Chapter 3: A New Friend
"Are we there yet Sakura?" Ino whined.
"For the 100th time Ino, no. We need to go to a village close by to restock on supplies first, and then we need to ask around to find out about the Kurohasu." Shouted a pissed Sakura, as she turned her head to look at Ino, she ran into something or rather someone.
"Sorry, I'm in a hurry and I wasn't watching where I'm going." a tall blonde lady with four pigtails smiled weakly. Ino walked around Sakura to get a better look at the woman.
"You very familiar, have we met?" Ino eyed the young woman curiously.
"Yeah, you're right Ino. She looks like that ninja that went up against Shikamaru in the Chuunin exams, 7 years ago, you know, when the Sand nin attacked" Sakura said circling around the young woman. Temari looked at both the pink and pale blonde haired girls, eyeing each one carefully. 'How do these girls know about the exams?'
"How do you know about that match and who are you?" Temari questioned angrily.
"We know about the exams because we were there, we fought each other in the preliminaries. My name is Sakura Haruno and this," Sakura pointed to Ino behind her. "...is Ino Yamanaka, we're from the village hidden in the leaf, Konoha." Sakura stopped walking around Temari, now facing her head on.
"Oh... Well I'm Temari, sister to the Kazekage of the village hidden in the sand, um... why are you here anyway? " Temari explained to the two leaf ninjas, giving them questionable looks.
"Oh that's easy; you see we've decided to become part of the female missing ninja group the Kurohasu." Ino said with all the pride she could manage in her voice along with a wide smile at the end.
'Thump, Thud'. Sakura hit Ino on the head after her speech, looking quite angry at her companion. "YOU BAKA, WE'RE MISSING NINS NOW. YOU DON'T TELL EVERYTHING YOU KNOW TO EVERYONE YOU MEET. NOW SHE MIGHT TRY AND MAYBE SUCCEDE IN KILLING US! HAVE YOU LEARNT NOTHING ABOUT BEING A NINJA?" Sakura yelled at Ino who's now on the ground rubbing her head with an annoyed face.
"I'm not going to kill you, why should I. I'm going to Kurohasu as well since I'm getting tired of covering for Gaara since he has a girlfriend. I've not been on a mission in 4 years cause I've been doing Gaara's job. I might be his sister, but that doesn't mean he can get me to do all his paper work." Temari said while shifting her bag off her shoulder. "With the amount of work I did, I might as well be the Kazekage."
"Oh...um...ok... Our teammates think we're weak, but we're not. So we've decided to leave and show them just how weak we really are." Sakura said as she helped Ino to her feet, who was dusting off dirt from her skirt then looked up at Temari.
"Why don't you join us since we're going in the same direction?" Ino said with another grin of hers to the sandy haired ninja. Temari looked at Ino then Sakura.
"I wouldn't mind to join you but only if Sakura is okay with it."Temari said as she looked at Sakura, hoping that she would let her join them. 'I really hope she would let me join, she seems to be more of a leader than Ino. They better not make me the leader just because I'm older; I've practically been the Kazekage for four years.'
"I'll even let you be the leader, since of my reasons why I don't want to be the leader. Okay" Temari said which was more pointed to Sakura then both of them. 'She's not too bad in fighting and she did say that she did not won't to be the leader, which is a good thing, and it would be nice to have someone who 'hopefully' doesn't whine. Not like Ino does, yeah she can join us I guess' Sakura thought before speaking.
"Sure, why not, it would be fun having a third member in the group. First things first do you have everything you need Temari?"
"Yeah, I even brought extra explosive tags and kunais."
"Great, second we're going to the last location where a Kurohasu member was seen. Which was in the forest, ok let's go." Sakura said to her team mates before jumping on a tree branch, followed by Ino and Temari. Together they jumped off to the land of Lighting to become the best female missing Nin team there ever was.