Title: Dancing Diplomats

Author: LightMyWay

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto in anyway, shape, or form...because if I did Hinata would always be in Naruto's arms.

A/N: Sorry about the wait. I had a whole bunch of stuff to do and I just couldn't get enough time to sit and write the chapter. cough mom cough I got it done though. Please Enjoy!

Chapter 4: Of Fights and Well More Fights

"Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer." -Sun-tzu

"Shut up idiot," Sasuke said to the blonde ninja who was supposedly his best friend. How anyone came to that conclusion he'll never know. How he even came to that conclusion he'll never know. The only thing he knew was that at the current moment the hyperactive blonde was annoying him to death. He grinded his teeth together to try and block him out, but it didn't work. And still the blonde continued on and on in his never ending nonsense of drabble. Before the fox boy could spit out another word Sasuke smacked him on the head.

"Ow! What'd you do that for?" Naruto cried nursing his head injury. Sasuke just growled and walked away leaving Naruto to groan. Hinata helped Naruto with his injury, while the rest of the group continued down their current path. Once he was patched up Naruto started to talk again...only louder and faster. Some people were chuckling, others were shaking their heads, and one was cringing. Sasuke turned around and walked back to Naruto.

"Do you want to be hit again?" Sasuke growled out only to have Naruto talk over him, so as to continue to annoy the Uchiha before him. Sasuke clenched his fists and slammed them both upon Naruto's head. Naruto went crashing into the ground. Once upon the ground he curled up into the fetal position, while clutching his head.

"I think you went a little too far Sasuke-kun," Sakura said pushing past the annoyed boy to get to the one lying on the ground in pain. She tended to the boy's throbbing head, while someone else lead the boy mad one away from him. Split in two the groups tried to calm and maintain a state of peace within the men. A very confused Suzuki stood in between the two groups looking back and forth to see where she was needed. After, a moment she gave up and plopped herself onto the ground. She looked back and forth watching the group tending to Naruto's new injury and the other group trying to calm down a sour faced Uchiha.

'Well there's nothing I can do,' she said as a final thought before settling herself down even more, so that she could be comfortable for a while because this mess was going to take a while to clean up. The longer she sat the more she became eventually she got up, brushed herself off, and went to some nearby trees to explore. Out of the corner of her eye she saw a flash of movement. When she saw nothing after a few minutes of waiting patiently for another sign of movement she decided that it was just a bird and that she needn't worry about it. That was until she heard something snap quite close to her on her left. She took out one of the few kunai that she carried with her. She tore through the trees until she was back on the path they had been taking for almost three days now. Gaara looked up at her when she ran past him panting for breath and scared out of her wits. He raised an eyebrow displaying the only indication that he was confused.

"Something...in...the...woods," Suzuki got out between breaths. Gaara nodded and relayed this new piece of information to Hinata, who seemed more stable than Sasuke at the moment. She gave him and some of the other instructions to search the surrounding woods for anything that betrayed the appearance of other ninja or enemies. The rest of the group was to stand by Suzuki in case anyone attacked. Hinata was quite proud of herself for dealing with this situation the best way she thought possible. She was also proud that she hadn't messed anything up or anything like that. She was feeling good about herself and the praise she got form everyone else helped too. She smiled slightly more to her self than to anyone else, but the keen fox boy caught it and he smiled himself.

"Nothing, Hinata. We couldn't find anything," Neji reported. Hinata looked at Suzuki who gave her a sour look that just dared her to say something to her. Hinata turned back to Neji, who was much safer to talk to than a mad Suzuki.

"We'll form a circle around her like in the beginning and try not to make her any angrier than she is now," Hinata said softly taking into account Suzuki's feelings at being contradicted. The ninja formed a circle around the diplomat again, who only crossed her arms and then started walking whether they were ready or not. Hinata left her spot in the circle to try and console the angry women, while everyone else simply watched in amusement as Hinata seemed to fail miserably. Hinata suddenly brightened, an indication of an idea, as she whispered something into Suzuki's ear that no one else could hear. This seemed to cheer the purple haired girl up because she smiled and nodded. Hinata resumed her place in the circle talking to the now calm Sasuke in front of her.

