AUTHOR'S NOTE:I swear to god I have to many stories I am writing. Well one of them is almost done. Just two more chapters. And I hate to say this but this story is almost done as well. Just four or five more chapters. ( that makes me sad. But I would like to thank everyone who reviewed this story. Now on with the story!

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After Sakura's team had a day of rest at home, they busted out of the village to make up having to be in the village, all because the Hokage was a little paranoid.

"So where are we heading Tiger?"

Sakura matched her steps with her team, so they were running six straight in a row.

"Well we stopped right outside Mist……"

"We should take a s-short cut. T-that way w-we can g-get to s-stone faster."

Kiba turned to Hinata and smiled. Even though she couldn't see it, she knew he was smiling at her.

"Good idea Swan."

"H-Hai."

Sakura shook her head at Hinata. She really does need to lighten up around guys more often. But she knew that it would take time.

The team ran for hours on end, trying to cover more ground so they can get more information before their mission ends. Thanks to Hinata's short cut they arrived at the border of Stone in no time. Sakura motioned for them to take a rest. For they did run for a while and she could see everyone was tired.

"Thank god! I thought we would never get here!" Naruto yelled as he stretched out and drank from his water bottle.

Kiba shook his head and he and Shino started to lye down on the rocky surfaces.

"Geez Fox, why are you always hyper?" Kiba asked.

Hinata and Sakura looked at each other and watched as the arguing scene was about to unfold.

"What do you mean Dog Boy?!" Naruto yelled at Kiba.

Kiba got up to his feet and the two men walked up to each other. Like rwo people in western times getting ready to have a shoot down.

Sakura turned to Hinata and giggled.

"You would think that with all the running we did they would be tired."

Hinata giggled as she nodded her head and watched the two boys fight as to why Naruto was always so hyper.

"I have to agree with you."

Sakura took out her water bottle and held it up to her thirsty lips. When she squeezed it she found that she didn't have any water left.

"Your kidding me right?"

Hinata looked over to see her friend squeezing the shit out of the water bottle.

"What's wrong Tiger?"

Sakura took her attention off the bottle and frowned. "There is no more water in the bottle. That means I have to go and get more."

"But you need the water for traveling anyway. So you might want to go." Hinata told her leader.

Sakura nodded her head in agreement. "Do you think you can watch these two?"

Hinata nodded her head and smiled. "I can always have Shino yell at them too, if they don't want to listen to me."

Sakura chuckled. She remembered when they were on one of their missions and Kiba and Naruto annoyed Shino so bad that he bursted out and made them nearly shit their pants. Boy did she annoy the two men about that ever since that happened. She never let them live it down.

"If they ask tell them I went to fill my water bottle." Sakura said with a wave as she traveled deep into the forest trying to see if she could try to find a river close by.

Hinata watched as her friend's back disappeared from her site. She then turned her attention back to the fight to see Kiba and Naruto at each other's throats. Literally.

'Oh come on guys. Why do you both have to have so much energy?'

Hinata shook her head and got up to separate them.

When Hinata entered the ring of fire she swore to god she was going deaf all from their loud screaming.

"You're the hyper one! You jump off the walls after running for two hours straight!"

"Me?! What about that time when we were on that mission where you were hyper off those pills Sakura-Chan made?!"

"Those pills were to give more energy and she said I needed to take them………."

Kiba was interrupted by a loud scream. Thanks to our tiny Hinata.

"QUIET!"

When she yelled, all three men looked at her. Shino smirked under his collar, Kiba's eyes looked like they would fall out of his head, and Naruto just blinked at her.

"Damn Swan. I didn't think you had it in you!" Naruto said as he patted her on the back.

Hinata looked around to see all the men looking at her with unbelievable looks. But at this point she really didn't care.

"You both are hyper ok?! Only psychos can have enough energy to start a fight after running for two hours!" Hinata shouted again.

This time when she saw their faces again she turned quiet and looked away.

