A/N: Sorry to everyone! I've been very, very blocked these days, really, my fault… I should kill myself but if I do, who would write the end of this story? Don't worry, the end is near but is not chapter nine…
Okay, hope you enjoy this chapter… maybe you will feel it like a filler… kinda… but really, I was blocked! Blame me if you want, but blame me and hate me in the reviews:P
Let's do the magic!
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.
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Chapter Eight: Discoveries and New Plans.
She swam but her muscles started to get numb then she saw something approached her. She sighed at see it was Neji.
"L-Let's… try t-to reach… the e-edge" The two of them were pale because of the cold and when Neji saw this grabbed Sakura from her waist and pulled her the fast he could out of the ice blocks pool.
"N-Ne… j-j-ji… a-are… y-you…o-okay?" A panting Sakura asked to the blue-ish Hyuga Neji who was sitting next to her in the ground.
"…Y-Yes..." He shivered when they heard screams.
"S-Shin! W-where a-are yo-you! P-please h-help m-my so-son!" A woman cried desperately in the cold water.
The Hyuga prodigy looked straight in Sakura's eyes and she nodded understanding him. Neji stood up from her side and went inside the freeze pool to the rescue as a good shinobi.
After a few minutes that seemed hours for our little cherry blossom, Neji went out from the cold water totally pale as a ghost, with blue-ish lips trembling near the edge after saving that mother and his child.
"NEJI!" Sakura run to his side and her eyes widened.
The Haruno as medic-nin checked out his condition, his awful condition. I have to move fast or else… She shooed away her thoughts and possible tears in her eyes.
"Neji? C-Come on" Sakura took Neji to a grocery store nearby they really needed to find some heat.
"Oh my gosh!" A woman said running from her cash desk to the young persons entering her store. "You're soaking and freezing, come inside this room I would bring some towels" The woman pointed a door next to the desk and disappeared from their sight.
Sakura got in the room with the almost unconscious Neji and closed the door to avoid the cold breeze of the outside.
"Neji, listen to me" She took Neji's chin. "I will took out y-your wet clothes, u-understand? You may be suffering hypothermia" His breathing is too paused; I have to do it quickly.
Sakura leaned Neji in a wall and started to undress him the fast she could until he was only in boxers, then she started to undress too, at this Neji suddenly woke up a little.
"W-What are… you… doing?" He asked confused to see her undressing in front of him without shame.
"I'm t-taking my clothes off" She said matter-of-factly without looking at him.
"W-why?" He asked again.
Sakura finished taking her clothes off and hugged Neji really tight resting her head in his right shoulder.
"B-Because the heat of a human been is t-the best source of warm in case of h-hypothermia" Sakura shivered a little caused of the cold of Neji's skin but then she adapted.
"You've b-been too long in the f-freeze water"
The Byakugan user could feel her warm flow in him, it really felt nice… and she was in her undergarments… Neji shook his head and embraced her too and a smile crept in his handsome face. I should have hypothermia more often.
Then the woman who made then come inside returned with the said towels in her hands. Her eyes widened at the sight of the two youngsters almost naked… hugging each other.
"PERVERTS! GET OUT OF MY SHOP!" She said covering her face with her hands dropping the towels ashamed.
"Eh?" Sakura turned around to see the woman shocked. "No! No! We—You see he--- I'm a medic!" Sakura tried to explain taking the towels and covering herself with one of them.
Neji in the middle of all kept quite shivering a little bit because of the absent of Sakura's warmness…
"YOU ARE NAKED YOU SINNERS!" The woman continued screaming.
"Not totally! You see he was having Hypothermia and the best source of heat is the human body! There is not perversion in it I swear!" Sakura definitely wanted to the woman who helped them have not a bad impression of them—she.
"Really?" The woman asked uncovering her face with a brow slightly cocked.
"YES!" The cherry blossom affirmed desperate.
"Oh. Then I will bring you something hot to drink" The woman smiled with glee and disappeared.
The Haruno blinked at the suddenly change of mood. …Must be those days in the month… Then something really strong pulled her out of the blue.
"Neji?"
The Hyuga prodigy was snaking his arms around her waist. "I'm cold" He said hiding a smirk.
Sakura blushed.
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In the hotel the shinobi's were reunited inside room 601 discussing their discoveries around the outskirts of the city and the incursion inside of it.
"As you've heard we have found the hiding place of the snake" Tenten stated polishing her kunai's.
"It took us time to find… what a troublesome man"
"Shinta-kun, you must keep the character, our mission is not over yet!" Ino poked the lazy bun on the ribs gaining a lazy glare.
"Kawabura you said you will meet them in the same place we found. We have to wait up for Ayanami to make up a plan" Shino fixed his dark square glasses and the rest nodded.
After everyone were waiting for the rest to show up, they continued to talk about details of the hidden spot, as how many guards they saw and possible entries, meanwhile Naruto fell into deep thought, something he didn't do unless it was really, really necessary.
"Oi Tomoe-chan, why the snake want you so bad?" He asked voicing his preoccupations.
"Seems that bastard doesn't care anymore if it's a woman body…" She mumbled and sighed. "He wants to use my special jutsu's dobe; those can't be copied even with the Sharingan in all its damn glory, that's just a shit useless… Hn, they said that special requirements in a girl make it that powerful…" She smirked. "I don't feel that special either… but that jutsu's were not made for a shit like him" The Takeuchi brushed her long tresses with her fingers.
