"All packed?" Sakura smiled as she met up with the other two men next to the large stone entrance of the Akatsuki Lair. Her light gray backpack's strap was slung across her shoulders and she had her new gloves on.
Never know when you might need them, she told herself.
Itachi and Deidara didn't say anything, but they nodded. Sakura smiled a little more and palmed the stone wall until she found a hidden mechanism. She gently pushed the button there and watched as the stone door opened slowly.
"Watching this has always been so mind numbing for me." Sakura sighed as it opened enough for all of them to go through. It was dark outside; the stars were still twinkling in the black sky. Sakura grinned and took a deep breath of the fresh, crisp air and stepped out of the lair. When the three of them were all out, Sakura stomped down on another mechanism. The stone gate then fell as slowly as it rose. But by the time the gate had hit the ground, the three were already off.
'Can you guys catch me?' Sakura asked, referring to the team of Konoha ninja. She grinned to herself as she flew from branch to branch with her, as she called them, teammates.
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"Shaddup..." Kiba groaned as he slammed his hand against an 'dog' alarm clock he set next to him the night before. He kept his eyes shut and shortly realized how warm he was. Before long, he realized he was lying on something very soft, very smooth. And this soft smooth thing had a heartbeat. Kiba could also feel extremely soft hair tickling his arm and chest.
Thinking he was dreaming of lying in bed with a beautiful woman, he kept his eyes shut and licked the person under him. Kiba gently sucked on the skin there and heard a soft groan. The poor man opened his eyes. Oh how he wished he was dreaming. Underneath him slept Hyuuga Neji.
Kiba shuddered in terror as he jumped up. The horrified Inuzuka looked around. Shikamaru was missing. Oh well. Then he turned to find his other two teammates. His eyes widened to the size of saucers.
"Na-Naruto...?"
The slumbering blondie was lying on top of an equally unconscious Sasuke, his face buried in the Uchiha's chest and arms around Sasuke's waist. The said Uchiha was missing his shirt and had his arms wrapped around the Kyuubi-Boy.
"Baby, you've got such soft skin..." Naruto mumbled as he rubbed his cheek against Sasuke's chest. Sasuke in return groaned and rubbed Naruto's back.
Kiba noticed Naruto's hand sliding down Sasuke's stomach, inch by inch, his tanned hand neared the rim of Sasuke's dark blue boxers.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!" Kiba squealed hysterically as he rushed to the sleeping two men and kicked Naruto off of Sasuke.
"WHAT THE FUUUHH!!" Naruto yelped as he rolled off Sasuke. The said Uchiha shot up and looked around before focusing on Kiba.
"What the hell happened?"
Kiba turned a shade of red. "Y-You and Na-Naruto were..."
"Were...?" Sasuke echoed. Kiba saw his dark eyes narrow.
"...MOLESTING EACH OTHER!!"
Sasuke, had he not been an Uchiha and had his pride not been bigger than a blue whale, would have freaked out. However, he was indeed an Uchiha, and his pride was truly so much bigger than just a blue whale.
"We WHAT!?" Naruto shrieked. Kiba nodded violently.
"OH MY GOD!!!!" The whiskered man shouted. "NOT AGAIN!!!"
"Again, dobe?"
"Yeah, again, Sasuke..." Naruto hissed. "Remember? Back when we were twelve? At the Academy...?"
"Shut up." Sasuke glared. He shuddered slightly before closing his eyes. "This is so humiliating..."
"No kidding." Kiba sighed as he rubbed his arms.
'Ew. I think I raped Neji too..Ugh...'
"Ew...What the hell? There's some sort of sticky liquid on my chest..." Neji suddenly said as he wiped his chest. "...Hold on, Kiba, what the hell is my shirt doing sticking out of your boxers??"
Naruto stared hard at Kiba before opening his mouth.
"KIBA!?!?!"
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The girls had woken up about 30 minutes before the boys had. Shikamaru had gotten up before they had, and had told them that he knew about their plan already and didn't want to get involved. He was gone; off to find a spring to refill the water bottles.
They had already taken down their tent a couple of minutes ago. All of the girls were now all sitting outside on the logs of the guy's tent and were giggling at the response they were getting from them.
"N-NEJI!! I-I can't t-take your damn shirt out of my boxers!! I think that they're stuck...Hold on."
"DON'T TAKE OFF YOUR BOXERS, YOU IDIOT!!"
Tenten and Ino fell off the logs laughing. Hinata was silently giggling but felt a little bad for them. Izanami had bitten her lip so hard that her lip bled a little.
"I can't believe you managed to sew his shirt into Kiba's boxers, Tenten-san..." Izanami marveled.
Tenten grinned evilly as she replied to her teammate, "But you and Ino were the ones who position Kiba and Naruto onto the two 'Uke'."
"W-Weren't h-heavy?" Hinata smiled gently.
"Only a little." Ino said with a grin plastered onto her face.
"...But I didn't really lift them...Ino-san and I kind of dragged them...I think I might have hit Sasuke's head on one of the bamboo canteens..." Izanami smiled sheepishly.
Tenten laughed as Hinata spoke up, "I t-think K-Kiba-kun scared a f-few b-birds when he screamed..."
"He scared me when he screamed..." Ino smiled as she twirled a lock of her blonde hair with her finger. "Well, I hope they don't try to butcher us."
"Agreed." The other three women said in unison.
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The 3 Akatsuki leapt from branch to branch with ease. The only sound coming off from them was the fluttering of their black cloaks.
"How far are we from Iwa?" Sakura suddenly asked, not caring who would answer.
"We are currently about..." Deidara drawled as he pressed some buttons on the side of his scope."1045 kilometers away from the canyons."