"I'm sorry. I-I had n-n-no right t-to y-yell a-at y-y-you like t-that."

Shino got up from his sitting position and made his way over to their circle.

"No Hinata. They should be the ones sorry."

When Kiba and Naruto saw the look Shino gave them, they bowed their heads in shame.

'Now Sakura-Chan isn't going to let me live this down……Wait……where is she?'

Naruto's head popped up once he found out that she was missing. His head started to turn in every direction his neck would let it.

Hinata watched him look for Sakura and she couldn't help but laugh at him. Naruto looked at her and was confused as hell.

"Why you laughing Hinata-Chan?"

Hinata shook her head, trying to get ride of the laughing, and when she did she looked at Naruto.

"She j-just left t-to refill h-h-her water b-bottle."

Naruto stopped his head turning five million miles an hour and looked straight at Hinata. Who in return shot her head down to the ground.

"Oh……why didn't you say that." Naruto smiled at her.

----------With Sakura-------

Sakura made her way through the forest. After going through a ten mile radius around her team's camping ground she finally found a river.

"God who knew that when they say the Stone Village they literally meant it."

Shaking her head, Sakura kneeled down to the side of the river and uncapped her water bottle, and placed it in the water. After the bubbles seized to come to the top, Sakura took it out and capped the bottle.

When she got up from her spot she got into a defense position.

'Someone is here. And they are coming fast.'

Sakura got out a few kunai and got ready to throw it at the intruder. The intruder however stopped a few feet in front of her and his speed decreased substantially.

'What is this dude planning?'

Sakura narrowed her eyes at the bush in front of her. Within a second a few kunai came flying at her. With her speed Sakura dodged every single kunai and took the kunai's thrown at her and shoved them in her holster.

'These will come in handy.'

Sakura braced herself for another attack and soon enough a black figure came at her with full speed. Sakura extended her fist and tried to punch the mysterious figure, but the person blocked the strong punch.

Sakura swore she heard a snicker when the person blocked her punch.

'I need to get back to my team. Who knows how many more there are. They could be fighting my team right now!'

With worry clouding her atmosphere Sakura was now very hasty to end this stupid little game. She took a deep breath in and out. Within a minute she activated her Kekkei Genkai and flames started to encircle her.

The figure in front of her just stood there and waited for her to attack him.

'What could he be planning. I don't have time for this! I'll just attack him, knock him out and run like I'm on fire and get to my team. Hopefully I wont be to late.'

With her plan set in her mind, she sent her fireballs to attack the man/woman. What happened next though, blew Sakura away.

When the fireballs were at her target he held up some shinny solid type thing and the fireballs came back and hit Sakura full force. She tried to get out of the way, but her flames were to fast and she was hit. The power from the balls sent her flying back hitting a few trees.

If Sakura wasn't so preoccupied with trying to rush the battle she would have had seen the thick tree branch that was coming up. But of course she didn't and got knocked out unconscious from it.

"Ahhh." Was all Sakura could say before the tree branch hit her in the back of the head.

The black figure watched as her rushing made her unaware of her surroundings. But he ran up to her and caught her just before her body hit the ground.

"Got cha Sakura." The figure said.

He reached into his pocket and pulled out a piece of paper. He then took a piece of Sakura's clothing and one of her weapons and tied the note to it. He then placed the "gift" by the side of the river.

Once his task was done he placed Sakura in a more comfortable position, which ended up with her being carried bridal style, and he ran deep into the forest.

----With the Team----

"How long does it take to fill a water bottle?" Kiba asked as he looked around their camp site.

"Maybe she c-couldn't find a-a r-river. W-We are i-in S-Stone."

"Still. She is fast enough to be back here in little over ten minutes." Shino added.

Hinata bit her lip, a habit she picked up from Sakura.

'I hope she is alright. If anything happened to her, I wouldn't be able to live with myself.'

"We have to go look for her! She has been gone to long!" Naruto yelled to everyone.

To his surprise everyone was agreeing with him. With a nod everyone took off trying to find a river, hoping she would be there.

