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Chapter Three

Tsunade's Office (3rd Person POV)

"Tsunade, what did you want to talk to us about?" Kakashi rubbed his neck.

Tsunade took in a deep breath. "Sakura. She left a note along with the disk."

Kakashi's eyes widened.

"Yeah. It's concerning all four of you actually." Tsunade nodded towards the four ninjas in front of her.

"May we read the note Tsunade?" Kurenai asked cautiously.

"H-hai." Tsunade sighed as she passed the note to Kakashi.

Kakashi read the note. It was definitely Sakura's handwritting. He couldn't believe what Sakura said.

"Here..." Kakashi said gruffly as he shoved the note towards Guy.

Each of the senseis took their turn reading the note.

"They're really planning to do that?" Kurenai asked

"If they're the girls we all know and they're determined to do it, then I would say yes, they are." Asuma replied.

"Yes, but at least we know they'll be safe." Guy said solemly.

"True..." Tsunade nodded.

"However, if we hear that they're hurt from any of the leaders..." Kurenai's voice cracked a little bit due to emotion.

"We will go anf find them and bring them back to Konoha as quickly as possible." Kakashi said confidently.

"Hai." Tsunade agreed. "You are dismissed."

The four senseis nodded and poofed out of there, leaving Tsunade screeching for more sake.

Training Grounds With The Guys (3rd Person POV)

"So..." Kiba drawled.

Naruto and Choji's stomachs growled.

"Hehe..." Naruto nervously chuckled. "I guess I'm still hungry..."

"Ugghh..." Choji complained. "Need food... Out of chips..."

"Let's go to Ichiraku!" Naruto yelled out.

"Hn." Sasuke agreed.

"So troublesome..." Shikamaru ruffled his hair.

"Then what are we waiting for?" Choji asked.

"Let us go!" Lee agreed.

"Mmm." Neji replied.

The eight of them walked towards Ichiraku and it was almost immediately that Naruto's spirits went up.

"Oi! Jii-san!" Naruto called out as the boys seated themselves.

"Hey Naruto! Brought only part of the gang?" Teuchi asked the boys as he started making more ramen for his newest customers.

Everyone flinched at that.

"Y-y-yeah." Naruto replied stiffly.

"So how are the others? I haven't seen Sakura for a while. Kinda miss her pink hair. Same with Ino and her loud personality." Teuchi laughed. "Hinata's not here either? She's usually with you guys. Is Tenten still into weapons?"

"Hehe..." Kiba laughed nervously.

"Sakura's been... great!" Lee answered. "Yeah, Tenten's as violent as ever with her collection of different weapons..."

Everyone nodded hesitantly.

"Hinata couldn't make it this time..." Shino made a plausible-ish excuse.

"Ah.." The old man said. "So how are you guys?"

"Never better then ever!" Kiba smiled and Akamaru barked happily.

"Why's that?"

"Cause I made four girls happy today!" Kiba grinned widely. Sasuke growled at this, Naruto looked away, Neji had on a poker face, the only thing that betrayed him was a little twitch, and Shikamaru just grumbled.

"Arigato ojii-san!" Choji yelled out and started digging in, acting similar to the regular Naruto when he's around ramen.

"No prob Choji." Teuchi smiled. "I see you'r happy too."

"Hai!"

"Hn." Sasuke grumbled.

"Ne. Jii-san. I think one bowl's enough for me today." Naruto grumbled softly. This made everyone's head turn.

Did they hear right? Naruto only having one bowl of ramen? The world's gonna end now!

"You okay Naruto?" Teuchi regarded his usually hungry customer with concern.

"I've had better days." Naruto said as he slowly slurped his ramen.

"Ah..." Teuchi took that as his cue for Naruto not wanting to talk about it.

When Naruto finished his ramen, coincidentally all the guys finished at the same time, the group migrated towards their houses, which were right next to one another.

All of them went into Sasuke, Naruto, and Sakura's house. When they opened the door, they new the girls wouldn't be waiting there for them. They were no longer there to say "Welcome home you guys!" or anything of the sort. The guys entered and walked into the kitchen. There they say four lunches sitting on the table and a note.

"Hey you guys. Get over here." Neji called.

"There's four lunches." Naruto whispered.

"There's one for Kiba and Akamaru." Neji said. Kiba's face brightened and Akamaru barked happily once again.

"One for Choji." Shikamaru grumbled.

