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A/N: Sorry about all of the wait you guys, I have literally had a sucky time getting my new computer up and going. Then the graphics card goes out of it so there is nothing I can do but have a new one in it's place. Not counting doctor appointments, and hospital stays were blocking me from even putting my mind on writing at all. I hope you guys were too impatient and here's our reviews:

SoraROCK: I'm updating now and yes they are still in love. It's just a love/rival thing the two share.

Darkhuntressxir: Yeah, by now he has already planned on leaving, if not with Orochimaru but by himself making himself a Ronin.

Cassiejones07: Well, my husband got an infection and ended up in the hospital for a day but that wasn't the only hospital visit for him and probably won't be the last. Jess has settled and is getting more moody lately so I've been talking with her behaviorist to see what we can do about the misbehaving child that she is can be going on about. He tells me that the way she's acting it could just meant that she will need testing on other things since we think some of it could be school wise.

Sachi Chi1: Nicely done on pissing me the hell off. I don't care if Cassie is telling me not to get pissed off because of you but guess what, you have no leeway at all in what fanfiction is. Not counting you are stupid and blind thinking that the stuff I changed was repetitive. Idjit, fanfiction's tend to have repitition in them because it is based on works that is not of their own creations. Or do you even know what one is? Probably not if you are going to put it this way. You might say you're not criticizing me but I can say bull shit on that regard. If you want criticizing then here you go. You are a retard if you think you can go and review someones story and then use bad grammar, misspelling of words and unknowing fact that puts you in a blinded situation. Not counting you are stupid enough to go onto a site and knock on someone's story who is prone to cuss someone out and not give a damn. Well, this is showing that I don't give a damn about your review. You are one of the small 5% that comes on here saying they don't like it because of your own "views". Guess what little girl? I'm NOT you, I wouldn't want to BE you and I don't think anyone else on here would either. Before you go review another story why don't you think before hand about the fact that most that write on here aren't always amateurs nor are they stupid and do know how misspelled words and grammar makes you look like a complete and total idjit. So, buh bye and go craw under your bed to think of where you went wrong. Good girl.

Inuyasha16451: Yup, got to love those that draw people in for more. It's what makes me a damn good writer. You should see the werewolf/zombie book I'm writing. First chapter and I ended it with a zombie chewing on a students neck at an airport. I'm glad you loved it.

Dark blue princess: Yup, in the process they've put Jess on new meds and yup she got me sick again which in a way was hilarious because it was the first time I ever got her to lay in a bed while sick.

RoseRozu: I've been thinking a while about your review and I can seriously say that I might actually be doing Shippuden but there is a high chance I might let someone else take over for Boruto. You will see why at the end of the regular Naruto. Oh, yeah and this book will end at the end of the Naruto manga and a new one will start at the beginning of the Shippuden just so it will make it easier on readers and anyone that wants to write the Boruto one can just use what I wrote when I finish up Shippuden. I'm looking forward to actually doing everything that is going on about this story in my mind onto paper but for some parts I have to iron them out. I can understand your mistakes and in my book as long as you are noticing that you have made some then it is fine for me. My family is doing pretty good right now, no one is full on sick and the infection is gone from my hubby. Got to love antibiotics though.

Chapter 32

Both Sasuke and Naruto do not realize that Sakura is rushing towards them as they are about to use their best Jutsu's on each other. She runs in between the couple and shouts out, "Stand down, both of you!"

'I can't stop!' Naruto thought as her eyes widen and the red lessens inside of her eyes.

'Dammit!' Sasukes teeth grit as he tries to think of a way to stop both of them. A set of hands grabs both of their wrists, Kakashi ends up turning and throwing them behind Sakura so that each of them would hit the water storage units that are on top of the hospital. The two cry out a little in panic not realizing that it was Kakashi and a little bit relieved that they wouldn't hit Sakura.

'What?' Sakura wonders as she looks at her teacher.

