Hello! Sorry for the wait. School is about to start back up and I'm busy with all of that and more. So yeah, sorry for taking so long.

I hope you all aren't to mad and will still read my story. Thank you for reading and all and thank you to all that have reviewed and giving me motivation and ideas for my story.

So I guess we should get on to the story. Hope you enjoy!

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Last time:

"Stop running away, Pinky!" She called out looking at the trees around her. She heard her name and looked around for the source.

"Karin, over here. No, over hear. Karin. Karin, Karin. Karin, Karin. Over hear, Karin," The voice whispered all around her. Then it stopped, and then there was a breath on her neck and, "Karin," was heard. Karin tried to turn around quickly but before she knew it, he feet were kicked out from under her and she was face down on the ground, with a foot on the back of her neck. Karin winced on the pressure the foot was putting on her neck. Sakura was above her smiling down at her.

"See, Karin, if I just pushed a little harder, you'd be gone. You have no idea how appealing that sounds to me," Sakura said adding more pressure to her foot. "But, unfortunately, we're running out of time to complete this mission. If we were late because I killed you, Orochimaru wouldn't be too happy and I really don't feel like dealing with him. So how about, you just accept that you can't order me around and we can go. Okay?" Sakura said with a smile. Sasuke just watched this whole things with a smirk on his face.

When Karin didn't say anything, Sakura pushed harder and Karin let out a gasp of pain. "Ok, Ok. I give, let me up," Karin said almost to tears from the pain. when Sakura didn't Karin sighed and a tear fell down from her eyes. "Please," she finished. Sakura then smiled happily and let her foot up off of Karin. Karin stood up slowly, rubbing her neck. Sakura looked at her and then at Sasuke. Sasuke looked back at her and smirked. Sakura smiled back.

"Should we head out Sasuke? It's getting late..." Sasuke nodded and stood up. He looked at Sakura and then Karin and then back at Sakura.

"Let's go," he commanded and jumped up into the trees, followed by Sakura and then Karin. They were almost to the mountain range and Sakura was dreading that walk again.

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"Okay, anyway. Are you all ready?" Kakashi asked them all.

"Hai!" Tenten and Hinata said. Shikamaru sighed and nodded.

"You better believe it!" Naruto said with his smile and a thumbs up. Kakashi nodded to all of them and then turned.

"Let's move out!" Kakashi ordered and the five of them jumped out of Konoha and towards Orochimaru's layer. They just didn't know that they were going the wrong way and that Sakura was about to enter the lightning country.

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Chapter 11: Rings and Ramen

"Oh my GOD! Do there have to be so many mountains? This is stupid!" Karin complained. They were almost done with all the mountains. Sakura looked back at her and then turned back to look at Sasuke's back.

They had about fifty more mountains to go and Sakura could barely stand any more of Karin's complaining. Sakura was getting annoyed and that meant that Sasuke was probably, too. Sakura was tired and hungry. She still had not gotten real food and she didn't get that much sleep last night either. Stupid nightmares keep coming back, and Sakura was tired of them. Let's just say that right now, Sakura was moody and was having a hard time controlling her temper right now, before it could become bad for Karin. Very bad.

Sakura wondered how Sasuke was doing it. He always was annoyed by people very easily, at least when they were younger. Sakura guessed that he was either ignoring Karin, which is very hard, or had learned to control his temper like Sakura was trying to do. Sakura figured that he was probably just trying to ignore Karin as best as he could.

"How do people do this? Sasuke-kun? Do you think you could fly me over the mountains? I don't want to walk anymore. Please?" Karin complained. She looked hopeful at Sasuke and Sakura looked at his back, afraid that he might beat on poor Karin.

Come on, Sasuke. Hit her! Before I do it.

Okay maybe she wasn't afraid that he might beat on her.

