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Chapter 5
The three stopped walking and faced Sasuke.
"I've been having a bad feeling about this mission since yesterday. Are you guys getting one too?"
"Now that you mention it, I have been getting this troublesome feeling about the mission."
"I have as well." Neji said.
"Me too." Naruto agreed.
Sasuke's eyes narrowed in concern but he said nothing. Instead he just continued walking.
"That's it? You ask us a question and when we answer you don't even bother to say anything?" Naruto asked disbelief evident in his voice.
Sasuke paused but didn't look back at him.
"There's nothing to say. If we all have a bad feeling, then we all have to be even more on our guard than we thought usuratonkachi."
Sasuke continued walking and Shikamaru held Naruto back while muttering a troublesome.
"Let's take a break." Neji suggested.
The four sat down on the grass and Shikamaru immediately began cloud gazing. Naruto being bored decided to join him as well.
Shikamaru looked over when he felt someone lay down beside him.
"I'm bored so I'm going to join you in cloud gazing."
Shikamaru simply nodded.
A couple of minutes later, Shikamaru heard Naruto sighing.
"What?" He asked.
"I don't get it. What's so great about this? Are we supposed to be finding animals and other stuff in the clouds?"
"I suppose you could. I just like watching the clouds because it's peaceful and they never seem to do much."
"How boring."
"That's because you're the type who constantly has to be doing something or else you'll be bored."
Naruto nodded in agreement but continued cloud watching anyway.
"I think this bad feeling all of us are getting may be because we may be ambushed."
Sasuke and Neji were leaning against a tree, Neji leaning against the front and Sasuke leaning against the side.
"Yeah, that's what I figured." Sasuke said with his eyes still closed.
"It's possible it'll be from the people we're stealing the scroll from but somehow I doubt it."
"We're expecting that, all shinobi do when they're on a mission. It may be from shinobi who have a grudge against our village."
"Possibly."
"As long as we stay on our guard, nothing to bad should happen."
"I agree. We should get going."
Neji got up and Sasuke stayed in his position, listening to Neji inform the others they were leaving. When he heard Shikamaru mutter troublesome and get up, he got up as well. He reached the group just as Naruto was getting up. The four got back on the dirt road and continued walking to the Grass Village.
"Let's camp here for the night." Neji said.
The other three nodded and set their bags down. The four quickly set up their tents and once they were done, Neji began giving out orders.
"Sasuke and I will gather fire wood, Shikamaru will get water and Naruto will catch us some fish."
Sasuke and Neji walked deeper into the forest to look for firewood. Being who they were, it was silent the whole time but they were fine with it. This was why Sasuke was surprised when Neji made conversation.
"How's life going for you?"
Sasuke looked at Neji suspiciously, wondering if someone had transformed into him. Neji saw Sasuke's suspicious look and could feel himself smirking.
"What? A friend can't inquire as to how his friend's life is?"
"Not when you're someone who barely talks. What's up with you?"
"Nothing, as friends I feel we should occasionally ask how life is going."
Sasuke nodded but still had a slightly suspicious look on his face.
"Life is going well."
Neji raised an eyebrow.
"That's it?"
"What, you expected my whole life story?" Sasuke asked smirking.
Neji's eyes narrowed slightly at this.
"Tenten really likes Sakura but she's afraid that you aren't treating her right."
"Ah, so the truth comes out as to why you asked how I was. I knew it couldn't be that whole wanting to know bullshit."
"She knows how cold you can be and she's worried that it's carried over to Sakura. She'd talk to you herself but she doesn't feel you two are close enough to do so."
"So she sent her faithful little lapdog instead." Sasuke mocked.
"It's not going to work, your mocking me so you might as well stop."
"Don't try to lecture me."
"I'm not going to lecture you, I'm simply telling you about Tenten's concern."
"Sakura is none of your business and tell Tenten if she's so concerned about Sakura, she should stop being a coward and talk to me herself."
"Don't you dare speak about Tenten that way!" Neji snapped, eyes flashing.
Sasuke began walking away but paused and turned around.
"You and I are the same Neji, that's why we get along so well."
Sasuke smirked before turning around and walking back to camp.
Neji stood there, pondering Sasuke's words. As much as he hated to admit it, Sasuke was partially right.
'Tenten managed to make me less cold so maybe Sakura can do the same for you.'
Sasuke set the wood down and a minute later Neji arrived back at the campsite. They began to set the fire up when Shikamaru and Naruto came back as well.
Sasuke did the necessary hand signs and got the fire going. Shikamaru put the fish on sticks and placed them in the fire. The four quietly sat around the campfire waiting for the fish to be ready.
Once the fish were done, Naruto quickly grabbed the biggest one, burning himself in the process.
"OW!" He yelped, quickly yanking his hand back.
"Usuratonkachi." Sasuke muttered.
Naruto quickly ran to the river and dunked his hand in. Several minutes later, he came back and was disappointed to see he got the smallest fish.
"That's what you get for being an idiot." Sasuke said.
Naruto pouted and reluctantly grabbed the fish. He ate it, pouting the whole time.
"Will you stop that troublesome pouting? Sasuke's right, if you weren't being so stupid, you wouldn't have burned yourself." Shikamaru pointed out.
"That doesn't mean you had to leave me the smallest fish!"
"Yes it does." Neji said.
"Why?"
"Why should an idiot like you get a big piece of fish?" Sasuke asked.
