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Neko-chan

Rated: Teen

Disclaimer: No own Naruto.

Claimer: Own story. YYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!

Authors Note: Okay quick update. This is good especially cause its long I'm so proud of myself.

AGES

Sasuke-15 Natsuki-14 Sakura-14 Kakashi-28 Hinata-14 Shikamaru-15 Ino-14 Kiba-14 Shino-14 Choji-15 Iruka-25 Neji-15 TenTen-14 Lee-14 Gaara-15 Temari-16 Kankuro-15 Midori- 30

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Last Chapter:

" It'll be dangerous. " Sasuke said looking down.

" I know"

" You could die. "

" I know."

" If you die you would make people sad."

"I know."

Sasuke paused. " You would make me sad."

Nastuki looked at him surprised. Tears once again brimed her eyes. "I know, and I don't want any of those things to be true. Even though theres a very high chance of it happening." For the third time today tears began to fall down Nastukis cheeks. She walked closer to Sasuke and clutched his shirt the same way she did to Tsunades. Sasuke closed his eyes tightly as if in pain, and pulled her close. He hugged her as if he was to let go she would fly away.

" How can a crybaby like you ever hope to carry out this mission alone? "

" I wont be alone, I will have a couple people coming with me." Nastuki smiled. and pulled away from Sasuke. " Sasuke Uchiha, " Sasuke starred at her in the eye. " Will you help me carry out this mission."

Sasuke gave a small smile. " Yes."

Natsuki smiled and hugged Sasuke tightly. He returned the hug and put his chin on her head. 'I'll protect you Nastuki, even if it costs me my life.'

Chapter eleven: I will not let them die.

The sun was just making its way over the far off horizon, Naruto and her team were all accounted for. Natsuki Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha, Kakashi Hatake, Kiba Inuzuka, and, Hinata Hyuuga. Natsuki stood there calmly and seriously as Tsunade informed them on what they should be wary of in the mission. Natsuki calmly nodded to everything she said.

" Okay. Your mission offically starts now. Your mission leader is Natsuki. No questions asked or answered now off you go." Natsuki quickly sped off and the others were following at a decent pace. Natsuki was in the front and Sasuke made sure to be close to her at all time. Kakashi was on the other side of Sasuke, and Hinata and Kiba were behind everybody else but still keeping good speed. After about two hours when the sun was almost fully up they stopped. Natsuki jumped down from the trees and landed safely on her two feet.

" We've been running for a while we should be close." Nastuki grabbed her knapsack and pulled out a map. She gently layed it down and the rest of her team walked up beside her. " We should be around here. " After she said that she tensed. " Or maybe were here. No there. No wait were here. " Natsuki pointed frantically at a whole bunch of different places. " Aaaaaaahhhhhhh Kakashi-sensai please help me. " She said giving up and handing the map to her sensai.

" It looks as if were about here." Kakshi said showing the rest of his team.

" Your joking right. " Natsuki snatched the map away from him. " Were still so far from it. CRAP!" Natsuki fell against a tree and slowly sank down to the ground. " Were probably not gonna be there till night fall. And by then we'll be dead tired. " Natsuki massaged her temples. " Oh how I hate leading missions." Sasuke smiled at how childish Nastuki was being. " Oh I got it." Natsuki said jumping up from the ground. " Its a full proof plan. We'll stay here a bit and rest and when it gets close to nightfall we'll make our way to the enemies territory and save my Ma. It's perfect."

" Acctually. " Kakashi said scratching his cheek. " That is a pretty good idea. "

" See told you. " Natsuki beamed.

" Exept for one thing."

Nastuki frowned. " What?"

" What if the enemy sneaks up on us." Kakashi said.

" Oh come on that could never happen. " Natsuki said matter-of-factly. Not to far off a pair of red eyes watched her. " Now I wouldn't be to sure of that Natsu-kun." The mysterious person said. (If you don't know who this is your crazy)

" Achoo." Natsuki rubbed her nose.

" You okay." Sasuke asked.

" Yea never better. Must be allergies." Natsuki said.

" Okay well lets go find something to eat."