"No," Sasuke said without any emotion. Sakura was wondering how he couldn't have any sign that he was annoyed in his voice. She would have. How was he ignoring he so well, or how was he hiding it? Then, Sakura remembered that he was the famous Ice cube Uchiha. Of course he knew how to hide his emotions, it was his nature, and he was really good at it.

"But Sasuke-kun, I'm tired. I don't want to walk anymore. We have been for so long. It's almost been four hours. Please Sasuke?": Karin said. Sakura fisted her hands but kept them at her side, and she locked her jaw, to keep from yelling at her.

"No."

"Come on Sasuke-kun! Please?"

"No," there was a bit of annoyance in this tone and Sakura's hopes raised on the thought that he might actually hit her.

"But Sasuke-kun. I'll love you forever if you just fly me over the mountains," Karin said. Sakura's eye twitched. Surely, she wasn't that bad when they were younger. Was she? No, she wasn't that bad.

"No," Sasuke's voice was a little firmer this time and more hard.

"Please Sasuke-kun?!" Sasuke sighed and turned around to face Sakura and Karin. He had the same usual cold face and no emotions on his features at all. He looked at Karin and she had a smile filled with hope that he might actually do it.

"Karin, shut up and deal with it. We keep going until we get there. Now, stop complaining," Sasuke said with venom on his voice. Sakura smirked at him. Hopefully Karin would shut up now. Sasuke turned around and started walking again. Sakura sighed, it was quiet. Sakura never knew she liked the quiet so much. Maybe this is why Sasuke is so quiet all the time. Of course, the quiet only lasted for about two minutes.

"How many more mountains are there? Can't we take a break or something? I'm so tired! I can't do this any..." Sakura clenched her fist and then a light bulb went off in her head. Sakura did some hand signs and focused her chakra on Karin. "I mean why do they have to have so many moun--" Sakura smiled at herself. It worked. Sakura looked over her shoulder at Karin and she was holding her throat and trying to speak. She moved her lips but nothing came out.

Sakura giggled a little and turned around to face front again. When she did Sasuke was looking back at her with some confusion on his face, then he looked at Karin and then back at Sakura. Then he smirked and nodded in a way of saying 'thank-you'. Sakura smirked back at him and then nodded back saying 'your welcome'. Then Sasuke turned around and kept walking down the mountain.

Sakura walked until Karin ran past her to Sasuke and she pulled on Sasuke's arm and pointed at her throat. She was frantic and scared that she couldn't speak. Sasuke looked at her and then to Sakura. Sakura smiled and walked up to them. She looked at Karin, and cleared the smile off her face and widened her eyes.

"Oh Karin. You lost her voice. You talked it out, you shouldn't strain your voice so much. All that yelling and stuff isn't good for it. Try to be more careful from now on. Once you lose it once it very easy to lose it again. Try not to talk so much. I'll look at it when we get a chance though. Okay?" Sakura said innocently with a fake smile on her face. Karin had tears in her eyes and she looked frighteningly at Sakura. Then, she nodded and looked down. Sakura smiled at her and then looked up at Sasuke. He looked down at her with a smirk and accusing in his eyes. Sakura smiled innocently at him. He just shook his head and turned around and started to walk again.

"Let's get going," he said as he started on another mountian. Sakura nodded slightly and started to follow after him. She looked back at Karin who started following her and smiled. Karin had her head down and a pout on her lips. Sakura giggled a little and then turned forward again.

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"Lord Orochimaru," Kabuto called out to the snake. Orochimaru was sitting in his bed and turned to the open door where Kabuto was standing.

"What is it Kabuto?" Orochimaru said with a voice that sounded like a dying snake. Well, he was a dying snake in some ways. Kabuto walked in the room, shutting the door behind him and walked over to the tabel by the bed and set down a try with medicine on it, that he had been holding. He sighed and turned to Orochimaru with a syringe filled with medicine to stop the pain.

