With his mind on Sakura, he didn't notice that the enemies were now waiting for the right moment to ambush them. " NEJI! Watch out!" TenTen cried tackling him to the floor just as a dozen kunai whizzed passed them. ' How could I miss that?' Neji thought frantically using his Byakugan to locate the enemy's location. " Neji. What's wrong? Pay more attention or you'll get yourself killed!" TenTen cried. " Quiet, TenTen." Neji replied sternly, he quickly looked around at their surroundings. Kiba was protecting the messenger, using his nose as a sniffer to track the enemy's whereabouts.
After 30 minutes of pain and agony in Sakura's mind, she fell into a comatose state. Sasuke went to check up on her and smirked when she finally fell quiet. ' I like it quiet. Especially when Sakura shuts that mouth of hers.' Sasuke thought as he closed the door and went out for a walk.
Back in the forest a few miles from where Sasuke was strolling, Kiba, TenTen and Neji were fighting with their enemies all the while protecting their messenger. One of their enemies crept up right behind TenTen and the messenger, and then took the document right out of their hands! " Gasp!" the messenger whirled around and tried to take it back, but got a kunai embedded in his shoulder as a gift. The messenger fell down with a cry. TenTen striked back and missed, bending down to help their injured messenger.
" Are you alright?" TenTen asked. The messenger just groaned as TenTen pulled out the kunai and wished that Sakura was here, despite her anger towards the pink haired kunoichi, she needed Sakura's medical skills to get rid of the poison that now entered the messenger's body.
" Neji! Kiba! They got the document!" TenTen cried to her teammates who were currently fighting the enemies. " What?!" Neji cried, kicking his opponent in the gut before he rushed over to the enemy that was now running away with the document. He turned back and yelled, " TenTen, Kiba! Protect the messenger and finish them off!" He disappeared into brush.
Leaves and branches all whizzed by Neji as he used his Byakugan to scan the area of where his target might be. He found the enemy a mile north and headed towards him, wanting to take back what was theirs in the first place. He sped up some more, hopefully trying to catch up to him in case he might escape. Finally Neji caught up to him and threw a kunai. The target fell down, pulled out the kunai that embedded in his arm and leapt off again. Neji cursed lightly and followed him through the trees again.
Following close by, Neji devised a plan to lure his target in. He crept silently and followed his target all the way out of the forest and across a river. There, Neji attacked him and took the document back to his teammates. When he arrived where he last left his teammates, he found them alive. " Neji! You've got the document! Thank goodness." TenTen cried. Neji looked at the messenger and gave the document and continued on their way back to Konoha.
They finally arrived there few hours later. Tsunande collected the money from the messenger and he continued back home alone. Neji asked Tsunade when they were alone if she had heard anything more about what Sasuke would do to Sakura. Tsunade hadn't heard anything out of the ordinary, although Tsunade did saw Sasuke walking around today in the afternoon. Neji growled and walked out of the Hokage's office.
Neji decided to visit's Sasuke's mansion once again to see if he was still home. He arrived just outside the gates and sensed that Sasuke wasn't home so he snuck in and tried all the doors again. Upstairs, he used his Byakugan and searched the doors; there was one where only little chakra was seen. He guessed that it might be Sakura's chakra and Neji was right! She was in there. He quickly picked her up and was about to escape through the window when a low chuckle reached his ears. Neji quickly turned around to see the Uchiha leaning on the doorframe of the room.
" Sasuke…" Neji growled. Sasuke just smirked. " Just what are you doing with Sakura? Are you stealing her from me? A ninja such as yourself would stoop this low to steal other people's women?" Neji growled some more. " Speak for yourself! Sakura's mine! She was never yours in the first place!" Neji cried. Sasuke scoffed. " She was mine when she told me that she liked me."
" You didn't even like her then! How do I know if you aren't just using her?" Neji said. " I can change my mind, can't I? I realize that I love her now." Sasuke said. Neji was so mad, but with Sakura in his hands, he didn't want to let her go. Not even for the Uchiha, who has finally realized that he loved the pink haired beauty.