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"Why do you keep on insisting to protect me?" Sakura asked, knowing Sasuke had his usual stubborn side, but he was being more than stubborn now.

Before Sakura could blink, Sasuke's lips captured her own. When he broke the kiss, he leaned back a bit, and he looked her in the eye. "Because I love you Sakura."

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Sakura's looked at Sasuke with complete shock on her face. He just admitted he loved me. This is what I wanted to hear from him all my life. Yet I feel like it's not the moment I have been waiting for. Not yet. What is it? Why can't my inner just barge in my head, and tell me what to do like she usually does?

Saku Inner: Tell him that you love him NOW!

Sakura raised an eyebrow in irritation. I change my mind about you, bossy bitch!

Sasuke saw her irritated look, thinking it was meant for him. "I know you said you don't know if you love me anymore, but I-"

"I love you Sasuke," Sakura interrupted, reaching a hand up to rest it gently on his cheek. "I always have and always will."

Sasuke pulled her into a hug again. I can't believe I just admitted that to her. It just came out so suddenly. I can't believe I kissed her. "So you know why I want to protect you so much."

Sakura only rested the palms of her hands against his muscular abs, allowing him to hug her a bit tighter. "If you want to protect me so badly I guess I have to give you my permission," she said as she smiled. Resting her head on his chest. That conversation made me feel better. But, not a hundred percent. I can't ever be one hundred percent happy until this mark thing flows over. Then again I can just be happy on the outside, and serious on the inside. That may work for a while, but it won't last forever. "Now I think we should go back to the cabin," she said, taking a step back from Sasuke. Sasuke nodded, and they began walking back to the cabin.

"Why exactly do you want to go back so early?" Sasuke asked, having found himself enjoying the moment.

Sakura smiled, as her hands went to her head. "My hair is soaking wet, and I haven't combed it yet."

Sasuke rolled his eyes. "Typical girl. More worried about her hair."

Sakura playfully smacked him on the shoulder. "I'm completely insulted. For that you won't be getting another kiss from me for a long time. A very long time," she said, starting to walk ahead, but found herself being pulled back. She opened her eyes to see Sasuke's face a few inches from her own. She smirked before talking. "You know most people ask for the person's attention, but I see you don't know what asking is. Maybe you could get Sai to teach that to you." She grinned when she heard a low growl come from him. "Aw is my Sasuke growling at me. I wonder what I did this time."

"Sakura," Sasuke warned, unable to keep the smirk off his face.

Sakura just looked up at him. "What?"

Sasuke had to hold back a groan. She had an innocent look on her. Which an innocent look on her only made her look irresistible. "You're going to drive me insane if I don't apologize aren't you?"

Sakura just kept smiling at him. She leaned in to where she was nearly an inch away from his mouth. He was nearly four inches taller than her. So she had to stand on her toes. "I wasn't aware I was driving you insane," she whispered.

"I'm sorry for telling you the truth," Sasuke said, only saying that to try to keep up his pride, and not give in.

"Alright I see how this is Sasuke," Sakura murmured. Twisting so she was out of his arms. She started to walk away. "I'll just go ask Sai if he would like to hang out with me." Again she was pulled back. "Yes Sasuke?"

"I'm sorry."

Sakura grinned before leaning closer to his face. She allowed him to rest his forehead on her own. When their lips were close to touching Sakura pulled back. "Time to go Sasuke," she said before turning away, and began to run to the cabin.

She couldn't help but laugh as she ran. This was the most fun she had since the beginning of the mission. Besides all of the times Naruto had either ran into trees or fell out of them. She realized she was spacing out when she felt Sasuke's arms encircled her waist, and pulled her to a stop. She turned to look at him, and raised an eyebrow. I must really be distracted if he caught up to me that fast. Either that or it's because he's really fast. It's not like I've seen him train lately to be able to tell if the latter were true.

"Don't look at me like that. You will be punished," Sasuke said with a grin.

Sakura only smiled back. "And what exactly am I being punished for?"

"For teasing the warden," Sasuke said, his grin turned into more of a smirk at her expression.

