Don't own Naruto .o.o.

You know the rest...

'Damn-it! I can't see a thing in this mist, it's even worse than Zabuza's was.' "Setsumi don't leave my side alright?"

"Yes Okaa-san... but... where's Onii-sans?"

'That's what I'd like to know too. When this is all over, they are so grounded!'

The medic-nin nearly jumped out of her skin when a hand gripped her shoulder, "Sakura relax it's me."

"Oh Kakashi-sensei you scared me."

"Take Setsumi back home."

"What!? No I can't leave the boys here!"

"We'll get them."

But Sakura was to stubborn to back down, not when her charges where out in the field and in possible danger; she was just about to speak her mind when a figure approached them from the mist.

"Hatake Kakashi, the copy-nin of the village Hidden in the Leaves."

"Um... do I know you?"

"I wouldn't be surprised if you didn't, we don't cross paths for a few more years."

"I don't really like the fact that you know so much about me and yet I don't even know your name." Kakashi glared, slowly raising his hitai-ate revealing his left eye.

"Ah the famous Sharingan, the only man outside of the Uchiha clan to be able to wield such power. I was impressed the first time I saw it, now it's just annoying."

'Just who is this guy? He knows everything about me, even my Sharingan... what am I up against?'

"Water style: Water serpent jutsu!"

"Agh! What the hell!" Two giant water snakes appeared next to Isis and attacked 2 of the 4 shadow clones, "Hey Sasuke! Whatever you're going to do... do it!"

"Hehehehehe... you're so pathetic! You think the Uchiha can help you?"

'That's the idea you crazy wench! Where'd he go anyway?'

"Ninja art: Thousand Needle Shower!"

"Fire style: Fire Dragon jutsu!" The dragon incinerated most of the needles while Sasuke dodged the rest. 'Damn, I can't get close enough!'

The grass shinobi saw Naruto perform his shadow clone jutsu the second time as he charged for the woman, a smile pulled onto his face, "Well that's a neat little trick, the blond's got the right idea; I'll try that too. Shadow Clone jutsu!" two more chubby little men appeared from the smoke in front of Sasuke, "Now this is cool! Ninja art! Thousand Needle Shower!" But instead of just a thousand needles, 3 times that amount appeared in the sky above Sasuke's head, "Let's see if you can escape all of these!"

'I could destroy a good number of the them and dodge about 100 but... what about the other 2 thousand? I don't have a choice.' "Fire style: Fire Dragon jutsu!"

"Fire style: Fire Ball jutsu!"

'What? That's impossible... unless.' "Shiori!"

"Yeah," the boy ran up to his Father with a smile on his face.

"You were suppose to stay with Sakura."

"Yeah and if I did you'd be a porcupine by now! I can help."

"You're going to stay right here, where's your brother?"

"Chidori!"

"No!"

"Setoru where'd you learn that!"

'He's over with Naruto, even though that's not the smartest decision it's the only one we have at the moment.' "Sakura the boys are safe!"

"Ninja art: Sonic Blast jutsu!"

"Aghhhhhhhh!"

"Sakura!"

Kakashi's panicked voice caused Sasuke to become alarmed, 'Sakura?' The mist thinned out enough for him to see a petite figure flying across the water's surface, he quickly realized it was his teammate as she hit the water and began to sink into it's depths. "Sakura!" he completely abandoned his fight with the grass shinobi to save the girl.

"Okaa-san!" Setsumi cried in fear seeing her Mother being thrown from the shore by the strange jutsu. Kakashi stepped in between the child and the man, "That's enough! Whatever bout you have is with me, leave everyone else out of it!"

"Hand over the child."

"Our mission is to protect these children, and we will with our lives!"

"Then you will lose yours."

"We shall see... Lighting Blade!"

Sasuke broke the surface of the water with a limp Sakura in his arms, she was barely conscience and he didn't want her to get hurt. He swam to shore and placed her on the bank, and was just about to return to the fight when she stirred.

"Sa-Sasuke? What... what happened?" she groaned rubbing the back of her head, not pleased to find a bump there.

