for those of you who reviewed (all 7 thank you so much), the answer was actually letter b, at least according to my 12 year old brother.
any who, sorry for the delay, and thanks for the 13 favorites and like 12 alerts, boy do i feel special.
so on to the story.
i don't own naruto. so, yeah.
warning: possible grammatical errors typed all of this in one afternoon and quickly uploaded it.
Chapter five
"What do you mean… yellow flashes?" said kakashi quizzically.
"Like a yellow light," said gaara from the ground, " as I said before." Said gaara from his spot perched against the tree. The medic Nins continued to look him over as he began to get lost in thought. ' It seems that once again, I am indebted to you…' he was cut off from his thoughts by the arrival of another team. Gaara looked over and saw 4 people: one he immediately recognized as rock lee, a Nin he fought in his first chunnin exams. The boy's sense of fashion hadn't changed much in the last 2 years. He still wore the same green spandex outfit, dark bushy eyebrows, and bowl shaped haircut. In other words, he still emulated his sensei, which happened to be standing next to him with a bright grin on his face, the only difference in his appearance was the chunnin vest. Next was a guy with long dark hair and strange violet colored eyes. The Jounin wore what appeared to be a long loose fitting jump suit with a gray skirt like material. Next to him, was a Chinese looking girl with two dark buns that were on each side of her head. She wore a red mandarin collared top with dark blue shinobi pants. The 4 of them looked around in confusion.
"As youthful as ever Kakashi," said Gai in his nice guy pose, "I see you and your team managed to retrieve the kazekage as well as scare off the bad guys," he finished his teeth glinting in the sunlight.
"I'm afraid you are mistaken Gai," said Kakashi.
"What ?" said Gai dropping his pose.
Kakashi turned his attention to Gai's group. The two chunnins and two jounins looked at him in confusion.
"Then Kakashi-sensei, if not you, then who?" said Rock lee his bushy brows furrowing in concentration.
"That I do not know, but I have a suspicion," Kakashi said before giving his attention to the stoic dark haired male, "Neji, I need you to focus your eyes on that area," said Kakashi pointing towards what was once a cavern.
"Understood," said Neji, "Byakugan," he said as his violet eyes became white, and veins began to show on each side of his face. The young man's eyes searched the appointed area while the others waited.
"So, has there been any news about Naruto?" said Gaara. Neji kept his attention on his task while the others looked down at Gaara.
"Afraid not," said Kakashi closing his eye in frustration, " anytime we have a lead, the trail runs cold," kakashi finished as he reopened his eye, and looked towards the destroyed mountainside.
"I'm sure it was him," Gaara simply replied.
"I found something Kakashi- sempai," said Neji, "there is a faint chakra signature over there," Neji finished as he pointed in the direction.
"Chiyo-sama, please wait here," said Kakashi.
"No, it may be my cute grandson," the elderly medic Nin said determinedly.
Noticing the look in the woman's eyes, Kakashi turned and followed Neji to the signature. When they arrived to the rubble, the group of ninja's encircled the area where a red haired man lay. Well at least what appeared to be a man. The puppet's eyes roamed over the group before his eyes stopped on Chiyo. A strange smile crossed the puppet's features.
"And here I thought that I would be able to battle you…obaasan," the puppet spoke.
"Sasori," spoke Chiyo, "what happened, who did this?" she said urgently.
"He was quite angry…that jinchuuriki," said sasori with a strange smile before his eyes slowly slid closed for the last time.
The group stood in shock, all those except for Kakashi who was looking back at Gaara.
'So… it was Naruto,' Kakashi thought.
"we need to head back to Konoha immediately," said Kakashi gathering everyone's attention. They all returned to Gaara, and their way back to Suna.
Three days of non-stop running would have left any ninja over worked and exhausted. So, kakashi allowed his team to go home and rest while he went to the Hokage's office. Kakashi rushed to Tsunade's office and entered without knocking. The blonde haired woman (who was looking at the newspaper to see if she won the Konoha lottery) looked on surprised for a moment until her anger got the better of her.
"kakashi what is the meaning of this?" she said slamming the paper on to her desk.
"it concerns naruto, and our latest mission," said kakashi quickly.
Tsunade immediately calmed down, "really?" she said in a breathless tone.
"yes," kakashi said.
"well then…begin," Tsunade said after gathering her composure.
Kakashi began telling her of their run in with Gaara, the sand jinchuuriki memories as well as sasori's last words.
"So, the kazekage believes it was Naruto who saved him?" said Tsunade.
"yes lady Hokage, and it was confirmed by the Akatsuki member sasori of the red sands," said kakashi.
"and you believe Pakkun may have arrived during the initial fight?" said Tsunade.
"yes," answered kakashi.
"what are thoughts on this kakashi, do you really believe that naruto was there?" said Tsunade guardedly.
"I believe it was him, at least the naruto that I know would do something like this," said kakashi as his eye began to droop from exhaustion.
"even if it was naruto, how will we find him?" she said in a frustrated tone.
"I had Pakkun as well as some of my other Nin hounds track down the scent, and I have faith that he will find it," said kakashi tiredly but determined.
Tsunade looked the man over, "alright kakashi we will began the mission to find naruto and the Uchiha, but after you go home and rest." She said with a smirk noticing that the man's legs were wobbling.
It was 2 days later when team kakashi found themselves yet again standing in front of the hokage.
"as you all are aware of, we have found a credible lead on Uzumaki Naruto, and Uchiha Sasuke's whereabouts," sakura's eyes widened at the information while her teammates kept their faces emotionless. "well," Tsunade continued, " I believe a four team cell for this mission will be sufficient enough," said Tsunade.
"four man?" Sai spoke.
Everyone looked at sai in surprise before returning their attention back to Tsunade.