'Sakura-Chan knows that she should of taken someone with her even if it as simple as filling a water bottle.'

'Then why didn't you go with her.'

Naruto lowered his head in shame. If he wasn't arguing over Kiba about who was more hyper she wouldn't be MIA.

'Thanks a lot Kyuubi.'

'Well if you want her as yours your going to need to keep a better eye on her.'

"Hey. There is a river up a head." Shino said in the microphone.

Naruto's speed increased ten fold and he blew by everyone. Hinata smiled at him and she too increased her paste. Having Kiba and Shino following them from behind.

When they arrived at the river they saw a few trees out of their hole and Sakura's water bottle rolling on its side, a few feet away from the river.

"Someone attacked her here." Shino said as he sent some of his bugs to explore the outer perimeter of the battle field.

Naruto glared at the ground. 'How could I have let Sakura-Chan go alone?!'

While Kiba and Hinata checked out what made the trees come out of the ground and while Shino was talking to his bugs. Naruto investigated the river side.

'There has to be a clue here some……'

Naruto heard a crinkle under his feet. He lifted up his foot to see a piece of Sakura's cloth and her weapon tied together. Kneeling down to get a better look at the clue he saw a note tied to the cloth and weapon.

'Wonder what it says……'

Taking a deep breath Naruto took the note and unfolded it with shaky hands. As the note was revealed his eyes went wide.

Dobe;

You had her yesterday, and so did your little demon friend. Now it is my turn. Don't worry about her, she is safe….far away from you. She is mine Dobe, so let her go she doesn't want you anyways. You're a dead last, a loser.

Naruto crinkled the note into a tiny ball and threw it in the water.

'That bastard!'

Kiba, Shino, and Hinata looked at Naruto with confused faces and watched as he raised to his feet, evidence in hand. He held it up so his team mates could see it.

Hinata gasped and looked at the cloth with sad eyes.

'I'm so sorry Sakura-Chan. I should of gone with you.'

Kiba and Shino took the evidence and examined it. When they looked back to see how Naruto was taking it they saw he was mentally beating himself up.

'Find the dick and crush him!'

Naruto's anger was rising with every second. Shino and Kiba had to hold Naruto back before he did anything stupid.

"Come down. We will find her." Kiba said trying to make him clam down.

Naruto didn't want to hear any of it. They didn't know that his best friend just stole her away from him. There is no telling what he will do to her.

"Teme took her! How long is it till he keeps her alive?!" Naruto shouted at them all.

He watched as he saw all their faces fall to the ground. He saw Hinata was about to cry, Shino was glaring at the ground, and Kiba's grip loosened on him.

Shino was the first to speak. "If that is true Naruto. Then we need to end our mission for now and go back to Kohana, tell the Hokage and find her."

Hinata looked up and nodded her head. Kiba nodded his head in determination and Naruto just looked at the river with angry eyes.

'Watch yourself Teme. When I find you I'm going to rip you to shreds.'

"Then who will be captain now that Sakura is gone?" Kiba asked gently.

Shino looked between the four of them and his eyes landed on Hinata. Hinata looked up at him with widened eyes.

"M-Me?"

Shino nodded his head. Hinata shook her head.

"No. I-I couldn't. I-I wouldn't b-be any g-g-good."

Naruto broke free from Kiba, but didn't run off. Instead he walked up to Hinata and placed his hand on her shoulder.

"Hinata-Chan, yes you can. I hear Sakura talking about how she wishes that there could be two captains. She puts all her trust in you. And so does everyone on this team. Don't make Sakura's confidence in you go to vain." Naruto smiled sadly at the girl.

Hinata's negative thoughts when away once Naruto said that to her. She knew Sakura trusted her, but she didn't think Sakura trusted her that much. But with the new information Hinata smiled up at everyone.

'I can't stutter now. Oh Sakura-Chan I wish you could see me right now. I am not going to stutter while I am in command!'

