besides, it's not like he cared about them anyways. They were just weak people.

He gritted his teeth and jumped faster from tree to tree, unconsciously pulling Sakura closer to him in a protective manner. The young Uchiha looked down at the peaceful and calm face of his pink haired team mate; her face was serene when asleep, her hair slightly tickling him as it made contact with his skin from the intense wind that blew passed them each time he jumped from one tree to the other. Feeling a familiar urge of keeping her safe from others rushed through him; he looked up and focused on what was in front of him.

'I won't let them find you and take you away.' He narrowed his eyes. 'I'll make sure of it.'

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A/N: i made this long and fast for you! Should I get a treat? Nah I'm just kidding, I love you guys for showering me with reviews and follows and favs.

So yeah, I skipped the fighting scene between Obito and Sasuke. The reasons why are because I really don't know what Sasuke's eternal sharingan do and I don't want to come up with it and turns out, his power is entirely different from what i wrote. And I know if I were to write another fight scene, there's gonna be a lot of grammar and words errors. That is if you're willing to read sentences that don't make sense and words using at the rong time.

And I'm sure some of you're aware of the fact that the great and powerful Uchiha Sasuke forget to buy a bra! XD One of you actually told me (and I wish I got your name) and no, i didn't do on purpose, I genuinely forgot -_-'...Okay, I know you're thinking 'What kind of author are you?!' I'm very sorry for that but that idea actually made me enjoy writing the conversation between Sasuke and Sakura, it's interesting! So thank you, whoever you are for telling me that! (i still wish I know your name)

If you have any questions, please ask and I'll make sure to answer them! (because I enjoy having to answer you!) Review!

P.S: Do you want a special Christmas chapter? It's gonna be a filler but I just wanted to know if you wanted one because I'll make sure you'll be satisfied with the chapter!