"We have to do the jutsu soon. Your getting worse. You can't hold on much longer," Kabuto said to him while pulling the syringe out of the snake's skin. As if to prove his point, Orochimaru started to cough violently. Kabuto put his hand on Orochimaru's back and rubbed it gently while gently pouring chakra into his back to ease the coughing.

"I know Kabuto. How much longer does this body have left?" Orochimaru asked after his fit was done. Kabuto sighed, and pulled his hand off of his lord's back and onto Orochimaru's hand.

"About 20 to 30 days," Orochimaru nodded.

"Well, it's a good thing that Sasuke will be back by then, hm?" Orochimaru said. Kabuto nodded and sighed.

"So what's the plan?" Kabuto asked.

"Well... we will wait until I absolutely can't wait any longer in this body and then I will take over Sasuke's body. So, when they get back we will move to the western hideout where all of the supplies is for the jutsu. That way we can use the supplies and then afterwards we can start our research on Sakura and experiments. I want to find out what makes her tick," Orochimaru laughed an evil laugh. Kabuto nodded.

Kabuto began to pick up the try and walk towards the door, but Orochimaru grabbed his wrist. Kabuto looked back at Orochimaru and saw a smile apear on his face, and something in his eyes.

"Hey Kabuto. I would like some company. And it's a little hot in here don't you think?" With that Kabuto smiled at his lord and started to walk towards him. Kabuto bent down and unzipped his lord's pants and looked upon the snake's member. He smiled up at Orochimaru and shot out his tounge to lick the tip. Orochimaru smiled and gasped in his sick pleasure. Kabuto was teasing him and he would get revenge on him soon. Kabuto smiled up at him.

"As you wish my lord," and then Kabuto put his lips around the whole member and sucked the air out of his mouth. Then the night of bliss started for Kabuto and his lord Orochimaru.

(A/N it kind of grossed me out just writing that so that will be the end of that scene. I don't want to freak anyone out of anything. Ok. NEXT!!)

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"Hey Hinata, do you want some of my Ramen?" Naruto asked the Hyuuga girl with a dorky smile. Hinata smiled and nodded her head.

"Thank-you Naruto," she said to him and lightly laughed as the blond held out some of the noddles on his chopsticks.

"Here you go," he said. Hinata lightly laughed again and opened her mouth to take the ramen in. Naruto gently pushed his chopsticks forward and Hinata closed her mouth on them and ate the Ramen. She smiled at him and nodded.

"Mmm," she hummed. Naruto smiled and ate a bite himself. He nodded and looked towards Hinata.

"It is good isn't it?" he asked as he fed another bite to Hinata.

"Yes it is," she told him.

They had stopped to rest about five minutes ago and Naruto broke out the Ramen. Hinata was sitting down and leaning against a tree with Naruto next to her. Kakashi was up in the tree adjacent to theirs reading his book. Shikamaru had his head leaned back on other tree and his eyes closed. He looked asleep but everyone knew he was just trying to get rid of the headache Naruto had caused him. Tenten sat against her own tree and was a little dazed she was staring at the ground in front of her. Her mind was in Konoha and a few hours before, when she was with a certain someone. Tenten lightly smiled at the thought.

Flashback:

"Shut up Naruto," Tenten yelled at the stupid blond and then started to walk down the road, to meet up with her secret boyfriend. When she did she stopped in front of him about a foot away.

"Hey Neji. What are you doing here?" Tenten asked him. He smirked at her and raised a hand to cup her cheek. He looked into her eyes and Tenten looked back in his.

"Making sure you'll come back. This is a dangerous mission and I wish you would have declined it," he told her. Tenten sighed and brought her hand up to hold his that was cupping her cheek. She closed her eyes and tilted her head into his hand.

"You know I can' t do that. This is Sakura we are talking about. You know that I am only going for her and Ehuro. E needs her. But I promise I'll be back," Tenten told him. She opened her eyes to looked at the man she loved. He looked serious and he looked at her with love in his eyes. He sighed.

