Inner self, thoughts, text

Chapter 9

Long Time No See

"You guys stay at least a quarter of mile behind us just in case we end up having to fight any of the sound-nin." Kakashi instructed Kurenai, Lee, Shino, and Ino, who all nodded in understanding.

"Ok, so it's settled. Let's go already!" Sasuke said irritably. Kakashi sighed at the impatient Sasuke before jumping up into the trees. Sasuke and the other joined along.

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"I've never seen Sasuke act like this before." Ino whispered to Shino. "I'm worried about him."

"Don't be. He'll be fine once we retrieve Sakura." Shino responded.

"I guess he really does like Forehead." Ino sighed turning her head so she was no longer looking at Shino.

"Hey, it doesn't matter. I mean, You've got people like Shikamaru with you." Shino tried encouraging her.

"Shikamaru?!" Ino snapped her head in Shino's direction. Shino smirked at her reaction.

"Kiba's right. You really are blind when something has been right in front of you the whole time." Shino stated and left it at that, for he jumped up further to catch up with Lee, who was telling Kurenai about how youth can affect the world. Kurenai tried to smile but inside she wanted to take a kunai and pin Lee to a tree then go about her mission like nothing had ever happened.

'Shikamaru...likes me? No, that can't be it. Shino only mentioned his name; he never said anything about Shikamaru liking me.' Ino thought wondering if what Shino said had any meaning to it.

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Sasuke was looking tense and was ahead of the group. All that was on his mind was Sakura. Naruto, who was staring at him confusedly, asked Kakashi, "Hey, Kakashi-sensei, does Sasuke love Sakura?"

"It would appear that way." Kakashi responded with a sigh.

"What's wrong?" Naruto asked, noticing the sigh.

"I'm afraid that we might be too late." Kakashi answered, closing his eye.

"How can you say that?!" Naruto shouted getting angry.

"Naruto, you have to calm down. You should know how Sasuke is feeling."

"What do you mean?"

"Hinata is missing as well."

"I know, but how does that correlate with any of this, sensei?"

"It means you love her, stupid." Kiba cut in. He had been eavesdropping on Kakashi and Naruto's conversation. But you couldn't blame him for overhearing. I mean, Naruto was being loud after all.

"Me? Love Hinata?" Naruto asked to no one in particular.

"Geez, you really are slow. Sometimes I wonder if you have any brains in the head." Kiba laughed knocking on Naruto's head.

"This is troublesome." Shikamaru complained from the back.

"Hey, at least we have the idiot over here to entertain us." Kiba said pointing to Naruto. Naruto hit on the head.

"Hey, no hitting." Kakashi said shaking his head at the others.

"Naruto started it!" Kiba said defensively.

"What?! You're the one that hit me!" Naruto exclaimed.

"No I didn't! You did!" Kiba retorted.

"Oh, you wanna tussle?!" Naruto said putting up two fists.

"Tussle?" Kiba asked looking at him strangely.

"It means to fight." Neji explained knowledgeably.

"No, really?" Kiba said sarcastically, rolling his eyes. Neji rolled his eyes as well, but stayed silent.

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'You know, when I think about it...Deidara's kinda cute. Wait, what?! No! I mean...I don't know what I mean.' Sakura thought to herself confused.

'Of course you don't, that's why you have me!' Sakura's inner stated proudly.

'Go away!'

'Is this about Sasuke?'

"..."

'I'll take that as a yes.'

'JUST GO AWAY ALREADY!' Sakura shook her head to rid her of her thoughts. She looked over at Deidara. He was smiling. He looked to peaceful just sitting there. Sakura scooted closer to him and rested her head on his shoulder. Deidara stiffened.

"W-what are you doing, un?" Deidara asked nervously.

"I'm just resting; you don't mind do you?" Sakura asked looking up at him.

"Uh, no, un." Deidara replied easing up. He decided to rest his head on hers. 'She smells nice, un.'

There was a moment's silence before Sakura spoke up, "Hey, Deidara?"

"Yea?" was his reply.

"Have you ever had a girlfriend?" Sakura asked sheepishly.

Deidara hesitated before answering, "No."

"How come?" Sakura asked furrowing her brows.

"Because of the mouths on my hands." Deidara sounded a little sad but tried his best to sound normal.