"That's why." Neji answered.
"You guys are mean, I hate you all." Naruto muttered.
Sasuke, Neji and Shikamaru smirked at this and continued eating their fish.
After breakfast the next morning, the four headed out. It was quiet until the four saw a group of girls up ahead. They were giggling and chatting and didn't even notice the four guys up ahead. One of the girls noticed the four handsome men and quickly pointed them out to her friends. The three girls looked to where their friend was pointing and immediately began giggling. Their friend shushed them up and the four tried to play it cool.
Sasuke witnessed this whole interaction and mentally rolled his eyes.
'Like we wouldn't notice a bunch of idiotic giggling girls.'
He heard Shikamaru mumble troublesome beside him and knew he noticed the girls as well.
The girls stopped in front of the guys and Sasuke mentally sighed as they were forced to stop.
"Hi, I'm Shiyame." A girl with long brown hair who seemed to be the leader of the group said.
Sasuke attempted to walk around them but couldn't because the girls all blocked his way.
"Move." He commanded.
Shiyame playfully pouted and spoke again.
"Don't be so mean; all I want to know is your name handsome."
"I don't want to give you my name."
"Why not?"
"Because you're annoying."
The other guys were having similar problems with Shiyame's friends.
"I already have a girlfriend." Naruto said.
"Troublesome girl."
"Get out of my way."
"I bet if we had some alone time, I could convince you I'm really not annoying." Shiyame purred, running her hand down his chest.
Sasuke could feel a growl coming up his throat as he grabbed her wrist.
"Don't touch me." He growled.
Shiyame seemed unfazed by it.
"You're growl is really sexy, I bet it would be even sexier in bed."
Sasuke fed up with this, activated his Sharingan and knocked Shiyame unconscious. He caught her in his arms before she hit the ground and her friends turned to see what was wrong. They gasped when they saw her unconscious.
"What did you do to her?" One of them asked.
"I knocked her unconscious using my Sharingan. Unless you three want to end up like her, I suggest you let us pass."
"Sharingan?" Another one of them questioned.
"Are you going to move or not?" Sasuke asked, ignoring the question.
The three quickly moved to the side and Sasuke shove Shiyame in one of her friend's arms as he walked by.
"That was so troublesome." Shikamaru said.
"Yeah, sometimes girls can be real persistent." Naruto agreed.
"Not to mention, they wasted our time while on this mission." Neji pointed out.
"Luckily Sasuke-teme knocked that one girl unconscious or who knows how long we would have been there." Naruto said.
Sasuke didn't bother to join in on the conversation; he simply shoved his hands in his pocket and kept on walking.
"I was right. The raven haired boy does posses the Sharingan." A man's voice said.
"There is also a Byakugan user in the group." A female's voice said.
"Having an Uchiha and a Hyuuga in the group will make things more difficult." Another male voice pointed out.
"Since we know this, we'll just have to think of a really good plan to catch them off guard." A different male voice answered.
"Don't worry, I was thinking of a plan while those girls were flirting with them and I've thought of one."
The other three ninjas slightly leaned in to hear the plan.
"Ok, here's what we'll do…."
Lunchtime rolled around and the four stopped at a restaurant to eat.
"I'll have some ramen." Naruto ordered.
"Of course" Sasuke muttered.
Naruto glared at him and the waitress let out a small giggle before she turned to the other three.
"I'll have the Teriyaki chicken combo." Sasuke ordered.
"I'll have Oden." Shikamaru ordered.
"I'll have the Yakitori combo." Neji said.
The waitress quickly wrote all this down and walked away. The four sat in silence and Naruto uncomfortable with the silence, attempted to think of something to say. Unfortunately, for him, he couldn't think of anything to say. So they continued to sit in silence, three perfectly content with it and one struggling to think of something to say.
Sasuke raised a perfectly shaped eyebrow at the look on Naruto's face.
"You ok Naruto? You look constipated."
Shikamaru and Neji looked at Naruto's face, which by now had gone bright red from embarrassment.
"Yeah, yeah I'm fine. I was just thinking."
"Well don't think to hard, we wouldn't want your brain to fry."
Neji smirked while Shikamaru let out a small snicker.
"Shut up teme!" Naruto shouted, his face getting even redder.
Sasuke simply smirked, infuriating Naruto even more. Before the conversation could get out of control, the waitress brought their green tea for them.
The four let it cool for a minute before they picked up their drinks. Naruto was about to take a sip but Sasuke's voice stopped him.
"Don't forget to blow first dobe."
"I was just about to" Naruto lied.
Sasuke simply raised an eyebrow and gave him a 'yeah right' look.
Naruto huffed and in his anger forgot Sasuke's advice.
"Ow! Hot! Hot!" Naruto yelped.
The other three at the table simply shook their heads at him, each having the same thought.
'Idiot.'
"I warned you." Sasuke pointed out.
Naruto glared at Sasuke while the waitress set their food on the table. Sasuke simply smirked at Naruto and thanked the waitress as she set his food on the table. She walked away and the four settled down to eat.
Half an hour later, they walked out of the restaurant and continued walking to the village. Sasuke narrowed his eyes when he heard a woman yelling.
"Stop it! Someone please help me!"
The four quickly followed the voice and what they saw made their blood boil. A young woman was on the ground, her shirt ripped open while a young man was on top of her.
"Shhh, we don't want anyone hearing, now do we?"
"Too late." Sasuke said.
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