Disclaimer-Hello readers who haven't heard from me in forever! Sorry that I haven't written in a long time. I was on a long quest to find someone to do my disclaimers for me. Unfortunately, I'm still looking (pouts in a dark corner.) Anyway, I don't own Naruto and never will. Therefor, bringing me back to my journey to find a disclaimer person while you read on.

---The Probably Much-Needed Recap---

"Can we at least tell Sakura? Or are you just not in the mood to get up?" Naruto said, half taunting and half being serious.

"Fine, let's go." Sasuke said as he shot a quick, unnoticeable glare at Naruto and then got up.

"What do we do about that? We can't just leave it there." Naruto questioned, pointing at the scroll lying on the ground.

Without a response, Sasuke picked it up and began walking, ignoring the pain of being shocked as he walked.

Naruto got up and followed Sasuke through the trees. They set of to find Sakura and to inform her of Sasuke's discovery.

---End Of Recap---

Chapter Six-Monkeys, Quarrels, And Advice

Sakura sat under a cherry blossom tree and gazed up at the blossoms above her head. She smiled as the wind blew and some of the blossoms floated down slowly.

"Sakura-chan! Where are you!"came a voice so familiar (and so loud) that it brought Sakura out of her peaceful trance. Sakura's eyebrow twitched when she actually realized whom it was.

"There you are, Sakura-chan!" the voice grew louder as the loudmouth blonde came out of the trees and closer toward Sakura.

"Hi Naruto. Can I ask why you were looking for me? Is something wrong?" Sakura noticed Sasuke coming from behind the trees as she finished her sentence.

Sasuke looked up toward Sakura for a moment. Suddenly, a shock surged through Sasuke hand where a cut had already formed and Sasuke let go on instinct.

Sakura saw the scroll drop from Sasuke hand and walked over to him. "Sasuke, are you okay? What happened to your hand?"

Sasuke looked down at his hand for a moment and then picked the scroll up again as if nothing ever happened.

Uchiha Sasuke…always the center of attention. How do I always get blown to the side whenever Sasuke shows up? Grr, one of these days I'm gonna--- You could probably guess whose head was rambling with such thoughts by only using the first sentence.

Suddenly, there was a rustle in the trees and Sakura jumped slightly. "Someone's there." She said, not taking her eyes off the place where she heard the noise.

Sasuke looked closely into the trees and tried to see what was up. Once Sasuke realized he couldn't see what was in the trees from his current position, he readied his weapons and tip -toed forward cautiously as his teammates inched close behind.

Slowly…

Slowly…

Pause and…

"What? What is it? Come on, let me see!" Naruto moved forward to see why Sasuke was twitching.

Sakura moved forward to see what was going on and soon, she too was twitching.

"It's…" Sasuke started to say something, but got stuck in the middle of the sentence due to a twitch fest.

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"So how do you think they're doing out there?" said a voice that sounded like Tsunade.

"Neh, they're probably losing it by now…" another voice that sounded like Kakashi.

"Like how?" the back and forth conversation continued.

"Eh, knowing them, they're probably being chased by-"

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"MONKEYS!" Sakura screamed out. "They're back and they brought friends…" (Think previous chapters XD) Sakura looked like she was going to faint, but she didn't due to the fact that Sasuke was in the vicinity.

Sasuke gave the monkeys an annoyed look while Naruto just stared at them for a moment.

They were big, creepy-looking, brown-furred monkeys and they didn't look very friendly.

"Wow…" Naruto said after a moment of silence (well, except for the sound of the monkeys' breathing).

"Seriously…" was all Sasuke said in response.

"No, 'wow' as in they're so cool!"

Sasuke and Sakura sweet-dropped anime style and then glared at Naruto.

"You're so hopeless…" Sasuke said in a low tone.

Naruto stepped toward the monkeys and smiled. "What? They're really cool! I mean, look at 'em! You can't seriously say they don't look even a little bit cool."

"Oh, I'll tell you what they look like all right." Sakura said clenching her fists. But before she could go hulk on both Naruto and the angry-looking primates, Sasuke stuck out his hand to signal her to stop.

"Don't. It's too dangerous. One: Naruto's an idiot and you can get him later, Two: we don't have time to mess with them and Three: they don't look too friendly to begin with. We should just try to slip away and avoid trouble. Plus, the sun's setting, we need to get back and check in with them." Sasuke said, taking a small step back. He mentioned Kadame and Kade as if they were some sort of twin demons (hey, that sounds familiar, don't ya' think? )

"Alrighty, then, let's go!" Sakura seemed a little too excited about leaving.