"I'm not a dobe! You--- Gee, I can't call you 'teme' Tomoe-chan! It seems that that teme's antics over there are contagious!" He pointed out to Sasuke who just humph-ed and crossed his arms over his chest.
"Someone know where did Ayanami and Tsukishiro go?" Kiba asked referring to Neji and Sakura.
Everyone in the room shrugged even the one green haired who smirked evilly. Huh… its supposed to have work if not I will kill them, and then kill myself.
"Tomoe you know something. Where are they?" The Uchiha demanded an answer from his pseudo sister.
"Uh? Oh! They are in a date" She shrugged again carefree.
"A date" Sasuke raised a brow.
"A date" She confirmed looking at her nails. She needed a new manicure.
"A DATE!" The shinobi's except for Sasuke, shrieked at the unison totally shocked. Some of them started to choke and the rest didn't bother, there were something much important than some blue-ish people who couldn't breathe!
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"Orochimaru-sama I have good news for you"
"Oh, Kagura-kun, I'm all ears" The sannin displayed a wick smile.
"I have found a good tool for us. His name is Kawabura Haru; I have set up a meeting with you"
"Ku, ku, ku, ku… Kawabura Haru; we'll see Kagura-kun if he fits in the Sound, we'll see" Orochimaru cupped his chin with his skinny hand. "Kagura-kun, have you found her?"
"I'm not that far from her" She smiled, "Did you know that Takeuchi Sakura-san has a twin sister in the Fire country?"
"A twin sister…" The snake man narrowed his cold eyes.
"Haruno Sakura, apprentice of the Hokage, Tsunade-sama" Kagura continued eagerly.
"Ah, Konoha" The old sannin who didn't look that old after those years started to laugh in the way he only can do it pouring venom in his next words.
"I guess Kagura-kun you've thought the same thing I want you to do, don't you?"
"Your wishes are orders Orochimaru-sama. I'll bring Haruno-san for a tea party in your presence" She bowed politely with playful eyes.
"Oh, Orochimaru-sama? Haruno-san is in the Snow country. Excuse me."
And Masato Kagura left an amused Orochimaru rubbing his hands at the surprise of Konoha's shinobi's, because an apprentice of a Kage wouldn't all alone.
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"FINALLY!" A welcome committee screamed relived surrounding the couple of shinobi's with soaking hair in the room 601.
They were expectant of any juicy detail of the said date they had behind their backs, even the Uchiha avenger was expectant… in his cool way of course.
"……"
An awkward silence set up between the newly arrived and the ones who waited. Nothing came; no word, no sound. Nothing.
Sakura coughed. "…guys, is there something new?"
"We were asking the same about you two." Ino narrowed her eyes, "How was the date?"
"…Date?" Sakura asked and looked at Neji in a did-you-told-them way.
Everyone nodded affirmative containing the wants of tie them up in chair and start a cruel interrogation. As you may guess, they all, I mean, the entire Konoha knew about the feeling of those two for years! But no one could do anything about it 'cause of their pitiful insecurities and their possible murderous actions against them if they tried to.
"Yeah Tomoe told us about your date! Now, tell us about it, or else…" Tenten trailed off caressing their polished kunai's.
"Kawabura Tomoe" Huyga Neji glared at the said kunoichi twitching his eyebrows.
The Takeuchi coughed several times, stood up and left her room. Idiot! Shit, shit, shit, shit… Dead end… Plan B: how to escape from my sister's death punch and the sexy's Jyuuken. She sighed and started walking the entire hallway in thinking mode.
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Everyone was startled at the abruptly actions of Saku-chan, and at the speed of light they got a conclusion: She hook them up!
"Ne-Neji-niichan, how was your d-date?" Hinata asked at the surprise of every human been in the room of hell as Sakura started to call in her head.
He blinked and coughed. "Did you find something really important?"
"Did you make out?" Naruto screamed like talking with deaf people.
Sakura glared at him and Naruto shuddered and hid behind the Hyuga heiress.
"My, my Isuzu it seems you don't want to talk about it, but is your duty as friends of all of us!" Ino demanded.
"Later Ryo, later" Sakura was loosing her patience and then sneezed. Great, I've catch a cold.
"HEY WE WANT TO KNOW TOO!" The AMBU members protested… except the Uchiha.
"Hey your hairs… why are they wet? What have you done guys?" Kiba asked with a playful smile.
"People, the mission. The.Mission.Now." The Huyga sent death glares to everyone.
They coughed and recovered their composure after hearing the magic words in a lovely way.
"We find out the hiding spot the snake outside of the city, in the deep of the forest" The lazy bun stated.
Neji nodded apprehensible.
"And I will meet the snake tomorrow at 6 p.m. in the same place" Sasuke talked.
"Good. Let's make a plan according your information"
And the planning started right away with every ninja in the room included the Snow's cherry blossom. Several hours passed till the night arrived when everyone who just confirmed their next movements went to sleep at their rooms. What they didn't know was that some shadows from the windows were observing cautiously at them in white suits to camouflage themselves with the fallen snow.
"Kagura-sama, there's no possible mistake, Konoha's shinobi's are disguised in the Snow country" One of them whispered to his radio transmission.
"Good. You know what to do. Bring her alive. Don't play with her yet, Orochimaru-sama needs her in one piece"
The transmission went off; the shadow smirked and made a signal to the others to take their positions.
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A/N: See ya pretty soon, I promise! Thank you for reading!
Next: Chapter Nine: Kidnapped: I'm not Haruno Sakura