"I know that. But I want to make sure you will come back. I want to give you something to look forward to when you come back," Neji said to her. Tenten lifter up her head and looked at him with confusion.

"What do you mean?" She asked and Neji took back his hand and reached into his pocket. He pulled out his hand and held it to his side holding somehting small in his hand.

"Tenten, I know that we have only been dating for a few months and no one really knows. Well, they know because of our youthful teammate, but they don't know. But I was thinking and I love you and I know you love me and I was wondering if you would like to.... well... marry me?" Neji looked at her and brought up his hand and opened his palm to show her a little circle with a diamond on it. Tenten looked at it and then up at Neji with her mouth open and then she looked back down at the ring. To say she was surprised was an understatement.

"Oh, wow, Neji. Um... are you sure? I mean your only 18 and I'm only 17. I mean..." Tenten looked up at Neji and she saw frantic in his eyes. She smiled at him and then said, "I mean... yes," she finished. Neji let out a breath he was holding and then gave the ring to Tenten. She took it and looked at it closely. She laughed at it, tears coming to her eyes but she wouldn't let them fall. She looked up at Neji and he was looking at her with a small smile and love in his eyes. She looked back down at the ring she held in her hand.

It was a ring with a silver band and a ten carot diamond on it with smaller rubies on the side of it. She looked on the inside of the silver band to read the inscription. 'Always my panda' she let out a laugh at her nickname and looked back up at Neji. She held the ring tight in her hand and reached up to hug Neji. He put his hands around her and sighed in her ear. Tenten held him close and leaned her head in the crook of his neck. She sighed happily and smiled.

"I love you," she whispered in his ear.

"I love you, too, my Panda," he told her. She laughed.

"Jerk," she whispered. She heard his soft chuckle in her ear and she smiled at it. She love it, his small smiles, she loved... well, everything, and she couldn't wait to spend the rest of her life with all that she loved.

She pulled back and looked at him with a smile. He had a small smile on his face and he looked down at the ring she was cluching in her hand. He looked back up at his Panda.

"Can I see the ring?" Confused Tenten lifted her hand and opened her palm to show him the ring. He pick up the ring and looked at it and then he looked at Tenten and smiled. He quickly put the ring in his pocket again. Tenten looked at him shocked.

"What? No, give it back!" She yelled as she tryed to reach into his pocket and get the ring. Neji smiled at her attempts and turned away and held out his arm so she couldn't get the ring in his pocket.

"No, when you get back to Konoha you can have it. But you can't have it until your home again," he told her. She stopped trying to get the ring and folded her arms across her chest and pouted cutely. Neji smiled at her, and she glared at him.

He leaned forward and kissed her, she tried to pull back but his hands on her neck and head wouldn't let her. She finally gave in and put her arms around his neck and deepened the kiss. His hands moved to her waist and pulled her body closer. She smiled into the kiss and opened her mouth to let in his tounge. He searched her mouth and then their tongues fought. They finally pulled back and smiled at each other. Tenten could feel her cheeks burn with her blush.

"Mm, ah... I guess I better get going," Tenten looked down at the ground and then up at Neji. Neji nodded at her and kissed her lips one more time. She gladly returned it and smiled at him when they pulled away.

"Be careful. And I can't wait to see you when you get back," Neji looked up her body and Tenten blushed harder. He smiled at her. "I love you," he said.

"I love you, too," she said to him and then he turned and walked away. She sighed and turned to walk back to the others.

When she got there she heard Naruto say, "Hehe, told you, Hinata," Tenten sighed and smacked him on the back of his head. He flinched and rubbed his head. Hinata laughed and then he joined in. Tenten turned away from them and smiled. When she got back, she would be with Neji and everything would be great. She leaned against the wall of the gate and closed her eyes and a light smile appeared on her face.

Everything would be perfect.

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Tenten sighed. She was getting married, she was going to be with Neji, and then she was going to have kids and have a family. She couldn't wait to get this mission over and be back in Konoha with Neji.

