Disclaimer: If I owned Naruto, would it be as good? So nope... never gonna happen. I don't own Naruto... yet... *smirks evilly*

A/N:Inner Sakura will be in this chapter. 'Blah' is her speaking/thinking.

Chapter 14

Chasing The Akatsuki

Sakura looked around her. There was the dead body... of a villager... then Sakura gasped...

"Sasuke!" she screamed, tears pouring from her eyes.

"Sakura!" Kakashi yelled from behind, "He isn't dead, just because he went 'blah'."

"Well he isn't moving!"

"Then perform a medical jutsu on him."

"Fine!" Sakura preformed the jutsu on him.

"Ugh!" Sasuke moaned. Then he snapped to attention. "We need to get Naruto! I mean Gaara!"

"Then let's go!" Kakashi said in a happy tone.

They dashed off to follow the Akatsuki. And Kakashi summoned his dogs to track down Gaara.

-Kankuro, and the people in the sand.

Kankuro had just finished explaining what had happened, when Temari stood up.

"Kankuro!" Temari started, "Why didn't you stop them?- Never mind! We have to go after them!" Temari was about to leave, "Well! Hurry up! We have to save Gaara!- And Naruto!" then she stomped out pulling Kankuro alongside her.

The others stood up to leave, not wanting to feel Temari's wrath, and Temari smirked. She was in charge!

'Man!' Temari thought to herself, 'I have the power now! Feel my wrath!'

"Temari-sama! What are your orders?" asked on of the councilmen.

Since Temari was Gaara's older sister, she held the power for now.

"I want each of you to get two skilled ninja each to help with the situation. Try to get Jounin or higher."

"Hai!" and they dashed off to find ninjas.

-Akatsuki and Naruto

Sasori was carrying Naruto above his head using his chacera strings as if he were a puppet.

'Geeze! A 3 day trip! You suck, Deidara... for dying!'

-Kankuro and Temari.

"Kankuro! Get your ass over here. We need to find Gaara... and Naruto. And your lazy ass won't help us one bit!"

"I'm coming... So stop your yapping. You sound like a mom who lost her child."

"I lost my brother! You should be worried too."

"Right... I'm coming. Let me get ready."

Kankuro ran up the stairs and grabbed his cat suit, put his purple make-up on, got his scrolls and his puppet, and flew down the stairs in record time (42 seconds, beating his old best by 15 seconds). When faced by an angry Temari, speed counts... a lot.

"Good! Let's go."

And they left with their teams.

- Kakashi, Sakura and Sasuke.

"Damn it all!" Sakura yelled in anger.

Sasuke bolted up, no longer unconscious.

'Why didn't they take Sasuke! I wish Gaara was here! He's soooo cute!' said inner Sakura.

'Shut up! Sasuke is way more awesome than Gaara!' Sakura yelled right back.

Kakashi could see the anger on her face and was backing away slowly.

"Kakashi! You jerk! Why the hell are you backing away?"

"Um..."

"You always care for Sasuke more. Now come here!"

Kakashi came closer to Sakura, and she punched him so hard that he flew towards Sasuke, and almost hit him.

"Right!" Sakura started, "We need to find Gaara and Naruto right now."

Kakashi wasn't thinking straight. "Um... Sakura? How are we supposed to do that?"

"Use your friggin' dogs. Now do I have to hit you again to make you think right?"

"Nope."

It had been two days since they had started traveling. Kakashi's once-huge bruise had shrunk down to the size of a peach.

"We're about a day from the hideout." Kakashi announced.

A/N:

This was a shorter chapter. I won't update as fast if I don't get up to 10 reviews. If I get 10 it'll be longer chapter!

So Gaara and Naruto have told the others their real identities.

Review for a longer chapter and a faster update!