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Sasuke/Kagome pairing...NO exceptions

Sasuke didn't really care to look at his, and neither did Sakura so they put theirs away. Naruto, on the other hand, was thrilled about it. He kept jumping up and down in joy for the chance to do something more challenging and adventurous.

'Yes! Believe it! I might finally get the chance to beat Sasuke. I'll show him who's weak.' Naruto thought, while rejoicing in his (what he thought) great plans.

"Naruto," Kakashi said lazily, "You should put that away before you lose it. If you don't have it while we're here at Ta no Kuni (The Rice Field Country), you'll have to leave the country."

Even though Naruto was still very happy, he wasn't in his right mind going to pass up the opportunity to go to a different country. And he also didn't want to ruin his chances at showing Sasuke who was more powerful.

Kagome walked ahead and looked around warily. She didn't sense any danger so she kept on walking. As soon as Naruto was done with his 'thinking' he started to walk ahead of everyone. Sakura, Sasuke and Kagome were walking in the middle. Kakashi was behind everyone reading his perverted orange book and keeping his senses open for any traps or surprise attacks.

They soon entered a dense forest and instead they jumped from tree to tree rather than walking. As they were moving something caught Kakashi's eye. Jumping off the tree, he walked cautiously over to it. The others noticed him and followed. Sakura though had to drag Naruto because he wasn't paying attention.

"Hey! What are you doing?" Naruto asked. Sakura shushed him and told him to be quiet.

Sasuke and Kagome were watching Kakashi intently on whatever he was doing. As Kakashi looked behind the tree, he could see a body that was actually among other bloody bodies. They all had ANBU masks and the ANBU gear. Kakashi quickly scanned the small area and made a quick analysis.

He kneeled on the ground and lifted the masks of the bodies. He knew they were from the village but he needed to know who they were so he could report it to Tsunade-sama. Getting up from the ground Sakura asked what happened.

"It seems that whoever attacked this team has carelessly left their bodies here. We're probably, more or less halfway through this forest. It's suspicious that these bodies were left here. And there are usually 5 to a team, but there are only 4. Either one escaped or they were kept hostage." Kakashi said.

Sasuke and Kagome digested the information and stored it away. This could be used for future reference. Kakashi looked at the bodies a while longer covering them up with surrounding leaves.

"Can't do to have anyone find the bodies, now can we? We can't do anything right now for them so we'll just have to come back to bury them when we are done with this mission." Kakashi said in a bored tone.

"Wait. I can use my Seirei eye to communicate to their spirits. We can gather information from them and see if they can tell us what happened to the other member of their team." Kagome suggested. It was a good idea, so what the heck?

"Sure. We should gather as much information as we can to be prepared for what's up ahead." Kakashi said. Kagome nodded and got ready to activate her Seirei eye.

Kagome kneeled on the ground and closed her eyes, she quickly chanted under her breath while keeping her hands in position (FYI: this is about 3 days after she first did it). Suddenly, 4 misty things materialized in the air above the bodies and started to change into human forms. This did not alarm team 7 anymore because they had already seen it done before.

Once they all looked like they had fully formed, they looked up startled at the people in front of them.

"Where are we? I thought we died." One of them said, with hostility in their voice. He recognized team 7 but not the girl kneeling on the ground. The three other spirits were just as confused as he.

"Do not be alarmed, we are just here to get some information. My name is Kagome Higurashi and I summoned you all. Yes, you were dead when we found you but we need to know how you died. It could prove to be useful to us." Kagome explained.

Kakashi wasn't so sure they would believe her so he decided to elaborate.

"You can trust Kagome, she is on a mission with us assigned by Tsunade-sama. She summoned you through a…special technique and we're asking you what happened while you were here." Kakashi said, he wasn't sure how they would take to hearing it was a Kekkei Genkai.

The one to speak first must have been the leader and he started to explain what happened.

"We were sent to check around Ta no Kuni (The Rice Field Country) for any ANBU and report if we saw anything suspicious. But we were caught off guard with an ambush. We didn't expect to be attacked but we should have kept a closer eye out.

"There were 4 sound nins, but they were just kids. We fought with them even though. They had these seals though that spread across their body and made unusual patterns on their skin. They also transformed into these monsters as the battle with them became more intense," He paused to remember more of what happened, "As the fight went on they looked like they struggled, but so did we. We were already weak from another mission we had not too long before that one.

"In the end they had killed us all except the last one of us that kept on fighting. Before I did pass on I saw that they had taken him alive but not unscathed."

Kagome thought that was as much as they could get so she decided to let them go back to eternal slumber. "Thank you for cooperating with us. And may your souls rest in peace." With those words Kagome sent a prayer to them as they disappeared.

Sasuke watched all of this happen in silence. Naruto looked surprised when they mentioned the seals, markings and monsters. Sakura looked a little worried, thinking about Sasuke's own seal.

'I thought they died, considering that I haven't seen them for a long time. Jiroubou, Kidoumaru, Tayuya, Sakon and Ukon…I thought they were defeated. But I never did see their monster forms.' Naruto thought, he was worried about having to face them. Even if he didn't really fight them his comrades did and they only stayed alive because of their sand allies.

Sasuke was also worried about the situation. 'Them…they brought me to Orochimaru or at least tried to. But it was I in the first place that wanted the power. What is there intention with the other ANBU member?' Sasuke hated not knowing these things.

Sakura worried about Sasuke. 'Seals? Is it like Sasuke's? Even though it doesn't have any effect on him right now it's still there. And that means he could probably put his own power into it to activate it. I hope that he doesn't have to come to that.'

Kagome stood up and stretched. "Well that drained me," She said, trying to lighten the mood, "Let's continue on shall we? We wouldn't want to suddenly be attacked." She smiled at them so that their worried faces would disappear.

Sakura and Naruto smiled back at her and soon they were back in the trees. Sasuke was slower to get up but still joined them. They probably weren't going to be there any longer since they just found something out.

A little while more and they were at a place with an entry way to the underground. This was probably where Orochimaru's location was but no one could say for sure.

"This place is suspicious, we should probably head back or leave before we are caught. There aren't any traps that we've come by so far so there's no telling what will happen if we stay." Kakashi said.

"Kakashi-sans right, we should leave. We don't even know if this place is taken up. We might just set ourselves up for danger if we enter that place." Kagome said.

Sasuke nodded his head; there was just something about the place that didn't bode well with him. Sakura and Naruto also nodded their heads; they were getting a creepy feeling. As the group was about to head back to the forest a kunai knife was thrown at the tree before them. Looking back to see whom it was Naruto and Sasuke were surprised to see who it was.

"Are you here to get your asses kicked?" It was an orange haired female standing with three others.

Laterz

Chapter Edited.