"Naruto, come on." Sasuke said walking away. "Naruto." Sasuke said it a little louder this time in order to attract Naruto's attention.

Unfortunately Naruto didn't seem to be listening, since he was to busy trying to get the monkeys' attentions. "Here monkey, monkey, monkey!"

"I must've done something really stupid to deserve this…" Sasuke said smacking his head with his hand.

Just then, the monkeys unfortunately began consider the three genin before them as a threat to their survival and readied themselves for battle. To signal the beginning of war, a monkey that seemed to be the leader or something let out a loud war cry.

"Thank you, Naruto…" Sasuke said realizing what was about to happen.

"Thank you? For what?" Naruto finally realized that people were talking to him.

" Never mind! Run!" Sakura said taking a step back. But before her and everyone else could take off, the monkeys took the lead and began to charge at team seven.

"Too late!" Sasuke said pulling out a kunai.

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Kakashi walked through Konoha towards the bookstore while humming a tune that sounded somewhat similar to the 'I Dream Of Jeanie' theme song (If you know what that sounds like). But his song didn't last very long before Kakashi began to move into deep thought.

I really do wonder what those guys are up to…They're out all alone (well, except for the fact that Kadame and Kade are with them). But either way, it sure is lonely without them. . .oh well. Kakashi let out a big sigh and then continued on to the bookstore.

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The sun was just setting over the island and a bunch of annoying birds were flying towards their nests.

"Yes, we made it! We're free!" Naruto said before letting gravity pull his body to the ground.

"That...was the last time I ever fight against an angry mob of monkeys." Sakura said as she sat down in the sand.

"You're telling me! Well, I still felt bad for knocking them all out. I still say they were cool looking." Naruto was lying flat on the ground, tired from the previous event.

Sakura rolled her eyes. "Naruto, they were so not cool. Plus, at least we didn't like, kill them or anything."

"They were too cool! But I guess you're right. It could've been worse. Still, if only Kade and that crazy lady were there to see that! I'm sure they'd have at least complemented me on my mad monkey-handling skills." Sakura and Sasuke just rolled their eyes at the last part of Naruto's sentence.

"Speaking of which, where are they?" Sasuke said as he sat down in front of his teammates.

"Wait, now that you mention it, they haven't been around for a long time." Sakura stated. She gazed at her surroundings to see if maybe she would spot them.

"...too long." Sasuke said, doing the same.

Naruto started to think about what his teammates were saying and followed suit. "Maybe they're in the jungle somewhere." Naruto said when he didn't notice them anywhere.

"Doubtful..." Sakura said still looking around.

"I didn't sense anyone else's chakra while we were in their but ours." Sasuke said standing back up. Well, other than that thing in the trees earlier...

"Should we go look for them?" Naruto suddenly asked in a dumbfounded tone.

"Umm, duh!" Sakura said in a sarcastic voice.

Sasuke sat debating on whether to go look for them or not. They were many things that could explain why they weren't there. They could have:

A) Went to the other side of the island

B) Left the island (which would make everyone very angry if they did)

C) Been attacked by whatever Sasuke saw in the jungle earlier

D) Been abducted by...ALIENS! (Yeah..right...)

E) Some other weird idea that I can't think of right now (D and E were my thoughts, not

Sasuke's)

"Umm, EARTH TO UCHIHA!" Naruto randomly yelled.

"Naruto, what was that for?" Sakura asked, hitting Naruto on the head.

"Well, in case you didn't notice your beloved Sasuke over here was about to have a drool fest!" Naruto said, rubbing his head with one hand and pointing at Sasuke with the other.

"I was not, you idiot!" Sasuke yelled back, glaring ever so darkly.

Naruto glared back at Sasuke, which kicked off a short glaring contest.

"Ok, you guys, could we like for once act like a team here!" Sakura said trying to stop the contest. Unfortunately, she failed miserably.

"Who's not acting like a team?" Naruto said continuing to glare at his rival.

"I meant like a real cooperative team. One that doesn't fight every ten seconds." Sakura said just staring at her teammates. My gosh sometimes they could be such children...well Naruto at least.

"We'd be fine if he wasn't so stupid." Sasuke said, pointing at you-know-who.

