(Bell's Point Of View)

it has been a day since we have been back to the Hidden Leaf Village and things were already getting crasy.

Right now, Naruto, Sakura, and I we in the Hokage Office where we just heard news of Sasuke's whereabouts, and now we hoping to go find him.

Lady Tsunade smirked, "Now that both of them have heard it, I am sure that they want to go on the mission." I nodded my head as Naruto excitedly said yes to her.

Naruto then grabbed my hand as we went outside, leaving Sakura with Lady Tsunade and Shizune, and we went to search for a teammate.

Once we stopped running, we were in the middle of town where I saw that Naruto had a frown on his face so I asked him what was wrong.

He didn't answer me so I just put a hand on his shoulder which made him look at me as I spoke, "Don't worry, we are going to get Sasuke back!"

He smiled as he looked forward and started thinking, "We need to think about this carefully... It would be a pain to choose someone who will slow us down. Plus, if the person is skillful, there might be a problem with their personality, which would ruin our teamwork," I nodded as he continued, "And you and Sakura are suckers for handsome men, so it would be dangerous if they were good looking!"

I rolled my eyes and ignored his comment as a hooded figure comes in front of us. "Long time no see, Naruto... Bell..." Naruto looked confused and asked who he was for which he said that it was him.

A name clicked into my head and I waved, "Hello Shino!" He nodded to me as he looked at Naruto.

" Even though we haven't seen each other for a long time, you should remember your comrade's face. Because the one that spoke to you will feel bad." Then it clicked in Naruto's head as well, "Ohumthat really indirect speech could it be? Shino!"

He scoffed as a big dog landed in front of us which shocked me, knowing that this big dog was Akamaru, Kiba's ninkin.

"Oh! This smell! It is Bell and Naruto!" I waved as Naruto looked shocked, "You knew it was me 'cause of that? That dog... Of course, it's Akamaru! Huh?! Hey, did you grow?"

Kiba said that Akamaru was the one that grew, only him a little bit. Kiba then looked at me, "Hey, you have gotten more hot then at the Academy!" This shocked me as I blushed as Shino added in, "We'll he is right, you have gotten more curves..." Naruto added, "And bigger boobs!"

I pinched Naruto's ear, making him scream in pain until I let go making him whine from the pain he retrieved.

I heard a high pitched greeting coming from behind so I turned around to see Hinata walking towards us with a smile on her face. I see her blush when she looked at Kiba and I see that he blushed back.

This made me smile as Naruto asked them if one of them could be on our team for a mission, but they declined, saying that they had another mission with their sensei.

Waving goodbye, we ran into Shikamaru so we asked him if we could be our other teammate for which he declined as well, "I told you already, I am in charge of the Chunin Exam's. I mean, yeah, we do have a long history together, so I do want to lend you a hand... But I can't... The fifth appointed me, so she would kill me if I ditched. I get scolded enough from my mom."

Naruto sighed, "And here I was thinking "I can count on Shikamaru," but you go on talking like it's so annoying and all Even if you look at me with those puppy eyes, what's impossible is impossible."

Then I will lend a hand! Here! Shikamaru. This is the lunch box that your mom asked me to hand you." We turned to see a friend that we haven't seen in a while which was Choji Akimichi.

"Hey Choji, are you sure you can say such an irresponsible thing? Don't you have a mission with Asuma and Ino?" Shikamaru asked as Choji pulled out a bag of chips.

"I can't ignore what Naruto is saying. I will try to discuss it with Asuma Sensei." I shook my head and smiled at him, "Choji, thanks! It's not going to help if you tell Asuma because he works under Lady Tsunade."

Choji said that he would still try to talk to him for which I sighed and Naruto also sighed.

I turned around, feeling a strong presence as a ink like lion came charging at me so I gathered Chakra into my fist and punched the lion, turning it into a pile of ink.

"I know this Jutsu... This is Washi's!" I thought as I looked up to see Washi, his code name in the root, sitting there with an ink brush in his hand and a scroll in the other.

I jumped up in front of him as Naruto comes up with me and asked who he was. I put up a blank face as I said his code name, "Washi..." He responded, "Risu..."

