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Chapter Five: The Perfect Mission... or not?

A week has passed since the Uchiha on other shinobi's left Konoha for a mission and since the Sakura's have found each other and have been living together. This week definitely were awkward because certain Hyuga was trying to answer a question himself and couldn't… Love was a difficult matter for him… he wasn't ready for this, or that was he thought. By the other hand a Sakura was full of certain good intentions but looking for good circumstances too… but she soon will realised that it was pretty damn close.

"Let's see, next plan… Argh! But I need Hyuga's cooperation! He's such a damn, damn slowpoke!"

Saku-chan yelled freely in the empty apartment 'cause Sakura was working since early in the hospital.

"Where are you Hyuga and what the hell are you doing?" She muttered for herself.

KNOCK, KNOCK

The Snow's cherry blossom approached the door in slow pace. Who's now… She opened the door lazily revealing her sister's slowpoke.

"Tch, yeah? What do you want sexy? My sis is not here let me tell ya" She smirked.

The slowpoke---I mean, Neji, twitched a brow annoyed.

"Tsunade-sama requires our presence now. It's important… pinky"

Pinky? He doesn't have imagination, does he? She thought.

"Ok, let's go" The Takeuchi took Neji's arm, made hand signs with the free one and with a 'poof' they were in the middle of the Godaime's office.

The Hyuga freed himself from her grip irritated. "I could do it for myself" He said gritting his teeth.

"Really?" Saku-chan raised and eyebrow in disbelief. "I think you can't do anything without help, I don't know why Hyuga Neji is considered as a genius, a prodigy! If can't do anything by himself" She taunted.

"Hmph" He couldn't defeat that one. He crossed his arms. Is she talking about Sak-

His train of thoughts was interrupted for some gasps and stares from others shinobi's in the same room.

"Ehem" The mid-age-look-like blond woman behind the desk cleared her throat trying to get attention.

"I have called you because I have assigned to all of you an important mission" She continued staring at each of the 13 jounin's in front of her. "The Snow Country has sent me a message; seems that Orochimaru's new craving is that country's secret" She glared at one of them. "You are that special secret he is craving for Takeuchi"

"What is the mission Tsunade-sama?" A determinate Haruno Sakura asked.

"Protect Takeuchi Sakura and with her help killed Orochimaru"

Everyone nodded, but silence filled the room.

"I have formed two teams for this ANBU mission. Team 1 is conformed by Hyuga Neji, Haruno, Nara, Uchiha, Yamanaka and Takeuchi. Hyuga would be the captain of Team 1."

The mentioned ones nodded in understanding but one of them smirked. Who could that be?

Oh… this is gonna be so perfect! WTF? Saku-chan thought feeling a gaze from certain raven haired boy. …or not?... I'm so doomed!

"Team 2 has for captain Uzumaki" The Hokage continued.

"Yatta! Is the second time I'm a captain!" The blond screamed excited. Everyone sweat dropped.

"Tenten, Rock Lee, Aburame, Akimichi, Hyuga Hinata and Inuzuka, you are in Team 2. NO buts, No changes." All of them, except for Hinata lowed their head like there's no tomorrow.

"Captains, here are the maps" The noisy Kyubi vessel and the Byakugan user approached the desk and took the scrolls. "Hyuga, you're going to leader the whole operation. I count with Nara's strategy, Sakura's medic skills and everyone strength and disposition" The Godaime continued intertwining her fingers.

"You don't have too much time to complete the mission; the limit is three weeks because till then Orochimaru wouldn't change to other body, besides, since Uchiha got back Orochimaru has been too week. His power only reaches 2/3 of the strength he used to have, but that doesn't mean he is not a threat anymore." Tsunade freed a sigh.

"Now you get ready, you are leaving this afternoon. You are dismissed!" She ordered.

Another 'poof' was heard and everyone disappeared.

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Everyone in their ANBU uniform and with the masks hanging on their necks was at the principal gates of Konoha waiting for a certain captain.

"I'm… here…" Someone panted. Team 2 narrowed their eyes in apprehension.

"Naruto if you want to be a captain or leader more often you'd better be punctual" The Hyuga prodigy stated.

"Hn, dobe" the Uchiha prodigy smirked.

"Team 1, it's time" Neji started to run and his team-mates followed.

"Err… Team 2 it's happy hour! Let's kick snake-man's ass!" That's our Naruto. The blondy shook his fist in the air and started to run.

His team-mates… sweat dropped again… Apparently their day is full of sweat drops.

What kind of captain do we have? They thought and shrugged it out following their noisy captain.

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"Naruto do you hear me?" A deep but smooth voice asked using a microphone.

"Hyuga what's going on?"

"It's getting dark. We're going to camp in a clear nearby, like 20 meters to the north-east."

