Mayumi stared oddly at Yamato, if he was supposed to be the new Kakashi, then why the heck was he standing in front of them, on time! Oh she could show him a thing or two about Kakashi. Heck, she could show him how to sneeze right! Stupid man thinking he could take the place of their Sensei. He had no clue what he was getting himself into! He didn't even have a mask! How could he think he's Kakashi…?

"Right then! Team Kakashi departs!" Yamato smiles at them.

*Later*

"The trees are so pretty this time of year," Mayumi commented, then turned her attention to Sai. "Don't you think so, Sai-san?"

He turned his black eyes to her only to get caught by Naruto's glare, "What is it?... Please stop staring at me. Don't make me hit you…"

Mayumi let out a laugh, "Sai-san that's funny as hell!" She glared at him, "But if you threaten Naruto-kun in front of me again, you'll be hanging out with Orochimaru as rat bait."

"Every damn thing you say just pisses me off more!" Naruto said, shaking his fist at him.

"I don't have any malice towards you."

"Liar!"

"I'm just trying to put on that kind of attitude."

"Aha! You do have malice!"

Mayumi smacked her forehead, "You guys are horrible!"

"Why the hell are you here! All you do is piss people off!"

"Hey, hey!" Yamato interjected. "Don't say something like that right in front of your captain Naruto."

"I'm gonna call you Captain Yamato!" Mayumi declared, hugging him tightly. "Then I'm gonna show you how to the perfect replacement Kakashi-sensei! There's still hope for you yet!"

"… Okay…" Yamato sighed, shrugging her off. "Mayumi, tell your teammates what I'm getting at."

"Teamwork and cooperation are the most important things in a team!"

"That's not what I meant… But I thought Kakashi-san had already taught you that. Someone like you in a team with the great Kakashi-san, what is it with you?"

"It's because he's not a member of Team Kakashi!" Naruto yelled at him. "The other member of Team Kakashi is Sasuke!"

Mayumi and Sakura both looked wide eyed at their teammate.

"This guy is… Just taking Sasuke's place, someone chosen to fill the gap. I'll never consider someone like him as a team member!"

Sai smiled, "Well, I'm glad you think of me that way. I wouldn't want to be likened to… The weak shit-for-brains Orochimaru's clone who only cared about power and ran off to Orochimaru betraying Konoha."

Mayumi's mouth dropped and she stared at him. Wow… He was rude.

"You bastard…" Naruto growled.

Sakura covered his mouth, "Truly, the most important thing is teamwork. Sai… Naruto… Since he doesn't know you all that well… He just said too much, I'm sorry, please forgive Naruto."

"Sa-Sakura-chan…"

"Mmm… I'm glad at least one of you is reason-able," Yamato nodded.

"Think nothing of it," Sai told her.

"Well… That's good," she smiled.

Without thinking about she jumped forward and punched him square in the jaw, throwing him several yards away. Everyone stared at her in shock, except for Sai who was wiping blood from his face.

"On the other hand…" Sakura glared at him. "Me, you don't have to forgive."

Mayumi quickly pushed her way past her female teammate and helped him up.

"You fooled me completely… That fake laugh before…"

"Since you don't seem to anything about Sasuke-kun," Sakura started. "Don't talk about things you have no idea of! If you bad-mouth Sasuke-kun one more time…I won't hold back."

"Hehe… Gotcha… I won't say anything in front of you… But that you can use a fake smile like that…I'll remember that," Sai assured her, smiling.

"You've just been hit, why're you acting so cheerful?" Naruto questioned him.

"A smiles the best way to get out of trouble. Even if it's fake. Amazingly it fools everyone…I read that in a book before. It doesn't look like it works here though."

Yamato put his hands together quickly and formed hand signs. Much to everyone's surprise wood began to work its way up through the dirt. The edges of the wood came together at last and formed a large cage.

The man sighed, "If you guys won't stop arguing, I'll have to toss you in a cage. I said we don't have time before we go to the Tenchi Bridge, but there's five days."

"I see you!" Mayumi shouted loudly, pointing at a black crow. "I know you're following me!"

Naruto gave her a look suggesting that she'd lost her mind.

She took a step towards it and grinned, "Well, if you wanna be friends that bad… Come here!"

