Hello everyone thank you for sticking with this story it's almost five years and yes this year it's coming to an end so I can focus my other fanfics like this one: Marriage? what kinda adventure is that?!, that's my one piece fanfic, so if you like one piece and you like Luhan then check it out baby! Anywayzz happy reading!

A purple portal opened up in the middle a clearing in the forest as Sasuke stepped out with the younger version of himself slung across his shoulder unconscious, He transformed into his twelve year old self and placed the original into a hollow tree trunk covering it up with some branches and grass to make it look undetected, "This should do for now,I'll take over from here since he won't wake up for the next 72 hours so I don't have to worry about him getting in my way." he looked ahead to what looked like a straight path, "Wait until I catch up to those three..*sigh*..."

He jumped up on a branch and made his way towards Sarada and Team, As he jumped from branch to branch,he suddenly came to a halt and looked down at the sight of blood stained grass,"What the hell..." onyx eyes widened in horror at the sight before him,He could tell it was Jirobo from the sound because of his short run in with them in the past but to a random person coming across the corpse wouldn't be able to tell, he looked as if the life was literally sucked out of him leaving behind just skin and bones. "Is this one of his abilities? To be able to suck fluids out of his victim..If that's the case then I need to act quickly!" He jumped back up into the trees and saw Boruto and Mitsuki up ahead "Why are those two separated from Sarada and the others? did something happen?"

Mitsuki stopped moving getting Boruto's attention."Something wrong Mitsuki?"

"Someone's following us."

Sasuke noticed this but kept advancing only to be stopped by a white snake bounding his arms and feet,losing his balance against the tree as Boruto and Mitsuki appeared with a look of shock on their faces. Mitsuki was the first to speak "...Sasuke? I though you were vaporised by Shinchiku!"

"What you actually saw was me being shrunk to the size of a bug..I'm not Sasuke...I mean I am but..."

"Huh?" Boruto raised his brow in confusion.

He continued after watching the blonde and the pale skinned boy's reaction. "I bet even Shinchiku think I'm dead, I went back to the future with my younger self to get him back to normal size and then we came back here and I stashed his unconscious body in one of the trees nearby." the snakes released him and retreated back under Mitsuki's sleeve.

"Good old Sasuke-sensei you almost never make sense dattebasa!"

"That's a lot to take in but Sarada's probably worried about us so we should get going." Mitsuki turned and disappeared up into tree with the other two ninjas in tow.


Sakura's legs gave out causing her to fall flat on her bottom with soft 'thud' on hard earth, Sarada & Naruto was immediately by her side looking at her with concern, "Sakura are you alright?" Naruto got down on her eye level and spoke softly eyeing his teammate for any injury.

"I'm alright Naruto just a little fatigued" She give him a reassuring smile.

Sarada looked around their surroundings and frowned, "Hey..uh Naruto?"

He looked up at the female Uchiha,"What is it?"

She pointed towards the oversized centipede with a kunai through it's stomach, Blue eyes widened with realisation and somewhat dread " I remember killing that thing on our way through here! Don't tell me-" Sarada slowly shook her head silently cursing her self for being so careless and not being alert as she should be, being the one with a visual prowess.

"Guys is something wrong?" Sakura followed their eyes and saw the overgrown bug, "Wait didn't we pass that thing already? just looking at again still gives me the creeps!" The pink haired kunoichi shivered.

"Guys we were careless and now it's possible that we're under the enemy's genjutsu" Sarada activated her sharingan and looked around for traces of the enemy, she reached for a kunai in her weapons pouch and threw it into the direction a nearby bush.

"Hehehe somebody's a smart girl" three hidden rain ninja stepped out from the bush wearing similar yellow jumpsuit stitched up in the middle and a re breather over their mouths,"Enough! Hand over your scrolls to us!" One of the hidden rain ninja charges forward towards Sarada, who got pulled out another kunai and got herself into position, blocking his hits, She smirked to herself "How can you see properly with that sash across your face, is that a great disadvantage to to you?"

He laughed softly at her as he tried to land another hit at her only to be blocked again, "doesn't matter since you have better eyes than mine and you still walked blindly into my genjutsu"

A thick vein appeared on Sarada's forehead as she kicked him square in his face sending him flying "How dare you CHA!"

"Kagari!" His teammates yelled in horror as Sarada cracked her knuckles, they slowly turned their heads back in her direction, "Any one else has anything else to say to me?!"

Naruto stepped forward "I won't allow you to disrespect her like that! * SHADOW CLONE JUTSU!*" Six clones appeared from the puff of smoke.

