Naruto: Alright let's head out! *starts heading out the village and turns back around when no one follows* Uh, guys!

Sakura: We have to wait for Kakashi-sensei Naruto.

Naruto: He's always late though!

Demonyokokuramafan: Sine you guys are waiting for Kakashi-sensei, someone do the disclaimer to kill time.

Sakura: Not really in the mood to do it.

Sasuke: *shakes head no*

Naruto: OH ME, ME!

Demonyokokuramafan: Fine Naruto.

Naruto: Yes! Okay, Demonyokokuramafan does not own Naruto or any of its characters. Believe it!

Demonyokokuramafan: Alright then, thank you Naruto.

Sakura: Still no Kakashi sensei.

Demonyokokuramafan: Maybe he will show up during the story. So, let the story continue! Review please. No flames, corrective criticism accepted.

Chapter 2- The mission begins

The old team, squad seven, was at the gate entrance of Konoha village. As usual there sensei, not surprisingly, was late for their mission. They needed Kakashi-sensei to be with them since he was the one bringing the prisoner to them. Sasuke just stood cooly with his arms crossed, waiting for his sensei. His mind wandered back and forth to what he was planning and to the girl he had proposed to.

"Should I do this? To break Rei-chan's heart a second time? Hm, some fiancée I am," Sasuke thought to himself as the surroundings around him changed and he was no longer at the gates with his comrades. Sasuke was standing in a familiar place. The outskirts of the village he had abandoned for his selfish, personal reasons. He wondered why he wasn't running when the answer appeared behind him.

"Sasuke-kun, wait!" a familiar, weak, upset, and sickly tone rang out to him. Sasuke remembered this scene from his past clearly. Heading out of the village, Sakura trying to stop him and him knocking her out, and up to the part he was reliving now in a twisted, demented vision. Turning around, Sasuke faced Rei as she stood there, gruesome looking. He could tell immediately that the illness that had plagued the poor tai-jutsu(physical arts) user since birth was affecting her. Of course it was though; her boyfriend was abandoning her and their entire village. As Sasuke watched her, he shook his head swiftly.

"Rei-chan, go back to the village. I can tell you are not well. What are you doing out here anyways? I'm just going on a solo mission and will be back tomorrow night," he lied to her, trying to trick her. The black haired girl was ahead of him though.

"Sasuke-kun, that's not true. I saw and heard what you told and did to Sakura-chan. You're abandoning me, the village, your friends, everything you cherish in your heart," Rei spoke out as her body shook where she stood and ragged coughs escaped her normally pink, now frosty white, lips. Sasuke didn't show any emotion, but he was ravaged on the inside. She knew everything, oh well. She was going to find out sooner or later.

"Yes, I am leaving. I can't stay playing ninja in this village anymore. I will never develop my skills if I stay. My hatred for Itachi-niisan is too strong now to not fulfill my ambition. I am going to Orochimaru-sama and you can't stop me," he told her as his heart ached with his words. He wished with all his heart that Rei weouldn't have come. She was his life and the one reason he didn't want to leave Konoha. He loved her and wanted to protect her from danger, help her with her illness. Right now, looking at the kounouichi who was coughing up blood, breathing heavily, and shaking, he wanted to pick her up in his arms and comfort her, take her to the leaf hospital. He didn't do that though. He was too lost in his revenge and focused on power to turn back now. He took off, speeding through the luscious green forest, jumping from tree limb to tree limb.

"Sasuke-kun, please," came the tortured and strained cries again as Rei chased after him. He heard it then, the chance to get away safely. Crashes sounded as Rei ell through the trees, Sasuke knowing that she had collapsed. He didn't help her though because her new her brother, Lee, would find her soon.

"Hey Teme," a voice sounded in Sasuke's ears. The forest broke around him and, instead of trees in his sight, there was Naruto looking directly in his black eyes, his blue eyes showing concern for his best friend.

"You alright Sasuke-kun? You just spaced out all of the sudden," Sakura said to him. Sasuke shook his head to clear his fogged mind. It had all been a mirage.

"Yes, I'm fine," he answered, placing a hand on Naruto's shoulder, patting it. A smirk spread across the blonde's face as he looked at Sauske.

"I get it. You're just thinking how you're going miss Rei-chan right?" Naruto asked with a wink. Sasuke just sighed and smirked also.

"Well you're the same way with Hinata-chan, baka," he countered to him. This made the Jinchuriki, host of the fox demon, blush a beat red.

"Hey guys! So sorry about being late. I saw this little old lady who was trying to cross the road. She was about to get hit by a rolling cart so I had to help her," came a voice from a silver, spiky haired guy with a mask covering his mouth and nose and his headband covering his left eye, carrying a cage. The cart held the main part of the group's mission. A guy with midnight black hair was sitting in the cage, glaring with dull brown eyes. It was clear that he had been in many fights because his green t-shirt and black sweat pants were shredded to pieces. On his four head was a headband similar to our hero's headbands. His headband though had raindrops on it instead of a leaf. This man was a rain village traitor, an assassinator.

"Your lying sensei!" Naruto and Sakura both yelled at the silver haired man who was their teacher, Kakashi Hatake. Sasuke just hook his head. He wished for once that the jounin Ninja would grow up. It was surprising that the guy was even a jounin. Of couse his skills where nothing to laugh about.

"Right, right. Well anyways, let's be off. We need to get to Awegakure (the village hidden in the rain) immediately." He instructed them.

"Hai sensei!" the three young ninja exclaimed. Sasuke gave one look to the man in the cage, his three spiked, red sharingan eye showing unnoticeably. The man nodded to the raven haired fiancée, Naruto and the others not noticing the exchange at all.