With that the bird flew away from her quickly. Naturally she wasn't going to let it escape her, so what did she do… She ran around in circles chasing the stupid thing…

"As the mediator here," Yamato continued, ignoring the blue-haired female. "Here's my proposition. You can spend a day or so in the cage to work out your difference… Or we can go to a hotel that has hot springs. What'll it be? You guys really don't know me well either…" He gave them a creepy face. "I like being nice and friendly, but… I don't have any problems with ruling by fear either…"

*At the hot springs*

"No! I'm not getting in!"

"Mayumi would you calm down, it's just a hot spring," Sakura assured her, getting into the water.

"Calm down it's a hot spring," Mayumi mocked her, slowly dipping her toe into the water.

The water had a relaxing feel to it, but how could you relax when there was a whole bunch of naked people around you! That's why Mayumi was the smart one!

"What are you wearing?" The pinkette questioned.

"Ummm, a towel?"

"No I mean why are you wearing it into the water?"

"Sakura-chan, you tell me. Would you wanna burn off your boobies? Oh…wait… You don't have any!"

"…YOU'RE NOT GONNA HAVE ANY HERE IN FIVE MINUTES!"

"Don't go looking! Why're you always going on about penises anyway?"

Both girls looked at the divider. Mayumi ran over and cupped her hands around her mouth, "Way to go Sai! You mad Naruto-kun shout out something perverted! God you guys are amazing!"

*Next day*

Mayumi's eyes opened slowly, the morning light shining brightly. She pushed herself to her feet and walked to the door. She could see Sai sitting outside with what looked like a sketch pad. Maybe she could have a few minutes to talk to him and, get close to him, as Tsunade had put it.

"Hey Sai-san!"

He turned and looked at her. She gave him smiled and placed herself next to him, "What cha doing? Don't answer that, clearly you're drawing a picture."

"Heeey… Drawing a picture?" Sakura questioned, walking over to them.

Sai turned to her, "What is it?"

Mayumi frowned, "Why do you hate me!"

The Haruno girl smiled, "You're really vulgar, but you have a nice side too, right?"

"That fake smile… Wasn't that hit before enough for you?"

"Well not really… Just kidding! I just came to look at the picture… To see what it was. I thought it must be a landscape since you're drawing it here… But it's abstract right? This picture… What is it called?"

"Called?"

"You haven't decided on a name yet?" She asked him, her green eyes wide.

"You guys are boring, I'm gonna go wake Naruto-kun up!"

Mayumi stood to her feet and ran back into the hotel. Why were her teammates so mean as to ignore her all the time? Did they hate her? Of course they didn't hate her! She was the coolest person besides Naruto! Or at least she thought so.

When she got to his door she didn't bother to knock and walked in. The blonde was laying on his sleeping mat, snoring loudly. She sighed, this was too easy!

*Later*

"Okay okay! I won't hit you again!" Mayumi cried as she and Naruto walked outside.

The blonde glared at the dark haired male, "We're about to go, Yamato-taichou told me to come get you."

"Okay," Sakura said, stretching.

"That pictures nothing special!" Naruto growled, taking a look at the paper.

"That's about right," Sai smiled. "Just like your penis."

"Guh…"

Mayumi's eyes widened and she cover her ears than screamed, "AHHHH! MENTAL IMAGE!" and ran around in circles.

"I'm not kidding at all when I say I really can't stand you!" Naruto shouted angrily. "If you've something you wanna say to me, quit the fake smile and tell me to my face! If it's a fight you're after, I'm game!"

"That's not it at all…" Sai smiled. "I really don't think anything of you. Please go ahead. I'll be right there when I'm done cleaning." With that he grabbed his stuff and started putting it in his bag.

Sakura reached down, "I'll give you a hand…" She picked up a book, "This isn't printed. Did you draw this too?"

"Yeah…" Sai said, taking it from her.

"A picture book? Hey could you show it to me while we're on the way?"

"I can't do that, because it's incomplete. And I don't give it to other people. Because it's my brother's."

*Tenchi Bridge*

Sakura, Naruto, Sai, and Mayumi hid themselves behind a boulder while Yamato, in disguise as Sasori, went to meet with the Akatsuki's spy. Slowly but surely he made his way over.

