Chapter five, now what?

Hello, i'm back! And I brought updates! Woo!

It took me a while, because I was in a great, Rock lee mood for a while. I needed more of a Neji mood to write it well enough.

Naruto looked out. He was, for once, up perfectly on time, but only for the worst circumstances. He didn't know why, or what it was that happened to Sasuke, but whatever it was, it seemed like it meant a lot to Sasuke. He then saw sakura coming; it was about 6:40, so she prolly didn't sleep either. Naruto, to catch up in his thoughts didn't even look up at her. She looked surprised, for two possible reasons, one, he was up early, and two, he didn't bombard her, or even say hi to her.

"Good morning, Naruto." She said slowly.

"Humph" was the best Naruto could muster.

SAKURA'S POINT OF VIEW

"Good morning, Naruto." Sakura said slowly.

"Humph" was the best he could muster.

"That jerks!" Inner sakura said "Has a huge crush, but can't even say hi?"

"So… what happened?" Naruto said, turning to her, his Eyes slightly blood shot, and his face bore a sensitive, angry… almost Sasukish look.

"What do you mean?" Sakura asked, surprised at the question, and Naruto's lack of being… Naruto.

"What happened to Sasuke, what's wrong?" Naruto asked

"INSENSITIVE! He can't even say hello for me, but has to ask deeply personal questions?" Inner sakura yelled.
"why should I know? Why couldn't you ask a villager?"

"Heh, since when do the villagers ever help me? Since when do they even regard me as human?" Naruto said, with that same look… Sakura was aghast, even inner sakura was surprised.

"Eh, Naruto has normal human feelings? He's not just an idiot, useless dope?" she then remembered when Sasuke had called her a dope… right after she accidentally fell out of a tree on a cat they had had to rescue. Niceness turned on immediately.

"I… I'm sorry Naruto. I don't know what happened. I wonder if he'll even come here today for the mission."

"I'll be here." Came a familiar voice.

BACK TO NARUTO

Naruto turned to see Sasuke walking towards them. He regained his normal Naruto mood immediately seeing a well rested Sasuke.

"Sasuke, what happened yesterday?" Naruto asked, in his usual clueless sort of way.

"Shut up, you Dope." Sasuke replied. The silence that followed was a force to be reckoned with, and led till 7:40, when Kakashi showed up.

"Hello," Kakashi said with out his usual vigor, or happiness. This worried Naruto and Sakura, while Sasuke didn't care. Kakashi began to explain the mission as they walked.

"We're going to the land in the clouds." Kakashi said, and was about to continue but Naruto interrupted with his usual vigor.
"Wahoo! That's going to be great! I can't wait!"

"Shut up, Naruto." Sakura told him, bopping him on the head, while staring at Sasuke. His eyes seemed less focused than Neji's or Hinata's. Kakashi continued

"Another Jounin of the Thunder has captured a Kohona citizen, and he says the only way he'll get rid of the prisoner, is if a team's Genin will Spar with his. Naturally, we would never handle such an odd and easily dangerous request, but this individual is the owner of much of kohona's apartments, and is very powerful and rich. We need him back." Kakashi ended the speech with his arms crossed and leaning against a wall. His pose was oh-so anticlimactic. Sakura, scared slightly piped up,

"But… why our team? Sasuke, (she paused and looked over at Naruto, who was staring at his greatest crush, her with his usual "why do you hate me?" eyes.) and Naruto (he blushed at this) will be fine, but… I'm no fighter."

"You'll do fine, Sakura!" Naruto said, winking at her. She did one of those "its cute, but soooo stupid" blushes and turned to Sasuke, who just stood there, motionless. Kakashi interrupted her stare, piping up,

"You leave in a week; I just wanted to tell you now so you could get prepared. Tootles!" and he disappeared in a poof of smoke.

After two days, Sakura was out getting groceries when she overheard to people cashiering the food talking.

"I'm worried, that Sasuke boy hasn't been here in a while!"

"Yeah, he used to get groceries every three days, but now he doesn't, so what's up?" Sakura then butted in

"Doesn't that mean he hasn't eaten in days? Oh my god! Sasuke!" she half yelled as she grabbed her bags of food and left the grocery store.

"How odd."

"Yes, how odd." They said to one another.

Sakura ran like the wind, dropped off her groceries, grabbed a pair of bento boxes, and then ran out the door, ready to save Sasuke, only to realize… she had absolutely no idea where Sasuke lived! At first she panicked, then remembered, and walked into a book shop to look at a wall map. She soon pin pointed the uchila mansion, and moved in on it. Soon, she arrived, and saw the two, large and impressive gates. Gathering her courage, Sakura opened the gates and walked inside.