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Chapter Sixteen

Tenten's Training Log Entries:

Saw Neji today, hit fourteen targets. Could (just barely) tell he was impressed. I must be getting good.

Saw Neji again, he may be stalking me, not quite sure. Hard to tell with him. Possible that he just likes to train.

Worked hard today, was thinking about Sasuke and lost temper. Thankfully only two targets were destroyed and Neji was not there. I did however get kicked out of the field, which is why I'm sitting here in study hall writing this with a creepy sub (who isn't Anko...strange) glaring at me, instead of outside training.

Can I get something off my chest here? Or mind? I know you're a training log because it says that's what you are on the cover but would you mind if I used you as a diary? Does it matter if you do or don't mind, after all you're just an inanimate object.

So about my problem, well it's not actually a problem. It's an observation not a problem, I'm good at those. Observations I mean. I'm not shy but I'm not out going either. I kind of just fade into the background, unless I'm on the training field, then I stand out. My point is though that I don't shine on missions, my grades, popularity, or looks. I'm…er...average.

Sasuke though is perfect. Every thing I suck at he excels in, everything I'm good at he excels in as well. He's not even a people person, yet everyone crowds around him. Not to mention the fact that he's got a blood line trait, so that just makes him even more special. Oh and he comes complete with the tragic past, so every one has to love him- ice cold attitude or not.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not jealous of Sasuke, okay I am, but everyone's jealous of Sasuke. I'm not any more jealous of him than the next person is what I mean. It's just really annoying when someone so perfect, and who already gets all the attention he needs goes and does something like what he did. Does he really think that he needs all of the extra attention?

Sakura is reading over my shoulder and she insists that Sasuke didn't run away to get more attention, and that he would have to be stupid to do that. I told her that Sasuke is stupid, so I rest my case.

You're a simple honest training log, right? What do you think?

Oh god, when you start talking to inanimate objects you know it's time to stop writing. If I use this as a diary of sorts again you'll know. If I don't then…I guess you'll still know won't you? There I go talking to something that isn't living again…

-Tenten

Sakura's Diary:

Dear Diary,

Tenten is being a complete and total simpleton. She is insisting that Sasuke is an attention grabbing, spotlight hogging, good for nothing, coward. She doesn't understand how to write in a diary though (isn't the point to express your feelings to the diary as if it was a real person?), so I don't know if she can be trusted.

Back to Sasuke's betrayal though. It is my solemn opinion that Sasuke left the Leaf to gain power. While I do not agree with his choice I do understand it. He obviously feels that he needs to take revenge on someone or something.

Still not being privy to the whole truth of his past, I can not say on whom he wishes ill will. I can however infer that there is someone and that is why he left.

Tenten who just peeked over my shoulder is snorting but I can find no reason why. My theory is perfectly good and much more reasonable than hers. She must be jealous of Sasuke even though she insists that she is not.

There, that shut her up. She's pouting and playing with a kunai, will that girl never learn? After what happened last time you'd think she wouldn't play with weapons, but alas. That's Tenten for you, always right on the edges of misbehaving but never quite getting there, on purpose anyway.

Ino on the other hand starts trouble for the sake of starting trouble. I will never understand why she loves gossip and rumors so much but she does. If I told her that Sasuke actually left the village because he had heard that his family was still alive but living in the desert, she would not only believe me but tell the whole village about it as well.

It's not to say that I don't like Ino, it's just that we're so very different. In terms of what we would rather spend our time doing. We are actually both rather obstinate and confident. So one could say we have similar personalities but very different interests.

Actually speaking of Ino, where is she?

Usually she would be in the room reading or writing. She wouldn't be at the training field, Ino never trains there during school. Or any other time for that matter. I don't know where she trains, though she must because Ino is one of the top kunoichi in our class. Come to think of it I don't see Hinata either. They can't have gone missing can they? Not in school surely, it's highly monitored.

One mystery is more than enough, thank you. I don't need to be searching for Ino and Hinata as well.

-Sakura

Dear Sakura and Tenten,

You probably already knew we were gone before you found this rolled up in Sakura's hand-to-hand combat scroll. In case you didn't then I guess you do now. Hinata and I skipped school to find Kurenai-sensei (alright I skipped school and forced Hinata to come because of the Byakugan), to tell her about finding Sasuke. The thing is that we can't find her.

We have checked every public place that we could think of and haven't seen her anywhere. So now we're getting a bit suspicious. We did find Anko however and she was acting really shifty. She didn't call us maggots once and when we asked about Kurenai-sensei she looked really guilty and mumbled something about Kurenai-sensei's house. So we're off to her house to see what we can find. Hinata thought that you two would like to be filled in on the situation so we went back to school first to give you this. It might have been easier to just tell you two in person but this letter was faster in the long run. Meet us in the park by the largest Sakura tree after school and we'll let you know what we found.

From,

Ino and Hinata

Wow, sixteen chapters already. It seems like I started this yesterday…lol. PLEASE REVIEW! They let me know that people really are enjoying the story.

-Fumei