'Dammit!' Sasuke thought until he looked at who threw him.

'Kakashi-sensei!' Naruto thought as relief filled her completely.

'Naruto just now was…' Kakashi stopped his thoughts as he watched two of his pupils heading towards the water containers. "Hey, you two!" He shouts at them as they both ended up using their Jutsu on the containers. "What are you doing on the roof of the hospital? If you're fighting, you're getting too heated, the both of you…" Naruto grunts as she places her hand on the water unit that she hit, it only has a dent while Sasuke's arm is embedded inside of the unit he hit. 'That Jutsu just now…there's no doubt that it's the Rasengan. I wonder what happened…How can Naruto that brat perform this technique?' Kakashi thought while watching the girl groan as water starts squirting onto her. Sasuke got tired of his arm being trapped so he jerks it out causing the water to gush from the unit. He saw that Naruto only made a crater in the unit while his was practically caved in where his arm went in making him chuckle. "Why are you so obsessed with your superiority complex, Sasuke?" Kakashi asked as he pops up above the teen, sitting on the unit that Sasuke made unusable. The teen's shocked eyes turned into a glare as he stared at the man. "That level of Chidori just now isn't an appropriate technique to be used here against your own comrade. Were you trying to kill Naruto?" Sasuke's glare grew fiercer as he was offended that the man would even believe that he would kill his own girlfriend. Sakura's eyes widened when she hears this and she stares at Sasuke with shock filled eyes. "Where did such immature behavior come from?" The man wonders looking down at him. 'He must have encountered Itachi.' Naruto grits her teeth so that she will not tell the man the truth and Sasuke looks away from the man to flip over the chain link fence surrounding the whole area on top of the hospital. Sakura looked on speechless as she couldn't believe that Sasuke would try to kill Naruto. When the black haired boy lands on one of the awnings of a window below where the others were he looks up and his eyes widen when he saw the unit that Naruto hit have the complete back blown outward from her Jutsu.

'Wh-wha…that tank…what happened!?' He stares on as he then realizes that the Jutsu she used may just be stronger than his Chidori. Showing his anger he slams his fist down on the wall of the hospital. 'Naruto, how strong are you really…' He wonders. Kakashi turns his gaze from Sasuke to Naruto staring at the girl as Sakura starts crying.

"Kakashi-sensei…" She sniffles out while continuously wiping at her tears. The man sighs.

'What happened to the teamwork?' He wonders as he closes his eyes. "Were you the one that taught Naruto that technique? I feel that Naruto is still too young to be able to control that level of a technique…In the worst case scenario, it could have killed Sasuke. Even if it was for her own protection against Akatsuki, teaching that technique to Naruto was still…" He stops as he couldn't continue on with his sentence.

"Let's be fair, that Chidori is too much for Sasuke too." He looks at the girl around the container where he is standing out of sight while Naruto is full of her thoughts. "I never thought that Naruto was the type to use that technique on his teammates. Perhaps there is something going on between those two?" He asks Kakasi as an image of Sasuke pops inside of his head. When the man didn't reply that seemed an answer enough for Jiraiya.

"Ah, there is somewhat…" Kakashi stops.

"Somewhat?!" Jiraiya grits out.

"Simply put they aren't just a couple. It's similar to the relationship Orochimaru had with you in the past…" Kakashi says as he looks at the girl. The older man huffs out as he crosses his arms. "From Narutos perspective, Sasuke is not only her teammate and boyfriend but also her rival. She really wants to be on equal standing with Sasuke. Perhaps, she got tired of Sasuke's goading taunts. Starting in those days in the academy, she's been chasing after Sasuke. Chasing him to this day. Right now, what Naruto wants isn't your approval nor mine. Nor our recognition. All she wants is Sasuke's recognition." As he says this Jiraiya looked up at him. "On one hand, Naruto's rapid development has caught Sasuke's attention, and Sasuke's beginning to feel threatened by her growth. Sasuke feels like he isn't progressing fast enough, because Naruto has become stronger."

