ACGOMN: Well, here we are with another chapter. I know Asuma-sensei died, but I wrote this before that happened so yeah. Rating changed just to be safe.

Naruto: About time.

ACGOMN: Hey be nice. I was sick for a while that I couldn't think of anything.

Naruto: Likely story.

ACGOMN: Just say the disclaimer.

Naruto: ACGOMN doesn't own Naruto or any of its characters or anything else that doesn't belong to her. However she owns any characters that she makes up.

ACGOMN: Right so on to the story.

Chapter 4

More Meetings, Plans, and Problems

Haruno Sakura finally made it to Iwagakure no Sato in five days. Sakura's trip was simple and no one bothered them.Sakura was prepared for anything at this point. She was going to be married and not to Naruto, the place where her heart is. It won't matter now. Thought Sakura bitterly He's away. If he was in Konoha he would have no let any of us go. Sakura shook her head and told herself not to think of what ifs anymore.

"Sakura," asked a very recognizable voice of Temari.

"Temari," asked Sakura, relieved to see a familiar face. The ANBU left her at the gate to head back home.

Temari made it to Iwagakure in five days as well. Her group ran into some trouble, but since they took a detour after that it took longer than the usual three days to get to Iwa from Suna. Temari, the whole time there was thinking of her brothers and Shikamaru.Che, like he would care. Thought Temari.

"I'm glad to see someone I know," said Sakura. "I guess you're the one to marry the second son."

"Yeah," replied Temari, "and you have to marry the youngest son."

"Yeah," said Sakura.

"It's seems that the two brides from Konoha and Suna know each other," said a male voice. "I'm Fujikage Fumihiro, the eldest son of Fujikage Fumiaki, the Tsuchikage. And you must be Haruno Sakura, Chuunin from Konohagakure and Temari, Jounin from Sunagakure." This man, looked about in his early twentiesHe has black hair and brown eyes

"Nice to meet you," said Sakura and Temari at the same time.

"My father couldn't come out to greet you two since he came down with a cold," explained Fumihiro, "Our medics aren't that good. So I'll bring you two up to the mansion."

"I could take a look at Tsuchikage-sama," said Sakura, "I'm a medic after all."

"No," said Fumihiro, "Let him be sick, it's shuts him up. You see my father has a big mouth for complaining about every single thing and frankly it annoys me."

"Well, then," said Temari, "Should we get going?"

"Let's," he said, "I feel bad for you girls." Fumihiro sighed and walked ahead of them.

"Why? Because we have to get married to your brothers," asked Sakura.

"That and you shouldn't even be here right now," explained Fumihiro, "My father thinks that since those guys Kankurou and Kiba took down some of our ANBU, which they had every right to, that Iwa was beginning to look bad to the lord of the country."

"So, in other words, getting Konoha and Suna to agree to send brides over to you guys is to make you guys look better," asked Temari, stunned.

"Yeah, I told my father that we should improve the Academy and train our already ninjas harder," sighed Fumihiro, "I'm sorry that you came here for a stupid reason."

"That's not what my brother the Kazekage was told," said Temari, not looking too happy.

"Nor my teacher, the Hokage," said Sakura, also not happy.

"Let me tell you right now," said Fumihiro, "There are things in this country that are really going to make you mad. You know the Yondaime Hokage and the Sandaime Kazekage, well they is hated here as is the Legendary Sannin." They finally arrived at the Tsuchikage manor.

"I can see Orochimaru, but Tsunade-shishou, Jiraiya-sama, and Yondaime-samaaren't bad," snapped Sakura.

"Neither is the Sandaime Kazekage-sama," sighed Temari.

"Yeah, well," said Fumihiro, "I probably won't see much of you two girls, but if you need anything to know about the village, feel free to locate me in the mansion. You can call me Hiro. Go up these stairs and you'll meet my father. Good luck."Hiro pointed to the stairwell and the girls nodded.

"Thanks," said Sakura.

"Yes, thanks," said Temari.Sakura and Temari exchanged looks at each other and walked up the stairs side by side.

Yamanaka Ino made it to Kumogakure no Sato in four days, because she made the ANBU stop less than normal. Ino wanted to get there as fast as possible because she wanted to get away from Konoha before she changed her mind. This is for the best I suppose. Thought Ino. When she had arrived she was greeted by her future-in-laws and current family. Ino knew of them, since her father told her of them. Yamanaka Hikaru, third cousin to Inoichi, fourth cousin to Ino is the head of the Yamanaka clan in Kumo. His wife is Yamanaka Hisako, who is fifth cousin to Inoichi and sixth to Ino. Their only son is Yamanaka Hyotaru, which makes him third cousin once removed or something like that. I think you get the idea.

"Are you Yamanaka Ino," asked a girl that was at the gate. This girl has long black hair and brown hair.

