Chapter 7

An Interesting Bird?

"Wait. Something is close." One of the ninja dogs said.

"I don't sense anything."

"Well, it is here."

"I still don't-"

"Wait, it is up above! And getting away!" The dog began chasing the flying object.

"Wait! We don't even know what it is!" Sasuke yelled out.

"If you want that girl back then you would chase after the thing that was with her."

Sasuke thought, quick thoughts cause they had to act now. If this was the thing that was with Sakura then they would be one step closer to finding her. He could go the opposite way it was going in hope of finding Sakura further ahead, or follow the object that seemed to have Sakura's chakra. He went for the latter. He wasn't going to lose any available opportunities; he wasn't going to mess things up now, just when he was getting close; to finding Sakura. He made another quick thought. If Sakura was alright then she would probably get moving if this thing was just playing tricks, so he yelled to the other two who didn't know what in the world was going on.

"Go the opposite way of the bird thing. You might be able to find Sakura somewhere in that general direction."

Kakashi seemed to understand within' mid sentence, while Naruto however couldn't process the given information well. Kakashi simply turned Naruto around and said "We will be going this way." Of course that is the part Naruto did understand. "I know that sensei, but why?"

"Well, if me and Sasuke's thinking is correct then we will find out, alright?"

"Sure." Then the two took off giving Sasuke available concentration on the mysterious animal. (Note: It was flying too high to get a good description of it. But nonetheless it was flying and it had some of Sakura's chakra, so it made Sasuke curious.)

Fatigue made him grow tired. A bit too quickly for Sasuke's liking.

"You better hurry up for we might loss it." The dog yelled still chasing the object.

Sasuke had to think fast. He wasn't going to let being tired get in his way. He never did. But he was never in this situation before. The question was what to do. What do you do when you are chasing a flying object, like a bird, and you simply can't run forever? (If you get it, gladly call yourself a Sasuke mind reader. Drum roll please.) You shoot it down. You don't have to necessarily kill it more like wound it but Sasuke couldn't even say for certainty what it exactly was so he wouldn't necessarily mind if it was to be dead by the time he found it's corpse. No harm done if it was nothing, right? Well, only one way to find out and that is through actions.

He leaped into the first available tree and steadily made his way higher and higher jumping from tree to tree. Once he ran out of height, he did one thing he knew he was good at, lightning and fire. He sent several fire balls and lightning bolts it's way, only to have it dodge them with a few close calls. He sent a stream of lightning soaring through the sky at the object followed by a large blast fire that ended up catching up and forming it self around the lightning. Never had that happened before to Sasuke, but as long as it worked, no worries right? (I believe we established this before, but Sasuke tends to second guess some of his ideas a little last minute.)

The beam made its way to the object but slowly growing smaller as it went. The pressure that higher up was too great for the beam to keep the constant amount of power, the only way for there to be any power at all to hit the object is if it simply grew smaller in size until there was nothing left of it at all. Sasuke was hoping that this would make it, only harming the bird-like creature (he thought of it as a bird now since it flies). It must have been faster then Sasuke had initially thought for the bird tried to dodge it but ended up with it getting hit.

Sasuke could see it falling, and as it started to come into view he saw that he had hit it in the wing. It had white wings and a sort of red body. It was still to far away to be sure, but once it hit the ground he started running towards it.

"I don't believe Sasuke was specific enough." Naruto groaned. "It is like saying we have to search the entire proximity."

"A new word Naruto?" Kakashi said, slightly sarcastic, about the last word in his sentence.

"Yes. Neji gave me a dictionary about a month or two ago, saying that I should increase my vocabulary and not used dumb-dumb words." Naruto replied.

"Neji said dumb-dumb?" Kakashi asked slightly confused. Would Neji Hyuuga actually say that?

"No, he used a bigger word, one that I can't pronounce, but it seemed to me as though it meant dumb-dumb."

"Ah." That made more sense to Kakashi.

"So I started reading it."

"I'm pretty sure you don't read a dictionary."

"I really just jump from pages to pages looking at the words that interest me."

"Well, that seems to be more logical counting that you honestly can't read a dictionary."

"You can't?"

"No, that's not the purpose of it."

"Oh, but since it is a book, I thought you can."

"If you tried hard enough, someone can do it. But that may take awhile and confuse the person."

"Well, whatever. Still I don't see why we have to look everywhere. For all we know that thing could have changed directions at some point."

"Don't tell Sasuke that or else he would make us look literally everywhere."

Naruto sighed.

"He is worried about Sakura." Kakashi stated.

"We all are." Naruto said.

"I believe Sasuke is worried more."

"Why do you say that?"

"I'm not sure. It just seems in more of a rush to find her."

"Oh, yeah. I guess so."

"Hold on." Kakashi stopped then.

"What is it?"

"The dog that Sasuke followed said he got something. We should go back."

"Alright."

"We are on our way." Kakashi said speaking into the headpiece.