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As they quickly made their way through mist country, the fog did not let up. Sakura shivered as she felt the eyes of others on her. She didn't want to turn around, for it would make her look suspicious.

Neji hopped up beside Sakura as he brought up the pace. "How many did you count?" He whispered, barely audible.

"Four." She mumbled back from behind her mask.

Neji nodded and glanced around. "Do you want to fight them?"

Sakura smirked as she dropped down from the tree, disappearing from his sight.

"Guess that's a yes." He rolled his pearl-colored eyes and dropped down beside her. Pressing his back against hers, he suddenly noticed how short she was. She only came up to his shoulder. Sighing, he turned on his Byakugan and scanned the area. The ninja surrounded them two to one.

Sakura pulled out her throwing needles as she pressed her back against Neji. "Which ones do you want to get?" She asked, her eyes darting back and forth.

Neji threw two kunai at the two he chose in front of him, jumping away from Sakura, he began battling.

Sakura zoomed towards the other two, throwing weapons left and right, hitting the skilled ninja periodically. She froze when she felt one behind her, everything went in slow motion as the blade pressed against her neck. She quickly dissolved into a shower of Sakura blossoms, making the ninja curse audibly. Neji saw Sakura jump out from the trees above him and tackle the ninja that had tried to kill her. With a punch on the spine, he was dead. Neji made a mental note to stay away from Sakura's punches.

Sakura noticed Neji gently tap one of the ninja's behind the neck on his spine making him fall limp to the ground. Lifting up her mask, she raised an eyebrow at him.

Neji's attention was drawn away from Sakura when one of the mist nins grabbed him with one arm around his neck, holding him in a death grip. Neji felt a sharp object be jammed into his back just as he started his substitution jutsu.

Sakura was there in two seconds. Pushing her opponent off of her, she rushed over to Neji and kicked his attacker in the face, sending him flying backwards. Grabbing Neji's arm, she stopped him from flying off with the nin. Quickly turning him around she lifted the back of his shirt.

"Hey! Stop! What are you-!" Neji stopped when he felt her hand fly onto his wound. Quickly pulling out a kunai he glared at the mist nin that was rushing towards them.

"Hold still!" Sakura ordered as she concentrated her chakra into her hand.

A chill zoomed down Neji's spine making him jump a bit. The chill was instantly soothed by a warmth that zoomed through him, somehow re-energizing him. His eyes widened as he felt her chakra within him, rapidly healing his wound. A second later, her hands were gone, as well as Sakura. In a blink of an eye, he saw she was finishing off the last mist ninja with a few flips and a punch.

Neji watched Sakura straighten up and face him. The smile that spread across not only spread a blush across his, but in some way annoyed him. Turning around he began walking, "Next time I tell you to 'Stop', you follow my orders. Is that understood?" He asked in a low and aggressive manner.

Sakura quickly rushed up to him, "Hey! I healed you. If I had not have healed it at that moment, there was a probability that it would not have been healed completely at all! I just-"

Neji quickly spun around and grabbed her arm tightly, "Is that understood?"

"Yes sir." Sakura hissed through clenched teeth.

Neji roughly let go of her arm and continued walking. They needed to get out of this valley before more mist nin showed up.

Sakura stopped to heal the bruise on her arm before she rushed off ahead of him. To her great dislike, he was right beside her as they rushed through the misted valley. "I don't know why they signed me up for this mission with you." She mumbled from behind her mask that she had pulled down just a moment before.

"I didn't ask for a team. Nor a partner for that manner. You're free to return, I'm going to file a former complaint about you anyway." Neji replied with such an air that it made Sakura freeze.

"What? But what did I do!" Sakura asked as she watched Neji stop ahead of her.

"Not following orders, hogging the battle, talking back to your superior,-"

"Hogging the battle! When did I hog the battle!" Sakura loudly asked.

"…interrupting superior, as well as questioning authority. My, my, my Miss Haruno, your list just keeps adding up. As I said before, you can go home if you want. At least the list would stop getting bigger." Neji let a small smirk escape his lips as he turned around and continued running.

Sakura clenched her fist as she rushed ahead. Zooming past him, she added chakra to her legs making her run faster. To her satisfaction, Neji couldn't keep up.

"Set up camp." He ordered before dropping behind.

Sakura quickly disappeared from his sight without a word.