A/N Gay title... I know can't think of anything better.. cozins wedding tomorrow! Ahhh! Why does it HAVE to be on the day of my best-frieds birthday party? WHY? someone tell me!

Chapter 10

Why do I care so much?




"Hn... lets go."Sasuke muttered to Sakura bossily.

"Ok...She felt a bit annoyed at Sasuke who she hadn't realized before was actually a very bossy person.

[Maybe it's because I've always looked at his good points... I never really noticed what his bad ones were. Or maybe I'm just really shallow...]

"Stupid Sasuke..." Naruto muttered as they approached their starting point.

They were supposed to start here where Kakashi had told directed them to, so that everyone started at the same difference from the middle.

"Naruto-Kun...." Hinata said quietly to him.

"Yeah?" He asked.

"I think this is our spot to start." She replied.

"Huh? How did you know?" He asked astonished. "Umm... Your Sensei put a liitle note on that tree over there..." She pointed to the tree in front of them, with a humongous sign on it, which said.

'STARTING POINT NO.2'. She said shyly, she didn't want Naruto to be embarrassed. "Where? Oh that one it's so small!" He laughed. "Anyway, let's start alrady!" He exclaimed loudly. They started walking around in no particular direction. There was a grumbling sound from somewhere.

"Hinata...I am so very HUNGRY!" He exclaimed.

"Umm... Naruto... sorry I didn't bring any food..." She said apologetically.

"That's Ok! I know why don't we take a little break, for a while and go to the ramen place for lunch?" He suggested, he didn't know if he was going to get rejected like Sakura often rejected him...

"Ok!" She said happily. (YAY! She was going to the ramen bar with Naruto!) They walked off towards where they came from.

"WE will go this way...If your not going then I will..." Sakura told him. After they had been walking fro a LONG time to the left, it didn't look like they were getting anywhere near the center...so then going right would... She started walking towards the right.

Sasuke ignored her and kept on going left. Soon the two had gone opposite directions from each other. Suddenly, while Sakura was walking a black snake came from under the bushes and suddenly came up baring it's too fangs at her. Sakura screamed.

"AHHHHH!" Sasuke heard a familiar voice break his thoughts....

"Sakura? What?" He looked behind him, he had thought Sakura was following him, like she did almost everyday when he tried to go home...

"That must be Sakura!" He quickly retraced his steps to where he had heard Sakuras scream came from. He saw that Sakura was lying unmoving next to a big black snake, and there was blood on the floor.

"SAKURA!!!ARE YOU OK?" Anxiously he ran up to Sakura, forgetting everything, even about killing his brother for one moment, only Sakura being alright was all that mattered.'

He put his hand on Sakuras pulse and saw that it was beating at normal pace.

"Sasuke! Can you move for a second? I'm trying to do something here!" She snapped annoyed at him, for the first time.

"Huh? I heard you were hurt...." He muttered.

"As if! I can take care of myself; I'm not a weakling."

Sakura was actually helping a little mouse that had a wound on its leg from the snake, which had bit it, but luckily the snake wasn't poisonous. Sakura was wrapping a teared up piece of cloth on its leg to stop the bleeding.

"There you go little mouse! Run free! I have defeated the evil snake!" Sakura said happily to it. The mouse looked grateful and wandered into the bushes.

"Hn...Animals can't talk. Anyway why were you screaming then?" He muttered.

"Oh... Um the snake had a little mouse in its mouth!" She answered.

"How pathetic..." He said quietly to himself. But quietly to himself he was rally grateful that Sakura was Ok....

Shino and Kiba arrived in the middle of the forest.

"Wow, I think you guys are the first ones to get here!" Kakashi congratulated them.

"That will be an 'A' for tracking skills."

"Yeah! First we used Shino put a female bug and you so the males one would smell it and we also used Akumuru as well, he is a very well trained dog, aren't you Akumaru?" He patted his beloved dog affectionatly.

"..." Shino didn't say anything. he picked up a bug from the floor and putting it in his sleeve. "Well, I guess because you have done so well you can have the rest of the day to rest..." Kakashi told them.

"KK!" Shino and Kiba walked off, Akumauru leading them.

"Hmm... I wonder what happened to the other two teams....I'll give them 10 mins before I go and get them myself...." He muttered before going back to his book.

A/N: The dance will come soon! I just have to get the parings together....