A/N: I'M SORRY! I forgot all about this story! O!!! To my all my readers/reviewers, thanks so much, and I am VERY SORRY I didn't update for the past two months! Oh yah, warning before this chapter starts: MAJOR OOCness!

Disclaimer: Naruto and company do not belong to me.

Chapter Three

"STAY AWAY FROM THE BOOK!" Gai and Kurenai (who had been behind him) shouted in unison, fingers pointing.

"Hem, bit too late for that." Tenten muttered, inching away to the back of the "crowd" with Neji.

"I am sorry, Gai-sensei!" Lee cried dramatically, tears flowing down his face.

"It is all right, Lee! Since you did not know, you will only have to run two hundred laps around Konoha as punishment! Now go, my beloved student- AHH!"

Gai let out a high-pitched squeal as Kurenai whacked him on the back of the head.

"Listen, BUB, we didn't come here to watch FUZZY-BROWS run laps!"

Everyone stared at her in shock, especially Hinata, who looked like she was about to cry.

"Err, I mean… now is not the time to punish people! We were sent here to prevent a disaster from happening! We have no time to waste!"

The red-eyed woman leapt onto the top step of the monument and punched a fist into the air.

"This morning, we received an urgent message from a- uh- messenger, from Suna! Apparently, a very dangerous item," she pointed to the book, "has appeared! It was created by a group of extremely dangerous people with scary imaginations and no lives!"

Sakura raised her hand. "Isn't that a bit harsh, considering how most fanfiction writers are just normal people with an unhealthy obsession?" The other ten genin (and one chuunin) squinted at her suspiciously.

"Ah, but we're not talking about a NORMAL fanfiction writer here! We're talking SUETHORS!"

"Is that even a word?" Shikamaru asked in a doubtful voice.

Kurenai was about to reply when the book on the floor started to glow bright pink again (repetitious?). Everyone gasped and Kurenai frantically scooted about twenty feet away from it, causing everyone to follow her example, leaving a wide gap… and SASUKE.

The Uchiha prodigy was staring at the book as if he were mesmerized, and did not even seem to notice that he was standing alone. Sakura was a safe distance away when she saw that Sasuke was no longer by her side (he was next to her before, remember?) She quickly spun around, only to see Sasuke staring, dumbfounded, at the book.

"Sasuke!"

She started to run back to him, but before she was even halfway there, there was a strange shimmering sound, and sparkles started to appear in the air around the raven-haired boy with the chicken's butt hairstyle.

The next instant, a tall, beautiful girl with shining Pantene commercial-worthy hair materialized next to said boy and wrapped her arm around his shoulder. Her hair phwooshed as she turned her head and smiled at the huddling group of shinobi a few dozen feet away. Naruto, Lee, Gai, Kiba, Chouji, and even Shikamaru, Shino, and the Hyuuga prodigy found themselves sighing dreamily, to their utmost shock. That was when Sasuke finally showed some sign of life.

"Huh?" was the last thing Sakura heard him utter before her love disappeared- literally- from her life, in a flash of pink and shimmering sparkles.

………

"He- he- HE'S GONE!" Sakura cried, falling to her knees.

THAT -CENSORED- JUST STOLE MY BOYFRIEND, DAMN IT! Inner Sakura added angrily. She was surprised to feel Kurenai's hand on her shoulder.

"There, there. Everything will be all right! You see, THIS is the REAL reason we," she indicated Gai and herself, "came!"

She grinned widely, revealing abnormally sharp, pointy teeth. Gai looked like he was about to butt in, but decided against it when she flashed her bright grin at him. "Actually, we were just supposed to send a team to bring Gaara back and be done with it, but since your friend here got taken as well, why not bring him back, too?" She added quickly, grinning again.

The group behind her, which had been scrambling about in a panic, immediately ceased running and screaming and moved closer to the steps.

"Did you just say-" Lee began.

"-GAARA?" Naruto and Kiba finished.

"That is correct!" Gai responded, jumping in front of the crowd. "This morning, Suna sent his sister to request help!"

A/N #2: Err, I was planning to end the chapter at the part where Sasuke disappeared, but what the hey? XD (Then I attempted to extend it even longer but failed miserably, so this chapter will contain... an incomplete ending. Sorry.)