And chapter ten...Again sorry for not updating yadda yadda yadda.

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Their Sensei sighed. "Well well...Looks like I have one person in my team who at least noticed something!" He chuckled, clapped his hands together in a handseal. "Release!"

They looked around. The desert had disappeared, and a forest had taken its place. Instead of feeling the sun burn in his neck, Gray thought it was quite cool. The roof of leaves shielding them from the sun, they all looked at their sensei.

"Joma-sensei, what's going on?" Hana asked.

Joma chuckled and unfolded his arms. "Good job, Drake. Good job indeed..." He paused, and took a moment to look around, before continuing. "We have indeed been trapped in a genjutsu. There is no more time to explain things, the enemy is watching is."

Drake nodded. "We're surrounded."

Gray grinned. "Let them come, I'm ready for them!" At that moment, something shiny missed his head by an inch.

"Damn it. That bastard is getting away" Their sensei said irritated. "You guys take care of the bandits, I'll handle their leader."

"But sensei--" Hana tried, but too late: their sensei had already disappeared.

"Let's get this over with." Drake said with a grin while taking out some shurikens. Gray felt the tension rise, and got ready to fight. Hana gulped, and looked around hoping to see a sign of the attackers.

"Got ya!" Drake shouted as he threw a shuriken into the bushes.

A grunt was heared, indicating that his throw had hit its target. Before he could celebrate however, something was thrown back. Drake caught the thing, and studied it.

"Hmmm, a kunai." He threw it in Gray's direction. "At least some of them are ninja."

A volley of kunais came from his right, but Gray grabbed the kunai Drake threw away, and deflected the projectiles. "Come one, is that the best you can do?"

Some mumbling was heard, and then a man shouted. "Everyone, leave and aid our leader. We will take care of this."

Two men stepped out of the bushes. Both were tall and very muscular. They wore a sleeveless light beige shirt and a dark red, baggy pants. They were wearing sandals, like most ninjas, and had bandages covering their ankles.

One man chuckled and spoke. "Never thought we'd have to come out to fight a bunch of kids."

Gray and Drake smirked, and the latter responded. "You'll regret underestimating us."

The man chuckled again. "Fine. Nii-san, you take the blond. I'll handle the dark haired kid."

"What about the girl?"

"Yeah what about me?" Hana asked, having completely forgotten the situation they were in.

The ''nii-san'' eyed the girl. "I'll take her on. Maybe I can have some fun with her." The man smirked, and Hana froze.

The other man nodded, and gave his attention to Drake again. "Shall we?"

Drake let out a small laugh. "You have no idea what you're in for." With that, and a smirk, they both disappeared.

Now there was only one of them left. The man was still staring at the direction his brother left. This was his chance. Gray grabbed a kunai from his pocket and lunged at the taller man. The man dodged the strike with relative ease. And before Gray could do anything, the man ran up to him, grabbed Gray's leg and threw towards a tree. He felt his back hit the hard tree, and heard something break.

"Good thing that wasn't my spine, hehe." He said with a grin, trying to stand up and ignore the pain in his lower back. When he finaly got up, he looked around. Hana was lying against a tree; out cold.

Already? Man, she's weak, he thought to himself.

The man was slowly walking towards her, with his back towards Gray. He smirked, again this was his chance. And again, the man dodged it with ease. This time Gray didn't feel like letting it end here. He recovered and leaped at the man, grabbing a kunai and using at as a dagger. Missed.

Gray turned on one foot, trying to kick the man with his other. Again miss. He felt the man grab his leg, and spin him around in the air. A few seconds later, he found himself smashed against a tree again.

He ignored the pain, and ran towards the attacker with rage building inside of him. The man smiled, seeing how the boy wasn't even able to walk straight anymore. The man stepped aside and punched Gray in his stomach. He coughed up blood, and fell to his knees. The man raised his arm, ready to strike, when a kunai hit him in the shoulder. Gray took this opportunity and jumped away, landing next to Hana.

"You ok?" She asked him with a smile.

He grinned "Where you pretending to be knocked out?"

She shrugged. "This guy is strong."

Tell me about it.

"We can't attack him with strength alone, we need to come up with a plan."

Duh.

"Damn it! He's already coming towards us!" He felt an strong grip around his throat pull him up and pin him against the tree. He managed to open his eyes and look to his left to see if Hana was ok. Her head was hanging lifeless against the attackers hand. Damn it! Is she faking it again? He looked at the man again.. Man, this isn't working at all. We don't need a plan, we need someone to save us. But sensei is gone, and Drake is fighting somewhere else. Damn Drake, he'll never stand a chance on his own... If this keeps up, I'll have to use 'it'. Guess I have no choice. He smirked, and felt a burning pain on the back of his neck...

ZOMG! What could this pain be? What is 'it'? And what happened to Drake? Who is that guy? Why is Hana so weak. Did the author create another Sakura clone? What the hell was their sensei thinking? Am I prepared? What the hell happened to my sweet lil' Gaara-kun?

So...were that some of the questions going through your mind?

If yes, then I CAN READ MINDS OF PEOPLE I DON'T KNOW

If no, then you better stop thinking about it now!

Chapter 11 coming up

For some reason, I love Gray's thoughts in this chapter.