Sakura put on her thinking face. "That's funny, I don't recall teasing him. But, I guess I shouldn't fight, and take the punishment as any real ninja should," she said, before she laughed softly at her phrase. She kissed him. A long kiss. When she broke the kiss she laughed again. "Two kisses in one day. You are getting very lucky Mr. Uchiha."

Sasuke just smirked. I at least got her to smile and laugh. "Let's go back."

They began walking back to the cabin. When they arrived the door opened before they got there. It was Lee who opened it. Everyone else was watching from where they were sitting in the living room. "Hello Sakura. You seem to have been very upset lately. Why stress over something so little? Your youthfulness isn't showing. I would be glad to do something for you. I mean, I would be glad to help you."

Sakura smiled, propping her hands on hips. "Yeah Lee, you can do something for me."

"What is it?" Lee asked. Sakura could have sworn she saw stars in his eyes.

"Let me inside."

Everyone laughed as Lee did just that. Sakura walked in, and held the door to close it after Sasuke came in. Sasuke strolled in, and sat down next to Naruto and Yamato. Sakura just remained standing there. Why isn't my body moving? Inner! Attempting to move only caused her muscles to tense, but that's all. Inner?!

Instead of her inner, Sakura got a tremendous headache. She was sure if she could move the pain would have been bad enough for her to collapse. The only thing she could do was grimace. An image of the sharingan flashed in her mind. It stayed just long enough for it to begin to change to mangekyou, then it disappeared along with the pain.

"Sakura are you okay?" Ino asked, frowning. Her eyes, along with everyone else's, had been on Sakura. Sakura was just standing by the open door, her eyes across the room, as if lost in thought.

Sakura shook her head finally able to move, and she forced a smile on her face. "Yep never better," she said, her full control came back, and she closed the door then walked back to where she had slept before. She sat down, and went through her bag for her comb. She avoided everyone's eyes as she stood up. "I think I will comb my hair outside. I will be back in about ten minutes." She walked back to the door of the cabin. Before she opened the door she looked back directly to Naruto. "And no one is to follow me. I have some thinking to do. Got it?" She asked aloud. However it was clear to everyone who she was directing her words to.

Naruto only nodded quickly, thinking of what she said about protecting her when they were in the forest.

Sakura opened the door, and walked out. She jumped into the trees, and began hopping away. Eventually she made it to a big tree. She jumped down to the ground, and went to sit by the tree. As she began combing her hair she began thinking of the sharingan she saw in her head. She sat there for nearly most of her ten minutes, thinking about it. She couldn't recognize who it was. The mangekyou was one she had never seen before. It wasn't Sasuke's or Kakashi's. What does that mean? Why all of sudden am I being shown the sharingan? Inner?

Inner Saku: There will be a lot of future battles. Very important ones as a matter of fact. But, you'll need to know a lot more information. So I'm responsible to show you it. Of course I can't always warn you before hand. It will just come when I think it's time for you to know what it is. But, you need to remember every single thing I show you. Which I'm sure you won't have a problem with.

Sakura: Why do you have to show this stuff to me? Why can't I just figure it out by myself?

Inner Saku: There aren't many people out there that know of the information. The one's that do aren't available at the moment.

Sakura: Well if you're going to do all that, then at least don't do anything during a fight okay?

Inner Saku: I'll try.

Sakura rolled her eyes. Her inner annoyed her to no end. Sakura noticed that her hair no longer had any tangles, and it was some what dry. Dang I must have taken more than ten minutes out here to get it to dry a bit. She looked up, and noticed the sun was going down. She stood up, and jumped into the trees again.

Soon she was back at the cabin. As she walked to the door she sighed. I should just admit it now, I'll probably end up going crazy by the time we leave here. She walked inside, and immediately felt nearly everyone's eyes on her.

"What happened to ten minutes?" Hinata asked, the only one not looking at her. She had her hand in front of her, and was observing her nails. "You were gone for nearly twenty five,"

Sakura only shrugged her shoulders. "It took me a while to get back to the cabin," she lied, knowing Hinata didn't believe her already.