"Yes and you are," asked Ino.

"I'm Hino Hoshiko," answered the girl, "I'm Hyotaru's best friend and ninja partner. His parents asked me to come and get you while they get everything ready."

"Nice to meet you Hino-san," said Ino.

"No need for formalities," said Hoshiko, "I mean you are going to be my best friend's wife. So I think we should become friends too."

"Okay then Hoshiko-chan," said Ino, "So, let's going shall we?"

"Yeah," said Hoshiko, "Follow me." Ino and Hoshiko walked down the town where people greeted Hoshiko with great vigor.

"Hmm, you must be really popular and famous here," commented Ino.

"Yeah, in Lightening Country Hyotaru and I are known as the Double Trouble Pair," said Hoshiko, "I know bad name, but we're famous and loved here." Hoshiko and Ino kept walking until they reached a flower shop similar to the one she helped run in Konoha. "Hyotaru, get out here now."

"Why the hell are you snappy," asked Hyotaru, coming out from the back. "Oh you must be Ino. I'm Hyotaru." Hyotaru was indeed very good looking. He has short blonde hair and blue eyes.

"Nice to meet you," said Ino.

"My parents are coming out in a moment," said Hyotaru. As soon as he said that his parents bounded out and where very bouncy happy. Hikaru and Hisako both had blonde hair and blue eyes.

"Welcome," said Hisako, with a bubbly voice.

"Indeed welcome," said Hikaru, somewhat calmer, but you could tell he was happy. Ino didn't know why they were so freaking happy that she was here. I'm related to nut cases. Thought Ino.

"Nice to meet you," said Ino, politely as possible without laughing at her future in-laws.

"Come we are having lunch," said Hikaru. Hisako began dragging Ino into the living space. Hyotaru seemed to be embarrassed by his parents and followed. Hoshiko also followed it. Lunch was big. Ino ate very little, which caused Hisako to go in super mother worry mode on Ino. Ino looked around the house and realized that this was just like at home, but a different feel to it. She still doesn't know if she would fit in with the other people around the town, but seeing as Hyotaru and Hoshiko are famous, Ino doesn't think she'll have any problems.

"Anyway, Hyotaru we have a mission tomorrow, remember," said Hoshiko.

"I remember," sighed Hyotaru.

"Aw, and I wanted you and Ino to get to know each other," pouted Hisako, "But we can wait until you come home from the mission."

"Yes, and until then your mother and I will keep poor Ino company," said Hikaru. Ino was getting angry with the way they were acting. She wasn't someone who to needed to be watched like a dog or anything. I seriously can't be anyway related to these people. Ino sighed and try to relax her mind.

"So Ino dear," said Hisako, "Why don't you tell us about Konoha and then you could go unpack." Ino twitched internally. This was going to boring.

Tenten was not one for boats really. She was sea sick the whole way to Kirigakure no Sato. When she got there, Tenten vowed to avoid all boats while here for the rest of her life. Tenten was at the front gate of the country waiting for someone to pick her up. The ANBU had left on another boat on the way back to Konoha, leaving her to wait. Whoever was suppose to pick her up was two hours late and Tenten was getting annoyed. She had to get something to eat soon too.

"Are you Yukito Tenten," asked a female who walked up to her. Tenten nodded her response. This woman had to be in at least her mid twenties. She has shoulder length black hair and hazel eyes. "I'm Hatori Higoshi, the advisor to the Mizukage Hoshino Haruki-sama. I'm terribly sorry I'm late. It seems that Mizukage-sama forgot where he placed the Mizukage robes."

Tenten sweatdropped. Sounds like something Naruto would do. Losing the Mizukage robes really now. "Nice to meet you."

"Good," said Higoshi, "Follow me to the Tower, please." Along te way Tenten heard the woman curse the Mizukage and his forgetfulness. Tenten was sure that she was in the presence of a crazy person. Sure Lee and Gai were crazy but she was used to them and so was Neji a little bit (which is a complete understatement), but she was in a whole new village and not knowing anybody.

"Higoshi you're late," said a male voice of the Mizukage.

"You are the one who made me late, shit head," snapped Higoshi.

"It's Mizukage-sama," grinned the Mizukage. "You must be Tenten. I'm sorry that you had to wait so long for her to come and pick you up. You must excuse her."

"What the hell are you talking about," yelled Higoshi, "It's your damn fault in the first place."

"Please ignore her, Tenten-san. I'm Hoshino Haruki, the Yondaime Mizukage," explained the guy. He was the Mizukage robes. He has white hair and black eyes. The white hair wasn't like a grey color or anything and he looked quite young too. "I'm terribly sorry that you have to marry me. It wasn't my idea."

"Yeah, the council," snapped Higoshi.