Sasuke appeared in her line of vision, grabbing her hand and pulling it away from her head, "Don't touch it, just relax... every thing's going to be okay." His gentle voice was quite shocking, and the fact that he began to caress her cheek while he spoke let her see a whole new side of the normally stoic Uchiha. 'Sasuke-kun.'

"Well isn't she pretty," the grass-nin's voice drew both of the teens attention, he wasn't far away from them licking his lips. "Don't worry girl, once I get rid of this boy me and you can have hours of fun together," Sakura flinched and tried to curl away from the grinning little man. Sasuke could feel her distressed as she gripped his forearm, he pulled her closer to his chest to block her from view. "Fine, then you both can just die! Thousand Needle Shower!"

Since they both were still laying on the bank of the lake they didn't have time to move. Sasuke couldn't perform any of his jutsu to deflect the needles because Sakura was still in his arms, so all he could do was shield her body from them. He bit his lip to keep from screaming as the needles pierced the cold wet flesh of his back, when the spray stopped and he was sure she would be safe; he fell onto his side.

"Sasuke! Oh kami Sasuke-kun are you alright? Why did you do that?" she hesitated in touching him in fear that she would cause him more pain.

"Come now girl, he can't help you anymore... I'll show you what a true man can do."

"You're no man... an ass is more like it!"

"Sasuke," she was so relieved to see that he was okay, "Don't move, you're hurt really badly. Sasuke listen to me, please!"

But her pleads were ignored as he pushed his aching body into a sitting position.

"Oh so you're still alive I see, should have doused those needles in poison."

"Yeah... you should have... your mistake! Chidori!" the ball of lighting appeared in his hand, pulsing every time he pushed more chakra into it.

"Oh a ball of sparks... and what are you going to do with that? With all those needles there's noway you can move."

"I don't need to... Naruto!"

"What?" the blond's voice echoed throughout the mist.

"Get the boys and get off the water!"

"What! Why?"

'Why does he have to question everything!? I can barely keep my chakra focused, damn! I'm only going to have one shot at this!' "Just do it idiot!"

"Alright, alright I'll get them god!"

"Sasuke?" 'What are you planning?'

"I've grown tired of you kid! So just die already! Thousand Needle Shower!"

Sasuke smirked while diving for the shallow water and plunged the chidori in, "Don't you have any other tricks?"

'I get it now, the chidori is a lighting based attack, and when that collides with the water... instant electrocution.'

Just as she thought Sakura could see the waves of electricity shoot across the lake trapping the grass-nin, and somewhere else in the mist a woman's scream could be heard. 'I hope Naruto and the boys are okay... oh gods Sasuke!' Sakura crawled over to the boy, very concerned with his shallowed breaths and the blood coming from the wounds on his back.

The woman known as Isis must have been hurt badly because the mist was starting to disappear; however both the man and woman were not on the lake. "Where did they go?"

"Sakura-chan!"

"Naruto, Setoru, Shiori! Thank kami you're safe. Why did you two run off like that!" she pulled the boys into a hug.

"We only wanted to help Okaa-san, we didn't mean to scare you."

"Hey Sakura-chan what happened? How'd you get over here?"

"I don't know the other man used some weird jutsu and knocked me out... I woke up over here with... Sasuke!" she completely forgot about him for a second.

"Dad!"

"Sasuke!"

"We need to get him to the hospital Naruto... have you seen Kakashi-sensei?"

"No not since the mist came in."

"Hey... where's Setsumi?"

At this point the mist had fully disappeared allowing them to see across the lake where their sensei and the youngest Uchiha were...suppose to be. "Kakashi-sensei!"

"Oh my god, where's Setsumi!?" Sakura screamed in panic. Across the lake both the water country shinobi and Setsumi were gone... and Kakashi was unconscious in a pool of blood.

'Just what are we up against?'

'Oh kami please don't let them hurt her...please.'

Note: So Sasuke and Kakashi are hurt, possible on the verge of dying... and Setsumi was taken by the enemy! What will happen? Will they be able to save Setsumi, will they have to get new teammates will Sasuke and Kakashi recover? And have Sakura's feelings finally changed, is she able to see that Sasuke really does care greatly for her?

Tell me what you think... remember I like long reviews, didn't get any long ones last time so no ones name is being placed in my thank you space it is empty!