Ok ... sorry for the long wait ... my first beta has stopped talking to me and I had to find another one ... now she is sick and I am supposed to wait ... but I can't take it anymore! I feel so bad to make you wait ... Sorry! I will edit the chapters as soon as possible ... hope you can understand the chapter ... I'm so sorry!

Part 4: The Rescue – Missing one inside of me.

Sasuke was engrossed in his thoughts as Team Sakura headed out for their mission. He hadn't worked with the pink-haired since he was back and it feels good. There was only one thing wrong in this scene. The blond was missing. Instead there was another raven running down the way with them.

"Uhm … Sasuke?" he turned his head from Sai to look at the girl beside him. "Is something wrong? You look so … afraid."

"It's nothing. I only haven't seen Naruto so serious. It's kind of strange …"

"Yeah, he changed a lot, but he is still the Naruto we know … a little bit more responsible and smart … Naruto is grown up." She smiled at her own words.

Sasukes gaze lowered as he mumbled "He had to … otherwise he hadn't become Hokage …"

"I won't bet my ass on this!" Sai laughed when the other man stared at him puzzled "Naruto killed most of the Akazuki and revealed Danzo's plans when he tried to kill Tsunade. He worked hard and through this the villager called for him as leader. It only doesn't happen earlier because Tsunade wanted to instruct him beforehand."

Sakura gave him an evil glare "Nonetheless he maturated while time goes by!"

Her boyfriend rubbed the back of his head and smiled carefully. They both forgot about Sasuke for a second. He wasn't at their side anymore.

"Sasuke?" the green eyes found him standing a few feet behind looking like he was strucked by lightning. She took a step forward when the raven shook his head and began to continue his run "It's alright … come on."

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"Found you!" the Kunai hit the shinobi direct between the eyes. In a fast pace the white masked Anbu jumped through the trees. About hundred feet behind him on the street were the three jonin he wants to take care of. In front the raven could feel some other rouge-nin.

The Anbu jumped a few branches higher and rushed forward. Some chakra concentrated at his feet he stopped abruptly and let himself hung down from a thick one. His hands reached the neck of the shocked shinobi before he could look up and broke it. Careful the raven put the body down and marked it. "On with the show. Hurry up!"

"When did you notice me?" a silver-haired Anbu showed up by his side when he continued his run.

"Short after I were gone. Thought he needed sometime to inform you. So you are here to look after me?" he speeded up.

"Yes, sort of. You know, Kitsune, it's been awhile since your last mission." The smile wasn't seen under his mask.

"I think this isn't all, but …" the white-masked pulled a shuriken out of his pouch and threw it through a shopse. As the man behind it collapsed he looked at his partner "I'm not interested in hearing the rest. Think I know anyway. So would you mind to lend me a hand?"

"Ok." The silver-haired reached his hand out. It was grapped in the fullspeed run and he catapulted the other man direct at the Ninja who stormed forward them. With a loud crack the attackers nose broke and he felt out of the tree. "He's unconscious." The raven said and tied him up to the tree. "Let's go."

LINE

Something is strange here. We're running for so long and haven't seen anyone. Is it really the right way? There must be guards to protect the hideout of the intruders …or … it's a trap!

"Down!" Sasuke screamed at his teammates and jumped high. Kunais flew over the heads of the couple. Sai saw where the weapons came from and threw poison-smoke-bombs in that direction. A small 'puff' obliged the offender to come out.

"Well, not bad!" an evil laughing escaped the small lips of the tall man. He wore the foreheadprotector from Amegakure around his left upper arm. His blue hair hung in a braid over his shoulder down to his waist. Sakura used the time to hide behind a tree and look out for other attackers.

"Who are you?" the anger in Sasuke's voice was heared clearly. The other raven stood up and stepped carefully to his side.

The stranger grapped at the fringe of his short black pants and fetched a knive "I'm nobody!" he smirked "And even if I would tell you, you wouldn't have the chance to tell somebody." He lunged at the teammates. Suddenly three other came out of the trees. One from each side, all looking the same way as the man in front of them.