"For revenge?" Jiraiya asked.

"Itachi has caused Sasuke to lead a dark life. Because of this, Sasuke doesn't acknowledge Naruto besides being his girlfriend. If he does, then he will deny his reason for living until now. It complicates things, this kind of competition." Kakashi says as they both stare at Naruto.

"This sort of situation isn't that bad, just a few choice words to them will do." Jiraiya says with a smile on his face.

"Please, I'll leave Naruto to you. Not only do I still have a mission, but also the problem with the Chidori…" Kakashi says, then jumps off of the container to land in front of Sakura, who wiped the tears in shock. "It's all right! Soon things will go back to the way they used to be!" He tells her with a smile showing in his eye. The girl smiles back.

'Thank you, Kakashi-sensei…' She thought while looking down until Naruto starts walking towards her.

"Sakura-chan, don't stop us. This is our business and it has nothing to do with you." As she continues on the red tint in her eyes flares out and her eyes completely went fox-like. The lines on her face darkened and her pig-tails flared around her. Sakura flinched back when the angry chakra bursts out of the girl and she closes her eyes to shield them from it. When it died down she couldn't see Naruto on the ceiling and ran to the fence, fingers clinging to the links as she looked out and saw a red tail made of Chakra disappearing over one of the buildings.

~3~

"Naruto-dono, you have a guest with an important mission just for you." Mikane says as she knocks on Naruto's bed chambers, opening it after she knocks.

"Thank you, Mi-chan," Naruto said as she is working on the sealing jars that her clan is well versed on using. "I have the ceremonial summoning jars ready to be sent off in the storage room, would you be so kind as to send them off to the land of stone? They have requested them recently."

"Yes, my lady," Mikane bows her head to her and ushers Shikamaru into her rooms. "If that is all I have a lot of orders to send off." After she says this she leaves while sending Shikamaru a glare.

"Wow, what is with that glare?" He wonders as he sits down in front of the work area where Naruto has spread out the scrolls to seal the jars in.

"Oh, Mikane-chan? That's my cousin from the Namekaze branch, she's kind of very protective of me. Don't piss her off and you won't lose important things. She's well versed in time Jutsu, not as good as my father but she's a close second. I've been learning time Jutsu from her for a few years now." Naruto says as she seals another jar and rolls the scroll up.

"What are these for?" He asked as he looked at the box that is only partially filled of scrolls. The symbol of the Uzumaki's shown on the side making his eyes widen. "Your family is the ones that makes the scrolls for the ancient sealing Jutsu jars? How come I didn't know about that?"

"Probably because I wasn't allowed to tell others. Now, that I'm finished for now, tell me Shikamaru." She looked patiently at one of her oldest friends.

"I came to be a bearer of bad news and you will not like it one bit." He places a hand on her shoulder. "Naruto, Sasuke has abandoned the Leaf village and is going to Orochimaru to teach him."

"What! You're joking!" She screeches out forgetting her manners of quiet voices in the manor.

'Why, why did she…' Shikamaru wonders as he rubbed his ears trying to get them to stop ringing.

'That bastard…' She thought as she grits her teeth thinking about how moronic Sasuke is being right now. "Wait a sec, I gotta change!" She says as she tries to quickly leave the room to go to her inner chambers to change out of the kimono she has put on when she woke up.

~3~

"And so, I'm also one of the superb Ninjas you chose?" She asks as her and Shikimaru are running on the roof tops.

"That's right," he says to her as he looks at her. They stopped at the front of Choji's house on the shared lands of the Akimichi/Nara/Yamanaka's. Choji is standing there looking sleepy, eating chips. "So, we're counting on you, Chouji. Hurry and get ready. We'll be waiting at the front gate in 10 minutes."

