Mizu didn't have time to beat around the bush now that she had found the Kazekage. Nor did she have the time to speak in code around the blond interloper that the Kazekage had apprently been talking with. She told Gaara what Tsunade was planning and was more than a little surprised when the red head looked at the blond and asked, "Well? What do you suggest we do Naruto?"

Mizu looked at the younger Kage in confusion wondering what the blond had to do with anything when the one called Naruto bared his teeth and growled. "Oh hell no. Tsunade is out of her ever loving mind if she thinks she can interrogate Shay. Lets go." The blond said as he reached out and grabbed Mizu's wrist in a steely grip then put his other hand on Gaara's shoulder and before Mizu could even demand to know what he was doing they vanished from the woods.

Mizu couldn't believe what she was seeing. The world around her was blurred to the point where it was nothing but a swirling mass of color and sound. Was this what the Leaf nins considered a telepotation jutsu? Because it was damn close.

Although there was no passing from one place to another consciously. It was more like they were being pulled at a fast pace that had never been achieved by humans before. It was dizzying to say the least.

Mizu's stomach lurched and she lifted her arm on reflex to cover her mouth, but couldn't get it up completely. The blond's grip on her wrist was weighing it down like lead weights.

Then just as abruptly as the sensation started, it ended and the blond let go of her. Mizu doubled over in an effort to keep from being sick as Gaara looked around and sighed. "Damn. They're already inside."

"I'll go stop them." Naruto said before disappearing in a blur of navy blue and orange. Mizu blinked as she caught sight of the slight movement from under her bangs and thought, What the hell?

Gaara shook his head and inwardly chuckled at Naruto's haste. No one in the world would be able to accuse the teen of being as slow as he acted if they saw him now.

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Shay looked around the tent with a frown.

It felt like they had been walking forever, yet they hadn't reached their destination yet. How odd.

She glanced at Sakura, noting that the pinkette was totally calm and relaxed and felt herself get more than a little bit irritated at the girl's calmness before asking. "So just how big is this tent? It looked about normal size when we were outside but it fells like we've been walking forever."

"The tent has a time and space distortion jutsu placed on it to make it bigger inside than it appears outside." Tsunade explained. Shay gave her an Oh look over her shoulder then said out of the blue.

"You know I used to have a closet in my old apartment that I would swear up and down had one of those time and space distortions in it. Every time I stepped inside of it, I would get lost for hours." Tsunade cocked her head a little bit to the left and studied Shay's back. Ah so she was that type of person. The type of person who told jokes and laughed no matter how bad the situation was.

Now she was beginning to understand why Gaara, Mizu, and Sakura liked the girl so much. It was because she was eerily similar to Naruto personality wise.

Sakura looked at Shay funny, her green eyes sparkling in amusement. "You're joking right? It's not possible to get that lost in a closet."

"Maybe not for you but I remember getting stuck in there one time and not being able to get the door open... It took one of my neighbors three days to find me." Sakura looked at Tsunade and bit her lower lip, her slender shoulders shaking.

Tsunade rolled her eyes at the girl and gave a subtle nod to let her know that it was okay to go ahead and laugh. Sakura took the hint and started giggling uncontrolably as they continued walking.

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Naruto stopped moving when he heard the laughter and scowled at the fabric walls as he mentally swore.

He hadn't realised that Tsunade had placed a time and space distortion jutsu on the tent before he had rushed in. But now that he did know about the jutsu he needed to be very careful when navigating inside of it.

He didn't want to take a wrong turn and end up in some far off universe or anything weird like that. God knew that they had lost more than their fair share of nins for being so wreckless.

He listened for the sound of laughter again and when it didn't come, he focused instead on the low hum of voices speaking. Once he was able to pin point the sound he started moving again, this time starting off at a brisk jog.

He could sense Tsunade and Sakura and Shay were somewhere just ahead of him. Which was good since he was going to give the girls a piece of his mind once he caught up to them.