"If it really took you that long to come back, you obviously shouldn't be going that far. Saku-" Hinata was interrupted when Sakura tossed a pillow at her face. She caught it literally inches from her face.

"Thank you for your opinion mom, but I can handle it from here," Sakura said sarcastically. "You've got to let your baby bird fly from the nest sometime,"

Quirking an eyebrow, Hinata only threw the pillow back at Sakura without a lot more force than Sakura had use. And successfully hit Sakura square on. "Okay, daughter. But hopefully that nest is a cliff, and hopefully the bird is your smart ass attitude."

Laughing lightly, Sakura only dropped the pillow on the couch nearest her, before walking back over to where her bag was. Sliding her comb in there, before looking over to the others. "Neji? Shikamaru?"

The two nodded, and stood up. Sakura just motioned for them to follow her to a staircase. The three walked up the stairs, and to a room. It was basically Hana's study. The three shelves where filled with scrolls, there was a desk, and a few chairs. Sakura walked over to the desk, and sat on top of the desk. Shikamaru and Neji sat down in the chairs across from her. "Okay, so as far as I know it will take the letter two days to get to Tsunade. And two days to get back to me."

"Meaning that we'll be here around three or four more days," Shikamaru said, knowing what she was getting at.

Sakura nodded. "Exactly. I wanted to ask if you two had any ideas. Because I'm pretty sure that if people know we are stayi- well know that I am staying here, they will come. I don't want anyone to be in danger so I want to know what you guys had in mind."

"What about shifts?" Neji asked in suggestion. "We'll each be assigned a partner, and take shifts over the next three or four nights we are here. It's just like if we're staying in the woods."

"That way no one will be able to get past our guard," Shikamaru added.

Sakura thought about it for a moment before she nodded, and got off the desk. She walked around the desk, and rummaged through one of the drawers. She pulled out an empty scroll. "So who's partners with who, and on which days?" She asked, taking out a pen. Her eyes on the other two.

Ten minutes later

The three walked back downstairs. Neji sat down in-between Tenten and Gai sensei again. Sakura walked back to her couch, and sat on it. She wanted to be farther away from everyone so she wouldn't have to see their concerned looks.

Shikamaru already had everyone's attention so she didn't have to ask for them to shut up. "Okay look. We won't know if someone will try to come here, and attack. So we thought of assigning shifts. Just like any other time. This time you will have a partner. We'll most likely be here for three or four more days. So that's three or four night shifts. You and your partner will each have two or three shifts over the next three or four nights we are here," he sighed heavily then. This is so troublesome.

"Each shift is two hours long. It's nearly ten now so the shifts start at eleven," Neji explained from where he was sitting.

Sakura opened the scroll they had wrote the names down on. "Okay so in general you will have the same person with you each watch. Kakashi and Yamato, Sai and Kiba, Naruto and Sasuke, Me and Hinata, Kurenai and Asuma, Choji and Shino, Shikamaru and Neji, Ino and Tenten, and Gai and Lee. Tonight's shifts are Shikamaru and Neji from eleven to one, Me and Hinata from one to three, Naruto and Sasuke from three to five, and Kakashi and Yamato from five to seven. Someone should be up by then so we wouldn't have to worry about it after that. I'll let you guys know the shifts tomorrow." When everyone nodded Sakura put the scroll in her bag, and stood up, her eyes finding her old teacher. "Hana-Sama can I talk to you in the kitchen for a moment?"

"Sure thing, kit," Hana said Sakura's nickname with a happy note in her voice, seeing Sakura again had brought up memories of having her as a student. It may have not been as long as a year, but it was still a great time. She stood up, and walked into the kitchen.

After Sakura joined her in the kitchen she leaned against the counters, and crossed her arms. "What exactly do you know about my mark?"

"I don't know what you're talking about Sakura," Hana said passively, although a small note in her tone changed.

Sakura put her hands on her hips. "Don't play dumb. Earlier in the hot springs Ino asked me if I knew you took the seal off my mark," she said, as she raised an eyebrow. "I had no idea until she mentioned it. So I just lied and said I did know in order to prevent questions. Now what do you know?"