"Didn't you say 'excellent ninjas'? If we need someone, let's ask Shino or…" Naruto freaks out since she's not very familiar with Choji minus the little bit they did get into trouble while ditching school.

"Choji and I, we've been working closely as a team for a long time. Hes the easiest person for me to work with." Shikamaru tells her and Choji smiles at Naruto. They heard barking.

"Right now, Shino is out on a mission with his father." Kiba says and everyone turns to look at him. "I guess this is what I get for waking up early and trying to take a walk. Well, I've heard all of it, sounds like quite a problem there."

"I also happen to know what's going on," Lee said as he hobbles up to them with Neji following him, making sure that he doesn't get hurt.

~3~

"Time's up. Well, for now we've got a 5 man team." He says as he looks over the ones he chose. Neji, him, Naruto, Kiba and Choji.

'Durking times like this, I want to…' Lee sighs.

"Lee, there are other things you need to worry about," Neji says to his teammate so that he won't get disheartened.

"Well, let's get out of here!" Naruto shouts and looks at Shikamaru. "Well, you're in charge, Shika. Lead away."

"Hey, listen Naruto, you know how I happen to be the squad leader? Well, it's not that big of a deal…" Shikamaru says trying to make the girl feel better.

"I know that you can handle it, you are trust worthy when you need to be." Naruto said with a grin on her face.

"Wow, not hearing any moaning and groaning from Lady Naruto, huh?" Kiba taunts. "But, it doesn't feel right with us, listening to Shikamaru's orders."

"Shikamaru is already a Chuunin! We gotta listen to what he says. This means that the village's high council acknowledge that he qualifies as a leader." Choji tells Kiba.

"Tell us the basic strategies and plans then. According to what we've heard, there seem to be enemies and possible ambushes." Neji says with an emotionless face. Shikamaru gives out the line up of where everyone is going to be and the strategy of what each position will be.

"Any questions?" He asks everyone.

"Nope, I'm pretty sure that you have covered everything as usual." Naruto says with pride for her friend in her eyes.

'He came up with a perfect formation from such a random mix of members, incredible.' Lee thought as he chuckles lightly.

"Well, if you've got nothing to say, I guess I'll finish up with the most important thing." Everyone looks at him with curious eyes. "Sasuke's not a very close friend of mine, nor is he someone important. He is though important to someone important to me and he is a fellow Shinobi from the Hidden Leaf, just like us all. He's our comrade! This is why we'll risk our lives for him. This is the way of the leaf. Even someone like me, can't goof off on something like this. I'm responsible for all of your lives."

"Hah! Now you're starting to look like you deserve that Chuunin title!" Kiba says with a grin on his face.

"Alright, we'll head out as soon as the equipment check is finished. Everyone take them out." Neji tells everyone and they open their pouches to show what is in them. Naruto had two pouches and she opens them to show one is full of scrolls. "What's with those?"

"Let me see which one's you've brought, Naruto." Shikamaru said and she hands him the entire pouch. There were quite a few weapon caches and everyone's eyes widened on the food and medicine scrolls. "You have fox fire, toad oil and fox kits on these three. What are they for?"

"One is an attack but then one is to be used to boost that attack. The kits are messengers for the villages and on those you could use it multiple times since it will come out in a jar. I was going to keep these at home but I figured that I would try these out to see how well they work in combat. Oh, and then there's this!" Naruto says as all of them had their jaws dropped when she pulls a scroll out. It had Choji's name on it. "I finished it just in time for the quest and hope it will be of use." She took a scroll out and hands it to Choji. He unscrolls it to see that the seal is different than most and he releases the seal to reveal the Akamichi combination of pills that they always use. After he grabs them Naruto took a Kunai to slice off the old seal and showed him the other ones with different items in them.

"Wow, who requested this, Naru-chan?" Choji asked.

