Chapter 4: thunder breaks

(setting midnight front gatepost )

"everyone here?" shino asked looking around.

Kiba nodded and they took off over the great wall into the forest. They kept going till noon the next day.

"you think weve gone far enough. From them catchin gup to us? Maybe to get a break for lunch." Chouji suggested.

" fine we break for lunch." Shino stopped and leaned against a near bye tree.

"hinata." Ino called out. " we should do a bathroom stop while the guys are occupied."

"y-yes…." then ino and hinata walked into the woods.

"so troublesome." Shika said chowing down some food. "We were having roast pig or some sort tonight."

"mmm……pig…." Chouji mummbled as he finished his third bag of chips.

" don't eat so much." Shino protested taking the next bag before he could open it.

"we have a long way to go… we don't even know much of where to start.except maple trees." Kiba said bitting harder into his rice cake.

"maple trees." Shika made the weird square with his hands and began to think.

The girls came back minutes later..

"I think he has it.." chouji looked at him. Shika standed up and began to help them solve where to start looking.

"there are for possible countries it could be." He explained.

"those are?" kiba asked as shika stood up.

"ours " shino said. "kohona, the leaf .but shes not there."

"why cant it be." Ino asked. " ours is just as good as the others."

"she would have found you had that been the place." He looked to shino. " next option?"

" sound? " chouji asked. Possible, but he might have suspected something when kabuto came back with her so he would send them else where to prevent problems for him and his new traine.on home territory would make his life harder he wont want that."

"sasuke his traine." Ino said catching a breath.

"so sound, and kohona are no's whats left." Kiba counted on his hands.

"wave" hinata quietly added.

"so to the wave, that's the last one " chouji got up ready to move out.

" but that's so far away." Ino protested.

"right, he wouldn't have gone so far over kohona borders to get her on rock country border before sh ewould be home so, that's a no. also."

" what else is there?" chouji said rapidly going through country after country.

"thunder." Shika showed no pride in out smarting the rest but was pleased with himself none the less..

"to thunder, shino?" kiba asked looking at his friend for any expression. " it's the best lead we have, we should take it."

"ok."they headed to the village of hidden thunder. It was two todays ninja travel away from them.

The days where hard. Six people traveling togather trying to be quiet and swift was not the best idea they where a little slow but still on the two day deadline mark.

On the last night before they reached thunder borders.They camped almost all were sleeping. All but a sleepless Shino who walked around aimlessly about camp.kiba came out of his tent and sat on a log.

"shino go sleep ill take over." He pated his friends shoulder.

"I cant …." Kiba looked to him he seemed worried

"you need to you have kept watch everynight, have you even taken time to watch your own heath and sleep."

Shino stood silent. " you eat enough to live , and sleep not at all."

"im fine."

"no your not, what has you troubled?"

" I don't know if we should keep going. Im starting to doubt." He slumped down on the log with kiba. " I just don't know, she's practically haunting me, my every thought."

Kiba watched him.

"I can smell her when I wake up, my dreams are filled with her face. I know she didn't control me then but now. Is this what hokage talked about?"

"no, its not , she loves you, and she needs you now more than ever , she's confused , fighting the evil she feels inside." He patted him again on the shoulder. " she needs you to guide her, and you need to be top strengh to actually do that, ill take over tonight."

"your right." shino retreated to his tent leaving kiba to watch.

End chapter.