"Er, nice to meet you Mizukage-sama," said Tenten, respectfully. She couldn't believe that someone like him was the Mizukage.

"Call me Haruki," said Mizukage. "Now I have to get back to paperwork or I'll fall behind...again." Haruki exited. "Oh and Higoshi take her out to get some food. Thanks buddy."

"Why you," grumbled Higoshi. "What do you want to eat, Tenten-san."

"Is there any Chinese food places around," asked Tenten.

"Oh yes I know just the place," said Higoshi, who began dragging Tenten in the direction of the restaurant. Maybe this place won't be so bad.

Back in Konoha in the Hyuuga manor, Hinata was getting a headache the size of Texas. If she saw one more dress or flower selection, she would kill someone. Hinata knew that Washi was feeling the same way. Washi's mother Akemi was in charge of planning the wedding of the two of them. Washi commented before that his mother is crazy when it comes to things like this.

"Oh I know how about lilies," exclaimed Akemi. Washi twitched and Hinata sighed. What were they getting themselves into...? While Akemi ranted about the different flowers and such, the two of them began whispering to each other to figure away out of this.

"We can't just very well ditch your mother Washi," whispered Hinata.

"But I'm getting hungry. Plus it's not like we need to plan everything in one day," commented Washi. Suddenly Washi got an idea. "Mommy." Hinata stared at the guy.

"Yes, dear," said Akemi.

"I'm hungry," complained Washi, in a child like tone.

"Alright you and Hinata can leave," said Akemi, pouting, "But don't be too long." She shooed them both off.

"That's was genius. But you acted like a child," said Hinata.

"Yeah, well my mom can't resist my child act," grinned Washi. "So do you know any good places to eat?"

"How about Ichiraku Ramen," suggested Hinata.

"Sounds good," said Washi, "Now you can tell me about your friends during lunch?"

"Hmm, okay," said Hinata.

Temari and Sakura waited to be told to go inside. One of the maids told the two go inside. When they entered, there was a women who had to be the wife of the Tsuchikage, the Tsuchikage himself and two boys.

"Welcome to Iwagakure no Sato," said the women, "I'm Fujikage Ginko, the wife of Tsuchikage." The said women had black hair and brown eyes like her oldest son. "Boys introduce yourselves."

"I'm Fujikage Hachiemon, age 12 rank genin," said the kid. "I'm the third son." The kid had the same hair and eyes as his mother and brother.

'NANI???!!' thought both Temari and Sakura.

"Meh," said the second guy, "I'm Fujikage Gemmei, age 18 rank chuunin. I'm the second son obviously." He had black hair and eyes.

"So boys why don't you get to know them. Time to give your father rest," said Ginko, telling them to leave.

"Which one is Sakura," asked Hachiemon.

"That's me," said Sakura.

"Come on we can go get some lunch," yelled Hachiemon, grabbing Sakura's hand and dragging her along with him.

"Meh, I suppose you are Temari-san," said Gemmei. "What do you want to do because I don't really care."

"Lunch would be good," said Temari, not liking the guy's attitude.

"Fine," said Gemmei, walking out. "Hurry up." Temari glared at the guys back and followed for she was hungry.

Kurenai sat in her and Asuma's apartment trying to sleeping. Ugh, I can't stand this. I haven't been able to sleep in days. Normally her missions would bother her much. It was her duty. But then began bringing up other things that she has done before.

"Kunoichi's are born among lies and deceit. Wishes are never to come true and love will always be lost," said Kurenai, reminding herself of something she read once. "Just stop thinking no more thinking of the past."

"Kurenai what's the matter," asked Asuma, coming into their room.

"Nothing," replied Kurenai.

"You haven't been sleeping good lately," said Asuma.

"Don't worry about it," snapped Kurenai.

"Alright fine," said Asuma, climbing into bed next to her. Kurenai sighed and tried her best not to fall into a nightmare infested sleep.

Anko was washing her hands after making herself something to eat for dinner. Iruka was coming over soon to pick her up to go meet Kakashi and Shizune. While Anko was washing her hands, she began seeing red on them. She wasn't handling any meat and usually the meat weren't that bloody. She began to vigorously wash her hands to get the blood off. It wasn't coming off. She scrubbed harder and then there was a knock at the front door.

"It's open," yelled Anko, from the bathroom. She heard the door open and Iruka ask her if she was alright. She looked at her hands again, but all they were was raw from scrubbing them so hard. Maybe she was going delusional. The last person she killed she barely got any blood on her.

"Anko, what's the matter," asked Iruka from the other side of the door.

"Nothing I'll be right out," said Anko, drying off her hands. She opened the door. Iruka was looking at her in worry. "I told you I'm fine. Don't worry."

"Okay let's go," said Iruka.