Hana sighed then, seeing Sakura's determined look. "I don't know a lot. Your parents had stopped around my place when they were coming from your village. They told to except to see you soon. I asked why. Then your mom told me about your mark. Although she didn't tell me what it was for. But, she told me that you couldn't have anything messing with the mark and that it was important that I keep an eye on you."

"What do you mean by anything?" Sakura questioned, slightly confused.

"For example, a seal. Say, your inner started messing around with seal. Like if she were to try to open it, I'd have to temporarily remove her from your mind," Hana explained. "And I'm sure you know by now that you will need your inner a lot in the next few weeks."

Sakura only frowned. "Okay that's not that bad. My inner isn't that stupid, and you already took Kakashi's seal off." Hana was quiet after Sakura had stopped talking. Sakura just growled in frustration. "Hana what's going through your mind right now? Don't keep anything from me."

"It's just that if you don't find out how to open that box things won't be so good," Hana said, still holding something back.

"What do you know that you're not telling me?" Sakura asked, not liking how Hana was acting. They always had an honest relationship when Hana was training her. They told each other no lies, kept no secrets, and that was how the training was so successful.

Hana looked Sakura in the eye before finally talking. "If you haven't figured out how to open the box by your seventeenth birthday you won't know how to work with the mark," she paused for a moment, taking a deep breath. "And if that happens I will have to kill you."

Sakura froze, looking at Hana wide eyed. She is going to have to do what now? Suddenly she felt her heart begin to race, a horrible feeling in her stomach began that made her want to throw up. Her expression showed she was confused and terrified.

Saku Inner: Time to take a nap Sakura.

What- Sakura's body crumpled almost instantly. Hana had just managed to catch her. "Sakura?!" She asked, alarmed.

Sakura's eyes opened then, but they weren't the same emerald green color. They were grey tinted. "Don't worry about Sakura, Hana."

"What in the world?" Hana asked, hearing Sakura's voice, but it sounded different.

"I am Sakura's inner. I knocked her unconscious because she was panicking, she would have probably passed out anyway. The mark was being irritated with her sudden panic. I will make sure to have her awake by the time of her shift. Now please carry her to her room." Sakura's inner closed Sakura's eyes again.

Not hesitating, Hana picked Sakura up. When she walked into the living room she could already see the panicked look of the girls, and the protective look of her guy teammates.

"What happened?" Naruto asked almost immediately, his eyes seeing Sakura unconscious didn't settle with him. For some reason he had felt like he was being a lot more protective of Sakura than usual. Like it was coming from deep inside of him, something just told him in his mind that he needed to protect her.

Hana only rolled her eyes. "We were talking, she began to panic, and her body shut down." She then kept on walking towards the small hallway that started near where the couch Sakura had been sleeping on was. It was on the same wall as the kitchen door, the left wall of the living room. She had walked down the small hallway, to turn to her right, going down a longer hallway. There were three doors. One was her bedroom, one was the library she had, and one was Sakura's bedroom. The one she had stayed in when she was training with Hana. She put Sakura on the bed, before she heard footsteps come down the hallway. She turned to see Hinata in the doorway. "Did you need something?"

"I would like to sit with Sakura for a bit," Hinata replied without hesitation. The look in her eyes showed she wasn't going to take no for an answer. In her hand she held Sakura's bag.

Hana looked over the Hyuga girl. She has something planned. I know it's not bad, but what is it? Instead of asking, Hana just nodded. "Alright then I will leave it to you."

Hinata stayed by the door until Hana left. When Hana's footsteps were no longer heard, Hinata closed the door, and walked over to Sakura's bed. She put the bag on the ground, and observed her pink haired friend. I haven't got a chance to speak with her alone, and this is the time. But, she is unconscious.

Standing for a moment, Hinata smirked. There is that jutsu that I have been working on… After closing her eyes she brought her hands together, and began centering her chakra to her mind. She began thinking of Sakura's mind then, and reached out to touch Sakura's forehead. That is when she collapsed on the floor, unconscious.