"Understood" The transmission was out and the teams stopped when they reached the spot for a night of sweet rest… or that they thought. A very loooong night indeed.

Team 1

For them there were two tents: one for the girls and one for the boys.

Shikamaru was exhausted and after planned the next move with Neji and Naruto, he went to sleep…

"Good night forehead girl" Ino waved her hand to Sakura.

"What? You're not going to dinner?" A puzzled Sakura asked.

"Ah-ha, I'm pretty tired you know and three hours ago I ate barbecue with Shikamaru, Choji and Asuma-sensei"

"Ok. See ya in the morning then" The cherry blossom smiled tiredly.

"Night" Ino yawned.

Ino got in the tent and laid down blindly in a sleeping bag. It was warm… and snored smoothly, estrange, she thought.

"Shikamaru?" She said surprised when some black spiky hair came out from it.

"Mmm… troublesome" He moaned turning around facing Ino.

He looks so cute… She thought. Kiss him, kiss him right now! Ino's inner self shouted excited.

"Shikamaru in his sleepy mode approached the beautiful blond and hugged her by the waist. Ino gasped and blushed deeply at his action, but didn't struggled. Who would try to escape from the love of her/his life's arms? Well, she wasn't one of them, soshe closed her eyes and cuddled in his chest.

"Night Shika-kun" She whispered.

"Night Ino" Shikamaru whispered too.

Ino got blush ten shades of red.

The Nara smirked.

Was this a Nara's plan or a simple mistake? We would never know what's going on in the mind of oneof Konoha's genius.

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In front of the fireplace two guys were sat looking the flames and hearing it crackled.

Suddenly the younger decided it was time to get some sleep.

"Sasuke-kun, you are not going to dinner either? Sakura asked with a frown.

"No. I'm tired" He said blankly.

"Oh" Then Sakura look at the other one, "Neji are you going to dinner?" She asked to the Hyuga with hope in her words. Everyone seems to prefer some sleep than her food!

"Ah? Yes" He snapped out of his worries.

A happy Haruno sat next to him bringing him a plate of food.

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Sasuke was having a new headache and groaned at the realisation but he was so distracted with the pain the he bumped into someone. A pink head and sleepy eyes. His distraction. His headache.

"Ow…" She whined in the floor of dust.

"You" Sasuke said, "Watch when you're walking" And gave her his hand. She stared and took it.

"Ok"

Without noticing they started a glare contest. Why? Who knows, they didn't know either.

The Uchiha was the first to break it.

He didn't say a word. He entered in the tent a sighed heavily. Why? She's as the others nuts. He sat down and closed his eyes trying to regain concentration, and then out of the blue something warm was felt on his shoulders.

The Takeuchi was behind him and without a word or guttural noise she massaged his tired and tensed shoulders.

Silence

The mighty Uchiha tried in every moment to suppressed a moaned of relax biting his bottom lip.

No word was say.

Saku-chan knew what she was doing but didn't want to know why. She only knew that this was a kind of lethal attraction… his essence that was intoxicating every sense of her, she didn't want to know why him.

Something took her right hand a little tight making stop her thoughts. It was Sasuke0s hand and in a second he turned around and her pretty close.

The Takeuchi gasped and her heart couldn't go fastest than it was right now. She practically had drowned in that dark wells full of mystery on that handsome façade.

She blinked once breaking that state and trying to remember her name Kagura? Nah, that's a loser's name... Haruka? No. Mmm… But she couldn't, nor even what the hell she was doing there with him! She was lost… She knew it.

She blinked again and as fast as a blink can be the Sharingan user was there locked with the Takeuchi by their lips in a frustrated, desperate and looking-for-answers kiss.

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Sakura sighed for the tenth time.

"What's going on?" The white eyed young man next to her asked.

"I don't know… I feel kind of lonely…" She continued. "I know, I have good friends, a new sister but I guess I need something else" Our cherry blossom looked straight at him. Hint, hint, hint!

"Sakura, I-" Neji started a sentence but couldn't finished 'cause of a noise inside of one of the tents.

"What was that?" The medic nin asked curious.

"No idea" Neji said with a sigh. That interruption may be fate. No Neji! No fate again!

A shadow got out of somewhere and neared the fireplace illuminating her face.

"Saku-chan, are you fine?" Sakura said with concern approaching to her side.

"Yeah..." The Takeuchi hesitated with a estrange look in her eyes.

Sakura wasn't satisfied with the answer and took her sister to the girls' tent. There she sat her down and started with the interrogation.

"Tell me, what happened? Is something about Sasuke-kun?" Sakura asked.

"……" Saku-chan opened her mouth but no word went out from it.

"Did he hurt you?" Sakura started to worry more. "…If he did, I swear I would kick the shit out of him!" Uh-Oh… Sakura was getting mad… really mad…

"N-no!" Saku-chan reacted.

