All righty! Lets get my groove back on!

BTW Please R&R if you read this… because I liked R&Rs. Tell me what I'm doing wrong or what I'm doing right! (…But no flames. Give me good critiques I can take it!).

And If you're wondering, I don't like concentrating on more than one story at a time. My next Fanfiction (If I solidify the plot) Will Probably be a Kingdom Hearts one.

Anywho…

Naruto: Chronicles of a Seer

Chapter 3: The Capture.

"Neji! Use your Byakugan to figure out the best way to get to her!"

Neji didn't argue with Gai's command. Immediately the veins came around his face. There were 2 Ninja guarding the entrance to the inn. Three of them were inside. One of which was guarding the door to Saiyuri's room. The other two were in front of the hallway. This formation was very generic. And none of them seemed to know that they were coming.

Did Saiyuri not warn them? Or did she simply have them in that formation to let on that they were unprepared. That dream that he had wasn't leaving his mind. What did she mean when she said he might be the one. What was he the one to do? Something about her motives seemed too suspicious. Saiyuri must be very clever, given the fact that she has been one of the top people by Orochimaru's side at such a young age. Even Kabuto was older than her.

Gai took the information that Neji said into consideration, then formulated a plan, "All right! Tenten! Use a smoke bomb to confuse them in our entrance. That should give Lee and I an opportunity to take them out with a double Dynamic Entry. Then you and Neji move ahead of us to take out the other guards in the hallway. And we'll all group up against the last one!"

Tenten nodded. And With that she was in the air. Quickly landing in front of the two and letting loose the purple haze. They were taken completely off guard, and Neji wasn't sure that this should surprise him or not. Lee and Gai did their robust attacks. Then Neji moved into the Inn and quickly to the hallway.

The two that were there looked shocked as well. They were both in masks, but their eyes were clearly wide with surprise. Neji went for the first one, giving him a single hard blow to the chest with his Jyuuken. Tenten had cracked the other's skull with her staff.

Lee and Gai had just come into the room, and now all four of them went to face the last opponent. This one had blue hair and was covered in a mask. His hands were covered with special clawed gloves. These were three times the size of a normal hand. The claws were tipped with something that didn't seem like Metal at all. Neji couldn't identify it.

"So…" The sound-nin looked at the four of them, "You Konoha scum have come to try and take Saiyuri? Looks like we can't have that happen…."

All of them could see that this was the best of the five. He didn't waist time with moving into any positions. He just lunged like a tiger towards Gai. Gai quickly moved aside, gripping Kunai. He lunged for the Sound-nin.

The ninja however had whirled around on his feet and Gai was to receive a leg to his face. The leg swept Gai to one side and smashed him into the wall. The ninja picked up the throwing knife with two claws and laughed.

"These puny little toys won't do anything against Chikato's Diamond Claws!" He put the Kunai into his grip and literally crushed it. He tossed it aside like a piece of trash. Then turned to Tenten.

"Lee! Distract him!" Neji yelled over to his teammate, "Just give me a little time!"

Lee Nodded and went in low. He moved his leg upward for a blow to the man's skull. He proved faster than Chikato could handle. Chikato seemed to be more resilient than that. He shook the blow off and tried to grip the leg of his opponent. When he did, he only realized that Lee's legs were protected by the weights that he always wore. Lee flipped around nimbly and gave him another blow to his chest.

During this time, Neji shifted his stance. His legs were apart. His arms were spread out on either side. He was looking towards his left side to his target. Lee had done his job. He had both distracted him and kept him within Neji's circle of divinity.

…Jyuukenhou Hakke Ryokou Yonshou!

"Two strikes!"

As soon as Lee heard that call, He immediately jumped backwards over Neji who was coming at Chikato with chakra rushing through is finger tips. He landed them square on their marks. The sound-nin cringed and grunted with the pain of the tenketsu.

"Four Strikes!"

"Eight Strikes!"