Just as she had thought would happen; the world around her disappeared, and when she opened her eyes again she was no longer in Sakura's room. No walls or floor, just lots of fog. It seemed as if she standing in the sky. The sky wasn't blue though. It was blood red colored. The fog around her was a grey/white color. Are those supposed to be clouds?

"Hinata what brings you here?" Sakura's inner appeared from behind some of the fog/clouds. Her grey green eyes showed it was for sure her inner and not that actual Sakura.

Hinata looked to Sakura's inner with disinterest. "That isn't really any of your business. Just Sakura's. You know I'm not going to do anything bad. You wouldn't have let me enter Sakura's mind if I was. Let alone let me stay this long," she said flatly. "Now where can I find her?"

Hinata's sharp tone didn't seem to bother inner Sakura. It only made a smirk appear at her lips. "This way," Sakura's inner said, turning to lead Hinata. "I am just curious. I know everything Sakura knows."

"What exactly does that mean anyway?" Hinata asked, a thought occurred to her then. This is the perfect opportunity to observe Sakura's inner. I've only been able to go by what Sakura has told me. But, this is one on one experience here.

"It means that I have access to all of Sakura's thoughts and memories. Even one's that she has long forgotten. Which is helpful in more ways than one," Sakura's inner replied without hesitation, she loved being able to converse with someone other than her outer self.

"Well if you know everything like you say, you must know what happened in the kitchen earlier," Hinata said nonchalantly.

Sakura inner smirked again, this time laughter followed it. "I knew you were smart Hinata," she said, before beginning to tell Hinata everything that went down in the kitchen.

When she finished Hinata nodded. "It makes sense seeing that Sakura can't handle a lot of drama at once."

"Well life isn't easy for her, and hearing that her master would have to kill her if she failed just was too much," Sakura's Inner said, giving the impression like it wasn't that big of a deal.

Eventually two gigantic elegant wooden doors appeared. Sakura's inner stopped Hinata from going any further. "Just as a warning, Sakura isn't exactly in the best state right now. Whenever she enters her mind, and shuts down her body it's usually because of something bad."

"But, you're the one who shut her body down, technically," Hinata said, frowning.

"Either way she knows she has freedom in her mind. So it's easier for her to reveal her emotions here and not out where everyone can see her," Sakura's inner explained.

Hinata nodded, already knowing that Sakura tended to keep her true emotions hidden away. "I would think so. She has to look like she is fine on the outside. Like she could handle everything that has been going on. But, on the inside she is probably so upset."

Sakura's inner only moved towards the doors. "Help her feel better," she said before she opened the doors.

Hinata walked inside, and the door shut right behind her. She focused on the room, and was surprised what she saw.

It wasn't exactly a room. It was like a backyard patio. There were half walls around the area except for exactly in front of her. The wall-less area was where stairs lead down off the patio. There were three lounge chairs to the right side on the patio, two chairs on the left. And a big rug in the middle of the room. As she walked forward towards the stairs she smelt sea air. Sakura must have wanted a beach theme. She stopped when she got to the top of the stairs. She could see the beach for miles around. The waves rolling onto the sand, and the sun beating down. Her attention moved to Sakura. There was a large pool about fifteen feet from the stairs. Sakura was sitting in it, her arms crossed on the edge of the pool, and she had her chin resting on her arms. "Sakura?"

Sakura looked up then, or at least it looked like she did. With her sunglasses on it was hard to tell. "Hinata, how did you get in here?"

Hinata walked down the steps to walking towards Sakura. "Something I've been working on," she said, stopping a few feet from the pool. "I'm here to talk to you. We have two hours until our shift starts. So we have four hours to talk. But, only two for private conversations." She walked closer towards the edge of the pool by Sakura. She knelt down, and removed the sunglasses that were on Sakura's face. Sakura's eyes were pink, and looked as if they were about to spill tears. "You've been crying."