"Tell me, please!" Sakura begged.

"Nothing happened, really" The Takeuchi faked a smile.

"You liar… I could havemet you a week ago but that's enough for me to tell you are lying!" Sakura sighed. "Ok. When you're ready, please you know you can trust me, right?" She half smiled.

"Yeah, I will tell you, don't worry" She took her sister's hands. "Now, go out and make yours that hot friend of yours!" She exclaimed with a smirk.

Sakura blushed deeply.

"What do you mean? Neji? No, he is just a friend." The medic nin said disappointed.

"Liar… I-know-you-loooove-him, don't denied it!" Saku-chan pointed her with her accusing finger.

"Uh…" Sakura sighed heavily. "It's so obvious?"

"Kind of hon… but why you hadn't make the first move?"

"…I don't want to be a burden like when I was twelve with Sasuke-kun…" The Konoha's cherry blossom looked down at the ground.

"……" That's the reason… Hyugaaa you'd better do something!

"Shikamaru? Ino?" Sakura whispered then giggled. "Saku-chan look" She pointed out to the couple.

"Oh… Why they aren't in a tent for their own? …Anyway, I don't want to find out it now, I'm tired" Saku-chan yawned.

"Well, then I leave you, I'll be outside for a little bit… thinking, ok? Night, Saku-chan" Sakura kissed her forehead.

"Night"

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At this point, Neji went to sleep too and entered the boy's tent when an absentminded Uchiha got out.

"Uchiha, some of Team 2 would patrol tonight, tomorrow would be our turn" Neji informed.

"…Aa"

Sasuke walked in circles thinking on something, thinking why.

: Flashback :

Sasuke was the first to break the kiss he started. It was a chaste kiss full of feelings, denying feelings that both of them poured in it.

Saku-chan stared at him almost piercing a hole in his head.

CLAP

Saku-chan slapped him with all determination and a hurt expression. She stood up and run out of the tent.

Sasuke touched his cheek hot 'cause of the slap. He growled silently. Stupid hormones.

: End Flashback :

"Stupid Uchiha… damn you…" She frowned till the next moment when a certain someone made an entrance.

Saku-chan kept quite and glared at the onyx eyes in front of her.

"Why?" He asked bluntly.

"Why, what?" The Snow's cherry blossom groaned in a whispered 'cause of the just slept bodies a meter far of them.

"The massage, the kiss, the slap. Why?" He inquired.

"……." She avoided his gaze.

"Answer" He ordered.

"I don't know why I did it but I don't want to be hurt…" She whispered. "Love is not for me…"

"Hn, that's my line" He smirked.

"… I don't want that some guywho I've just met, impressed me and then take me and finally leave me like nothing… I don't wanna be stuck in that… I don't wanna want you!... I don't-"

"I don't want to want you either. You're annoying." He smirked cupping her chin with his hand.

"I- get away… d-don't!..." She stuttered nervous.

"Takeuchi, you are stuttering" He mocked while neared his face to hers. I can't take this… anymore… she… she remind me of me…

A second kiss, but it wasn't like the first one… it was desperate of love. Saku-chan gave in, and put her arms around his neck to deep the kiss. I want you...Uchiha... Now passion was over the both of them, they explored each other mouth till exhaustion… till lack of air. They got apart. She smiled for the first time to a man. He sighed relieve; now his headaches were exterminated.

She laid down in a sleepingbag, he did the same for her surprise. Sasuke hugged her protectively by her slime waist and she put her head on his collar bone smelling his essence.

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Sakura decided at last it was too late and that she needed some sleep. She entered in the tent carefully tryingto no wake them up, when she realised that Uchiha Sasuke was there, in the girls' tent, hugging a girl… her sister! Sakura was stupefied. She couldn't believe her eyes… but then she saw it… Her sister was smiling a true smile.

I guess I have a problem here… She thought and got out of the tent.

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A whispered was heard. The Hyuga growled.

"Neji" There was the whisper again.

"…Sakura?" A Sleepy Jyuuken user said.

"Um… Neji, may I sleep here? The others are in the other tent and there's no more space… If you don't mind, may I?" Sakura asked shyly with a trace of pink n her cheek that nobody noticed since they were at night.

Neji snapped his eyes wide open. I told you… loooong night.

Hey people! I have finally finished this chapter it's 2:03 a.m.! Sorry for the late update, this chapter took me a long time to write… it was a little hard but was very funny to me, what do you think?

On Sunday I will update Chapter Six: In disguise: Bodyguards and other colours.

Please review to know that I'm doing a good story or not… I wanna know your opinion, pleeeease!

See ya!

P.S.: Now I have a lot of free time till the university gets started, so the currently lateness would be kaput:D