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Chapi 8 = Mission, Departure

"THUD" Neji quickly looked out the window, hoping that it wasn't Hinata because if the heiress got hurt he would be in big trouble, he jumped out and quickly was standing on top of the front gate when he saw a Kawarimi on the ground and sakura standing behind the Jounin and threw a couple of kunai at it's back, and it fell over dead, "phew that was close" sakura sighed and walked over and pushed the stump out of the way of the front gate and they both walked in together.

Neji just stood there thinking since when was sakura so strong? She had always been weak and would of probably just stood there in fear. He then quickly jumped back into his open window and pretended that he was never out there.

Sakura saw a shadow jumping above them but she didn't have enough time to see who it was, then she noticed as Hinata giggled and said "That was Neji- niisan, his job is to protect me because I'm the heiress, he was there on the gate when you killed that Jounin" Sakura looked a little shocked thinking whoa, he was there that whole time and I never sensed his charka, or anything, then looking proud of herself thought and know that he witnessed me killing it he will probably think I'm strong or stronger. They got inside the house, where Neji was sitting on the stairs, and then he asked "What happened" which startled both of them cause they didn't know he was on the stairs, Hinata quietly said "Well we were attacked by that ninja we think it was a new Jounin, so we ran..... Then we got to the gate and he attacked sakura, then you saw the rest" she said quietly, Neji then just got up and walked away thinking how did a stray Jounin get in unnoticed and went for them? He didn't want it to seem like he cared or anything, so he put on that emotionless face, and walked into his room

The next week a day to make it the 2nd of January

Naruto, Hinata, and Sakura meet outside the 5th Hokage's house, it was around 7 in the morning and every on was tired, because they were not used to getting up early because of the winter break. She told that they were last and to come in and sit down. They noticed that one more person was there already sitting down, it was Neji. The three of them sat down and prepared to listen to her about their mission. They were to go and give a scroll with plans and agreements to the Tsuchikage ( Just like the Hokage but for Hidden in the rock tells about this in epi 6). They would get a grand total of 2 ½ weeks to do this all else fails send them mail saying if they needed longer. They would leave in 3 days; they gave sakura the map that the ANBU had plotted out so they would have save passage. She then dismissed them and they all headed back home, sakura put the map down, at hinata's house and then left to go train, which she had been doing a lot since Sasuke left and know she was fairly strong, she was slowly getting over him and told herself next time she saw him she didn't want to be weak and she wanted to show him the pain she had went through when he left. She then found this hill near her training spot, and she decided to go up and take a rest there, when she got up there she almost fell straight asleep.

To Sasuke

He was training hard under Orochimaru, but he was wondering why his training had stopped and why Orochimaru had summoned him, he was told that there was a group of Chunnin's delivering a scroll and it was fairly important and that he wanted to know what was in it, but little did he know it was just genin's. He said that he was to go on this mission with one of his followers, that was very strong his name was Haiaku (hi-ack-ku) the boy was about fifthteen (looks like dark off of D.N.Angel) they were to set of in about 4 days. Sasuke didn't know of that many Chunin's from Konaha but wondered who they were,

Back to sakura

Neji was going to his typical spot to train on top of the hill but when he got there he noticed that sakura was there just lying there on the ground sleeping, he didn't know what to do so he just left her there, and trained around her, but every now and then he'd look at her he didn't know why he just did, and then he finally said to himself, she looks bueatiful when she sleeps, it just came out of nowhere and he didn't know why he said it, he was just glad that she was asleep and didn't hear it.

It was getting late and sakura still hadn't waken up and Neji just didn't know what to do, so he though he would just take her home...only one problem though, he didn't know where she lived, and what were the chances of her friends being up right know, and they would probably get those silly little idea's in there minds if they saw him with her asking where she lived. Then he got a good idea he would go and find a phone book look up her information and then go to where she lived. He dashed to the nearest phone booth and looked it up.

Mean While

Sakura slowly woke up wondering what time it was, she slowly got up and cleaned herself off, she then decided that it was best to go home so she walked down the hill and headed home

Back to Neji

After searching the phone book neji though he had finally found her house he dashed back to see that she was gone! He didn't know where she went, what if someone kidnapped her, then he though wait a second, why would someone what to kidnap her she probably woke up and headed home, but just in case he went into the direction of what he found in the phone book and found her there waking back to her house. sigh then with that he finally headed home, remembering there mission was soon tomorrow and dashed home to get some sleep and or pack.

Morning

Sakura woke up a little early so she could take a shower and get ready, by the time her shower was done and she had finished packing she looked at her watch, she was supposed to be there in 5 minutes. She quickly put on her shoe's grabbed her backpack and was out of the house in a mad fury trying not to be late.

She got there exactly at 6 in the morning with not a second to spare, everyone else was already there waiting for her. She pulled out the map and went in the lead with Naruto close behind followed by Hinata, then Neji. They had travelled for 3 hours non-stop and I was starting to get hot so they sat down and took a 10 minutes brake before continuing, sakura servayed the map looking for a safe spot for them to rest for the night, she noticed that on the map that there was an old rundown house there and thought that that would be a great spot, she was about to tell the others when they noticed something rattling in the bushes, she pulled out her kunai and went in a defensive postion as always to see that everyone else had to, they found out that it was only a raccoon and continued on.

They had travelled for about 5 more hours non-stop tell they finally reached they house. Everyone looked in shock as they saw ......

Tbc

Well not that great of a cliffhanger but still, ya fanfiction is finally up again so I can update and you can R&R