Sakura shrugged her shoulders. "This is my only place where I can cry, and I don't have to worry anyone else," she explained, before thinking to herself. It won't hurt to talk to Hinata. She is the only one I can trust with all of this. With a snap of her fingers Hinata was no longer wearing her ninja clothes, but a light blue bikini. "I'm guessing my inner already told you about what Hana and I talked about. I figured if we are going to talk you might be more comfortable in the water. It feels just as if you were really in water."

"A little warning next time, okay?" Hinata said, before stepping down the stairs that led into the water. The chill of the cool water surprised Hinata. Sakura was right, it is like you're in real water. Moving over to where Sakura was, Hinata rested her elbows on the edge like Sakura had. "Now time to discuss you."

Three and a half hours later

Sakura and Hinata were leaning against a tree in the woods. A fire was built only eight feet away from them to keep the area lit. After talking to each other for nearly two hours in Sakura's mind they left. Both waking up to find it was nearly one in the morning. They had changed quickly, before meeting Shikamaru and Neji to change shifts. Continuing their talk after settling into the area, now it was nearing three. Meaning it was close to the end of their shift.

"What do you think it meant?" Sakura asked aloud after the both of them had been silent for around ten minutes.

Hinata's eyes flickered over to Sakura. "What are you talking about?"

"The sharingan flash thingy," Sakura replied, her own eyes were looking up at the dark sky.

Laughing, Hinata threw a small acorn at Sakura, hitting her in the arm, before dropping to the ground. "The sharingan flash thingy?"

"Stop laughing at me," Sakura said, picking up the acorn and rolling it in-between her fingers. "Do you have a better name for the random visions that Sakura has?" She asked, referring to herself in third person.

"I don't know really," Hinata said, ignoring Sakura's question. "Your inner had basically said to you that she will be showing you a lot more things. So maybe whatever is going to happen to you has something to do with the sharingan… Maybe it's a sign that you're meant to marry Sasuke."

"I… uh…"Sakura's eyes were wide like a deer in headlights. "About that…"

Hinata only waved Sakura off. "Please, you don't have to hide anything. I could tell from the minute you walked in with Sasuke, what had happened. You were as red as a tomato, and you look slightly flustered. It didn't take me long to put two and two together."

"I would say I'm surprised that you know, but it is you after all. You know a lot of stuff about me that most people wouldn't know after all," Sakura said, before sighing. "Anyway, it wasn't a sharingan that I recognize."

"Well maybe it's just a sign to help you, like your inner said. Just so you'll know to look for and recognize the sharingan if you see it in the future," Hinata tried, not being able to really think of anything else.

"You could be right," Sakura said. "Now that I think about it, maybe it's something I will have to do involving the sharingan in the future," she paused to sigh in frustration. Crushing the acorn in-between her fingertips. "Which of course doesn't make any sense."

After a few minutes of silence Hinata spoke. "Well what if it's not the sharingan, but the Uchiha's?"

Sakura changed her position so she was lying down on the ground. "Why in the world would it be the Uchiha's? Incase you haven't noticed the population of Uchiha's has been down for the past, oh I don't know, almost ten years!"

"Just think about it as a possibility Sakura. If it's not the sharingan maybe it is the Uchiha's. You can't really be sure until you get the first vision thingy."

Sakura raised an eyebrow, smirking. "Vision thingy?"

Hinata rolled her eyes. "Shut up."

"You could be right," Sakura said. "Next time I have a "vision thingy" I will let you know. Because you have good ideas."

Hinata only laughed. "I'm sure you would have thought of the same things," she said, before she smirked. "Just really slowly."

Sakura playfully smacked Hinata's shoulder. "Thanks for basically calling me an idiot."

"I'm just kidding," Hinata said, holding back from rubbing her shoulder. Sakura's real strength sometimes slipped her mind, and she was sure she'd end up with a bruise when she woke up later on that morning.

"You better be," Sakura shot back.

"Fine I take it back. I'm not kidding," Hinata retorted, already scrambling to get up quickly, then she began to run.

Sakura was already going after her. "Come back here Hinata!"

Hinata smirked as she yelled back. "Do you honestly think I'm going to do that? I might as well be working with the Akatsuki if I did that!"

"That doesn't make any sense," Sakura said, as Hinata picked up pace.