"yes," she said, "you may enter!!" she shouted.
A tall dark haired male dressed in the Jounin's uniform with dark almond shaped eyes and grin on his face entered the room.
"this is Yamato, he will be rounding out your team until further notice," she said as she looked at Sai.
"hello," the man said before joining up with the team.
"Kakashi will brief you on the mission," she said turning her attention to Yamato., "you are dismissed," she said while trying to keep the glee out of her voice.
'please bring him back,' she thought as she watched the team leave her office.
It was two hours later when the four Nins met in front of Konoha gates.
Sakura, and their newest teammate Yamato listened intently to Kakashi's information while sai's thoughts began to stray to the two people they were going to. rescue? from what sai could gather the Uchiha was quiet and stoic to the point of being cold to everyone. Some people thought the boy was following the way of the shinobi. While other's believed it was a product from the loss of his clan. The Uchiha was rather popular in the village unlike the other missing boy. The only time the Uchiha would show emotion was when anyone mentioned the name of the man who murdered his family, who happened to be his brother, and his teammate Uzumaki. Sai had heard different accounts of the boy. Some of the villagers said the boy was a troublemaking prankster. While his fellow ninja and the Ichiraku owner said the boy was friendly always wearing a grin, and would protect anyone with his life. His loud wardrobe represented his personality. As far as sai was concerned, the Uchiha left of his own accord making him a traitor, but the other, Uzumaki, was kidnapped, and he was the only one that really needed to be rescued.
"So does everyone understand the mission?" said Kakashi.
"yes," all three answered.
It was 7 hours later when the group stopped to rest. A fire was set up while Yamato began setting up what appeared to be a lodge. Sakura stood in awe of their lodgings for the night. They all entered and began setting up their sleeping bags.
It was 2 hours later that sakura found herself awake. She looked to the corner of the room, and noticed that sai was awake. The man seemed to be drawing something in a small notebook. Sakura got up, making sure not to wake anyone else, and tiptoed towards the young man. She took a seat next to him, and looked over his shoulder. She noticed the boy sketching what looked to be a tree.
"wow sai," she whispered loudly, "that really good," she finished with a wide smile.
Sai turned to her with one of his fake smiles. "thank you sakura," he said before turning back to his sketchbook.
The two sat in silence for while sai continued to sketch. Sai finished the sketch, he closed the book, and turned his attention to pink haired kunoichi. The fake smile dropped from sai's face leaving him with a thoughtful look. Sakura noticing this spoke,
"so..what do you want to know?" she said as kindly as possible.
"I would like to know about your ex-teammates," he said as the fake smile made its way back on his face.
The next morning, the four-man cell made it to the heaven and earth bridge. Kakashi saw his ninja hounds, and immediately made his way to them.
"follow me, we aren't to far from his hideout," said Pakkun gruffly before taking off. The group took off after him.
When the team arrived, they found themselves standing in what appeared to be a grassy field that was bordered by several cliffs.
"where is the entrance?" said sakura.
"underground," answered Pakkun as he made his way to a certain spot, "here would be a good place to go through," Pakkun said, "goodbye," he finished before disappearing.
Kakashi studied the ground for a moment then turned his attention to his fellow Jounin.
"Yamato, this is your area of expertise," kakashi said staring at the man.
"yes sempai," Yamato answered with a smile.
Yamato did a couple of hand signs, which caused the ground to open up before them.
"everyone make sure to stick together, and keep on guard," said kakashi.
Everyone nodded in agreement before they made their way down the earthen steps. When the group got further down, they were met with a wall. Yamato used his wood jutsu to drill a hole through the wall. The wall began to crack as the wood bore deeper. After it was completed, the group climbed through the hole. They all took a left, and made their way down the desolate, and dimly lit hall. The group came to a fork in the road. The hall split in 4 paths (not counting the one they just came from).
"it looks like we split up," said kakashi, "everyone make sure you have your earpiece in." everyone placed their earpieces in and split up.
When sai was sure he was far away from the others, he pulled out a scroll, a paintbrush, and quickly painted 12 snakes. The snakes all began checking the rooms. It was as if a signal was sent off because 3 minutes later the inky snakes began to converge into one room. Sai began to follow the hoard of snakes to the room. When sai arrived, he tried to open the door, but found that it was locked. He quickly painted a key, and used it to unlock the door. He entered the room slowly and looked to the bed where a teenaged boy was asleep.
Sakura found nothing but a dimly lit hallway as she made her way down.
"my god this is so aggravating," she spoke to herself. She stopped when she heard a loud expression. The hall began to shake as the walls ahead of her began to crumble.
Sai stared up at the shadowed figure. The explosion caused the roof to collapse, and the sun shone through making it appear the cave was always present.
"who are you?" spoke the figure.
Sai just stared ahead.
"sai are you alright?" shouted the pink haired girl.
Sai nodded in the affirmative to the girl as he kept his dark eyes on the figure.
"hn," the figure spoke, "sakura?" he continued monotonous.
The pink haired girl turned her full attention to the shadowed figure. The sun broke its way through the clouds causing the figure to be shown. There stood her former crush, the boy she thought she loved with all of her heart.
"Sasuke-kun," she said slowly.
The young man kept an impassive look on his face. The two stared at each other for what seemed like forever, until Sasuke broke the moment by looking away to his left at the empty space. A minute later the space was filled with another figure, with hair the color of the sun, the figure looked down into the cavern. Sakura stood in shock as recognition began to show on her face.
"naruto." She whispered.
A/N: again sorry for the delay. this chapter took too long, and i just started university, though i'm sureyou can't tell by my writing skills.
another one of my rants: i just saw a jiraiya/naruto pairing. man that's sick. that's like his grandfather/ uncle figure. what strange pairings have you seen?