A/N: Wazzup peoplez?!!!! I've just been getting these ideas for this chapter throughout the whole day, so I decided to update before I lost all of these precious ideas. So, enjoy!!!

Me: Gamabunta, since you're no longer alive in this story, will you please do us the honor of saying the disclaimer?

Gamabunta: -smokes pipe- Hmph, since you killed me off, why would I be obliged to do such a thing? –poofs away-

Me: Ummm… FINE!!! I'll say it myself!! I don't own Naruto, its characters, or the original story. Wait… if he's dead… does that mean that I was talking to a ghost…? O.O –faints-

Recap:

"Whatever," Shikamaru said, as he started walking away. "Oh and just to let you know, for once you're the one being troublesome and I'm not the one being lazy."

He continued his walk towards his current destination. Ino looked up at Naruto with pleading, tear-filled eyes before running after Shikamaru.

Naruto then wordlessly walked to the hospital at a slow, monotonous pace. Their words seemed to echo across his mind, but he didn't bother to give any of it a second thought.

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The second one, trying to contain his immense fear, openly said, "W-we did find this note above the open window in her room."

He came forward and handed Sasuke the note. He snatched the piece of paper out of his hand and started to read it. It read:

Sasuke,

Your little tag-along group was taking too long so I decided to go out by myself. I'll probably be back before morning. I hope you don't mind!

-Sakura

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He stared at the piece of paper, speechless from what his mischievous ex-teammate had just written to him. All was silent, except for the sound of Sasuke slowly but surely crumpling up the parchment in his right hand.

Suddenly, he stood up, startling the two shinobi before him. His face possessed no emotion, but his fingers were trembling and his eyes continued to flash from normal to Sharingan.

Cautiously, one of the Oto shinobi spoke. "Sh-should we go after her, Sasuke-sama?"

Hearing the sound of the timid voice, Sasuke glowered at them, a look of sheer annoyance plastered on his pale face. What came next startled both shinobi once again.

"Tch… useless," Sasuke stated coldly, sending tremors deep within the bodies of his two subordinates.

With that, Sasuke made a swift handsign and disappeared with a puff of smoke. This left his subordinates dumfounded, confused, and with bruised egos to match.

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"WHATTYA MEAN I'M NOT ALLOWED TO DRINK HERE?!!!!" a usually high voice bellowed deeply.

Her statement rang clearly throughout the whole village, bouncing off of every stand and building that was in the way.

"Sorry, but those are my rules," a middle-aged man stated plainly. "Besides, I don't think a girl as young and fragile as you would be able to make it here."

Many of the men sitting around the establishment broke out in laughter, agreeing with the owner's statement.

Sakura's eyes began twitching in fury. Then, her mouth slowly started to form a crooked and twisted smile as she flexed her fingers one by one.

With a flip of her short, pink hair, Sakura spoke in a dangerously low voice.

"Fragile, you say…? Apparently you don't know who I am…"

"Huh?" the owner asked, wondering what she was talking about.

With a small chuckle, Sakura punched the closest thing to her, which was one of the major support beams. The support beam basically desinigrated, and that sent the whole establishment to its demise.

The owner stood open-mouthed and his customers, who were thrown off their chairs, stared at Sakura. Their eyes were filled with fear, surprise, anger, and… lust?

The looks in their eyes greatly disgusted the heck out of Sakura.

"These guys… pigs… animals… I WANT TO KILL THEM ALL!!!!" Sakura mentally screamed to herself.

To distract herself from her rage, she decided to finish her incomplete statement.

"I'm the one of the members of the second generation of Sannin," Sakura stated proudly, both hands on her hips. "I take after the Godaime Hokage herself, so how dare you call me weak?!!! SHANNARO!!!!!!"

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Naruto stepped lazily through the front doors of the hospital, his eyes downcast.

It was either because of exhaustion or his dreary mood that caused Naruto to completely ignore the ruckus that was taking place around him as he arrived closer and closer to his room.

Nurses and medic-nins bustled passed him, all of them unaware of his presence as well. They also failed to notice the fact that Naruto was up and about when he should've been resting.

All of this would've seemed like mad chaos to an innocent by-stander, but everything was completely invisible to Naruto.

The nurse was invible when she bumped into him. She was still invible when she made a quick apology and hurried through the invisible doors of a hospital room.

The voice inside which said, "It's no use… He's gone," went unheard as well.

However, there was one thing that didn't go unnoticed by Naruto. That was the name written on the chart hanging off those invisible doors.

Catching his attention, he swiftly turned his head to take a quick glance at the name. He instantly regretted it for the name made time and Naruto's heart stop altogether. The reason behind this phenomenon was because this mind-altering name was none other than… Hatake Kakashi.

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A/N: WOOO!!! SO MUCH ACTION!!! WOOT!!!! Oh, and in case you guys were wondering, the person that Sakura was talking to outside her window was NOT ITACHI!!! That's as much as I'm saying. :p See you in the next chappie!!!