"Yes it does. Me surrendering to you is like me working with the Akatsuki. Either one is asking for my grave. And, you're just having thinking problems right now. It's okay though we can work through them together, and maybe someday you'll be smart again." Hinata called out to her dramatically.

"Hinata!" Sakura exclaimed, as she doubled her pace.

Hinata realized they were getting farther away from their post so she used her chakra to grab a tree, and spun herself around so she could begin to run back. That didn't shake Sakura, dang it!

Sakura noticed Hinata turn, and did the same. Except she didn't use a tree to turn. She just used her chakra to spin around on the ground. Causing a bunch of dirt to float up in a cloud. She laughed at that, and began running again.

When they were getting closer to their post, Sakura put more chakra into her legs so she could catch up to Hinata. Just as they got into the clearing Sakura took a chance, she jumped and successfully tackled Hinata to the ground. "Yes! I got you Hyuga!" Sakura declared, fist pumping the air in celebration.

Hinata was laying flat on her stomach, and Sakura was sitting on her back. Hinata's arms were out in front of her, and she didn't say anything. She just let her head rest on the ground.

"Aren't you going to congratulate me Hinata?" Sakura asked playfully, stopping her celebration.

"Oh my apologies Sakura," Hinata said sarcastically. "Congratulations on chasing me down, trapping me, and now suffocating me."

Sakura only crossed her arms, and watched Hinata for a moment. "Now say it like you mean it."

"Sakura, get off of me!" Hinata yelled loudly through the quiet forest.

"Why? You're just going to try to kill me, am I right?" Sakura asked.

Hinata only laid her head back on the ground, sighing deeply. She's such an idiot sometimes. "I promise not to kill you when you get off of me."

Sakura contemplated her choices for a moment. "Alright," she said, as she got off of Hinata. Not even a second later she felt Hinata's fist impact with her shoulder causing her to spin in a circle, and fall to the ground. "Hinata you promised!" Sakura exclaimed, and hand at her throbbing shoulder.

"I promised not to kill you," Hinata retorted. "And you're not dead, so I didn't break my prom-"

Both girls turned their heads as they heard movement on the other side of the small clearing. Both Sasuke and Naruto were there, staring at them in silence. Sakura was the first person to say something. "What in the hell are you two looking at?" Sakura asked, irritated with their staring.

"You do realize that you two are supposed to be watching for possible attackers right?" Naruto asked.

The two girls nodded slowly, still confused as to why they had been staring. It wasn't like they were completely in an all out fight.

"Then explain to us how you could defend yourselves if your both in pajamas with no weapons," Sasuke said, his eyes happening to go straight to Sakura.

Sakura was wearing red plaid pajama pants, with a red tank top. Hinata was wearing blue pajama pants with silver stars over them, and a blue tank top.

The two girls only shared a look before smirking. "Why? Do you think we wouldn't be able to watch out for ourselves without weapons?" Hinata asked.

Both guys were silent. Sasuke, knowing that the girls purposely put them in a hot water position. They could either save themselves or get punched in the face. But, with the way things were looking, it would end up being the latter. Naruto was a little more oblivious towards the real reason for the girls looks, but he did notice the looks they were giving. Last time Sakura had given him a look like that he was unconscious outside Ichiraku.

In seconds both Sasuke and Naruto were flat on their stomachs. Sakura was sitting on top of Sasuke, and Hinata was sitting on top of Naruto. "You were saying," Sakura said, a grin on her face. Both Hinata and Sakura both got up then. "We can handle ourselves fine," Sakura said.

The boys mumbled under their breath as they stood up. Sasuke saying something about not being ready, while Naruto had said something along the line of being caught off guard. Sakura and Hinata only just jumped into the trees. "Well you two have fun on your shift!" Sakura called, as Hinata and herself began heading back to the cabin.

Naruto looked over to Sasuke. "I think they would have handled themselves fine," he mumbled, before going over to a tree, and sitting down next to it.

Sasuke was looking in the direction the girls had gone. His eyes still seeing Sakura's pink hair even after she had left. "I can agree with you on that."

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