"Alright, let's get going. We still have a while to go," Kakashi told them and jumped down off of his tree. Naruto started to pack up his stuff and Hinata helped him. Tenten got up and stretched her arms and legs. Shikamaru sighed and slowly stood up and opened his eyes. Kakashi looked around at everyone and when Naruto was done packing his Ramen, he nodded at them.

"Let go!" He called and then all five ninja were jumping throught the trees, on the way to Orochimaru's hideout.

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Sakura sighed. They had just finished the mountain range and she was tired. She was hungry and tired. Amazingly it was quiet most of the way here. Ever sense she had took away Karin's voice it was, and it was nice.

Sasuke looked back at Sakura and Karin and he could tell they were tired. Especially Karin. He sighed quietly. He was tired, too, but mostly he was hungry. He knew there was a hotel around here somewhere, he had stayed at it when he was on another mission, it was called 'The sparking mountains resort' it was pretty nice but it wasn't very busy because it was for travelers coming across the mountain range. People usually never traveled here during this time of year because it would be bad if you got caught in the mountains in the middle of a thunder and lightning storm, so it should be fairly empty. He stopped and turned back to Sakura and Karin.

"We'll stay in a resort tonight, it's not far from here," Sasuke told them. Sakura nodded and was secretly thanking god and thinking about real food and a place to sleep. Karin wasn't making any noise but Sasuke watched her jump up and down and open her mouth to yell but nothing came out. He smirked at it and started to walk to the resort.

When they walked about a mile of silence to get to the resort, they finally made it. Sasuke walked up to the reception desk and rung the bell that called for someone. Sakura stood next to him and Karin was looking in the fish tank by the lounge. A lady with long and curly copper hair walked into the room and around the desk. She had brown eyes and pale skin. She was pretty and she smiled a pretty smile. She looked about our age.

"Can I help you?" she asked in a sweet high voice that almost rivaled Hinata's.

"We need a room. Do you have one with three beds?" Sasuke asked the lady. The lady looked at him and she looked like she was undressing him with her eyes. She was quiet for a while. Sakura was getting annoyed with her. She cleared her throat but it didn't get the girls attention. Sakura sighed.

"Can you just tell us if you have a room with three beds?" Sakura looked at the girl. The girl blinked and looked over at Sakura. She looked back at Sasuke and smiled.

"Why do you need three beds? Are with any of these girls? Because if your not I would gladly be your girlfriend," she told Sasuke. Sasuke sighed. Sakura's eye twitched at the girl.

"Can you just tell us if you have any rooms with three beds?" Sakura asked with a hardness in her voice. The girl looked at Sakura and glared at her. Sakura clenched her fist and glared back at her. The girl gave up after a few seconds and sighed.

"No, we only have a room with two beds and a couch," the girl told them.

"We'll take that one," Sasuke told her. The girl nodded and got the key for the room out of the drawer. She handed it to Sasuke with a smile.

"Top floor, last door on the right. Dinner is served in ten minutes. Someone will bring it up to you. That will be 200 yen. ( I have no idea what the right amount would be so forgive me if that's too high or low.) Have a nice stay," the girl told them. Sasuke nodded and Sakura gave the girl a 'thank you' Karin just followed giving the girl a glare.

When they got up to the room, Karin collapsed on the bed. Sasuke walked to the other bed and put his katana down on it. Sakura looked over at the couch in the corner of the room and decided that she might as well take it, instead of arguing with Karin over the bed. Truthfully, she was still a prisoner so she should have the less comfortable arrangements. Sakura sat down on the couch and leaned her head back, closing her eyes and sighing.

After a few minutes Sakura looked over at the clock and it read 6:24 pm. She figured that they serve dinner at 7 pm. She closed her eyes again and soon she heard the bathroom door shut. She opened her eyes to see that Karin was gone. Sasuke was sitting on the edge of his bed looking at nothing and into his thoughts. Sakura looked at him and decided she was too curious to leave him alone, but she didn't want to pry to much.

