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Chapter Four – Team 8

Naruto fallowed Sakura as she walked confidently in the large tall corridor. It seemed that she already knew this walls and halls quite clearly. As they walked over large and spacious white walls, Naruto noticed with a slight discomfort that these cracked chambers seemed very cold and lonely, a thing he hadn't observe the first time he had crossed it. Even so, he couldn't distinguish a hall from another. They appeared all too impersonal for his taste. The temperature was slightly pleasant tough, since the air seemed fresh and clean. It seemed that these stony walls were doing its job, isolating the freshness the slight breezes and shadows brought. Even so, Naruto got his orange jacket off and tied it in his hips. Sakura turned in a small corridor and Naruto fallowed eagerly, stopping momentarily at the carved stone openings, letting him view the Sand village in all of its glory. Excluding the results of Deidara's attack, that thanks to the Kazekage weren't very extended, Sunagakure rose proudly between the towering cliffs in the middle of a sand desert.

"Naruto!" Sakura called as she knocked on a wooden door, in the far ender of the seemingly landscape sighting corridor. Naruto nodded and skipped near her, concern lurching in his stomach, hearing a source of small ruckus. Someone opened the door and Naruto recognized Yuuhi Kurenai, a jounin from Konoha, the sensei of team 8, Hinata's team. Naruto grinned inwardly, seeing that she still had a particular taste in bandaging herself. If Jiraiya-sensei was here, he'd probably be slobbering the whole ground she was in. She smiled kindly at them both, and looked back.

"You two behave, we're having visitors…" Kurenai brisk command stopped the noises they were hearing. Stepping aside, so they could enter, Naruto and Sakura both entered the chamber. As Sakura quickly went through another set of doors, Naruto looked around, and in a flash he saw the source of noise. A large white dog and a brown haired boy were engulfed in some sort of playful row in the ground. The boy grinned at him and the dog barked at him, swiftly going near him to smell at his hands.

"So… if it isn't sleeping beauty that just graced us with his presence…" Naruto frowned at him and trudged forward, gaining him a little growl from the dog. Kiba grinned mischievously and rose up and went near him.

"If it isn't the smelly dog-lover Kiba and his fellow Akamaru! I wonder if he has already turned to a dog completely, or is just the canine looks and smell that are deceiving us…" Akamaru barked at him angrily, but Kiba shrugged it off, laying a hand on Naruto's shoulder.

"Ah still the same old jerk… Some things never change, do they?" Naruto arched an eyebrow at him and they both laughed it off in a friendly manner. Akamaru came near them and licked Naruto's hands affably. Kiba seemed just like he remembered him. Loud and obnoxious just like him. He was one inch taller then Naruto, and sported the same ferocious look, with red markings on his face. His smirk showed confidence, and his energetic attitude was reflected all over him. He now used the shinobi black sandals, along with a loose pair of black pants and used a mesh shirt with a leather vest over his torso, just like Naruto remembered. In his hips, however there was a grey jacket that could pass by his older one, except this one didn't had black fur.

"I see you two loud mouths are getting up to date…" Naruto looked at his right and saw Shino coming from a, smirking at him. Akamaru barked and went near the newcomer to lick his hands. Still wearing shades, he now adopted a more ninja like uniform. Loose pants and a chuunin vest over a simple mesh shirt, and off course the shinobi sandals.

"Shino." Said Kiba grinning in acquaintance. "So do you like Sand village from our window?" He nodded, petting Akamaru.

"We got lucky. This building is at the centre of the village so we have a good view over it. A well planned village…" Naruto nodded.

"Yeah… it's the second time I've been here but in the first I just stayed for a couple of hours so I haven't seen it properly… I was thinking about a walk around… and since I'll leave tomorrow…"

"It's worth it… Even so, now it's too hot to go for a walk… You should wait for later in the afternoon…" Naruto nodded and scratched his jaw, his very short blond stubble tickling him.

"Damn…" They all laughed. "I wonder how could the suna ninjas get used to it though…" Kiba shrugged.

"Probably because they lived here all life… They got used to, I guess…" presumed Shino. Naruto nodded and smiled, as the small chitchat conversation progressed. After all he hadn't seen his Konoha fellows for two and a half years. Akamaru had stopped licking and barking, and now laid contently near Kiba. Even so, Naruto suddenly remembered Hinata and guilt swarmed inside his stomach again.

"Ah…" he paused for a while. "What about Hinata? Sakura told me she came to see her… She got hurt by that Akatsuki weirdo didn't she?" he asked worriedly. Shino and Kiba exchanged a look, which scared Naruto even more.

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