"And we've traveled how far?"
"255 kilometers, un."
Sakura knit her eyebrows. 'Konoha is about 1500 kilometers from Iwa...And an average team can travel about 300 kilometers a day, so if the team that's after us has already gotten 2 days worth of travel...Hold on, math. 300 times two equals 600. 1500 minus 600 equals 9--'
The calculating kunoichi was quickly shoved aside by Deidara. She quickly landed on a nearby branch. Noticing that the other two were still scaling branches, Sakura jolted after them. As soon as she caught up with Itachi and Deidara, she glared up at the blonde.
"What was that for!?" Sakura hissed irritably.
Deidara grinned. "You nearly ran smack dab into a branch, un."
Sakura blushed a little for yelling at him. "Oh. Sorry."
"Yeah, whatever, un."
'Fine.' Sakura sighed. 'Anyways..1500 minus 600...900, and we're 945 kilometers awa...'
"Shoot!" She shouted out suddenly as she jumped another branch.
"What is it." Itachi asked without turning to her.
"The Konoha team is 145 kilometers ahead of us!"
Deidara and Itachi both landed on a very thick branch. Deidara raised an eyebrow at the girl as he turned around to face her. "What?"
Sakura stopped and crouched on a branch above the two men before explaining.
"...This isn't good, un." Deidara whispered. "They just might be able to intercept us..."
Sakura nodded grimly.
"We'll take off at full speed then." Spoke Itachi. "It will command chakra, but within a day or two, we'll be ahead of them. Understood?"
"Hai."
"...Hai, un."
Itachi closed his eyes for a moment before turning around and disappearing for a moment. He reappeared seconds later, many yards away from where he originally stood.
Sakura and Deidara glanced at each other before evaporating from the branch and following after Itachi.
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"We're off to go find dinner and wood, guys!" Naruto smiled brightly. "See ya later!"
Naruto, Hinata, Tenten, Ino, and Kiba, and Akamaru took off from their spots, leaving Neji, Shikamaru, Sasuke, and Izanami back at the camp.
As Shikamaru quickly began to go deeper into the plan with Neji, Izanami and Sasuke wandered off into the forest. Sasuke had actually asked Izanami to follow him, and, without a second thought, she agreed.
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"Shikamaru." Neji began. "Who do you suppose the man with the dark hair and the man with the blonde hair that Izanami-san mentioned are?"
"I don't really have a clue, Neji." Shikamaru replied as he scribbled down notes in his white note pad. "For all I know, there could be legions of ninja in the Akatsuki. Jiraiya-sama may have probably only known about those people, because they are the best of the best. There's no real way to be--"
A shrill shriek from a distance interrupted Shikamaru. He and Neji looked up as another scream, a cry of sheer horror, erupted from out of the forest.
"What was that?" Shikamaru asked in confusion.
"I don't know. But should we check it out...?" Neji suggested. Shikamaru stood up and stowed his pen and note pad away in his pocket. "I think we should...It might be someone getting attacked or something."
Neji stood as well. "Alright, let's get going."
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"Everyone! We're baaack!" Naruto sang as he and the rest of his group returned to the camp with either fish or firewood in their arms. To everyone's surprise, their camp was empty.
"Where'd everyone go?" Kiba asked as he set down a couple logs. Hinata looked around and set down the skewered fish. She looked back up with a fearful expression. "
What i-if they got..."
"I doubt it, Hina-chan..." Naruto said, putting his armful of logs down like Kiba. Ino put her armful of fish next to Hinata's pile, Tenten did the same a few seconds later. Ino grabbed a blanket from the ground next to one of the tents and wiped her arms with it.
"...Hinata, use your Byakugan...?" Tenten suggested. Hinata blushed slightly for not thinking of that herself.
"Ok..." She made a hand sign.
"Byakugan!" Veins spread out from her eyes as she slowly began to rotate so she didn't have any blind spots. The Hyuuga girl suddenly stopped after a short period of time. "I-I...I think I see something..." Hinata squinted.
"Where?" Ino asked.
"There!" She said, pointing in one direction.
"F-Follow m-me!" Hinata then took off in a direction. The group quickly followed her. Ino didn't have the time to throw the blanket down, so she took it with her. It only took them a few minutes to reach the place where Hinata had suspected she had seen something. But, when she stopped at their destination, her eyes widened in horror. Slowly, the rest of the group stood next to her. Naruto, who was running at the rear, finally landed behind them and noticed that they looked all terror-struck.
"Hinata-chan, what is--" Naruto began before he looked up. "Eh?!"
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"We've gone on long enough." Itachi said as he turned towards his panting teammates before walking out into the center of a little clearing he had found. "Let's rest."
Sakura smiled gratefully as she sat down in the dry leaves with her legs crossed.
"My legs feel like they're about to fall off."
"Knock on wood, Sakura. We don't want that to happen, un." Deidara snickered. She looked up at him with a fire burning in her green eyes.
"Shut up! You look like you're about to drop too!" Sakura wasn't lying when she said that. Deidara's hair was wind blown, his cheeks were tinted red, and there was sweat dripping off his brow. However, Sakura didn't look too different from him. Some of her hair stuck to her sweat coated face while the rest was falling out of her now loose ponytail.
"You're one to talk." Deidara scoffed. Sakura rolled her eyes and stood.
"I'm going to go take a bath." She declared before walking off into the woods. Deidara's eyes followed her as she disappeared behind the trees before sighing. Gentle clapping could be heard from Itachi.
"Once again, good job Romeo." The Uchiha stated before dodging a twig that was thrown at him.
"Shut up, un!"