" Ookie-Dokie" Natsuki ran out into the forest with Sasuke not far behind. "Sasuke come over here." Sasuke walked to were Natsuki was. she was looking at a big lake that seemed to sparkle in the sunlight. Trees surrounded the small lake and there were small water lilies floating around in it. Nastuki looked at Sasuke here eyes sparkling. "It's beautiful."

Sasuke nodded his head. 'Not as beautiful as you' he wanted to say but why ruin the moment with a sappy line like that. Although Natsuki did look pretty today. She had her hair down but one chunk of her blonde hair was rapped up by a light blue ribbon. She was wearing a white shirt with no sleeves and a light blue skirt with darker blue shorts undreneath it. Sasuke smiled, like he has been recently, and bended down and scooped a lily out of the water. Natsuki didn't notice she was too busy looking of in the distance. But her eyes still sparkled wildly. She suddenly selt something on her left ear abd reached up to it. One of the lilies from the water were sitting in here hair. She looked at Sasuke and smiled a bigger smile. " Thank you Sasuke." Sasuke smiled softly but what happened next is something he didn't expect.

Nastuki lightly started to kiss him. First lightly on the eye and then on the nose. She moved her way down until she reached his lips. She kissed and he kissed back. Sasuke knawed at Nastukis bottom lip hopeing for exeptance when Natsukis mouth opened he slowly ran his tongue in and massaged the top of her mouth. While sucking on her tongue he heard a quiet moan and smiled. He broke away from the kiss and smiled even more. Right infront of him stood a panting and blushing Natsuki but it only made her cutness grow. He hugged her tightly and she returned the hug. She buried her head in Sasukes neck.

Sasuke started to kiss her neck. He carefully set her on the ground and kissed her some more. Natsuki didn't fight she just went along with the ride but still you could tell she was nervous. Sasuke kissed her again , while he was running his hand up her shirt playing with the soft skin underneath. Nastuki moaned and that only made Sasuke want to keep going. He ran his hands up a little more and...

" Well this is a beautiful sight."

Surprised, Sasuke and Natsuki sat up as quickly as possible seperating from each other and made eye contact with the ground.

" I thought you guys were gonna get food. But I see that Sasuke is hogging all the goods to himself. " Kakashi laughed. While Hinata blushed madly at watching the display. And Kiba was on the ground laughing his ass off. Nastuki blushed harder and once again starred at the ground. Sasuke was looking in the opposite direction hopping no one would see his blush. " Come on you two love-birds, lets get back to camp." Natsuki and Sasuke didn't look at each other as you would assume why. When they got back to camp it was peacful. No one was yelling everybody was just sitting there, quietly, it sucked.

" So anyway, um..., don't you think we should get going soon." Natsuki said blushing and scratching her cheek. Everyone looked at her and she blushed more. " I mean after all it is getting dark and we still have a ways to go. So..."

" Okay let's get going then." Kakashi said standing up calmly.

They didn't run this time nor did they walk it was more a a fast pace type of thing. But only because Natsuki was blushing like a mad man because of what happened between her and Sasuke. Plus Kakashi kept picking on her for it. Hinata though seemed very happy walking besides Kiba and Kiba didn't seem to mind either. After about an hour of fast walking they came to a stop right infront of a river. " WHAT!?" She quickly pulled out the map and looked it over. Kakashi came and stood next to her. " You can't be serious, It doesn't even show a river on the map." When Kakashi looked at the map he sweatdropped.

" Um...Nastuki. " Kakashi said pointing at the map.

" Yea. "

" You have the map backwards. " Natsuki studied the map for a minute and scratched the back of her head.

" Your right. " She took a deep breath. " SSSSHHHHHHHHIIIIIIITTTTTTTTT!!!" Nastuki had lost her mind.

Kakashi as well as everyone else sweatdropped. Nastuki was walking back and forth fliging her arms everywhere talking to herself. " We were going in the exeact opposite direction the whole time. I'm so stupid. STUPID!. We won't be able to make it there before sunrise." Natsuki stopped and starred at the river. " We won't be able to save my mom before sunrise." Tears started to fall from her ocean blue eyes. " I'm such a weakling. " Natsuki slowly fell to the ground and weeped. Sasukes eyes softened and he walked over to her. He kneeled down beside her and rubbed her back soothingly while his angel weeped.