Neji was continuously knocking him backwards into the outside wall. By this time Chikato's arms couldn't move fast enough to bring his attacker off of him.

"Sixteen strikes!"

"Thirty-Two Strikes!"

"Sixty-Four Strikes!"

The force of the blows finally caused the wall to give. And the clawed ninja was sent hurling into the fence across the street. A few people screamed. Several of them ran. And the rest just stared at the white-eyed shinobi that was standing in the open hole.

"Good work Neji!" Gai gave him a shiny-toothed thumbs-up, "Now Saiyuri's all that remains."

The four of them turned to open the door where Saiyuri was. And all four of them were silent as they looked within.

Saiyuri sat up looking at them very calmly. Her face was flushed from running a small fever. Saiyuri herself felt a little better than yesterday. However, she didn't feel good enough to get out of bed, just to sit up.

The Hyuuga's second-strongest attack was ferocious. She didn't want to think of the strongest when the amount of blows were yet again doubled. Chikato was the strongest of the group, but he was far too aggressive and too straight forward. She knew that he would have fallen to that move. Now they were in front of her. She was in no condition to fight.

"So you're Ikue Saiyuri…" Gai crossed her arms looking at her.

"And you are Maito Gai: the leader of this team for the mission." She looked over at Lee and Tenten, "these are Rock Lee and Tenten: a taijutsu specialist and a weapon's specialist."

Finally her eyes met that of Neji's, "It is interesting to meet you in person, Hyuuga Neji."

Lee's eyes widened, "You really were in Neji's dream?!"

"I guess maybe your second sight's not really some hype that Orochimaru made to intimidate people." Tenten looked at her amazed.

"Of course! What other reason would Orochimaru have to make me his third?"

She looked around her room. Then she pointed to a bag that was in one corner, "Could one of you be so polite as to carry that with you? I'd like to have my supplies on me."

"That's it?! You're going to surrender without a fight?!" Gai was shocked.

"Firstly, there's no way I can fight if I can't even get out of bed. Secondly, I doubt that I would have the stamina to fight off all four of you even if I were in perfect health. And Finally…" She looked at them all one by one, "I have no desire to remain Orochimaru's pet."

"You don't?" Tenten looked at her, "How can we be sure that you're not just Lying?"

"Why would I lie in this situation?" She replied without emotion, "I am in no position to lie. I am outnumbered four-to-one and I'm sick."

For some reason, Neji believed her. He moved over to the bag that she had pointed to and picked it up, "It looks like our mission is successful."

Gai would have said something, if it weren't for the fact that there wasn't really anything to say. He simply nodded and then turned to Saiyuri, "You won't be able to walk will you?"

"No… I'm simply too faint to stand."

"We'll take turns carrying you then," Gai picked her up carefully. Then he looked back down at her, "No wonder you're so frail! You can't weigh more than a hundred pounds."

"I can discuss the issues with my weight later. If you want to get out of here before Sasuke arrives, then you had better leave now. He's only a kilometer away from the town."

None of them said anything. They simply did as she said. All of them felt very awkward. However Neji seemed the least unhinged.

"Maybe you're the one…"

She had meant that he and his friends were the ones who would finally be her key to freedom.

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Sasuke pulled Chikato out of the ground in a single motion. He then proceeded to throw him to the side and look down at him.

"What happened here?"

Chikato groaned and held his stomach. His whole body was still burning from that attack. He wasn't going to get any mercy from Sasuke as he dragged the ninja to his feet again.

"I said what happened here?!"

The sound-nin looked back at the Uchiha, "Four ninja from Konoha attacked. two of them in green with bowl haircuts, one was a Konoichi with weapon-scrolls, and one of them was a Hyuuga. The Hyuuga took me down."

Sasuke dropped him and leapt into the hole that was within the in. Saiyuri's door was open. She was gone, and all her supplies were gone as well.

"…The seer has been taken. Report back to Orochimaru! I'm going to go after them."

-end of Chapter 3