A/N: Sorry my first two chapters were so short! This one is a lot longer! And also, I'm inspired by reviews so if you have any tips or corrections for my story… REVIEW, REVIEW, REVIEW!!! (I don't mind flames too much either. Just avoid swearing at me please!) Improvements are appreciated! –NoOnesGal1848
"Hey, Uchiha," Kabuto said, emerging from the darkness in front of Sasuke.
"Lord Orochimaru wants to see you in his office, immediately."
"What does he want now?" Sasuke muttered under his breath, after Kabuto disappeared into a poof of smoke.
"Sasuke," Orochimaru hissed, as Sasuke appeared before him.
"Hn?"
"I'm sending you on a very important mission."
'A mission? I've only been on one mission since I got here two years ago. This better be important.'
"What is it?" Sasuke replied coldly.
"Your mission is to return to Konoha,"
'What?!?! What kind of mission is that? I can't go back yet! I'm not strong enough! That-'
"And there you will capture a certain person and bring them to me."
"Hn. You mean Naruto right?"
"No. That pink-haired Kunoichi, Sakura Haruno. It is believed that her skills are even able to pass those of the Hokage herself. Her full power may be even greater than the Nine-Tailed Fox's."
"Hn." Sasuke smirked in the darkness. 'Orochimaru wants me to capture Sakura? Why would a weak kunoichi be any use to him? It's simply a rumor that she has great power. Sakura could barely even stay alive on our missions back when we were Gennins. Naruto and I always had to save her. Useless…'
Sakura's POV
They all jumped through the tree tops, heading for the Hidden Sound Village. Sakura was amazingly happy and joyful. 'Finally, all my training will pay off!' 'YES!!! This is the kinda mission I'm talk'n about!!!' Yelled Inner Sakura, getting ready to kick some Uchiha ass.
"…Stop!" Sakura whispered harshly. Everyone halted. A single kunai flew through the trees heading right towards the side of Sakura's face. She caught it, about an inch away from her cheek, with her index and middle finger.
"Who's there?!" Naruto shouted. "Show yourself coward!"
"Naruto! Shut Up!" everyone stared at Sakura. "We've stumbled into a Genjutsu. I wasn't paying attention and missed it."
"Whose Genjutsu is it?" Rock Lee asked.
"I think it might be Kabuto's. Release!" Sakura said making a seal. Everyone else did the same, except Naruto who was sitting there drooling. "NARUTO!!!" Sakura shouted hitting him over the head, awakening him from the Genjutsu.
"Neji, Hinata use Byakugan!" whispered TenTen.
"BYAKUGAN!!!" The cousins shouted.
"See him?" TenTen asked.
"No. He left." Neji replied.
"Fine. Let's keep going." Kiba insisted, as he and the others set off again.
"How troublesome." A certain lazy-ass Nin said looking up at the clouds.
"Shikamaru!" Ino shouted, pulling him along behind the others, by his ear.
"Ow, ow, ow…"
They were close to the sound village now, and could see through the trees, a large clearing.
"Are we there yet?" Naruto whined.
"Naruto, you must be patient, a good ninja never gets restless!" Rock Lee stated, punching the air enthusiastically.
'The guy seems to get stranger every day… and more like his creepy sensei.'
"We're here." Neji said, turning on his Byakugan.
The ninja's stood in front of a partially underground mansion located in the middle of the woods.
"This is one of Orochimaru's hideouts. Be careful, there's bound to be traps everywhere. How troublesome."
Sasuke's POV
The raven-haired Uchiha jumped from branch to branch, tree to tree, through the deep forests of the area surrounding Konoha.
'Hn, lets make this quick. I need to do more training.' He thought. Sasuke quickly transformed into a random person as he approached the village. 'Hn. How should I find her? I could always go to the Hokage's office and request her for a mission. Hn, yeah, I'll do that.'
"How may I help you?"
"I need a ninja to escort me to the Rice Country. Do you happen to know if that legendary Medic Nin Haruno Sakura is able to do it?"
"Haruno Sakura? No, I'm sorry I just sent her out on a mission."
'Dammit! Now how am I supposed to find her?!'
"Oh, alright then." Sasuke, disguised as some old man, said walking out of the office. 'Hn. This is going to be harder than I thought.
Sakura's POV
"So, what are we waiting for? Let's go!" Naruto shouted, as they all started to walk towards the half exposed castle, cautiously.
They walked across the clearing without any trouble, which worried them all.
"There were no traps." Ino said, stating the obvious.
"Yeah, that does seem pretty suspicious." Neji said. "Knowing Orochimaru he would have them set all over the place… unless he wanted us in there…"
They all looked at Neji for a second wondering what he meant.
"So, you think the reason there were no traps is because Orochimaru wants us to enter his hideout?"
"Precisely."
"Yeah, but why would he want us to do that? It's not like we have anything he wants." Sakura spoke up, finally saying something after a long period of silence.
"I don't know."
"M-maybe we should have some go in a-and one or two stay outside, t-to watch guard."
"Great idea Hinata!" Naruto said making Hinata turn bright shades of red. "So, who wants to watch guard?"
"Not me. I have some catching up to do." Sakura said looking away maliciously.
"Then again, Sakura, maybe you should." Neji said.
"Yeah, Sakura, the mission is to bring him back to Konoha, to get information on Orochimaru's plans, not rip him to shreds." Said Ino. "If anything goes wrong, that will have to be our last resort, not our first."