"Ok, fine! Whatever! You guys can go on and fight your hearts out. But if Kadame and Kade don't show up, we're going to have to try and deal with each other in order to survive and acting like this isn't gonna help anybody." Sakura said turning her back to her teammates.

"Sakura's right though, you do need to stop acting so childish, dobe, or we'll die within the first few days." Sasuke said with a smirk.

"Oh, now I'm the one that's ruining this! Oh, that's it! We'll see who's ruining what around here." Naruto said getting up.

"Heh, like you could beat me." Sasuke said getting up too.

Ok, we've really gotten too much sun today... Sakura was tired of trying to break up her teammates little arguments. So instead she just kept her back towards them and acted like she didn't know them.

But just before anything could start, it all ended.

"You guys failed so miserably, I think street cats could do better!" came a voice from the trees.

Everyone turned to see Kadame standing on a tree branch, laughing and shaking her head in a disappointment at the same time.

"Failed?" Naruto said turning to look up.

"You were...testing us?" Sakura said looking up as well.

Sasuke didn't even care to look up. He had just let another fight cloud his mind...again.

"Yeah. Unfortunately for you guys, it was on your worst subject ever: Teamwork. We were going to leave you guys to fend for yourselves for a little while, but when we came back to check on you, we found this and said 'no way am I gonna let them stay here alone'. You'd probably all be dead when we got back." Kadame said, jumping down in front team seven. (Bingo! Answer B was correct! Well, almost...)

Inner Sakura was going star-craving mad. SEE, I TOLD YOU GUYS! BUT DID YOU LISTEN? NO! AND THEN THEY WONDER WHY I GET UPSET. GRR, THIS STINKS! JUST WAIT TIL' I GET OUT OF THIS INFERNAL BODY AND– (Umm, yeah...this could take a while so I'll just skip back to the real world. ; )

Meanwhile the real Sakura was fuming and her teammates were trying to keep their distance. Luckily for them, she eventually calmed down.

"We've lost another mission to something so stupid. Perfect, just perfect." Sakura said, walking off toward the ocean.

"Sakura!" Naruto called out, trying to get her to come back.

"Don't worry. She's fine. She just needs a nap...and probably a vacation away from you guys." Kadame said, shooting a smirk in Sakura's direction.

Naruto looked saddened, but said nothing. He just sat down, as Sasuke had done only seconds before.

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Sakura stared blankly into the ocean. It seemed as though she could see right through each slowly moving wave that crashed along the shoreline.

"The waves are calm today."

Sakura turned slightly. "Kade-sensei..."

"They usually are very rough at this time of year. The wind must have died down." Kade sat down beside Sakura and looked toward the ocean.

Sakura just stared at him.

"Why aren't you with your team?"

"Because..."

"Because what?"

"I just wanted to be alone."

"Am I ruining your alone time?"

"No, not really." Kade was so normal. Plus, he only said what needed to be said and nothing more. He couldn't possibly ruin anyone's alone time, unlike her teammates.

It was silent for a moment.

"Why are guys constantly fighting with each other?" Sakura asked randomly.

"I wouldn't know. I'm a guy too."

Sakura laughed at his response. "True. Sorry, I didn't mean to say that out loud."

"Doesn't matter. You said what you were thinking. Now all you gotta do is ask the right person in the right way."

"Ask the right person?"

"Yeah. Usually it would be the person you are closest to, but I doubt that person is here. So the next best person to talk to is the one who is causing the problem. In this case those people would be Sasuke and Naruto."

"But what do I say to them?"

"That's exactly the point. Once you know who you're talking to, you have to decide how your going to go about talking to them. You need to decide how you can say what you're thinking without offending the people you're talking to."

"Without offending them? Like as in saying it in a way that they can understand, without them getting mad at you for complaining about them."

"That's right."

Sakura thought for a moment. She took in everything that Kade told her and then smiled. "How old are you, Kade-sensei?"

Kade turned over to look at Sakura. He seemed a bit confused by her question. "15."

"15?" Wow, he's not much older than us. That's why he can relate so well. He's got good advice too.

Sakura rose from her spot in the sand. She gave Kade a quick smile and said, "I'm gonna go now. Thanks for the advice."

Kade turned back to the ocean. "Ok..."

With that, Sakura disappeared as she ran in the direction of camp.

–End Of Chapter–

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