"Your dad did. He wanted a way to reduce your load so that you could carry your best tools inside your pouch. This scroll has a weapon cache, quick acting meds for if you use the pills and food for when you need it. Four items on this one scroll that's suited for just you, Choji." She says and the others are showing their shock at how thoughtful she was. "I found combinations for all of us and went back to get the ones that I have already made up. You all have 4 items per scroll so use them wisely. Mine's just a little different since I have multiple made up for my use and could only bring three. Kiba's was the easiest to make since he is a beast wielder." She pauses and thought of what Sakura said. She knew that the girl was wrong when she said that Sasuke wouldn't go to them willingly. Sasuke is one that was raised with the burning feeling of revenge inside of him, revenge that will overpower him if he doesn't keep it in check. 'Dammit, Sasuke, why!' Her teeth grit until she looks up at the others. "Alright! Let's go."

"Wait!" Sakura shouts at them from behind the group.

"Sakura-chan!" Naruto squeaks out as she was startled by the girl.

"I heard the story from the Hokage. Sorry, but I can't take you to the mission." He coldly says to the girl. "Even you couldn't convince Sasuke, right?" When he says this Naruto's eyes widen then narrows in on the girl. "Seems like we gotta force him to understand. Sakura, your job is done."

"What, Sakura-chan, you already met with Sasuke!?" The blond grits out as she now glares at the girl. Tears flood down her cheeks.

'Sakura-san…' Lee thought as he stares longingly at the girl with pity filled eyes.

"Naruto! I beg you! Please, please bring Sasuke back." As Naruto's eyes widen she continues, "I couldn't do it. I couldn't stop him! The only person who can probably save Sasuke-kun now is you, Naruto. Only you."

"Sakura-chan, you really like Sasuke, huh? I know how much pain youre in because of Sasuke. I can understand." Naruto tells the girl as she remembers the conversation she had with Sasuke(Naruto in disguise) she starts sobbing.

"Naruto, thank you." She said as she starts hugging herself.

"Don't thank me, Sakura. I never said I would do it for you, just that I understand. I'm bringing him back for me and only me. He doesn't even care about you other than being his teammate, but you still try to cling to him even when we show you that we are together. You are almost as bad as Ino. Now, for me I don't ever think that I will trust you ever again, since you never went to someone in power about your suspicions and took things into your own hands when you never had that power to turn him towards you in the first place." As she says this Sakura's eyes widen as she hears the truth. She looked around at the group who don't even show pity towards her but disgust. "Yeah, I promised myself that I would bring him back, but never for you." She says as she looks at Sakura with cold indifferent eyes, eyes of a clan head.

"Hey, hey, Naruto! You sure you can keep that promise!?" Kiba asks as he smirks at what the girl said to Sakura.

"Heh! I won't take back my words! That's my Ninja way! Alright! Let's go!" Naruto said as she pumps her fist in the air.

"Well, we've wasted quite a bit of time, let's hurry." Shikamaru said as they all turned their backs on Sakura not even looking into her face as it exploded in anger.

~3~

While they are still on the trail of Sasuke and the group that he's with Naruto, Kiba and Akamaru all stiffen up when they smell a strong copper scent. Akamaru whines while Kiba and Naruto take a deep wiff of the smell. "What's going on?" Shikamaru asks.

"Theres a smell of blood, and close!" He sniffs deeper. "I can smell the scent of five Ninja's, including Sasuke. They were fighting two other Ninjas, but the five of 'em are getting further away from the smell of blood!" He looks over his shoulder. "What's our plan!?

"I see, there are people assisting Sasuke." Shikamaru said as he thinks deeply. 'This isn't looking good at all…'

"Well, let's hurry up and chase after Sasuke!" Naruto grits out at how reckless her boyfriend is being.

"Dammit Naruto, shut your trap! It's up to Shikamaru to decide! Don't boss us around!" Kiba grits out at the girl whose eyes started getting red at the disrespect she is receiving from him.