"Ok team. Lets run as fast as we can to Kohana!" Hinata ordered without a single stutter.

The three men smiled at her determination and in a flash they ran full speed to Kohana.

------------With Sakura------

'Ouch……where the hell am I?' she thought as she tried to see if she could sense anyone around. When she didn't find anyone around her she decided to open her eyes.

As Sakura got up she could feel a horrible pain in the back of her head.

'That damn branch from that damn tree. I don't even know if my team is ok. God I hope they are. I wouldn't be able to live with myself if they got hurt. But first I need to heal this stupid bruise.'

Slipping off her glove she placed her glowing green hand and healed her bruise. After she healed it she decided to look over her body to make sure she didn't have any surprise wounds on her. When she checked her self out, all there were was some cuts and slashes in her uniform.

'Better than I suspected. But now where the hell am I?'

Sakura looked around to find herself sitting in a well furnished bed. The walls were white and there were a few book shelves with a few jutsu books. The bed was a nice queen with silk black sheets and blankets.

'Ok so this person doesn't have time to decorate or has no time to. Maybe I can get out of this room and explore. But I better keep my senses up.'

Sakura un covered herself and made her way to the door. But before she could open it the handle started to turn on its own.

'Someone is coming. Better hide in the shadows and attack them when they least expect it.'

Sakura ran to a corner where there was nothing but darkness. Hiding her chakra she then took out the kunai the man threw at her and held it by the tip.

'If he comes this way all I have to do is wrap it with my chakra and I can then pinpoint the person's fear just by their grip. Then I can place a genjutsu on them and get the fuck out of here.'

Sakura watched as the door slowly opened to reveal the person who attacked her. She watched as the man turned around and she nearly gasped out loud when she saw him.

'It's……It's Sasuke!'

'Well, well, well. Mister hott and steamy is back!'

'God will I ever get ride of you?'

'Well lets see. Sasuke was really good, but that demon……OH BABY! Did he get me feeling excited.'

'Do you mind?! I would like not to be scared for life!'

'Too bad!'

Sakura cut out her thoughts because Sasuke was staring right at her. Well it was like he was, for all she knew he could just be thinking he heard a noise.

Unfortunately for Sakura, Sasuke wasn't thinking that. He knew where she was and so he grabbed her by the hand and pulled her out of the shadows. When he did, she went flying into his rock solid chest.

"Hello to you too Sasuke." Sakura said as she was muffled by him pushing her into him even more.

"Ah." Was all he said as he smelled her hair.

'Beautiful as ever I see Sakura.'

Sakura just stood there not really sure what to do or what his intentions were.

'Ok? What do I do now?'

'Enjoyyy the hug woman!'

Sakura shook her head and she broke their distance. She looked up at Sasuke's face to see him with an emotionless face.

"Why did you bring me here?"

Sasuke looked her up and down and shook his head. "You can't wear that here. Here wear this."

Sakura watched as Sasuke made his way to the closet and pulled out a stack of cloths. He then made his way to the bed and placed them on the bed.

Sakura took the cloths and looked them over. He gave her a sleeveless whit tank top that came up around the middle of her abdomen. Equipped with dark red shorts that went down to her knee and had a white belt.

Sakura picked them up and looked at Sasuke. Sasuke just looked right back at her with a smirk.

"Your not going to leave….are you?"

Sasuke smirk grew and he stood up and made his way over to her. "Why would I miss a show like this?"

Sakura glared at him but he didn't seem to care. He was more fixated on what she would look like in his outfit. She then got an idea.

'Time to see your reaction.'

Sakura smiled sweetly at him and started to unzip her uniform. First she took off her baggy vest revealing a red skin tight tank top. She placed it on the bed, while sneaking a glance at Sasuke.

Sasuke however was enjoying every minute of it. After three years of having a crush on the girl she now was in front of him, undressing in front of him.

'How long do you think I can control myself Sakura? Hopefully long enough for your sake.'

