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I love every single one of you guys who read my story! ILY!

I don't own Naruto, it belongs to that other guy whose name escapes me.

3.30am, with the girls~

"My feet are absolutely killing me." Ino growled as she dragged herself through the forest, they could see the road from where they were walking.

"That's your fault for not bringing comfy shoes." Sakura pointed out.

"I didn't know we'd be walking this far." Ino replied, changing hands with the food basket. "How much longer?"

"Ino, we've only been walking for two minutes." Tenten said, carrying her bag in one hand, and holding her stomach with the other. "We have at least another eight more."

"Urgh." Ino groaned.

"I did offer to help you get fit, last year." Tenten smiled at her.

"Yeah, yeah." Ino rolled her tired eyes.

They walked in silence for the rest of the way there.

"Hey look! There's smoke!" Ino pointed further up the road. "It's probably the village! Yes, finally we can stop walking for a while!" She cheered and started doing a strange dance.

"Let's just get there first." Tenten watched her with a raised eyebrow. "And let's get there quickly, I think Ino has gone insane..."

"I have NOT gone insane!" Ino protested. Sakura and Tenten rolled their eyes, Hinata just smiled at her friend's antics.

"She has a point, Tenten." Sakura grinned.

"See, Sakura even says-"

"She already was insane." Sakura finished.

"-I'm right HEY!" Ino glared at her.

"Let's just go." Tenten, once again, dragged them to their destination.

The village was small, but had that homey feeling to it. Like you belonged there.

"G-Guys, there's a-an inn here." Hinata pointed to an small building that said 'The Monkeys Tail Inn'.

"Yep, there's definitely nobody staying here." Ino deadpanned as she stared at the sign. "Who would name a place: 'The Monkeys Tail Inn'? Do they want to keep people away from here."

Hinata opened the door on the inn and they all stepped inside. It was just a small room with a stair case going up towards the guest's rooms. There was a desk where an old lady sat, staring at the four girls who had just walked through the door.

"Uh...hi?" Tenten waved at her nervously.

The old lady's eyes widened. "Princesses? In my inn?"

"Where!" Sakura looked around, expecting to see elegant dressed women appearing out of no where.

"No, you four are the princesses." The lady pointed a shaky finger at the girls.

"No, we're just-" Tenten started.

"Please! Take a room for free! It would be my pleasure." The lady bowed low.

"But we're not-" Tenten started again.

"Oh, how rude of me! You must be wondering who I am!" The lady continued. "My name is Hotaru, pleased to meet such fine, beautiful princesses."

"Miss Hotaru, you must listen-"

"I'll show you to your rooms!" Hotaru was so happy that there was princesses in her inn, that she didn't bother listening to Tenten. She was humming away and skipped past the girls.

"Come now." She called from the third step. "We mustn't keep you waiting."

Ino shrugged and they all followed Hotaru to the room they were going to stay in. For FREE.

At Breakfast time in the Uchiha Palace~

"So Itachi, are you ready to take over my business?" Fugaku asked the elder son at the dining table.

"I don't know, Father." Itachi shrugged and drank some orange juice. Sasuke glowered at his brother, he hated him for getting all the attention from his father. Neji, Naruto and Shikamaru were off doing something else because Fugaku had said that this was a family meeting.

Fugaku sighed.

"I heard we got some new slaves, four girls, I would very much like to meet them." Fugaku rang the servant bell, and immediately a young woman with short blond hair in four pony tails appeared at his side.

"Yes, Mr. Uchiha?" She bowed low.

"Temari, go get the four new slaves and bring them here." He ordered. Temari nodded and strode out the room. Temari reappeared five minutes later.

"Sir, it seems the four girls have gone...missing." She hesitated.

"Missing? What do you mean, missing?" Fugaku raised his eyebrows.

"Well, one of them is a tailor, she in neither in her bedroom or in her tailoring room. Another one is a blacksmith and she isn't in her room or the smithy, the other two maids aren't anywhere either." Temari informed. "Kurenai said she hadn't seen them since yesterday."

"Odd." Fugaku said thoughtfully.

"Yes, very. The other odd thing was that when I went into their bedroom, I saw no belongings or anything in it. As if they were never even there." Temari added.

"They must be somewhere, maybe they just didn't bring any belongings?" Sasuke tried, he didn't want to anger his Father.

"No, I distinctly remember them each having bags when I greeted them at the front gate." Mikoto entered the conversation.

"They must have ran away." Itachi stated simply.

"Run away?" Mikoto gasped. "But they couldn't have!"

"It is a possibility." Itachi nodded. Sasuke was fuming. That girl who dyed her hair pink and her crazed friends? They could reveal valuable business information on the Uchiha's... He thought angrily.

"We all know the penalty of runaway slaves." Fugaku started, leaning his chin on his hands.

"Sir, if you don't mind me asking." Temari said hesitantly, Fugaku nodded for her to go on. "What are the consequences for runaway slaves?"

Fugaku and Sasuke shared a look.

Sasuke sighed, making the same stance as his Father. "Execution."

Same time, with the GIRLS~

Ino yawned as she lied down on the not very comfortable bed. "My opinion is this; We stay here one night, no longer, tomorrow we get some kind of transport to take us as far away from the Uchiha Palace as possible, and then get a new house and identity. The end and we live happily ever after."