"In all reality Kiba, Naruto is the only one here that can boss me around. Her being the heir gives her the highest title here." Him saying this made Kiba's eyes widen. "Anyway, if you can smell blood then that could only mean that there was some form of combat. If we go there, I bet we can gather some sort of information, but we must approach carefully. We must switch to scouting positions and proceed with caution." Shikamaru said.

"If we were to do that, Sasuke would be crossing the border of the flame country," Neji says.

"You know what we have to do, Shika." Naruto reminds Shikamaru.

"Alright, we'll go after Sasuke!" Shikamaru says nodding at her from over his shoulder.

"Roger that! That's how it should be!" Naruto said as her eyes pinken.

"However! If there was a fight, that only means the enemy's alertness has risen. They must be prepared for pursuers," he says as he kicks off from another branch. "This means we'll likely be facing lots of traps and ambushes." When he says this Choji gulps. "Alright, from now on, use both your noses and eyes to their full potential! We have to find them before they can ambush us! Also, if you detect suspicious movement, don't just avoid it! Analyze it!"

"Alright! If I find them, I'll bea the hell out of them with my new Jutsu!" Naruto says quietly, but not enough that Kiba's ears didn't hear.

'Naruto learns more Jutsu every time I see her. Damn, and I thought I finally caught up.' Kiba thought disappointedly until a scent is smelled. "Hey! The stench of the enemy is all over this place!"

"Everyone stop!" Shikamaru commands and everyone lands on the same branch one after another. "Look closer up there!" He directs them to a tree ahead of them. They see a seal on the base at the upper part of the tree.

"Explosive seal, I see 5 more of those. This is the formation of the "Barrier Seal"." Neji said as he recognizes the way they were placed.

"Barrier seal?" Choji asked.

"It's a form of Ninjutsu trap. Seal-type traps are triggered when the enemy enters an area encircled by the trap seals. My dad had me learn and set a few of these with Naruto. We had to make sure that no one got onto Naruto's clans lands and these beauty's are what stopped them. There are different forms of them, one's that make you hallucinate or those that blast you or shocks you." Shikamaru explains while Naruto grins.

"The only reason you know that is because you accidentally stepped into one when we were setting them all up. Luckily for you, the one you stepped on made you hallucinate instead of the other two." Naruto said while grinning.

"Damn, we have no other way to flank it?" Kiba asks as he wonders why they would go to such length to protect Naruto's home. "Shit, we keep coming up against so many traps."

"Well, at least the enemy doesn't seem to have much time either. I see a lot of rushed work," Shikamaru says as he and Naruto expertly keep an eye out for more traps.

"Hey Naruto, watch out! There's a wire right under your next step! Hey, hey! Naruto, you better not trigger it!" Kiba crabs thinking the girl didn't even notice it when she glares at him.

'Damn, a wire again…' The girl observes the wire and growls out. "I know, I know!" She looks closer at the wire and motions Shikamaru to look at it. They both stare at the wire hidden like it was a shadow. They motion Neji to look at it since he wants more knowledge on traps.

"I see, one of the wires is intentionally made visible from reflecting rays, but the other wire is camouflaged in green. It's difficult to dectect with the naked eye, it's a double trap, right?" He asked the two who have more knowledge of them.

"Hmm, well-made trap for a rushed job but, this only means…" Shikamaru twists his lips as he pauses and Neji continues.

"They are resting, either they are wounded, or it's a trap." Neji says and then he activates his Byakugan to see exactly where the group is. They all are sitting down resting like he figured. "Caught them."

"Alright! Let's go bring Sasuke back!" Naruto says while winking.

"Naruto, sorry, but now it's my turn to show off my new trick!" Kiba says boastfully.

"Mine too!"Choji said, so that he couldn't be one upped.

"Don't be hasty, as soon as I get my strategy laid down, we'll engage our target!" Shikamaru tells them as he looks through the forest towards the group.

A/N: Here you guys go, I hope that you will enjoy this a little bit better and I will be working on a new one soon.