Ok...I'm sorry that I had cut the last chapter so suddenly… I was in a rush to finish and well yeah… There are a few words that to some may not be considered appropriate…I know how I have my story rated but come on… There will also be some swearing in an upcoming chapter too… well maybe more than one… but nothing to extreme like the F-word…hopefully…so yeah… if you want me to change the ratings just tell me in a comment… Thanks! XD

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto… never will…If I did Sakura would be dead along with Ino...Sorry I really don't like them…

The Mission

It had been two days since the Uchihas and Uzimakis had last seen each other, and Naruto had taken that short limited time to decide that he wasn't going to leave his older brother to go on the mission.

"NO!!!!! I'M NOT GOING!" the tantrum throwing twelve-year-old shouted at the two raven haired eleven-and-a' half-year-olds trying to get him to leave his room.

"Naruto, I'm going to start calling you Mr. Clingy again!" Sasuke shouted at Naruto. When Naruto was little , as in like five-years-old, he had a problem with clinging to people that he go to know, and since Sasuke and Hitake knew Naruto and Naruko and they were constantly at their house Sasuke had given Naruto that nickname. It drove him insane to the point that he stopped clinging to people's legs.

"NO, anything but that!" Naruto shouted not wanting to bring back the annoying name.

"Then stop this!" Hitake shouted at him.

"Fine, where's my brother anyway? He hasn't come out of his room," Naruto said in an almost whining voice.

Naruko, who had been completely oblivious to the whole temper tantrum, slowly walked out of his room. His black headband was tied so that is fit on his forehead, the loose ends hanging down behind him though they didn't get past his shoulders, and his bright blonde hair was laying down surprisingly well, as Sasuke looked closer she could see that the color in his hair was a bit dingier, and it wasn't just the light. Plus, there was something about how he was acting that seemed off too, almost like he had heard some really bad news.

"Naruko, what's wrong?" the twins and the former Mr. Clingy asked at the same time.

"You look like when you first found out that Senatae left," Sasuke commented really worried for her friend.

"Well it was supposed to be a secret, but I just got a massage from Kakashi, and we need to be at the main gates in five minutes. Oh, and bring your supplies for the mission too," Naruko answered, depression in his voice.

"Oh, um, ok then," Hitake replied. Quickly the younger three their bags and headed for the gates like they were supposed to do, but they still weren't sure what to expect really.

"Good you came," Kakashi said when he saw the three rookies, "I've been waiting."

"Wait, you were waiting for us?!" Sasuke, Hitake, and Naruto exclaimed simultaneously. As they looked around though, they could see they weren't alone; Sakura and her sister Inarea waited at the desks where two other ninja were waiting obviously on patrol.

Sasuke unfortunately knew Inarea very well from when their nii-chan's old team would come to their house. To everyone but Itachi the pink-haired devil was vile, nasty, and would kill to be around Itachi, but according to Senatae she was really useless other than for her medical ninjutsu. This was exactly like Sakura except that unlike Inarea, Sakura had no medical ninjutsu so she was even more useless. Inarea had though, over the month that had gone by with Tsunade being Hokage Inarea had been going through some training, so maybe she had shown some of that training to her younger sister.

"Something's off with everyone" Sasuke thought to herself. The Harunos seemed to be trying hard not to show that they were worried about something, and Naruko, who had gotten there a little after the other three, was also acting this way now. Though Kakashi just seemed to be a little worried, but it wasn't for himself.

"What's wrong with everyone?" Sasuke asked the group who wasn't really talking at all.

Kakashi look at the youngest two there, and the one that acted the youngest very seriously, but not so to scare them, but to prepare them for what he was about to say, "Well some more information on the mission has come, and well the area that we are looking at is supposedly around Orochimaru's current base."

"So, we'll be able to kill the guy for murdering the Third?" Naruto asked. That was what the other two were thinking too.

"What's so important about this guy that's making them act this way?" Hitake thought to himself.

"Sasuke, Hitake, your sister is with Orochimaru. If we find the base, we find Orochimaru, Kabuto, and Senatae," Naruko said answering all the questions that were going through the two Uchihas' heads, but he also made knew questions sprout in their minds. There sister was training with the person who had killed the Third, why in the world would she do a thing like that? Had she gone insane when the clan was killed? Did she even know what she was doing? What the hell's going on?!