"It's not going to be that simple." Tenten groaned as she leaned over to get something out of her bag. "The will be looking for us, and if they find us, they won't take us back to the palace and act like nothing has happened."

"They'll k-kill us." Hinata murmured.

"Yes, they will." Sakura agreed, pushing her knotty pink hair out of her face.

"But they won't catch us, they never will." Ino made an effort to stay positive, and even offered a wide grin, but her heart wasn't in it. "After a few months, they'll find something better to do with their lives than to keep searching for slaves to put to justice."

"Hmm." Sakura grunted.

They were silent for a few moments.

"...It's pretty funny how that lady thinks that we're princesses." Ino giggled. "We could use this to our advantage..."

"That w-would mean t-t-taking advantage of h-her kindness!" Hinata protested, waving her hands around.

Sakura and Tenten looked at each other.

"...I'm cool with that." Tenten shrugged, Hinata gaped at her.

"Me too." Sakura said.

"B-But-

"This is just something we need to do, Hina." Ino tried to comfort her. "We'll make it up to her somehow."

"Guys..." Tenten was frozen, they all looked at her.

"Are there guards outside with guns?" Sakura panicked.

"The lady just heard everything we said!" Ino panicked as well.

"Noooooo." Tenten frowned and the girls let out a long breath of relief. "We didn't bring any money along!"

"...Crap." Sakura swore, groaning and falling down onto her bed. "I totally forgot about the money, we're screwed." She muffled into her pillow.

"We can just get a job somewhere." Ino suggested.

"How are w-we supposed to f-f-find a house, if w-we can't afford a-anything?" Hinata sighed and sat on the floor.

"We'll find a way!" Tenten pumped her fist into the air, then quickly pulled it back down again. "Owwwwwwwww..." She clutched her stomach in pain.

"We should really get that checked out." Sakura commented as she watched Tenten.

"I think I've s-seen that m-m-man with the w-white eyes before." Hinata said thoughtfully. "I remember, back at our old place. He was on the front of the news paper; He was going to take up the famous Hyuga Corp from his Father."

"Really?" Tenten said doubtfully. "He seemed like a total prick to me."

"Apparently, h-he's a genius." Hinata patted her chin.

"Well, I guess you learn something new everyday." Tenten admitted. "Now that I think about it, he seemed pretty stoic and sophisticated."

"Aren't all rich people like that?" Sakura asked, her head out of the pillow.

"Not the blond one." Tenten pointed out. Hinata felt her ears redden.

"Good point." Ino laughed.

"Uh...Ino? I think she was talking about you." Sakura said with a straight face.

"SHUT UP!"

"Make me." Sakura threw a pillow at Ino's face.

"Oh you're going dowwwwwn, BITCH!" Ino attacked her with her pillow. She jumped on Sakura's bed to get her.

Tenten threw a pillow at Ino and it knocked her off the bed.

"HAHA! BUUUUUUURN!" Sakura stood on the bed and pointed down at her, laughing her head off. Hinata threw a pillow at her and it also knocked off the bed.

Ino laughed at her too.

"SHUT UP!" Sakura whacked her with her pillow, and it turned into an all out pillow WAR.

Uchiha Palace, after breakfast~

"Saskue." Fugaku called out as he saw Sasuke walk past the hallway.

"Yes, Father?" Sasuke asked as he walked over to Fugaku.

"Go get your friends and meet me in my office, I have a job for you."

"Yes, Father."

"Hi, Sasuke's Dad! How was the business trip?" Naruto asked cheerfully as he, Neji, Sasuke and Shikamaru walked in Fugaku's office. All he got was a glare in return.

"I have a job for you young men." Fugaku got up from his chair and walked to the front of the desk. "I presume my son told you about the recent happenings at the Uchiha house hold?"

"Uhhh..." Naruto scratched the back of his head.

"Recent happenings, sir?" Shikamaru asked politely.

"Ah, I guess not." Fugaku glared lightly at his son. "Four new slaves, Sakura, Tenten, Ino and Hinata have apparently gone rogue and have escaped from the Uchiha Palace."

"Hina-chan?" Naruto asked, dazed.

"I'm sure you young men know the consequence of this course of action." Fugaku looked up at them. "These four dirty slaves WILL be executed, we just need someone to bring them back."

"I'm guessing this is where we come in?" Neji guessed, and Fugaku nodded.

"Yes, I will need them back ALIVE." Fugaku stated. "Do you all understand?"

"Yes, Father." Sasuke said, bowing low.

"Yes Sir." Shikamaru copied Sasuke's actions.

"Yes Sir." Neji copied them both.

Naruto was still dazed and muttering incorehent words, Sasuke whacked the back of his head.

"CHICKENS!" Naruto yelled.

Sasuke whacked him again.

"DUCKS!"

Whack.

"ALBATOSSES!"

Whack.

"PELICANS!"

Fugaku rolled his eyes at the pair and turned to Shikamaru and Neji. "Why aren't you two like that?" He asked.

"Too troublesome." Shikamaru said and slouched, Neji nodded in agreement.

Fugaku sighed.

"CASSOWARIES!"

Whack.

"HUMMINGBIRDS!"

Whack.

"SEAGULLS!"

Whack.

"EAGLES!"

Fugaku shook his head, those two were an odd pair.

I just had to add that part in, Naruto (the character) is just so fun to write about XD

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