*Promises to post more regularly*

*Doesn't do it*

Haha, well... this is awkward... Apologies!

Anyway, enjoy! ... - And I understand that this doesn't exactly follow cannon, but... neither does the rest of my story, sooo, it's good XD

Zuri didn't quite know the point when she was officially lost, but after a half hour of leading the group aimlessly around the dark tunnels, she began to get nervous as Suigetsu and Jugo grew impatient. It wasn't until Zuri successfully led them all to their third dead end when they finally said something.

"Uhh, are you sure you know where Sasuke is?" asked Suigetsu, crossing his arms in front of his chest and raising his eyebrow at her. Zuri tried to think about something smart to say back at him, but her silver-haired acquaintance just rolled his eyes and turned around. "Come on, Jugo. This chick obviously doesn't know what she's talking about."

"Wait! We're almost there!" she lied, not so much because she wanted them to like her, but because she was scared of being lost in the tunnels alone.

"Maybe I'd believe you if, you know, we were there already!" he said snidely. They continued their bickering for a few more turns before Jugo, hot with frustration, used his sage jutsu to transform his arm, and he angrily pounded the wall behind Suigetsu. He was aiming for his head, but instead all Zuri could see was a huge spray of water come jutting out from Suigetsu's neck.

"Suigetsu!" Zuri gasped, covering her mouth with her hands as she fell over backwards from the impact of Jugo's punch. "What did you do to Suigetsu!" she screamed, horrified as she looked on at Suigetsu's headless body.

"Baka," shouted Suigetsu as his head began to re-solidify and the dark, muscular leather of Jugo's right arm began to shrink back to normal size and regain its colour. 'What were these two people made out of?' she thought.

"What the hell were you think-" Suigetsu began to lecture the orange-haired, as if this type of interaction was normal. But then he realized that Jugo had just revealed a hidden room behind the thick wall behind them. Jugo was the first to kick aside the ruins from the crumbled wall to inspect the inside of the room, with the other two close behind.

The room was rather plain, although with a few distinguishing features. There was hardly any light in the place, and what little light there was came from a few green, glowing cylinder jars lining the walls, all filled with something unidentifiable. There were shelves with rows and rows of books and smaller green jars with other questionable solids in them, and then a desk on the far end of the room with loads of scrolls and parchment papers scattered all over it. While Zuri was craning her neck to examine the contents of a jar that looked like it had some sort of odd snake looking thing in it, Suigetsu exclaimed from on top of the desk, "NO WAY!"

Zuri immediately turned around to look, but he rolled up the scroll and dangled it above her head. "No girls allowed," he taunted as she huffed, trying to reach for it.

Jugo only grunted as he easily reached up and yanked the scroll from his hands. He was the tallest out of the three, and clearly not in the move to joke around.

"I don't get it, what does this all mean?" he finally asked after a few moments. Zuri took the opportunity to sneak a glance over his shoulder, only to remember that she didn't know how to read, and there were no pictures.

"This could be beneficial for us, it could mean that we win the war!" Suigetsu said, proud that he was the only one able to understand the scroll. "Come on, lets find Sasuke and get out of here."

While the news about the scroll was great, it didn't take long for them to remember that they were lost. After a few more left turns, the look in Jugo's eye's changed, which began to frighten Zuri.

"Umm, Hugo, are you ok?" she asked the orange haired man whose skin began to darken and whose features began to change.

Suigetsu glanced back at the two and rolled his eyes at Zuri. "Geez, I told you his name was Jugo! Now look what you did."

Zuri, honestly having no idea what she had done, screamed and ran behind Suigetsu, dodging Jugo's fist, which was now in the shape of a large, black wing. She screamed and fell to the floor again, covering her head as Jugo lashed out and began a full-on brawl with the semi-liquid Suigetsu in the narrow hallway. Trying not to get caught in combat, she crawled her way over to a doorway and pushed herself in. But it was too late. The wall of the room she was now in came crashing down as Suigetsu fell to the floor right next to her, body liquefying as Jugo's huge arm bashed into the floor where his body was solid a split second ago.

Zuri yelped as the floor gave way from the brunt of the impact, sending the three falling down onto the floor below, Zuri grabbing hold of Suigetsu's materializing body in mid-air to have the gelatin-like substance break her fall. And it did.

"Ow! Get off me!" Yelled Suigetsu as they landed. As a proper shinobi should, he landed on his feet, quickly pushing aside the terrified Uchiha who was clinging onto his shirt for dear life. His cheeks were flushed from having her so close to him, but brushed off his clothes and glanced about the room, not noticing Zuri fall over from dizziness. Luckily for the them the fall made Jugo calm down, and his sage jutsu was slowly receding.

Zuri didn't have the time to express her disinterest at falling from the ceiling only to get brushed aside, because right before her was Sasuke, looking at the group with a curious expression.

"Sensei!" she exclaimed, forgetting Suigetsu and running up to Sasuke, wrapping her arms around his neck, thankful that she was no longer lost in the tunnels with two strangers.

Sasuke ignored her, but allowed her to keep hugging him as he turned to his two Taka teammates. He was honestly not expecting to see them both here of all places. Unless it was for revenge. He was kind of a douche for leaving them in the Land of Iron by themselves a while back. But he figured they could fend for themselves.

"Finally we found you!" sighed Suigetsu. "We were looking all over for you."

"What are you two doing here?" Sasuke asked stoically, not even bothering to question why Zuri had left her post to come search for him.

"We should ask you the same question!" Suigetsu said indignantly, pointing a finger at him. "You never tell us anything! Well, spit it out!" he yelled. But Sasuke merely pointed a finger past them, at a shadowy figure standing in the midst of the cloud of debris caused by the collapsed ceiling.

"Kabuto was using the Reanimation Jutsu, so I stopped him."

Suigetsu cocked his head to the side. "This is Kabuto?" he asked, coming closer to better examine the man standing perfectly still before them, staring off into the distance as if in a trance. "He looks kind of gross," he nodded, looking at Kabuto's pale, scaly skin and the large white snake protruding from his belly. "Hehe, this kind of looks like a giant -"

"Never mind him. Why have you two come so far out of your way to find me?"

"Oh right," Suigetsu smiled. "I brought you a present," he said, taking out the scroll from inside his black robes and tossing it to him.

"Sensei," Zuri whispered, lessening her grip around Sasuke's neck. "How do you know these two people?"

"We go back a few years. They along with Karin and I formed a group to track down and kill my brother, Itachi." Looking at Zuri's confused expression, he added, "It's a long story."

At that moment, a few small birds flew into the room and landed on Jugo's shoulder. "Even though you and Itachi released the Reanimation Jutsu, I fear that Madara still hasn't gone down," Jugo interrupted quietly.

"I see…" mumbled Sasuke. He supposed it might take a bit more than stopping Kabuto to finish off the legendary Madara Uchiha.

"Will everybody please stop interrupting me? I'm the one talking to Sasuke here," Suigetsu pouted, and Sasuke opened up the scroll that was passed to him. "Isn't it great? This will definitely give us the upper hand in the war! We could even take over the world with this!" he said proudly to Sasuke.

"Wha-what does it mean?" asked Zuri after a couple seconds of silence, dropping her arms to her side, but not leaving the Uchiha reading the scroll.

"This is it," he responded finally, taking a few steps forward and rolling the scroll back up. This is what he needed this entire time. Suigetsu smiled, obviously proud of himself.

Now all Sasuke needed was one more person involved to accomplish his plan.