Teammates Chapter 11

Disclaimer: I do not own naruto, but if I did, Itachi would marry me.

Tsunade was extremely bored. Her and Shizune have been stuck in Iron for the last week now. "It wasn't supposed to take this long." Tsunade thought. The Iron Elders were suppose to renegotiate the treaty between them and fire. Simple right? Yeah that's what Tsunade thought too. But here she was sitting in a stuffy hotel room awaiting the Iron Elders' decision. Already pushed beyond her limits, Shizune had let Tsunade drink as much sake as she wanted. But Tsunade lost another bet and had lost all her spending money.

All of a sudden, a messenger hawk swept into the open hotel window. "Finally! Some news!" thought Tsunade. But as the graceful bird came closer, Tsunade noticed that it wasn't an Iron hawk but a Fire bird. Slightly discouraged, Tsunade reached for the message with alittle less vigor.

Back In Konoha.

Walking down the street was Konaha's number one knuckle headed ninja, the one and only Naruto Uzumaki. He was very confused. He has not seen either of his teammates in two days and in all honesty, he was getting slightly worried.

The most plausible spot to find either teammate would be the Uchiha Compound, he deduced. So that is where he was heading.

(with Sakura)

To her left was a beautiful vase of cherry blossoms.

She just laid there, in silence for a long time. She couldn't help but think back to her genin days, where everything was much different. Back then, the world had clear defined lines marking the difference between good and bad, right and wrong,…friends and foes.

Sakura shivered, feeling Sasuke's hand clenching around her neck once again. Shaking herself out of her reverie, Sakura stretched and sat up. She had been laying immobile for kami knows how long. She needed to get up, to get her blood circulating again. She needed a distraction, she needed air. What she needed, was to train. To just let loose and let her frustrations go.