Sakura could tell that he was trying to hold onto his sanity as she took of her bottoms to reveal black short shorts.

'All I need to do is take off my shoes and then the fun part begins.'

Sakura bent down to take off her high heels, making sure to reveal a bit of cleavage to the horny man.

Sasuke watched as he tried to control himself. But with every passing second she was making him worse and worse. But he is an Uchiha and Uchiha's have dignity.

'Oh screw it all.'

Sakura was about to put her plan into action but Sasuke came at her with speed and tackled her on the bed. Sakura didn't know what hit her. Well she did. But she didn't expect him to tackle her on the bed.

Sasuke plopped himself above her and started to kiss her everywhere. Down the neck, along her chest that was revealed, and on her lips. While all this was going on, Sakura was in a daze. She just laid there not knowing what to do. But soon Sasuke was making the temptation unbearable and she responded to his handling.

As Sasuke smirked with every kiss he placed on her heavenly skin, his hands would scale up and down her body. Hitting certain places that would make her moan. Sakura on the other hand was using her hands and tracing his muscles on his chest. Then her hands trailed up to his neck and hair.

After about a good half hour of their little make out session, Sakura separated herself from the horn ball and took the cloths and ran into the bathroom to finish her changing.

While she got dressed in the bathroom, Sasuke was sitting up on the bed with a satisfying smirk on his face.

'No wonder the Kyuubi and the Dobe couldn't stop touching her. She is perfect.'

When the door started to crack open out came Sakura in her "new" outfit. Sasuke stood up and kissed her on the lips with lustful intention.

'And she will be mine Dobe.'

Sakura could sense the possessive radiating off of him. She broke the kiss and stared at him with hard eyes.

"What's wrong Sakura? Not enjoying yourself? I know I am." Sasuke said as he tried to corner her.

Sakura stood her ground and extended her hands. "Tell me why you brought me here and when I can leave. Was it just you that captured me? If you hurt my team I will make sure to kill you." Sakura said with an evil glint in her eyes.

Sasuke smirked at her cuteness and grabbed her hand placed them above her head. Bringing her into the wall.

"I brought you here to get away from the Dobe and that Demon. They can't have you, only me. You will never leave me and don't worry. Your precise team is untouched. I was only there to get you and only you."

Sakura couldn't believe her ears. He is holding her hostage just so he could claim her as his and to keep her away from Naruto.

"Sorry Sasuke. But I can't stay. I need to get back to my team." Sakura said as she enhanced her strength with her chakra and broke out of his grip. Sasuke smirked at her action and couldn't help but admire how much stronger she has gotten.

Once Sakura broke out of his grip she grabbed her weapons and started to dress herself with her weapons. Before she could exit his room though, Sasuke asked her something that made her stop in her tracks.

"You know Sakura. Out of everyone, you were the only one that understood that I needed to leave for revenge. Why." Sasuke said as he finally sadi the question that he was thinking ever since she met him that night before she left.

Sakura's eyes widened and she cleared her throat. She turned around to see him staring at her with hard eyes. Now it was his turn to demand some answers.

"Does it matter that much?" Sakura said trying to dodge the question.

"Yes."

Sakura really didn't want to answer him, but he was making no room for her to dodge the question again.

"Because Sasuke…..I am in the same boat as you."

Sasuke looked at her with an eyebrow raised. "Don't mock me Sakura. Everyone knows that you have a family and nothing bad happened to you."

Sakura couldn't help but laugh at his statement. Oh how he was far from the truth.

"Are you kidding me?! Your family didn't erase every memory you had from your childhood hoping you would forget a murder. And then when you start to remember everything you see how your family hates the wrong person!" Sakura shouted.

Sasuke looked at her and walked up to her. He couldn't help but want to know the whole story.

"Sakura. Tell me what you are talking about."

-----With Hinata and her team----

As Hinata lead the team through the forest with great speed and grace she finally knew how Sakura felt when she was in front of all of them. Looking out for traps, enemies, and also worrying about the team. Making sure no one was lost or hurt or under any jutsus.