"WHAT?!" exclaimed Hitake who was having just as hard of time understanding the words that made their way out of Naruko's and Kakashi's mouth, "Are you saying that are sister, who had no right to even leave, is staying with the same creep who murdered the Third Hokage?"

"Yes Hitake, I know how hard this must be, and we really aren't sure why she would do this either, but you must know that this now makes her an S-rank criminal. In other words, we have two options if we run into her," Kakashi started to explain. Sasuke and Hitake didn't really want to know what the options were, "Either we capture her and put her in a highly secured area, or we kill her there and prevent any accidents on the way."

Sasuke and Hitake could reply to that statement. Kill their own sister, it was impossible! Neither Sasuke nor Hitake were strong enough to even lay a scratch on Itachi, and Senatae matched Itachi in strength and smarts. Kakashi was strong, but even he got put in a coma for a week with Itachi's sharingan. Sure Naruko was strong, but the last time that him and Senatae fought, well it really didn't turn out well, and Senatae was playing around in the beginning too.

"Are-are you kidding me?" Sasuke stuttered trying to comprehend the fact, "How in the world do you expect us to capture Senatae, or even kill her at that?! Do you remember the last time that Senatae fought anyone? She nearly killed them, and she wasn't even trying!!" Sasuke was about as calm as an adult elephant was small, but who could blame her? Sasuke actually looked to Sakura like she was about to have a panic attack, and to someone who hates the person it is about to happen to, that is one of the most hilarious things in the world. Therefore, Sakura was trying her hardest not to break out into a fit of laughter. (Sorry if that sort of broke the mood, but I just had to put that in. I really don't know why either.)

"Sasuke I know this is very hard for you to comprehend. I mean the last time you saw your sister she was pretty close to you and you probably even thought you knew her like a book. But think about this, your sister was the one who did so many things when she was little. Do you remember what she did at age ten?" Naruko asked making a very valid point which made Sasuke a little angry.

"He's right. No matter what I say, he-he's right. I thought I knew everything about her, but she was doing the same thing as Itachi. Playing me and Hitake right into her web of lies. Was my whole life a lie? Naruko and Naruto weren't so maybe-hopefully. No." Sasuke thought to herself. She felt as if she was going to cry, and by the looks of it, so was Hitake.

"We could always try to look at the bright side," Inarea butted in, "The chances of actually finding Orochimaru's base is very unlikely. I mean we are looking at a 5 meter radius from the camp."

"But the headsets won't reach that far," Naruto commented having used the sets before.

"That's why there's going to be a jonin with every genin, Sasuke and Hitake you guys' will probably be on one group seeing as you two work so well together, and at least one of my ninja hounds," Kakashi explained as he preformed the signs for his sealing jutsu. Then in just a puff of smoke, eight ninken appeared.

The ninken consisted of a large bulldog named Bull, a tan furred dog that wore bandages around his neck and chin named Ūhei, a little dog with a headband on its forehead named Guruko, a small white dog named Urushi, a medium sized dog that wore black sunglasses named Akino, a dark brown haired dog with a crest of fur on top of his head named Shiba, a small dog with 忍 meaning shinobi on his forehead and dark rings around his eyes named Biscuit, and finally a small pug named Pakkun.

"Yo Kakashi what's up?" Pakkun asked once he saw Kakashi.

"Hey we are on a mission and as it seems we are going out of range, so we need you to contact each other. Ok?" Kakashi answered.

"So what are the groups going to be?" Naruko asked wanting to get on with the mission.

"Well Sasuke, Hitake, Guruko, Pakkun, and I will be taking the Hoku. Naruko, you your brother, Akino, and Bull will take care of the Nan. Inarea, you and Sakura will take the Sei with Biscuit and Shiba. And finally Ūhei and Urushi will take the Tou. Any questions?" Kakashi said. He had figured out this entire set up out in a matter of minutes. Maybe we will have a small chance of winning against Senatae," Sasuke thought to herself. Now it was time to set off, and nothing was going to hold them back. Maybe they will even read a little bite while they were at it since Sasuke had the book with her. But not that much just a entry a day.

Ok I know that took like forever, and this really wasn't a very long chapter anyway. Just so people know, ninken are ninja hounds, Hoku means north, Nan means south, Tou means east, and Sei means west. I am really not sure what to write so I guess I will just end with a closing. Till next time, A Person in the Trees!