"Food!" Choji screamed out.

"One for Lee." Sasuke ground out.

"The last one is for Shino." Naruto said. Shino smiled.

"There's a note on the table." Shino called out.

Sasuke reached over and looked at the note. It was from none other then his pink-haired teammate.

It read:

Hello everyone. I suspect that you guys have already gone to Tsunade-sensei's office and seen the little video. I'm not surprised. It's not like half of you guys cared to think "Oh the girls aren't here yet. Let's go and look for them." Well anyways. Here are you're lunches. Uzumamaki, if you're complaining of not getting one, then suck it up. Hyuga, I'll tell you right now that you're lucky Ino and I prevented Tenten and Hinata from jumping your sorry ass. We should let them. Actually scratch that. I was gonna jump you. Nara, Ino made a fantasic job of not crying in front of us. She held it all in. But I could tell she wanted to cry. I could tell that you practically broke her heart into tiny little pieces. I wanted to jump you for that. Uchiha *snort* I don't even know what the hell I should say to you. Oh! I know! SCREW YOU! Ah... That felt a lot better. I hope you note the sarcasm.

Lee, Shino, Kiba, and Choji I really love knowing that you've got my back along with Ino, Tenten, Hinata. It's reassuring. It's almost like you have our backs not only in the field, but outside of it as well. None of you are my teammates, but I would love to have you guys on my team. Anyways, I hope you like the food because we worked really hard on it. Anyways, I've gotta go now because we've gotta leave. See you guys in a few years. I promise to have Tenten, Ino, and Hinata's back. I promise you guys that. I'll be like you guys. Lee, I know you've saved Tenten from a lot of trouble. Choji, I know you and Ino are like partners in saving Nara's ass on the field. Kiba and Shino, I know you guys are truly a team with Hinata. Don't worry about the girls I'll have their backs and finally someone will have mine. It looks like it'll be a nice change. I'll miss you four and Akamaru too!

Cya!

~Sakura

Sasuke couldn't help but feel... sad, rejected, hurt. All these things he didn't think he would feel because of Sakura. He shoved the not away from him, thankful when Naruto grabbed it out of his hands.

He saw Naruto's face getting dimmer and dimmer as he read through it. He then shoved it towards Neji, who took it cautiously.

Neji seemed calm, but then all of a sudden his eye twitched. He must have gotten to his part. He then gave it to Shikamaru. Shikamaru took it. The same thing happened to him. In the middle of reading it, you can feel his aura just diminishing.

He then gave it to Kiba. Shino, Lee, and Choji couldn't take it anymore so they just read over Kiba's shoulder. The four shinobi felt bad for the other four guys in front of them. But they then softened as they read their part. They were happy that Sakura seemed happy at them. Kiba pat Akamaru's head and Akamaru seemed to smile.

"Well..." Shikamaru drawled out.

"That's... definitely something." Neji choked out.

"Hn." Sasuke grunted.

"They'll be okay right?" Naruto whispered,

"Sakura said that she has Ino, Tenten, and Hinata's backs." Shino pointed out.

"But who's got her's?" Sasuke gritted his teeth.

"They'll have her back. They are friends." Kiba said.

"I say we should go and track them down." Sasuke said.

"The girls said not to." Lee said evenly.

"Since when did we listen to what the girls say?" Neji asked.

Lee got a little bit pissed off. "Since we respected them."

"Hn." Sasuke bit back a laugh.

"Give them time to cool off." Choji added logically.

"Choji's right." Shino said. "Nothing good comes out of a guy trying to make things right with a girl that they pissed off/made cry/a bunch of other bad emotions."

The other seven shinobi just stared at him with shocked expressions.

"What?" Shino asked them.

"That's the most I've ever heard you speak!" Naruto yelled.

The group just burst out into laughter.

"Ah... God..." Kiba was laughing so hard that tears came to his eyes. He wiped them away.

"Man... I haven't laughed that hard in a looonnnggg time..." Shikamaru smiled.

"It's getting late." Choji commented.

"Yeah, it's almost 10 o'clock." Sasuke nodded.

Sasuke and Naruto followed their friends to the door and waved them good-bye as they went to their homes close by.

As Sasuke closed the door, he felt like something was missing. He realized that Sakura wasn't here saying good-bye to the others.

This was going to be a long few years...

That is the end of chapter three! I hoped you liked it! Now review!