'Come ON!' shouted Sasuke frustrated, grinding his teeth and clenching his fists furiously as he waited for the rest of the rescue team to get ready. It had been ten days now since Mika had been taken away, and six since the Hokage had said that someone should go and fetch her back… and everyday Sasuke had been pressurizing them all to get their asses off their seats and do something. But it had still taken nearly a week to prepare, and that fact almost killed the young Uchiha boy.
'Yes, alright Sasuke.' said Kakashi calmly, trying desperately to sooth the fiery young man who was so frantic to get his childhood sweetheart. 'The ANBU squad needs time to get everything ready-'
'IT'S BEEN NEARLY A WEEK!!!' he bellowed at the silver haired man furiously, his eyes wide with anger. At that moment the leader of Anbu squad three walked in, followed by the other two members. The leader had a bird mask and his fair hair flopped out at the sides, the second had an ox mask and his hair stuck out at odd angles, making him look particularly stupid, but the last of the squad had a cat mask and her long blond hair fell elegantly out at the back.
'Calm down young man.' she said with a small giggle as she walked over to him and put her hand on his shoulder while he scowled up at her. 'We're ready to go now.'
'Good, then let's go already!' exclaimed Naruto who had been sitting in the corner and almost falling asleep, now he was bouncing up and down excitedly. 'Come on, come on, come on I'm so ready! Believe it!' he punched the air energetically as Sasuke swiftly picked up his backpack and Kakashi swung his over his shoulder.
'Do we know where Orochimaru's latest lair is?' asked Sakura sceptically appearing from out of the shadows, her pink rucksack elegantly placed in the crook between her shoulder blades. 'I mean otherwise we could be searching in vain for weeks.' she added matter-of-factly.
'At least we'll be DOING something.' said Sasuke venomously as he made his way to the door resolutely. 'Come on, move your asses.' Kakashi chuckled at his disrespect of the Anbus imagining their looks of disdain under the masks, he caught the woman's eye and noticed that she was also grinning.
'Not so fast Uchiha.' came the second Anbu's gruff voice, he was crouching in one of the few chairs in the small room scribbling on a piece of parchment frenetically. 'Your little friend is right: we don't know where Orochimaru is.'
'Actually I believe I heard someone saying that it was on the edge of the Waterfall country.' interrupted the woman Anbu tilting her head slightly to the left as she said it, clearly adopting a coy expression underneath the mask. 'Somewhere between their Village and our border.' she added into the stunned silence which had snuck up on the small group.
'Well then let's go.' said Sasuke forcefully, heading towards the door with a look which simply screamed what he was saying.
'We can't go yet Sasuke.' said Kakashi suddenly noticing the lack of annoying feuds. 'We're missing one of the team and you know how I feel about leaving team-members behind.' he glanced at the female Anbu to see if she was looking at him but she was too busy inspecting her left glove which seemed to have a scratch.
'You won't have to worry.' came a deep voice from the doorway, everyone turned around to look and saw Gai standing there in a very unorthodox pose: his legs separated, one hand in the air while he made a circle round his eye with his index and thumb on the other hand. 'Gai is here!'
'LET'S GO THEN!!!' shouted Sasuke in complete frustration, completely destroying Gai's entrance in a single motion and leaving the dark haired man with a confounded expression.
'Nice one Gai.' said Kakashi as they all started walking towards the door, smiling to himself underneath his own mask relishing the feeling of victory that it gave him.
'Oooh… you win this time Kakashi…' he muttered furiously at the back of the group, glowering at the back of his rival's head. 'But next time… next time I will get you…' Kakashi didn't notice… then again he never really did.