One of the rain ninja smiled "So we're doing it like that huh? well then..."

"AAAAH!"

Naruto and Sarada turned their heads towards Sakura's direction as clones of the rain ninjas emerged from the earth and closed in on her. "Just hand over your scroll and no one will get hurt"

"Tch! I'd like to see you try!" Naruto and his clones ran in and slashed the hidden rain clones only for it to disappear with leaving water behind, he punched another one with the same result."Huh? A water clone?" with his back turned,another clone emerged with a kunai ready to strike.

"Naruto!" Sarada tackled the blonde ninja making the kunai barely graze his cheek, she sat on top of him giving him a stern look "you need to be more careful, we shouldn't worry about these guys they're just water clones,the real ones are hiding up in that tree above us"

Naruto's cheeks reddened he wasn't sure if it was because a girl was giving him a lecture like Sasuke would or because she was sitting on him."Uh...sure let's get em' but first um..."

Sarada's cheek's turned red when she realised she was straddling him, she immediately jumped to her feet."Oh! I'm so sorry! how impolite..I-I didn't mean to be so crude!"

Naruto scratched the back off his head and gave her a toothy grin "Hey it's no big deal you know...right now we have to take care of those two weaklings and I think I have a plan"

Sakura looked from the distance shaking her head "oh brother!"

The other two rain ninjas jumped down from the branch they were observing the genins and approached their exhausted bodies."Heh! you're trapped like rats! all bark and no bite!"

Naruto grinned up at them "So you jerks finally decided to come out." Sarada and Sakura disappeared in a puff of smoke revealing two more shadow clones much to the shock of the two rain ninjas, Naruto ran up and punched him in the face sending him and his other team mate flying into the trunk of the tree they came from knocking them out, the water clones surrounding him poofed away.

Naruto sighed to himself "That was anti-climatic...at least they could've put up more of a fight!" he walked towards their unconscious bodies and started to fish around their pouches, his face fell as he pulled out a heaven scroll.

Sakura saw her team mate's crestfallen expression and her shoulders sagged as tears streamed down her rosy cheeks in frustration mixed fatigue.

Sarada felt the mood shift around them and saw the genins' sad faces, Naruto plopped down the ground,slamming a fist down in anger. "Damn I was really this close to becoming hokage and now this happens, It's all my fault dammit! If only I didn't make our earth scroll drop into the river when I wanted to swing on a vine!"

Sakura went over to her team mate and placed a hand on his shoulder "Naruto it's okay..we could always find another scroll..If I'm correct we have about two more hours...but that doesn't matter cause we need a three man squad..*sigh*" she plopped down next to the blonde and joined him in moping around.

Boruto and Mitsuki landed next to Sarada and Sakura startling the kunoichis with their sudden presence, Sarada seeing her teammates safe and sound jumped towards them wrapping her arms around their necks. "You guys! I'm so glad you're back in one piece."

Sakura looked up as the grass rustled,tears welled up in the corner of her eyes as she saw the male Uchiha step out looking handsome as ever, her cheeks tinted pink as their eyes met and he give her a soft "hn."

"Sasuke!" she ran to him and wrapped her arms around him weeping softly, she removed her self and started to check him all over, "We thought you were dead! W-what happened?"

"That guy's an idiot...He just sent me to another side of the forest" He slightly lied.

Naruto's face lit up when he saw the male Uchiha looked at him and smirked at him, the blonde didn't know whether to feel happy that his team mate was alive,relieved that he could take the exam or angry that his chance with Sakura was getting slimmer."Where the hell have you been Sasuke? sitting around somewhere pickin' daisies?"

Sasuke sighed to himself as he remembered how childish and annoying Naruto was and just brushed past him, enraging the blonde even more."So did you guys get all the scrolls?"

This drove Naruto and Sakura back into a depressive state. Naruto couldn't look his team mate in the eye as he spoke,"These guys had a heaven scroll,but Boruto give us one already...we only have two hours left and still can't get our hands on an earth scroll dammit!"

Sarada's ear twitched at the word."hmmm earth scroll?...earth scroll..hey guys are you looking for this?" She placed her hand into her weapons pouch and held the earth scroll out causing Naruto and Sakura to jump up and down gleefully, then Naruto's eyes turned blood red and Sakura cracked her knuckles as they slowly approached the female Uchiha who quietly gulped and backed away.

Sakura gritted her teeth as she approached her "All this time...you actually had an earth scroll..so this altercation with these rain ninja were useless! we could've been at the temple by now!CHA!"

Sarada started to sweat bullets "eh...guys let's be reasonable here"