Naruto looked confused and looked at me for answers. "We worked together when I was in the Root with Lord Danzo... Seems that he still does as well."

Washi then looks at Naruto, "You are kind of a pussy, aren't you... Do you even have balls?"

This made my eyes widen made Naruto's head turn red from embarrassment. Washi looks at me then back at Naruto, "It looks like that Risu has more balls then you do..."

Naruto shouted at him to shut up as he said goodbye to us then teleport away. I heard someone say hello to us from down below so I turned to see Ino Yamanaka standing and waving at us.

Waving back, I said that we should go to our meeting spot for where we will meet our new teammate since we didn't find one.

Going to the Anbu Black Ops building, we waited for our new team. I saw that Sakura was already there so all we had to wait for is our sensei and new teammate.

About two minutes later, our new teammate which made me sigh as I see that Naruto got furious.

I tried to calm him down as our new sensei appeared and introduced himself, "I will be acting as Kakashi-san's replacement for this team-." He saw Naruto glaring at the new comer which made him confused.

Sakura asked if we knew for which we nodded, "Yeah, he is the guy who attacked Bell when we were with Shikamaru's team!" I sighed as he brought up a kunai but I put my hand his for which he looked at me.

"It's not worth it, Naru... We have to work together... If you like or not." He sighed and put the kunai back and asked who the sensei was. "I am acting as this team's captain while Kakashi-san is in the hospital... Call me Yamato!"

"Captain Yamato..." Sakura stated, trying out his name for which nodded and turned towards me, "Bell is right... Since you guys are going to be on the same team, it will cause a lot of problems if you don't get along."

Sakura and Naruto gaped at him, "The same team!" Washi turned to us, "I am sorry about before, I wanted to know how strong you both were on the same time." He fake-smiled as I said I smiled back, saying that it was fine but Naruto interrupted me.

"Stop it with the fake smiles." I sighed, knowing that this was going to be a long mission.

"Thank's to our encounter, I learned that you are a useless, ball-less waste! Risu is much more reliable then you..." Naruto got angry and was about to pounce on him, but I grabbed his ear, making him yelp in pain.

Sakura then spoke up, "He's our teammate, Naruto! Don't go starting fights... See, Bell is doing fine." He turned to look at me and I just gently smiled at him which made him blush.

She then turned to Washi, "You're being a big jerk, ya know..." He fake-smiled again asked if he was while Sakura said that everyone will hate him if he keep's it up.

"Oh? But I like ugly people like you!" Sakura then got angry as I held onto her waist to keep her in place for trying to pounce on Washi.

Captain Yamato then calmed the three of them down so we stood in a line in front of him as we said our names.

"Naruto Uzumaki," The knucklehead said while glaring at Sai

"Sakura Haruno," She said also glaring at Sai.

"Sai," Washi, or Sai said with a smile.

"Bell Ciera" I said as I looked over at Sai and asked why they didn't give him a code last name like me for which he fake-smiled and said that he didn't know.

Captain Yamato looked at me with a smile, "You are the only one who is going to be responsible and good on this team, huh?'

I giggled awkwardly as he explained what we were here to do.

"The four of us will now head for the Tenchi Bridge capture the Akatsuki spy who has infiltrated Orochimaru's organization and bring him back here. It's an opportunity for us to get information on Orochimaru and Sasuke Uchiha. We will obtain a precious source of information with which we can draw up plans for both the assassination of Orochimaru and the retrieval of Sasuke. Be sure to proceed with caution."

We all agreed with him then started on our journey.

**********Time skip brought to you by having pain on both of my ovaries**********

We have been walking for about two hours and Naruto and Sakura have been glancing and staring at our new teammate for some time know.

It seems that Sai had enough and spoke, "Please don't stare at me like that I'll pound you." This made Naruto mad so he answered, "Hey! You tick me off with everything you say! He doesn't resemble Sasuke at all!"

Sai said that he didn't really mean it, but Naruto didn't care, "You liar! I'm just trying to portray myself like that kind of character." Sai gave a fake-smile as Naruto pointed it him, "Then you do mean it! You won't do at all! You really tick me off!"

Captain Yamato looked at Naruto with disappointment, "Don't act like that in front of your captain, Naruto. I'm sure Kakashi taught you that trust and teamwork are most important to a team. You were on the same team as the great Kakashi!"