"Well, that's not a very good reason!" Sakura said looking up at him. She didn't like it when people judged other people because of their appearance. Then it hit her. She had always thought that Deidara was a rampaging madman who would destroy anything crossing his path. But she was wrong. He wasn't a madman, just understood. She felt bad for him.

"I mean, what girl would want a boy with mouths on his hands?" Deidara asked raising a brow.

"I would." Sakura said bluntly.

"Say what?!" Deidara stared at her in disbelief. 'Did I hear her right, un?'

"I mean.." Sakura started but was cut off by a random kunai being thrown and whizzing 3 centimeters passed her head. "What the hell?!"

"Well, well, if it isn't Deidara." said a man with long blonde hair put up in a style similar to Deidara's followed by two other men. Deidara and Sakura stood up instantly and each pulled out a kunai from their holsters.

"Daichi." Deidara growled, gripping his kunai tighter. Sakura, who had been watching Deidara, noticed this.

"It's been a long time, Deidara." the blonde man named, Daichi, smirked. Deidara glared at him.

"Do you know this guy?" Sakura whispered to Deidara.

"Yea, un. He's my brother." Deidara growled.

Sakura looked from Deidara to Daichi. 'I can see the family resemblance.'

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"COME BACK HERE WITH THOSE BALLOONS!" Zetsu was chasing Kisame around the house with a chainsaw.

(Flashback)

"Zestu, what are these rubbery things?" Kisame had asked inspecting the small colorful rubber in front of him.

"They're called balloons, you idiot." Zetsu responded annoyed with Kisame's stup- I mean, lack of knowledge. Kisame took a balloon out from the little bag it was in.

"How do they work?" he asked looking into the little hole at the end of the balloon.

"You blow into the little hole." Sasori said slowly, answering for Zetsu. Kisame took out an airpump and started blowing the balloon up.

"Kisame! Stop!" Itachi shouted when the balloon was now covering half of the living room. "Noo!"

Kisame had been too entertained with the outrageously bulging balloon to realize that Itachi had told him to stop. Soon the balloon had covered every little aspect of the room. The balloon had poked the tip of Itachi's kunai and BOOM! The giant balloon popped. Itachi was holding his ears and muttering something that was incoeherent and Sasori lied on the floor twitching. Zetsu on the other hand was holding a chainsaw and glaring evilly at Kisame.

"Zetsu, w-what do you plan o-on doing w-with that?" Kisame asked nervously, pointing at the chainsaw in Zetsu's hands and backing away slowly.

"I'm planning to, oh I don't know, SLICE YOU TO A ZILLION PIECES!" Zetsu shouted running towards him with the chainsaw in hand. Kisame turned around and ran for his life.

(End of Flashback)

While Zetsu was chasing Kisame around the house with his lovely chainsaw, Itachi and Sasori were having a little disagreement of their own.

"I'm telling you, it's pink, blue, pink, blue!" Itachi yelled frustrated. Itachi was putting the streamers up in a pattern and Sasori disagreed with this. He wanted pink, red, pink, red. But Itachi didn't agree to that either.

"No it's not!" Sasori protested.

"Yes it is!"

"No it's not!"

"Yes it is!"

"You wanna go?!"

"Bring it!"

Itachi and started to slap at eachother like cats clawing, but, unfortunately, they weren't hitting eachother but the air its self. After 10 minutes of nothing the two finally wore out and gave up sitting on the couch.

"Wanna soda?" Sasori asked Itachi politely.

"Tch. You'll probably poison it." Itachi said giving him the Talk-To-The-Hand sign. Sasori narrowed his eyes at Itachi and went into the kitchen to get himself a soda then got a brilliant idea. He smirked and walked over to the fridge, rubbing his hands together.

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Author's Note: Wow, this chapter was...interesting...to write! I hope you all enjoyed and remember to R&R or else I'm gonna staple Deidara to the wall and use him as a human dart board, stuff Sakura in a cannon and fire her up at monkey's butt then feed her to the chicken's, and hang Gaara about a man eating chinchilla! X3

Deidara: OMG! THE HORROR! THE HORROR!

Sakura: Ew! I don't wanna be shot up a monkey's butt! GROSS!

Gaara: Hey! I'm not even in this story! Why do I get tortured?!

Because people love you.

Gaara: THAT'S WHY YOU'RE TORTURING ME?!

That and because Naurto ran away from me.

Gaara: T.T