I knew this would happen. It's interesting how I can be wrong when I'm supposed to save my life and right when it's about to end. What a pain...
An explosion was heard throughout the desert. The village's main entrance was under attack.
Now what? I'll just have to come back and finish this later. At that thought, he formed a seal. Sand surrounded the red-head and he was gone.
This is interesting... I thought that people weren't supposed to feel anything after they die. Or breathe... "I'm alive!" At the moment of dramatic realization Akane opened her eyes and straightened herself up in a sitting position. "Ouch! That hurts!" She loured her gaze toward her body just to be met with tones of bandages.
"Finally. We were beginning to think that you'll never wake up."
She turned her head to meet the owner of the well known voice. "Nice to see you too. And if you could tell me why am I here (alive) talking to you, I would really appreciate it."
Before she could get her answer, her eye caught a flash of yellow and, a second later, she was being hugged to death. "AKANE! YOU'RE AWAKE!" The voice that took down mountains kept ringing in her head while she was struggling for her breath.
"Naruto." But it was useless, the hipper blond was to busy suffocating the pore sole. "Naruto!" The blond was now talking a thousand words per second, completely oblivious of his surroundings.
"HEY! DUMB-ASS!" Finally, Naruto released Akane's (almost) lifeless body and turned his attention towards the (so far) impassive raven-head.
"HEY! WHO ARE YOU CALLING DUMB?"
"Isn't it obvious? You're the only conscious dumb person here." The raven-head looked at him with an amused smirk.
"YOU ARE SO DEAD!" Naruto was turning red from anger. This was the last time that jerk will ever insult him.
Before the blond could react, a sword appeared dangerously near the smart guy's neck. "I'm not dumb, and I'm certainly not unconscious. You shouldn't underestimate people so easily, it might get you killed someday, Sasuke."
"Hm." He stayed still, but turned his gaze to the back, where Akane was standing, still holding her katana. "Not bad sis. Do you mind putting that thing away now? You proved your point."
"Huh... I was hoping you'll say that." She put the sword down and her left arm on his shoulder. "Could you help me to the bed now? I think my legs are about to give up on me."
He sighed and picked her up to put her on the bed. "What an idiot. You are no better than Naruto."
"What is that supposed to mean?" I should have cut his throat when I had the chance.
"Just shut up. We don't need another argument."
"Is that so? Maybe you should have thought about that sooner – like before you opened your big mouth!"
"Akane, we don't have time for this. Calm down."
"Don't you tell me to calm down! And as for your lack of time, I've just woken up after being almost dead, so I have all the time in the world!"
"Now that you've mentioned it, why were you almost dead?"
Akane was stopped in her tracks while re-listening his question to make sure she heard it right. Should I tell them? The mission is supposed to be secret. Then again, there's no way he's gonna drop it now... I know!
"If my memory serves, I asked you why I was here. Until you answer my question, I'm not talking." With that statement, Akane crossed her arms on her chest defensively.
"What? The I-asked-you-first tactic? What are you, a three-year old?" While Sasuke was fighting to keep his cool before his sister's immaturity, all Naruto could do was helplessly watch the two siblings verbally slaughter each other.
Akane shot a death glare but simply said: "I'm waiting."
"Fine. Hokage sent us on a mission to attack Suna. But, when we got there, the village was already attacked by the Hidden Rock ninja. While we were approaching, I saw lightnings gathering south from the main gate, so instead of going according to our mission, we went towards the lightnings."
"Wait, why?" She was staring at him with a you're-such-an-idiot face.
"Will you let me finish? You'll have your turn to talk soon enough."
"Fine. Go on." Akane waived with her hand dismissively.
Sasuke sighed."Anyway, I chose that direction because I felt your chakra, idiot." And before she could cut him off again, he added:"When we got there, we found you lying on the ground out cold. After that we brought you here." He finished.
"Oh. So where is here anyway?"
"Our camp near the Fire country's border. We will go back to the Leaf village as soon as you're able to travel."
"Alright. I think that covers the blank part in my memory." Except for one thing...
"Akane?"
"Yeah?"
"Your turn to talk."
"Already? Oh, look at the time! It's getting late and I really need rest. So if you guys would be so kind to leave..."
"No."
"But...Fine... I was on a mission to kill the Kazekage!" She sighed. "Now you know."
"WHAT?" Naruto finally came back to reality and decided to yell her head of. Akane rolled her eyes. Great... now he reacts.
Still keeping his cool, Sasuke asked quietly: "Why did you accept it in the first place?"
"I don't know. A good pay? I also heard that Suna has some wonderful sunsets."
"This isn't time for jokes Akane. You could've killed yourself." Sasuke didn't bother to hide the worry in his voice.
"So I guess both of our missions failed, ha?" Naruto had a wide smile on his face. "It's a disaster, but at least we're still alive."
"Yeah." Sasuke smirked. "By the way, Naruto, that is the only smart thing you've said the whole day."
"HEY! THAT'S IT! I'M DONE LISTENING TO YOUR INSULTS!" Akane quickly grabbed Naruto from behind to stop him from jumping on Sasuke.
"That's enough, both of you. Akane needs to rest. We have to leave for Konoha tomorrow morning." Kakashi popped his head into the room.
"Tomorrow? I thought we had more time." Naruto had calmed himself and was standing next to Sasuke.
"Enemy ninja are moving close to the border. We need to leave camp before we're discovered." With that, Kakashi was gone.
"I guess we should call it a night too. Akane, get some sleep. Sakura will check your wounds in the morning." Sasuke walked to the door with Naruto following behind him.
This went pretty well. Oh, well... All's well that ends well.