Chapter 2

"What do you mean you don't know where she is?" Naruto yelled loudly at Tsuande who looked to hitting something or someone.

She frowned and tapped her fingers on the desk; resting her chin on her knuckles... "I don't know where she is Naruto and I haven't seen her for the past view days. That's exact ally why I've called the others here."

"Eh. Others?" Naruto narrowed his eyes as he took in the form of to males standing close by.

"Idiot," Neji muttered under his breath giving Naruto a flat look. Gaara just glared from his spot in the corner.

Naruto's face filled with innocent confusion and he did a double take between the two; scratching his head.

"N-nani! When did you two get here?" Tsuande rubbed the temple of her forehead in frustration.

"They've been here Naruto, I was talking to them before you came bursting in." "Oh, he paused nodding them himself; then he whipped around frowning more confused then ever, pointing at Gaara and Neji.

"But why are they here?" he whined. Tsuande's head rose from her hands as she stared at Naruto with a thoughtful look. 'Should I tell him? Well he'll probably just try to stalk Gaara and Neji if I don't…'

"Sakura is no longer in the Leaf Village so I'm sending these two to find and bring her back."

"WHAT! What? Why them?" Naruto pouted and fussed; glaring over at Neji and Gaara who seemed to not care in the least about him. "They don't even know her! I've been her teammate for YEARS!"

Neji shook his head at Naruto; closing his eyes and staying silent…his thoughts on a certain pink haired girl. He pictured her smiling face around the Uchiha and her tears from before, remembering how she'd wanted so badly to go on the retrieval mission, and then after had started training under the Hokage to become stronger. He frowned wondering what had happened to make her give it all up. He'd actually begun to admire the determination in those jade eyes…so NOW what was he supposed to think? That was a good question, above everything he was just annoyed and angry at Sakura for running away.

'What is she thinking? Stupid girl, she'll get killed out there with all the enemy ninja running around.'

Gaara just stared ahead at the wall silently; he wasn't much of a talker, but if you looked close enough you could see him shaking with fury, his thoughts dark as he also thought about the kunoichi.

'I'll drag her back,' he hissed inwardly; no longer staring but glaring daggers at the wall. Tsuande shivered a bit from the waves of rage radiating off the two silent males. She looked up at the oblivious ranting Naruto in defeat.

"Fine Naruto you can go with them just don't mess up. I chose Neji for this mission because of his Byakugan and Gaara because his sand will come in hand tracking her…I don't know what you can offer but I don't want you running around and getting ahead of yourself. Naruto smiled and nodded; grinning at the Hokage.

"Sure no problem! When Sakura-Chan sees me she'll come back no argument!" Tsuande gave a sigh. 'I hope so.' "Well go on get out of here! You have three hours to pack" "Hai!" Neji and Naruto replied, Gaara nodding as they all left office and headed in different directions. Tsunade frowned as she watched them leave; just sighing again and placing her face in her hands. 'Oi…Sakura.'

((That's chapter 2! The pairing is unclear right now because I still haven't decided, but I've placed it under Itachi/Sakura because there's going to be a lot of Akatsuki + Itachi + Sakura in this story Sorry for the lack of Hinata! I promise she'll be in the next chapter—along with the appearance of SAKURA! X FWEEET! Hope you enjoyed reading—I get bored a lot so I'm updating this every two days—so further encourage me in these next two days—they make my chaps as good as I enjoyed writing this second one. THANKS! ()