Sasuke sped off in full speed avoiding countless number of vehicles. Suddenly his phone rang. He felt kind of annoyed. He stopped beside the line of expensive clothes shop. He took off his helmet and his phone out.

"What is it this time?" he asked answering the phone.

"Sorry if I annoyed you Sasuke," it was Karin.

"It's alright."

"Hm. But you better get here fast I don't believe Suigetsu can hold back any longer," she said.

"You better hurry up," he could hear Suigetsu shouting from the background.

"Where are you?" he asked her.

"The old building near the forest," she answered.

"Alright, alright I will be there as soon as I can," he looked around as Karin started to shout something at Suigetsu. He glanced at yukata shop and back at the road. He frowned and quickly looked back in the shop again.

"What do you think?" Sakura came out the changing room wearing a sky blue yukata with white floral prints on it and big red sash around her waist.

"You look good," Ino replied beaming at her friend.

"What do you guys thinks?" she asked twirling around looking at Hinata and Ten Ten.

"Smashing," Ten Ten said giving a thumbs up and Hinata nodded smiling.

"Just want look good for the festival," Sakura said looking herself at the mirror.

"Don't we all," Ino said looking for a perfect yukata for herself.

Sakura smiled to her herself. She finally found a perfect yukata for herself. As she was examining herself in the mirror she felt as if someone was watching. But she just ignored the feeling.

Sasuke watched her twirl in front of the mirror. Her smile was priceless. He couldn't take his eyes off her.

"Sasuke are you listening to me?" Karin asked in a raised voice.

"What? Oh yeah," Sasuke replied hastily.

"Ugh. Why don't you guys ever listen to me," Karin shouted making him pull the phone a little farther from the phone. "I am as important as you are."

"Of course you are. I'll be there soon. Bye," after that he hung up.

He put his helmet back on.

Sakura couldn't help the feeling of being watched so she looked around her, everyone was busy searching for yukata for them.

You're just being paranoid. That's right.

She walked around the shop for a while. She glanced outside the shop and paused. She saw a guy on a bike with a full face helmet on. The only things she could see were his onyx eyes staring back at her. Her heart skipped.

Shit.

Sasuke quickly pulled down the face shield down and rode off, his heart beating madly. He could felt the wind against his bare skin, his cheek warming up. He finally reached the destination. He could hear the yelling and some banging noises coming from inside the building. He got off his bike taking off his helmet.

He walked slowly towards the entrance door. He stopped in a distance. He waited.

3…2…

BANG. Came Suigetsu flying out from the building through the double door. He landed with a dull thud and quickly pulled himself up on his feet with a grunt. Shortly after Juugo the tall and blonde guy and Karin the girl with black specs and red hair and eyes with a long neatly combed hair at one side and short, untidy and unkempt at the other side.

"There you are," Karin said in a relief. Few laughs echoed from inside the building.

"I told you to wait," Sasuke said to Suigetsu who wasn't looking at him.

"They got on my nerves," he replied.

"Hn."

"There's a new person." Sasuke heard one of the Bloodhound member shouted. They all came out like a moving pack of wolves. They, Sasuke noticed, were nine of them. One of them was huge. Sasuke stepped forward.

"And you must be the new people," he said coolly shoving his hand in his pocket.

"Of course we are," one of them said rudely.

"I think I must ask you to leave this place. People are not allowed to come here," he said calmly but they just laughed.

"What if we don't?" one of them challenged stepping forward a little.

"It wasn't a request," Sasuke said stepping forward as well.

Smiles faded from their faces and anger took its place. "We do what we like and there's nothing you can do about it."

"I am not going to repeat myself," Sasuke said ignoring him.

"Are we suppose to be scared?" one of them sneered. "You and the nine of us. I think you are the one suppose to be scared of us."

"I am not joking," Sasuke said appearing behind him making his spine shiver.

"Get him," the guy shouted. As soon as the words left he received a massive jaw breaking punch.

Then Sasuke turned around and found the others running at him. All mad and angry. One of them shot his punch at Sasuke but he only hit the air. He had suddenly disappeared. Then out of nowhere he received a punch in the gut and fell on the floor. The same thing happened to the others. They got hit on their body out of nowhere.

"He's damn fast. They'll never know what hit them," Suigetsu said to himself.

Sasuke stopped in the front of his friends. "Did I over do it?" he asked watching his opponents on the ground.

"Maybe a little bit," Karin replied.

"What the-?" Juugo shouted at once.

Sasuke turned back looking at the spot Juugo had pointed.

Sand?

Sand had started to gather at one spot slowly taking shape of a boy.

"Not bad at all Uchiha Sasuke," said a voice as the sand structure took colours.

"Who's the guy and how does he know you?" Karin asked looking quite tensed.

"Gaara of the Desert," Sasuke answered with a smirk his eyes fixed on Gaara.