Sasuke stared at the group of 5 shinobi that kidnapped him. He grimaced as the memories flooded into him like a damn suddenly broke. He held his head and closed his eyes tight before opening them. He then noticed something. They were missing Tayuga. "Where is flute girl?" A wave of killing intent washed over him as Jirobo growled at him.

"You know damn well where she is Uchiha. Your brother married her!"

"I don't really talk to my brother something about killing my entire family except himself and me just kind of repels him from me." The Konhona Shinobi grinned at Sasuke's comment and dropped into their attack. Sasuke charged at Kimiaru knowing he was the strongest as Lee charged Jirobo. Sai turned to face Ukon and Kiba charged at Kidomaru. The four sound ninja never stood a chance against the might the top Anbu operatives in the Leaf. Kiba used his clang jutsu to rip through Kidomaru as Sai's art blew Ukon up. Lee delivered a hard kick to Jirobo and followed through with a punch and another kick. He drew a kunai and punched once more burying it in Jirobo's forehead.

Sasuke on the other hand was having a problem. Kimiaru was stronger than he looked. Sasuke dropped into his taijutsu stance just as he felt bone bullets rip into his chest. He gasped in surprise. Another wave shot towards him. Sasuke rolled out of the way. He launched two shuriken. Both connected with a log as Kimimaru substituted himself for the log. He re appeared and stabbed Sasuke through the stomach with a bone sword. Sasuke screamed in pain before he felt the sword exit his body. Sasuke felt his curse seal rise up for the first time since his chunin exam. HE felt the power flood his veins and he stared at Kimiaru. He felt his Sharingan change. He knew that he know had the same Sahringan his brother did. He could see everything about Kimimaru's chakra and saw the sound ninja was charging an attack. Sasuke charged his chidori and thrust it through the sound ninja as he felt the sound ninja's bone sword enter his chest stabbing his lung. Sasuke collapsed as the rest of the team came to ceck on his.

Kiba took charge of the situation. "Sai uses your medical jutsu and heal Sasuke. Lee as soon as he done run as fast as your flames will allow you and get him to Tsunade, Sai you go with him."

"Kiba what about you?"

"Well I am going to finish the mission." They nodded and they ran back to the road.

Naruto, Ino and the genins saw smoke up ahead and then they saw 4 figures. One slumped over the other 2 as the fourht gave orders. Naruto gestured for Ino and the team to hold while he investigated. He approached the group with his sword drawn and mask covering his face. He almost collided with Lee and Sai as they ran woth Sasuke. Naruto saw them and called to them.

"What happened?"

"Sound 5 ambushed us we killed them all but Sasuke in it bad man we have to get him to Tsunade!"

"What about Kiba?"

"He is continuing on the mission alone.!" They two ninja sprinted off carrying Sasuke as Ino and the genins approached him. Naruto turned to the team.

"Well girls you and Ino-senei will be escorted by Kiba Inuzuca as I have just received a very important mission." Naurto then ran down the path to Kiba as he sat with Akamaru who was sniffing the ground. "Kiba we are switching. You escort the team I will do the Solo mission." Kiba opened his mouth but Naruto shook his head. "No arguments. They are going to take the chunin exams and Ino will proabaly try to follow me don't let her." Kiba nodded and Naruto ran off towards mountain. 'I hope this won't be a repeat of last Intelligence trip I took.

He still had nightmares about that dark lit place. It was there that they first attempted to cut Kyuubi out of him. He didn't have scars from it well at least no physical scars. 'Well now I have a reason to go back.' He smiled as he though of buying a ring when he got back.

Lee passed through the gates and bowled over Tsunade. He collapsed and passed out. Luckily Sai stayed conscious long enough to tell her Sasuke's situation before passing out. She took Sasuke into immediate surgery trying to remove the bone bullets from his chest cavity. After about 2 hours of the pain stakingly slow process she finally removed all the bone fragments and sealed the wounds. She kept him in a drug induced sleep for the next few days. 'I just hope that Ino doesn't flip when she gets back after Naruto no doubt switched with Kiba for the mission. Hopefully he will be back first though Ino is only gone for a month.'

Naruto arrived at the village hidden in the mountain and sighed. He hated this village and wished that they could just conclude this war so he could settle down and have a family. Of course he knew they couldn't destroy the village until they controlled all of mountain's land. Even with Suna and Wave's help it was still a painstakingly slow process. Even now Mist had joined it was still slow. Especially now that Iwa joined with Mountain as well as Waterfall and even the land of the snow joined with Mountain. Sound of course did. Now it was turning into the fifth great war. Only this time it would be a long bloody conflict. He sighed again knowing that he might fall in this war. He never feared it during the fouth because it was so short and the third great war he was too young to fear death.

Naruto settled down in his hotel room as he sealed his headband in his sealing scroll next to his Anbu equipment and his picture of Ino. He sat in his small hotel room and layed down on the bed and let his mind wander. It immediately went to Ino. She would no doubt be fighting Kiba tooth and nail to try to get him to let her go or even him to go. He specifically told him to keep her safe no matter what just like Naruto would do for anyone of his friends no questions asked. 'Kiba thank you.'