Naruto growled, "He's not a member of Team Kakashi! The other member of our Team Kakashi is Sasuke! This guy was just chosen to cover the loss of Sasuke I don't acknowledge him as a team member."

Sai then scoffed which made me narrow my eyes at him to see what he had to say, "Well That's actually easier for me. He betrayed the Leaf and ran off to serve Orochimaru I don't want to be lumped together with a cockroach along the same lines as Orochimaru."

This made me boil inside, but I kept it inside and blocked Naruto from launching at Sai by putting my hand out in front of him, blocking him.

Sakura spoke up, "Teamwork is indeed important. Sai Naruto still doesn't know you very well. So he may have been out of line. I'm sorry Please forgive Naruto."

Sai gave her a fake smile, "It's okay... It doesn't bother me." Sakura smiled then a second later she punched him in the face sending him a few feet, "You don't have to forgive me. You tricked me good with your fake smile earlier And here you don't even know anything about Sasuke... Don't you ever speak ill about him! If you insult Sasuke again, I won't hold back."

I sighed as I see that Captain Yamato called me over for which I walked over next to him as he put his hands together and shouted, "Four Piller Prison Jutsu," and wood pillers covered the three of my teammates which looked like a wooden box with pillars.

I looked over at our Captain, fascinated that he could use wood style like the First Hokage could do... How is he able to posses it?

"I'll really toss you guys into this cell if you keep fighting. We don't have much time until we get to the Tenchi Bridge. That being said we've still got enough time to take a little detour. As your peacemaker, I offer you this suggestion. In order to improve your rapport, I can toss you guys into this cell for a full day or we can stay at a hot spring inn for a night. Which would you prefer? You guys probably don't really know me all that well. I prefer the kind and gentle approach, but I'm not against controlling you by fear either. Sure enough, getting naked together like this is a great way to bond, isn't it?! Don't you think so?"

I smiled at him, happy that he is reasonable and is able to make everyone happy.

We walked into the town in front of us and we got to a hotel, we split up to go into our appropriate gender's spa.

Sakura and I got undressed and put towels around ourselves then went into an empty spa which made us happy that we were the only one's there.

Cleaning oursevles, we got into a spa and relaxed in warm water.

We just relaxed our bodies and muscles as we heard Sai speak from the other side of the wall telling Naruto that he had a small dick which made Naruto mumble something that we couldn't hear.

"Why we get stuck with him?" I sighed as I told her that Sai was from the Root. "Sai, like me, was from the Root where he was taught to lose all emotion and only be used as a tool for war."

Sakura looked shocked then confused and said, "You were from the Root too, right? Then why do you have emotion?" I sighed as I moved closer to her to explain it.

"Well, I used to be like Sai, but much worse. I have been there since I was born and I wouldn't do anything without an order, and only answered when spoken too. I had no emotions and, technically, no soul. Then, Lord Third found out that Lord Danzo had control of a five year old working in the Root so he took me and put me into his family, and brought me back to my normal self."

She nodded in understanding then hesitantly asked me another question. "How... How did you and Sai become so emotionless like that..."

I sighed as I looked down and clenched my hands. "They did anything to get something out of you... Torture... Isolation... Anything like that"

Sakura put a hand on my shoulder so I looked up at her for her to smile at me. "Thank you, Bell, for telling me... I appreciate it." I nodded while wiping away a tear, and said that it was time to get out so we did.

Once I got out of the water, Sakura gasped as she saw all my scars and burn marks which made me sigh as I wrapped the towel around and told her that it was time to go for which we nodded.

After getting dressed, Sakura and I went to our room's and while she was in the shower, Naruto came in with no shirt on which made blush since I was only half dressed and seeing Naruto in that kind of state.

I threw a pillow at him, telling him to get out for which he apologized and ran out the door.

I was breathing heavily as I saw that Naruto had no shirt on which made me think about it.

I saw Naruto shirtless when he was younger and that didn't bother now, but... Now that are older and him having a muscular bod...

I am going out of my god damn mind...

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The episode's used in this chapter were Naruto Shippuden Season Two Episode's 1-4!

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