"We make camp," Sasuke mumbled to Hinata before breaking off from the circle to go on a search in the woods for a place to rest for the night. The rest of the gang keeps their distance following him with Naruto talking louder than ever. Sakura slapped her hand of Naruto's mouth, while shaking her head. After a few minutes of walking around the troop of ninja settled down in a clearing that was once again surrounded by trees. Suzuki refused to talk to anyone and she sat in a tree, while everyone else set up camp. She had fallen asleep in the tree after glaring at everyone for an hour straight. A hand suddenly appeared on her shoulder making her jump at the touch.

"Just me," Gaara mumbled sitting down without the ever present gourd on his back. Suzuki's heart stopped beating as it had been, but on slightly.

"You scared me," she whispered looking at him. The pale moonlight made his skin a pale blue.

"I believe you," he said staring out at the half moon with some distaste, as if it being close to whole was terrible. She cocked her head to the side in confusion.

"About seeing something in the woods," he explained before giving her a side ways glance. She nodded in thanks, smiling at the same time, and stared back out at the moon. They sat together for a little while longer before Suzuki turned back towards back to the quiet sand boy.

"I'm gonna go to bed," she said slipping gracefully from the spot in the tree. Gaara watched her walk away with interest, as he himself slipped down from his spot in the tree. He followed her to her tent, that the others had so kindly put up for her, wondering why he was following the girl in the first place. He heard her bustle around and such noises not uncommon for night. But then she spoke.

"Gaara-kun you've already done that. You can't scare me again," she said. Gaara cocked an eyebrow and stared at the tent flap. Suzuki screamed. He rushed into the tent intent on protecting the woman. That unfortunately did not happen. Upon entering the tent the only thing Gaara found was a note addressed to all the ninja. He read it than quickly dropped it and ran out of the tent hopping away into the trees. Having heard the scream the other ninja quickly woke from their comfy sleep to drag themselves outside. Yawns were heard from all over the place.

"Who screamed?" Tenten muttered with her head on Neji's shoulder. For once Neji was too tired to do anything about it. Naruto started to fall asleep on his feet, so Hinata lightly tapped his shoulder. Naruto jumped his eyes wide open.

"I'm awake!" he announced waking the other people who had been falling asleep up. Sakura tried as hard as she might to stay awake, but unfortunately her eyes fluttered closed and she pretty much crumpled to the ground. The only thing that stopped her from completely crashing to the ground was Sasuke catching her.

"Once again who screamed?" Shika muttered rubbing his eyes, "So troublesome." He felt no jab or poke or punch or slap or anything of that nature from Ino. Ino said nothing, but Shika figured out with his keen mind and a small nod from Ino that she agreed with him for once. Sasuke realized it first.

"Suzuki and Gaara aren't here," he informed while looking around at the surrounding woods. Kiba walked over to Suzuki's tent and found the note that Gaara had threw behind. Walking back out of the tent he said,

"She's been taken by Sound ninja," Kiba sighed this mission was taking a very bad turn, "They're taking her back to Sound and unless we want her back we're to do nothing." He reread the note to see if he missed any information.

"I guess we know where Gaara went," Temari said rubbing her temples. Sure her brother was strong, but she was still worried about him. Immediately after Kiba told them what was on the note the ninja packed up and went on the way to Sound, the way they assumed Gaara went too. Well, one thing was for sure it was going to be one long night.

"And we were almost at Rock too," Shikamaru said, "So troublesome."

Well there you have it. Now we see why I put romance/action/adventure instead of romance/humor. Next, chapter is gonna be fun...I have some of it written, so it shouldn't take me long to finish. Tata for now!