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Team Konoha

"Yo, Kakashi-sensei!" Naruto yelled from behind the line making everyone look back at him.

"What now, Naruto?" Kakashi asked slightly annoyed. The boy had been annoying him with stupid questions the whole day and it was getting on his nerves.

"I was wondering…why don't we just stop somewhere and wait for the Akatsuki to attack us?" Naruto said making everyone on the team come to a sudden stop.

"What?" Kakashi asked not knowing if he had heard correctly. He looked at everyone on the team and saw surprise, confusion, and worry.

"We should just stay in one place and wait for them to attack us. It causes us less problems and besides we aren't gonna find them at this pace…" Naruto said and looked down annoyed and angry about the fact.

"Naruto…" Hinata said and appeared next to the fox boy. "That's not really smart; do you really want them to get you? If they all attack us we won't be able to hold them back, Naruto-kun, please just face the facts." She said trying to reason with the boy.

Hinata and Naruto had grown close during this mission and everyone on the team had noticed this. Naruto looked at Hinata for a while and then sighed. "Honestly, we are getting no where and everyone knows that let's just head back to Konoha…" Naruto said under his breath looking down.

"You want to go back to Tsunade empty handed?" Kakashi asked appalled by the idea. "Naruto let's just look for Sakura then ok?" Kakashi said and made Naruto's head snap up.

"Look for Sakura-chan." Naruto whispered and looked down thinking. 'She's with Teme, I don't know where they are so there really is no point in trying to find them either.' Naruto thought and ran his fingers through his blond hair. "There's no point she'll go back to Konoha eventually…" Naruto said and made everyone agree with this.

"Naruto's right, Kakashi, there is no way we can go search for Sakura. It would be like searching for a needle in a hay stack." Neji said and made Tenten giggle.

"Yeah but you found that needle pretty fast last time…" she said and made everyone smirk while Neji slightly glared at the girl next to him. "What? Your Byakugan finds things easily right?" she said and grinned at Neji playfully.

Neji sighed at his team-mate and looked at Kakashi. "So what do we do?" he asked and made all seven pairs of eyes look at him.

"For now we put up camp…we'll see what to do in the morning." Kakashi said and everyone went off to set up camp. Hinata and Naruto set up their beds next to each other and sat down to talk, while Sai put his bed away from everyone else's. Ino and Shikamaru were sitting on Ino's bed talking and laughing looking relaxed and carefree. Neji and Tenten however were practicing fighting techniques at the small near by opening.

Kakashi looked at everyone and smiled. He looked over at Naruto who was talking to Hinata and making her giggle. 'I guess he finally noticed someone else besides Sakura…' he thought smiling proud of the fact that his student wasn't completely brainless. 'I wonder where Sakura is, I'm getting kind of worried.' he then thought while looking up into the night sky.

Morning

"Everyone we're off, let's get everything and start heading out." Kakashi said and got nods from everyone. Before they left Neji and Tenten came up to Kakashi and got everyone's attention.

"We'll be leaving. We're going back to Konoha to give a report to Tsunade and for another mission." Neji informed the team leader and got surprised looks from everyone.

"I guess that's right, Neji and Tenten it was a pleasure traveling with you we shall see each other at the village." Kakashi said and gave the two permission to leave.

With one last wave from Tenten they were off into two different directions. Kakashi told everyone to follow him to continue their mission. They had decided to keep searching. Naruto ran off eagerly because he wanted to find even if only one of the three people. Sakura, Sasuke, or Itachi.

The team had been running for a while and they were now at a clearing which had a large lake and a small mountain which had a waterfall. Hinata looked around and sighed. "It's really pretty…" she said out loud and made everyone smile.

"Well, I'm glad you like the scene." A male voice said from behind making everyone wipe the smiles off of their faces turn around ready for a fight. Kisame was standing in front of them with his large white sword.

"Kisame…" Naruto muttered and looked around. 'If he's here then that means…' Naruto thought and scanned around looking for a familiar face.

"Naruto, where's the pretty cherry-blossom?" Itachi's ice cold voice came from the cliff where the waterfall was. "It's unusual for you to walk around without her."

"Why do you care where Sakura-san is?" Sai asked now making everyone glance at him wondering what he was doing. "I must say you look a lot like Sasuke-kun, you're truly his brother." Sai said with one of his fake smiles and made everyone sweat drop. Did Sai not know what Itachi could do to him?

Itachi however glared at the boy and disappeared. "Everyone get ready to fight." Kakashi said and everyone got ready. Hinata was at Naruto's side and Ino and Shikamaru were fighting together while Sai and Kakashi were paired up.

Ino and Shikamaru concentrated on Kisame along with Sai, while Naruto, Hinata and Kakashi concentrated on Itachi. "Hinata, could you go change positions with Sai?" Naruto asked without looking at her.

"But…" Hinata began but got a smile from Naruto.

"I don't want you to get hurt so please change with Sai, Hinata." Naruto ordered and got a nod from Hinata who ran off and changed places with Sai.

"Let the fun begin?" Sai asked slightly amused and made both Kakashi and Naruto wonder if he understood the danger in the mission at all.

"Show me what you've got." Itachi said and got all three pairs of eyes to stare at him each one ready for combat.

Team Snake

The team had been running towards and new destination that was unknown to all except Sasuke and Misa. Sakura was running along with Juugo and talking about this and that while Misa was arguing with Suigetsu. Karin was a few meters behind everyone and was glaring at Sakura who just kept smiling and giggling with the smiling Juugo.

Sasuke glanced behind and saw Sakura smiling and giggling with a now grinning Juugo. He felt something inside of him boil with rage and soon he couldn't take it anymore. "Sakura." He said and was heard.

"Sasuke-kun?" Sakura replied surprised that he had called her. She looked at Juugo who smiled and nodded towards Sasuke as a signal for her to go and so Sakura ran to Sasuke. "What is it Sasuke-kun?" she asked curious when she matched his pace.

"We're going to go find Naruto." he said simply and as expressionless as he could while looking forward.

"What? We're going back?" Sakura asked shocked as if to confirm she had heard right. Sasuke glanced at her from the corner of his eye and nodded slightly and made Sakura smile at him brightly.

Before Sasuke could have done anything Sakura had wrapped her arms around his neck making him stop running. It took Sasuke a second to realize what she was doing. He was about to push her off of him gently but then paused for a while. "Thank you Sasuke-kun." Sakura whispered and made a slight smile form on Sasuke's lips which no one saw.

"Ah." he replied simply and was about to hug her back but then didn't, remembering they weren't alone. 'I would have pushed anyone off of me in a split second but its Sakura…' he thought confused as Sakura let go of him and smiled with a blush on her cheeks.

Sasuke looked back as expressionless as he could manage but his eyes still held a touch of kindness which Sakura did not miss. "Thank you." She said once again before turning to her friends.

Misa looked dumbfounded while Juugo grinned at the fact that Sasuke had not pushed her away. Suigetsu smirked at the way Karin was fuming beside him. All in all, everyone was in shock. The Uchiha had let someone touch him physically and not done anything about it.

Misa was he first to recover from the shock. 'He must have told her where we're going…' Misa thought understanding and happy that the Uchiha had told her. "So, let's go?" she said with a questioning tone getting everyone's attention.

Sasuke didn't reply he just simply jumped off followed by a blushing Sakura and then the rest of the shocked team. "Holy crap that was weird…" Suigetsu said and got nods from everyone before they followed the pair, while leaving Karin, again, a few steps behind.

This chapter is shorter again...should i update now or later... ;)

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