"Yeah, Sakura, I can't help but agree." TenTen, Naruto, Kiba, and Rock Lee all agreed.
"Fine then, it's settled. Sakura you stand guard and if you sense any trouble you can come in."
"OH HELL NO!!!" Sakura shouted with an immediate outburst of anger. 'I've been waiting forever for this day to come; the day I could get Sasuke back for always hurting me, years ago. I'm not going to let them take the pleasure of killing him!!!' But right as Sakura stopped thinking she turned around to speak and found they had abandoned her. "UGH!!! You guys are so dead when you come back out!" She shouted leaning against the wall of the castle and slowly slipping down to her knees. She had her back to the castle as she stared intently into the woods.
"One of my few chances to kill him and I end up sitting outside staring at trees, for gods sake!!! This sucks…" she mumbled under her breath.
Sasuke's POV
'Damn. Hn… if she's on a mission, maybe I should try finding her in the woods. Tsunade did say she just left.' Sasuke thought finally making his decision and running, top speed out of the village gates and jumped back into the trees.
Sakura's POV
From staring so much and all the energy she used getting here as fast as possible, Sakura started to get tired. Her eyes were feeling heavy, half closed, as she drifted off into a light sleep.
"AAHHH!!!" Sakura woke up a while later as screams were heard, echoing through the castle.
"Who was screaming? Was that Hinata?" Sakura started to get up but sat back down instantly remembering what Naruto had said, 'Fine then, it's settled. Sakura you stand guard and if you sense any trouble you can come in.' "Ha! Wait a second. A scream is definitely a sign of trouble, so in I go!" Sakura exclaimed, unusually happy, as she stood up and ran inside the front entrance.
Sasuke's POV
'Shit. This will take forever. Sakura could be gone from her mission for days or weeks. Maybe I should head back, and come again later.'
Sasuke changed courses, heading the opposite way, back towards the Sound Village.
Sakura's POV
Sakura ran into the castle to find nothing. She couldn't sense any chakra near by and the screaming had stopped. She just stood there in the darkness, feeling around for a wall or something that she could follow. She soon stumbled over something on the floor, causing her to fall flat on her face.
"Ow…" She moaned sitting up. "What was that?" She crawled on the floor feeling for whatever it was she had tripped over. Her hand ran across a piece of fabric on the ground. She pulled it and found it was attached to something. Sakura patted the fabric and felt something hard underneath it… a person.
Realizing she had just touched a dead person Sakura screamed at the top of her lungs. 'Wait a minute… what the hell am I doing, screaming over touching a dead person?! I'm a Medical Nin for god's sakes! But who is this person? And why are they just lying here? …oh, no… please don't tell me this is who I think it is… no… Naruto wouldn't be defeated that easily would he? Then again… this is Orochimaru we're talking about. How long was I asleep for? Oh, god.'
Sakura picked the person up and started to walk the way she thought she came from. Soon a light appeared at the end of the hallway. She wasn't sure what it was but ran straight to it. To Sakura's luck it was the exit.
She now stood outside, the same place as she was before. Sakura slowly looked down at the person she was carrying, and to her horror… it was Naruto. "OH MY GOD!!!" she shouted accidentally dropping Naruto's body. "This can't be happening!" 'Wait!!! Maybe he isn't dead yet. I can save him!' She knelt down on her knees and placed the side of her head on his chest listening for a heartbeat… nothing.
Sasuke's POV
'What was that noise?' Sasuke thought as he heard a faint scream coming from the direction he was heading. He sped up slightly, hoping maybe it was Sakura, so his mission would be complete.
Sakura's POV
'No… no… this can't be happening… it can't! Is everyone else dead too? I knew I should have gone in! Who could have done all this? Could it be… The Uchiha? I'm going to kill him! That bastard!!!' Sakura said clenching her fists. 'But wait… before I can do that… I have to go back and report this to Tsunade. If I kill him without permission to do so, I'll be a wanted Nin. Crap.' She stood up and punched the ground, pointlessly, to let out some anger. The rocks and dirt exploded and went flying everywhere.
'What's that? I sense someone's chakra. It's coming closer… who is it? What should I do? I'll have to ambush them… they could be an enemy.' Sakura hid behind a tree waiting for the person to get within her sight.
Sasuke's POV
Sasuke was heading straight back to one Orochimaru's hideouts. 'There is someone there. I can sense their chakra.' He thought. 'I'll have to be careful… they could be an enemy.' He was almost there now, the clearing was visible through the trees.
Sakura's POV
'They're getting closer, still. What if they aren't an enemy? What if it's an old man and I attack him? I'd be in so much trouble. Maybe I should just go towards them; let's just hope they aren't going to kill me, especially while I'm not prepared.' Gulp Sakura jumped out from behind the tree and into the woods, towards the chakra she was sensing.
Sasuke's POV
Sasuke stopped.
Sakura's POV
Sakura stopped.
Sasuke's POV
"S-Sakura?" he stuttered coldly.
Sakura's POV
Sakura's expression changed from one of surprise to one of anger. "Sasuke, you baka!"
Hope ya liked it!!! Please review! I need some ideas or comments. And, I need some help, in the next chapter do you think:
Sakura should fight Sasuke.
She should start to cry and say how much she missed him.
Sasuke should take Sakura back to Orochimaru.
Thanks! See ya!!! XD
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