Kakashi smiled pushed the other two shinobis away from Nastuki and Sasuke. When Natsuki was sure no one was watching she hugged Sasuke and cried into his shirt. He smiled lightly and hugged her back. He set his head on the top of Natsukis and held her until he felt her breathing return to normal. She had fallen asleep. He closed his eyes and let his deams lead the way.

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' Where am I?' Natsuki asked herself. Complete darkness engulfed her entire well-being. She hugged herslef. ' It's so cold.' Nastuki walked in the darkness not knowing what was going on. Until she stumbled over something hard and stiff. She proped herself up from her fall and looked behind her to figure out what she tripped on. She saw nothing. She slowly crawled over to the spot she remembered tripping over and poked the thing that tripped her. She pulled back. It was so cold and it smelled of copper. A small light shone through the darkness making it possible what she was seeing. She gasped. " S-Sasuke." Tears brimmed her eyes. A light lit up all around Natsuki. Bodies lay everywhere. Bodies of people she knew and loved. Nastuki starred around her and cried. She could barely breath.

She stood up and walked away from all of them until she felt herself bump into something. She turned around and screamed. Her once beautiful mother hung from spikes on the wall. Blood poured from her body and clothes were tattered and torn. Her silver eyes were wide open and dull lifeless. Just as Nastuki was backing away the head of her mother turned to stare at her. Natsuki starred terrified.

' What's wrong Nastuki. Are you afraid of you mother.' She ripped her arms away from the spikes as well as her legs. She fell to the ground with a thump. Blood stained her blonde hair as blood ran down her face. ' Don't be afraid child.' Nastukis mother stood up and pulled out a kunai from out of no where. ' It'll only hurt for a second.' Nastuki turned to run but was stopped by Hinata, Kiba, Kakashi, and Sasuke. (all dead I might add.) Nastuki put her hand over her mouth. Natsuki turned to face her mother. She was now standing right infront of her.

' It's just a dream' Nastuki managed to say. Natsuki closed her eyes tightly. 'It's just a dream. It's not real. No ones dead. It's just a dream." Nastuki sunk down to her knees. She looked up and darkness once again surrounded her. A pair of red eyes appeared out of no where and starred at her.

' Yes Nastuki, this is a dream, but a real one at that.' The eyes became a person revealing the older of the Uchiha brothers.

' Itachi.' Nastuki gasped.

' Are you scared. You should be.' He smirked. ' If you think that was bad, then your in for a tough ride. I'm not gonna give you up. My beautiful Kitsune.' Itachi faded away into the darkness. Nothing could be seen but his voice could still heard. ' Give yourself up Nastuki. We'll let your mother go. And we won't hurt you friends. All we wan't is you. Only you.' Nastuki starred into the nothingness of her dream. She put her head in her hands and cried.

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Natsuki quickly sat up and looked every which way. It was still dark outside. Nastuki wiped the sweat from her face and felt the tears roll down her face once again. ' I'm not gonna let anybody get hurt.' Nastuki thought rummaging through her bag. She pulled out a sheet of paper and a pencil. She wrote a note to Sasuke and smiled. Nastuki set the piece of paper by Sasuke and leaned toward him. She kissed him gently on the forehead. " I love you...Sasuke." She then stood up and walked into the dark forest. ' I will protect my friends. I won't let them die. I won't let anything happen to them. That's my promise that making to my heart. I won't...I will never let the Akatsuki hurt them. EVER AGAIN.' Natsuki walked into the dark cave. She stopped and stood infront of the Akastuki.

Itachi smirked. " I see our Kitsune came to see us."

" I'll do what you wnat me too." Nastuki looked at them. " But on two conditions."

" And what are those?"

" You leave my friends alone, and you release my mother."

" That's fair enough, I would say." Itachi said walking toward Natsuki. " But just to let you know, you belong to me now."

Nastuki closed her eyes tightly and let only one small tear fall down her face. "Fine"

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OMG. I love this chapter even more than the last one. NO idea why though. Anyway I hope you like this chapter. Please review.