"We have a whole hour to get there," said Anko.

"Walking around is good right," asked Iruka.

"Hai," said Anko, grabbing Iruka's hand and walked out of her apartment, locking the door behind them.

Shizune was in the middle of a shower. Kakashi was taking nap on the couch, because he was tired from the last mission he went on. Shizune just finish washing her hair and took the bar of soap. As she washed she was beginning to feel very dirty. She washed her stomach extremely rough.

"Oi, Shizune are you almost done I have to go to the bathroom," said Kakashi, knocking on the door. After she heard Kakashi's voice she snapped out of what she was going.

"Give me a minute," said Shizune.

"Alright, I can wait," said Kakashi. She turned off the shower and grabbed a towel to wrap around her. She opened the door to let Kakashi in and walked out to her room to get dressed.

"What the hell is wrong with me," asked Shizune to herself. As she got dressed she thought of why she felt like that.

Sakura and Temari sat in the room that they shared. It was quiet huge. Sakura thought the boy she had to marry was okay, too young, but cute. Temari was royally annoyed with the guy she had to marry. More annoying than Shikamaru with his troublesome remarks.

"Oh, Hinata and Sasuke gave me something I meant to open eariler," said Sakura.

"Really," asked Temari. Sakura took out Hinata's gift first and opened it. IT was a portrait that was taken on the goodbye party they had for Naruto. It had all the sensei, the two sennin, Team 8, 10, and Gai. Naruto made Sasuke go, but he was still recovering. Even the sand siblings were there.

"That's really nice of Hinata-san to give you," said Temari.

"I wonder what Sasuke-kun gave me," said Sakura, taking out Sasuke's package. She opened it to reveal an outfit. A piece of paper fell out.

'Sakura-nee-chan,

This outfit was made for you with the Uchiha crest on it. You will always be my sister to me.

Sasuke.'

"That outfit will look good on you," said Temari, unfolding it. It was a dark blue kimono with the Uchiha crest on the back.

"Sasuke-kun," said Sakura, looking at the note.

Tenten sat in her room that the Mizukage is letting her use, until the marriage. She was looking at the sword that everyone pitched in to get her before she left. It was beautiful. Sharp, and deadly. It had a strong metal for the hilt and was encrusted with a beautiful jewel.

"I wonder what Hinata gave me," said Tenten, taking out the package. It was the same thing as Sakura's the potrait of everybody. Tenten smiled and sighed. She really missed her friends. Then something caught her eye. A piece of paper fell out.

'Tenten,

I knew Hinata-sama was giving this gift to you. I will really miss you.

Neji'

Tenten grinned to look at the necklace that was attached to the bottom. It was a shuriken necklace with her teammates names on it along with hers.

Ino sighed and looked at the picture that Sai drew her. It was one of his best works. Naturally his work was always good. On the bottom, he titled it– 'Nakama' Ino loved it as much as the other piece of work he gave her last Valentine's Day of her surrounded by hundreds of flowers. She had opened Hinata's gift and loved it as well.

"I miss them," sighed Ino. Too bad on the back of the Valentine's Day one told Ino that he really did think she was beautiful. Ino stared at the ceiling spacing off to think of happier times.

Tsunade sat in her office. She worked quiet late that night. She was sighing a lot lately. She missed the cheerful greeting that she would get from Sakura every morning or the loud greeting from Ino or the calm greeting from Tenten. She miss those girls and felt bad about doing this to them. But it was a Hokage's duty to protect the village, even if the Hokage had to send some of her best ninja to get married to people they didn't love.

"Grandpa, Uncle, Sensei, Arashi how did you deal with things like these," she asked the four previous Hokage. She knew that they had to deal with similar things when they were in office. She wondered how they dealt with it. "I'm getting old."

ACGOMN: Okay That's it for this chapter. Not as long as the previous one though. Now time for Chapter 4 Omake.

Yamato and Jiraiya stared at the letter that Tsunade sent them about the marriages of some of Naruto's friends and the love of his life. 'Oh shit,' they both thought. They stared at it then at Naruto who was training.

"What," asked Naruto.

"Nothing," said Yamato.

"Seriously what," asked Naruto, knowing they were hiding something from him.

"Gaki, get back to work," said Jiraiya.

"Oh shut up you pervert," yelled Naruto.

"Not so loud you dumbass," snapped Jiraiya. As they began the triad of insults, Yamato watched amused. Yeah they won't tell Naruto, not yet at least.

ACGOMN: Now, this story will have 7 chapters, with Naruto coming in the 6th chapter. I'm sorry it took so long to get this chapter out but I was reading Tsubasa and HOLiC and had Prince of Tennis on my mind, so I was stuck on a certain part for a while. PLEASE REVIEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I BEG YOU!!!!