"Fuck!" Sasuke activated his sharingan, dodged the knive of the first one and punched him in the stomach. His partner had kicked the one coming from the right in the face and drew a snake on a scroll out of his pouch. "Ninpou Choujuu Giga" the snake awoke to life and captured the attacker behind them. Red eyes reflected a huge fireball which was fired at the man on the left side.

The one who was hit from the fire jutsu was unconscious and the snake held his companion down. He screamed in pain and tried to escape but the grip of the reptile tightened even more. Sasuke made a few steps forward to the coughing man who attacked first when Sai captured the last one. The raven stood behind the arching blue-haired and brought a Kunai to his throat. "Who are you and what are you looking for?" he asked slow but achieved only a painful chuckle.

As Sasuke reached the other he shoot up and jumped a few feet away. A fearful expression crossed his face when a deep voice shouted all over the place "What are you doing here? Aren't you strong enough to kill these maggots?" The ravens looked around but couldn't see or feel the source of the voice.

All of a sudden a dark arrow pierced through Sasukes leg and he kneeled down. His teammate was about to rush towards him, but his hostage smirked "When you let go of me you are death!" Sai hadn't noticed the kunai which the stranger brought between them, close to his chest. Birds fled paniced from the trees when a loud painful scream was heared from his partner.

A black sword with a waved blade and a arrowhead at the end apeared before the head of the red-eyed. The shinobi wore a long white Kimono with a black obi. There were some black charakters on the fringe of it. "Enjoy it! It's a privilege to die through my hands."

The blade began to glow in an odd dark way. It seems to soak up the ravens body. He couldn't move. It is like … a black hole … What is it? I froze … rather it seems that I get near it … but he doesn't move … or?

Sai thought hard. He couldn't go to help his friend, but what should he do? Sakura! His senses tried hard to localise the woman, but there was nothing. What the hell? … Did something happen? Fuck!

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"Kitsune! This seems to be the entrance." The silver-haired stepped over a corpus.

The Anbus formed up beside the hole in the stone. After a short nod from the raven they entered fast and looked around for enemies. It was empty except for a small table and a fireplace. "Grey Fang?" the raven asked during he looked at some scrolls on the table.

"What?" he walked across the room "Something wrong?"

"It looks like a map of Konoha and there are some encoded letters." The map in his hands he looked up.

"Could you decode it?" Gray Fang stepped closer to look over the others shoulder.

"Not yet. Shikamaru could do it when we're back. Think he is faster than me!" he smiled behind his mask. It was quite a while ago, that the silver-haired heared the relief in his friends voice.

"You seem to be glad that the mission is over and the little ones are in safety, but isn't it mean that you do their job just because of …" "Oh yeah! I am so bad because I don't want them to be hurt! How could I know that there weren't any dangerous intruders?" he said harsh but only one second later the situation changed. A shiver ran down his spine. Something is going on. "Shit! What is this chakra? They are in danger!" the white-masked turned around and started to fullspeed run back where they come from. His partner had problems to catch up and panic rose in his chest.

What is going on here?

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Sai thought he couldn't believe his eyes. Bit by bit Sasuke leaned forward to the black blade with an oddly confused look.

The blue-haired sat on his ass the arms behind him to support his body. Fear distorted his face when the swordsman looked deep into his eyes and spoke "Where is the Kunoichi?"

"I-I-I I believe she is over there …" his shacking finger pointed at the trees behind Sai which starred wide-eyed at them. "Get her to me!" the white-clad hollered at his inferior. Struggling the blue-haired got to his feet and stormed into the wood. After a couple of seconds the man returned with a unconscious, totally enchained Sakura over his shoulder and put the pink-haired at the ground a few feet away from his grey-haired master.

"Well done … let's end this fast. Take the others, kill that bastard over there and go on with the mission." He ordered and turned his head forward to Sasuke. "There isn't much time left! Any last words?"