'I don't know how Sakura-Chan does it. We have only been running for a few hours and my brain and body are starting to fry. I give her much credit. There is a lot to worry about.'

Hinata looked at her teammates to see Kiba and Shino running at her paste. But what she was afraid of was Naruto. Ever since they started running he retreated back into his mind and had not spoke to any of them.

'He really does care for Sakura-Chan. What ever Sasuke said to him must of really got him mad.'

Hinata shook her head of those thoughts and saw a shortcut to Kohana. With a smile under her mask she did some hand motions telling her team that they were about to increase their speed ten fold and this shortcut will take them to Kohana fast.

The three men saw the sign and increased their speed. As the team ran everyone was thinking about if Sakura would be ok.

------In Kohana-----

Hinata and the team didn't stop running until they busted down the Hokage's door and got her attention.

"What are you four doing here?! Why did you knock down my door?!"

Hinata looked at the Hokage and slipped her mask off her face. She took a deep breath and gathered all the courage she could.

'How Sakura-Chan could put up with her I have no idea.'

"Hokage-Sama. We have a good reason." Hinata said as she bowed to the Hokage. Hinata turned to the team and they did the same.

"It better be……wait a minute where is Sakura?" Tsunade asked as she glared at the four people.

Hinata looked Tsunade in the eye. "On our way back to Stone to resume our mission, we took a pit stop to rest. Sakura had to refill her bottle of water, she took to long so the team and I went to check up on her."

Hinata turned to Kiba or Shino to finish it, for she was not able to finish.

Shino took a step forward and sighed. "When we got there she wasn't there and there were signs of battle. From what we collected, she was kidnapped."

Tsunade slammed her bottle of alcohol, making it smash and break into billions of pieces, along with the desk.

"Who took her." Tsunade said as she tried to hold her anger back.

Naruto looked up at the Hokage and moved to the front.

"Sasuke Uchiha."

Tsunade looked towards Naruto and saw that he was really pissed off. "Do we know why he took her?"

Hinata, Shino, and Kiba looked towards Naruto and watched as his hands balled into fists.

Naruto's anger was seeping through his defenses and he looked up at Tsunade with red eyes.

"He wants her……away from me." Was all Naruto said.

Tsunade narrowed her eyes at the boy and called for Jirayia. Jirayia came bursting through the door only to see an angered Naruto, concerned Hinata, Shino, and Kiba, and to see a confused Tsunade.

"What do you need me for Tsunade?"

Tsunade looked at Jirayia with assumption. "When Naruto and his team were 13, you trained him for the Chunnin Exam's. Correct?"

"Yeah. Your point."

"Then you met Sasuke. Right?"

"Yes. And…?"

Tsunade smirked at Naruto and then turned her attention to Jirayia. "Did Naruto and Sasuke compete for Sakura's attention back then?"

Jirayia nearly fell over on the floor laughing. He remembered that all to well. The way the boys would try to get her attention was priceless. Some of their ways were down right creative for 13 year olds.

"Oh boy did they."

Tsunade nodded her head. "So that's why."

The rest of Sakura's team looked between the Hokage and Naruto until they too got what they meant.

"Where should we start looking Tsuande-Sama?" Hinata asked.

Tsunade smiled again. "Good question Hinata…...I gave Sakura a necklace when she started training under me. She never takes it off. And that necklace, is a tracking device."

"So you have where Sakura is at this very moment." Kiba said.

"Hai, I do." Tsunade said as she took her necklace and placed it into the computer at her desk. She turned to the wall across from her and in front of them was a map.

Hinata, Kiba, Naruto, Shino, and Jirayia turned to the wall behind them and saw a map and a red dot blinking.

"Hinata. You will be traveling to……Lightning Country. Prepare to leave ASAP."

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Author's Note: well that was a good chapter if I do say so myself. If there is any grammar mistakes or ooc I am sorry. I will tell you this the next two chapters are going to get exciting!

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