"Are you sure you don't want to talk about anything?" She watched as Sasuke looked up at her and then back down. He shook his head lightly.

"Are you okay?" she asked and then watched as he nodded slightly. Sakura sighed and closed her eyes again.

"Ok..." she said and then the bathroom door opened. Sakura looked up at Karin and Karin looked at her pleading. Sakura sighed again and motioned for Karin to sit down on the couch next to her. She at least had to act that it was Karin's fault.

Karin sat down beside Sakura and lifter her head up and Sakura put her hands on her neck and started to push chakra into it. It crossed her mind how she could kill Karin right now if she wanted to, but she decided against it. The chakra she was pushing into her throat wouldn't do anything but it's good just to make Karin believe it could. After a minute, Sakura pulled her hands back and Karin tried to say something, but nothing came out. She looked at Sakura worriedly. Sakura sighed at her and looked at her accusingly.

"Karin, you strained it good. You should try not to stress your voice so much from now on. It should be good by sometime tomorrow, but be carefull from now on. Okay?" Sakura told her. Maybe if Karin thought she wouldn't loose her voice if she talk to much, she wouldn't talk as much. Karin nodded her head and then a knock on the door was heard. Karin jumped up to get the door and opened to a boy with food for us. Karin opened the door more to let the boy in so he could bring in the food.

Sakura looked at the boy. He was about their age, and had short copper hair that resembled Kiba's, he had deep amber eyes and a sharp and strong figure. Sakura thought that he might be the girl down stairs' twin. They looked alike and Sakura thought he was quiet cute but she couldn't like him. He wouldn't work with her life, he wouldn't understand her at all and it wouldn't work at all. It had nothing to do with Sasuke though, nothing at all. (Yea right)

The boy rolled the cart in and Sakura got up to look at the food. They saw her and smiled at her. Sakura smiled back.

"Hey cutie, how are you doing?" Sakura smirked at him and folded her arms across her chest as he started to look her up and down.

Yep, they are defiantly twins....

"You know if you want me and you can take this dinner in my room. What you say, sugar?" the boy asked her.

"Um... actually, I--"

"She can't" Sakura looked over and found Sasuke standing behind her about 2 foot away. He had a glare on his face and Sakura sighed. He was afriad that I would run if I had a chance to get away from him.

"Oh, well sweety, I'm down the hall. Last door on the left, if you change your mind. Or you just want to talk. You can wait until you boyfriend goes to bed if you want. I'll listen for you knock," the boy whispered so only she could hear, but knowing Sasuke he probably heard it. Sakura cut him a glance and he still glared at the boy and Sakura thought she saw a little but of red in his eyes. Sakura sighed and looked back at the boy.

"Thanks for the food," she said to him and he winked and then looked at Sasuke and glared back at him. Sasuke wasn't affected by it of course. Almost no one can beat the Uchiha glare. Sakura took a bowl of Ramen off the cart when the door closed. She picked up some chopsticks and looked at Sasuke.

"You should try and be more friendly. It's not like I was going to run as soon as I was out of your sight," she told him. Sasuke just looked at her and went to grab something off the cart. He didn't say anything, but Sakura just sat back down on the couch and began to dig into her Ramen. Oh it was so good.

Sakura slept so good that night with a full stomach and she slept so hard that she didn't have any nightmares. It was a good day for her. Tomorrow would be the hard day though. Tomorrow they would go to the cave and find there target. Tomorrow would be busy.

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Hey hey! Hope you all enjoyed it. I liked this chapter. Tenten's getting married! YAY! And was Sasuke and Sakura jealous of the resort people? I think so! Oh and I thought it was cute the way Naruto was feeding Hinata. AWW! Ok. SO tell me what you think. Please REVEIW!!!!! Thank you!