Hehehe, Now how will this chapter turn out...? We'll just see. Enjoy!

Chapter 2-Lost in Translation

Sasuke was in the Hokage's office. The place was a mess due to all the stacks of papers and piles of booklets and such, the Hokage had been busy lately. Sasuke had told Tsunade what had happened. She was devastated by the news.

Tsunade sat at her desk with her fingers crossed and her forehead resting against them. Tsunade sighed, she didn't know what to do. She thought about it and Sasuke sat in the chair in an unusual eerie quiet.

Tsunade finally looked up and said, "I'm leaving you to create a group of six and pursuing them. Leave at once."

Sasuke was surprised even though his cold and emotionless exterior didn't show it. He got up and left Tsunade's office. As soon as he exited the building he ran off. Sasuke thought about who he'd have joining him, his first stop was his team mate, Uzumaki Naruto.

He met Naruto at his usual place and filled him in that he'd be going on a mission with him. Naruto was excited about it, but Sasuke didn't tell him what the mission was. Sasuke and Naruto went off to get the second member and third member, Hyuga Neji and Hyuga Hinata. Sasuke told Neji and Hinata about the mission while Naruto wasn't paying attention. Neji, of course, found the mission interesting, he'd be chasing after people who kidnapped someone from their village. Hinata was depressed about hearing about what happened to Sakura. She wanted to help out any way she could. Hinata ran off to get their fourth member, Yamanaka Ino.

Ino was blazing furious about the fact that someone kidnapped her friend and she chose to go with them. On the other end, Sasuke and Naruto went to recruit their fifth member, Nara Shikamaru. He said it was troublesome but he'd do it anyway. And with Neji he had gone to get their sixth member, Ten-ten. She was excited to go and kick some butt, but also troubled that one of her friends had been kidnapped right under their noses.

As soon as they all had been gathered they packed their supplies and headed toward the Konoha gate for departure. When everyone was there, Naruto seeming to be the last one to get there, Tsunade appeared and informed them that Neji was in charge with Sasuke as his second. Sasuke of course was outraged out this, but he decided it was probably the best choice. And after that they departed.

They walked northwest from the gates throught the forest, as that was where Kakashi had spotted two mysterious people leave while carrying something. They walked for three hours, every few minutes Sasuke, Hinata, and Neji would activate their eyes for clues; each time they did they found a clue and continued to follow the clues. It was passed 10 p.m. when they decided to stop and set up camp. The actual fact was that they were in an area that was unknown to them, and maybe even the rest of the village. They had gotten lost somewhere among the endless trees.

Naruto and Hinata went off to find wood, Hinata went along so that Naruto wouldn't get lost. The others set up their tents and decided who'd take shifts when. Sasuke was first, then Ten-ten, and then Ino; that was the shifts for their first night, who knew how long they'd be searching.

Naruto came back with a very pink faced Hinata, surprisingly they hadn't found much wood; but it was enough to sustain a fire for that night. After dinner Ino went to sleep along with Hinata, while the others sat around the fire in a circle.

"It was creepy out there when we were looking for wood…" Naruto whined.

"What, dobe, afraid of the woods?" Sasuke smirked.

"NO! But that's no it… it was strange. The farther we looked the more eerie it got. It got more and more misty and dark and could've sworn I heard carnivores…"

They looked at Naruto and rolled their eyes, "You're just imagining things." Ten-ten said.

After that Naruto went to be, pouting. Shikamaru went to sleep along with him. All that was left was Ten-ten, Neji, and Sasuke.

"Sasuke, but how is it possible for her to disappear like that…?" Ten-ten whispered sadly.

"Like I know!" Sasuke grunted.

It was silent for many minutes and then Ten-ten stood up and left for bed, Neji joined her. Sasuke was alone. He sat by the fire, consumed by his thoughts. After a few hours he was still caught up in his thoughts that he didn't feel a hand on his shoulder, that was until the hand shook him ferociously. He turned to see Ten-ten standing over him with her eyebrow raised in amusement.

"Your shift is over." Is all she said.

Sasuke got up and walked into his tent to see Naruto sprawled out on the floor and a sleeping Ino twitch-kicking Naruto in the face. Sasuke smirked at the sight. He laid down and quickly snoozed off to sleep.

Sasuke was awoken by being kicked in the ribs. He jolted up and growled.

"What?"

"Shhh... " Ino said, "Listen…"

Sasuke listened, all he heard was silence, or was it? He noticed something odd. It was a light growling or an animal. And then he heard it, there were voices. It was a language he didn't know. Sasuke looked questioning at Ino.

"What's going on?" He asked.

"During my shift I heard this and woke everyone up. I can understand it, like Ten-ten and Hinata… but just barely. I think they're related to the kidnapping."

"You can? How?" Sasuke asked.

"Well, Sakura taught us some of the language. If they speak it, then maybe they know where she's gone to."

Naruto was listening to them. "So all we have to do is ask them."

He ran out of the tent before the two could stop him. Naruto ran toward the noise and saw a group of five people dressed in jungle forest clothes; the clothes were well made and the people didn't look to bizarre. But they did carry spears and other weapons. Naruto ran towards them.

"Hey! Can you help us?" The moment the words left his mouth he was met by the tips of the weapons. Naruto sweat-dropped.

The people seemed to dislike what Naruto did. But Ino, Shikamaru, and Sasuke came to help him out, but the two guys met the weapons as well.

"Todo no arikarli kabu?" Shouted one of the taller males of the group.

Ino sweat-dropped as Ten-ten, Neji, and Hinata came to them, "uhm… Fruitake ne bogaliri…?" Ino said.

The people became hostile toward her as well, they cornered Ino, Naruto, Sasuke, and Shikamaru.

"Ino, what did you say!" Naruto asked as the spear was being poked at him.

"She said something about a smelling boar…" Ten-ten said.

"I what!" Ino screamed.

"Let me try." Ten-ten approached the people, " …Correko nishe dokeroi peasuru…?"

They became outraged at Ten-ten and she sweat-dropped as she and Neji too were cornered with the others.

"Way to go Ten-ten, nice way to say that their mother is a slut…" Ino said.

Lol, poor guys. BTW this is a totally made up language. I would've done it in Japanese for something, but I decided againt it.

Next chapter: 'This Can't Get Anyworse!'