The peak of the sword slowly begun to pierce into the ravens forehead. A small trickle of blood flowed down between his left eye and the back of his nose.

In less than a second something teared the kneeling man away from the ground up to a nearby tree. Sai used the short confusion to cut the throat of the man before him and rush forward the two other who had made his snake disappear. He unsheathed his sword and lunged for them. One Shinobi blocked it with a kunai and the other dodged under it to punch in the ravens stomach. The hard hit pressed the pale man a few steps backwards but that gave him an opening. A long scroll with many charakters on it appeared in his free hand.

Meanwhile the gray-haired stared at the man standing in the tree with his victim in his arms. Anger rose up in his chest. The white masked Shinobi laid the body down on the branch, straightened up again and glared down to him.

"What are you doing here, Ronin?" the black sword twitched at the sound of his name.

"How do you know my name?" he couldn't hide the shock in his voice. A sudden sound made him jerk around to see another Anbu who was untieing the Kunoichi. The kimono blew wide when he was about to turn fully around to attack the newcomer but he was stopped by a hand which grasped his wrist. Something hard hit his head and he got down to his knees.

Sasuke gaze was a little bit blurry when he looked at the scene before him. A giant wave of ink swallowed the two blue-haired ninja up and Sai was about to capture the still unconscious survivor of the attackers.

"Kakashi?" he mumbled when he noticed the silver-haired Anbu who hunked over Sakura and checked her vital signs. Then he felt an unbelievable scary chakra. The white mask of the unknown Shinobi begun to glow crimson completely. Something like a blue shining nagemaki cut right through the chest of the kneeling swordsman. Small drops of blood seem to float around the two and sparkled in the moonlight. Sasuke hadn't noticed the moon rising. His vision faded slowly and the loss of blood let him fall into darkness.

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The world seems to spin in slow motion. The crimson liquid slowly levitated from the deep cut in Ronins chest. Pain bumped against his skull and his mouth opened to let a sonorous cry escape. Drops of hot blood reached the black clothes of the Anbu above him. The ravens mask was got bespattered too.

When the first drip of the essence of life hit the ground the world seems to turn hard to regain the lost time. Only one small word was heard and a huge cloud of smoke took the shinobis sight. The silver-haired tossed himself over Sakura. Sai lost his balance because the bunch under his hands disappeared and the raven-haired Anbus grip turned empty.

When the vapour dissolved a choking Shinobi was heard, searching desperately "SAKURA! Where is she? Is she okay? LET ME SEE HER!"

A hand on his shoulder stopped his movements "Here. She isn't hurt. Take her." The pink-haired laid to his feet when Sai elevated her in his arms.

"Gray Fang. About 150 feet from here in the east is a cave. There we can rest for the night and take care for their wounds." Kitsune stood on a branch with Sasuke on his back.

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"She is awake now. It was only a needle which hit an acupuncture point an send her to dreamland." the silver-haired man stepped out of the cave up to the raven who had his back turned to the entrance. His hands cleaned the white mask with cloth.

"Is the baby okay?"

"It's alright. Sakura looked for it herself again and said the same."

Placing the mask back on his face the Shinobi turned around to look straight at the half-hidden face of his partner. "Looks like you're not longer an Anbu on this mission?"

Kakashi smiled at him "Thought they know already who I am."

"How is Sasuke?" worry took over his facial features.

"Don't know. Sakura is doing her best. We have to wait. What do you think would Ronin want here?" the change of topic ripped the raven out of his thoughts.

"Think we will know it when we found out what the papers are about. I'm more interested in the fact how they get away ... even the dead ones vanished. He must have gotten stronger over the years. I have thought he never could handle the sword, but he prooft me wrong." anger swayed in his voice.

"I had done the same in your position. Don't blame yourself."

LINE

TBC

Next chapter will be up in the next days cause it's finished, but I will read it again. As long as my beta isn't healthy ... I'm so helpless ...

o.O

Sorry again ...