A/N: Hey I'm back! waves Sorry for letting you wait that long but it's not completely my fault points at beta
beta: deadly glare
me: sweatdrop okay it's competely my fault.
Chapter three
In the morning:
All shinobi were up and had already eaten except Naruto who was still sleeping soundly. So our favourite copy-ninja went to wake him. He shoved Naruto. "Hey, Naruto, wake up!" The boy just murmured something like 'ramen' and turned away. An evil smile crept on Kakashi's masked face. "Hey Naruto if you don't get up in the next five minutes I won't allow you to eat ramen any more." He teased. "WHAT?" Naruto jumped at Kakashi, clinging at his collar and screaming. "I'M UP! I'M UP!" "Okay, okay, I just made a joke. But you havent to shout like that. Geez." Kakashi knew Naruto was a ramen-junkie but he never expected a reaction like this. Half-deaf he went to the others with the foxboy behind.
They were on their trip again. Sakura felt more than just happiness: Sasuke had smiled at her. Well, not really smiled but in Sasuke-terms it was a smile and that was enough for her. Maybe because she has beaten the shit out of Naruto so that he shut his big mouth. She glanced at him and he looked back. Inner Sakura: 'Yes! He's in a good mood. If I ask him for a date right now he'll surely agree!' Just when she opened her mouth a certain blonde foxboy appeared between them and smiled stupidly. "Hey Sakura-chan..." He said but stopped and gulped seeing her glare knives at him. He raised his hands. "Er, did I say something wrong? Sakura-chan..." Before he could say another word Sakura started chasing after him. (A/N: Let's hope she won't get him )
While Sakura tried to kill Naruto Kakashi noticed some shadows gathering in the forests around them. He tilted his head. Judging from their behavior Gai, Neji and Sasuke had noticed it as well. He then stopped Naruto and Sakura whispering to be prepared for an attack. Bad idea. Naruto took out a kunai at once and shouted. "Hey you damn cowards, come out and fight!" He got a whack on the head by Sakura but unfortunately the shadows attacked. Or better: 16 black dressed ninjas came out of nowhere, threw knives trying to separate the group. Suddenly the courier screamed in hysteria and ran away. 'What the hell is he thinking?' The silver-haired wanted to go after him but was stuck between two foes. In the corner of his eye he saw Sakura wasn't fighting. "Sakura." The former anbu hissed. When she looked he pointed to the running form of Hokusai while he easily dodged some kunais.
The green-eyed kunoichi saw her sensei pointing at the retreating form of the courier and immediately understood. Before going after him she saw Gai and Lee in their fighting position with one arm on the back, waving for the enemies to come closer on which they earned a scornful 'Tss' from two sharingan-eyed ninjas. 'They are similiar' she thought with a hidden smile but shook the thought off looking for Hokusai.
Unfortunately he was faster than she thought he could be and deeper in the forest she last his tracks due to the growing darkness. And there she lost him. But then she heard someone speaking. "...ect." She squatted down almost instinctively and sneaked to the source of the noise. She saw a dark clothed man with his back to her and the damn courier gave him the packet. 'What the hell? I'm going to kill this bastard! How can he!' InnerSakura shouted squashing a mini-Hokusai. But before InnerSakura could think of something 'nice' for the blackdressed man someone was standing behind her.
She cried out "Ieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" but was knocked out before she do something more effective. A second blackdressed shinobi smirked. "You should take care of her before her little friends arrive." The first ninja snorted before both disappeared in a puff of smoke.
"Ieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" A girls scream could be heard and distracted the fighting shinobi. 'Sakura!' Sasuke's head snapped into the direction of her voice and without thinking he concentrated more chakra in his legs and jumped. Leaving his enemies behind he saw Naruto doing the same. Only led by his intuition he made his way through the forest and found his pink-haired teammate. And the forsaken courier. He was rummaging for something in his vest. The raven-haired boy stopped right in front of Hokusai. Mentioned courier was so surprised that he fell backwards a tiny dagger landing next to him. "What the hell were you going to do with this?" Sasuke asked holding the dagger Sharinganeyes dangerously narrowed. "No-nothing." Hokusai stepped backwards hands raised. "Really?" the Uchiha prodigy asked mocking giving him an icy glare.
Just in that time Naruto entered the scene as noisy as ever on which Hokusai tried to escape. But just that moment there was a puff off smoke in front of him and the courier ran into the copy-ninja. "Uargh!" "What?" Kakashi raised an eyebrow in question. "I mean how dare you standing in my way?" The jounin only tilted his glaring at him almost like Sasuke did. "Oh, er, I mean sorryforrunningintoyou, I'mgoingnow,bye!" With that he turned around and ran off. Well until he crashed into Gai. Hokusai shouted in anger before thinking. "Why the hell are you fucking ninjas everywhere I go!" Suddenly he was surrounded by ninjas and had yet to face an insulted Neji (A/N: trust me an insulted Neji is worse than a starving Choji you just called 'fat' ) With his Byakuganeyes piercing through him Neji took Hokusai by his vest. "What did you call us?" "Uh nothing... It's just because of you they stole my packet." He said hoping to get out of this unharmed. Just too bad for him that Sakura woke up and told Sasuke an interesting secret. (A/N:evil grin) "Hey Kakashi-sensei, Sakura says he gave it to them willingly." All eyes were now focused on the courier. "So you planned that from the very beginning?" The copy-ninja asked serious. "Damn it, yes! Who cares, you can't do anything about it! You fucking ninjas!" The courier spat the last sentence but Kakashi just smiled evilly and looked at Neji. "Neji-kun, I believe he called you a 'fucking ninja' twice. Now that he hasn't the packet anymore – why don't you take care of him?" Neji cracked with his knuckles. (A/N: is this called so?) an evil grin on his face.
5 minutes later
Neji had beaten the shit out of Hokusai with 'help' of Naruto, who wanted to beat up that Hokusai-bastard as well. Mentioned bastard (A/N: I never liked him anyway ) was lying on the ground unconscious though Naruto slapped him on the head to check if he really was. Then satisfied the foxboy turned to his sensei. "What are we going to do with him now?" The silver-haired jounin scratched his head. "Hm, I think we can leave him here." "Just leave him?" The blonde sounded disappointed. "We could at least... at least..." "Tie him on a tree!" Sakura (or more InnerSakura) suggested. "Yeah!" Naruto immediately took a rope out of his bag and dragged the courier to the next tree. While the others watched Naruto another shinobi raised his voice. "By the way eternal rival Kakashi how many enemies did you beat?" "Five." "Ha, I've beaten six so it's 98:99 for me! You..." While Gai kept blabbing about youth or something (and only Lee was listening) Kakashi noticed what Naruto was doing. "Hey Naruto, it's enough if you just tie him to that tree – you don't have to strangle him." he said calming. Just when Naruto stopped pulling at the rope Neji shouted. "I've found them!"
TBC
A/N: evil grin a cliffie... If you want the next chapter just review :D
If like this ff or hate or... don't know you should read the ff 'Get them together!' from fire.elve and me as well – or you read one of her other stories.
thanks to scienceboy for the review and special thanks to my beta.