The spy was the first to speak, "It has been a long time, Sasori-sama. It has been five years." He said as he moved the hood he held around him.

"Who's that?" Mayumi asked.

"Shhh, that's Yakushi Kabuto," Sakura replied.

"Were you followed?" Yamato questioned him.

"No, it is safe… How are you? When your jutsu was lifted, and I remembered who I really was, I felt somewhat disoriented… I am still somewhat heavy-head…" Kabuto responded.

"I have some questions for you,"

"I have little time, so please make it brief. It was a great risk to slip away from Orochimaru to come here."

"Tell me about the location of your base and about Uchiha Sasuke."

"We have many bases, to keep from being discovered, we change bases on a weekly basis. There are, of course, bases in countries besides the sound. Orochimaru's spies enter those countries and guide us. But we have various movement methods, which can sometimes be cumbersome. Our current base is hidden on a small island in a lake to the north. We will move from there in three days. Uchiha Sasuke is also there. By the way… Regarding the orders you gave me, Sasori-sama… After Transferring to his new body, Orochimaru used a barrier jutsu to protect his former vessel. I was unable to retrieve a cell sample from it."

"I see…" Yamato said.

"I cannot afford to be here any longer," Kabuto told him. "Give me the item, if you please. I will be killed if I am seen with you."

"I can't see!" Naruto complained from their hiding place.

"That's the point! That's why we were able to get so close," Sakura told him.

"But if we can't see than what's the point of us waiting here?" Mayumi challenged.

"Because, if Yamato needs back up this way he can signal us and we can get in there quickly," Sai told her.

"Yeah but we can't see so that's completely against your theory," Naruto said, glaring at him, suddenly his blue eyes went wide, "Orochimaru!"

Mayumi made a face, "I thought you couldn't see!"

"Well I can't hear more than I can't see!" He snapped at her.

"Then why were we explaining to why you can't see when we could have been explaining why you can't hear?" Sakura countered.

"That doesn't matter, there's the signal," Sai confirmed.

With that the four of them came out of their hiding spot and landed in front of Yamato, all of them ready to attack if need be.

Kabuto smiled, "You again."

"Haha…" Orochimaru laughed. "I've seen that face many times… Why don't we have a little fun? And the kyuubi child is here too… I'll tell you who is stronger now… You, or Sasuke-kun."

"Ew… He called him Sasuke-kun like a lover…" Mayumi said sticking her tongue out.

Orochimaru smiled, "I have better plans for Sasuke-kun than to simply be my lover, dear girl."

"Give Sasuke back…" Naruto muttered, his chakra starting to radiate off of him in a red glow.

"That's not happening Naruto-kun…" Kabuto told him. "Don't you get it yet? Sasuke-kun came to us because he wanted to. Be a man and quit lamenting over the past."

Sakura glared at him, "Shut your mouth four-eyes!"

Mayumi made a face, "Really? Four-eyes was the best you could come up with?"

"You have no idea how Naruto feels! I'm sick of your attitude!"

"If you want to know about Sasuke-kun," Orochimaru said. "You'll have to beat it out of me. If you can of course…"

Just then the bridge began to crack, forcing Sakura, Mayumi, and Sai to move away. Naruto, who's chakra appeared to be taking a form, angrily clawed Orochimaru across the face. The snake-like man didn't have time to shield himself and went flying back through the trees. Sakura stared at him, her eyes large with worry.

Mayumi laughed, "He looked like a fish! Way to go Naruto-kun!"

Orochimaru made his way outta the trees and back towards the bridge, his face torn and hanging off, revealing another's looks beneath it, "You very much the Jinchuuriki now, aren't you Naruto-kun…"

*Whole bunch of fighting later (cause I'm too lazy XD)*

"I am a messenger for Danzou-sama," Sai told Orochimaru and Kabuto with a smile. "I am not an enemy. I have something to tell you."

Orochimaru stared at him, "…Danzou… So that senile old geezer is still alive. So what business might you have with me?"

"I have a message from Danzou-sama for Orochimaru-sama. However-"

"Before that…" The snake-like man interjected. "Choose your words very carefully when speaking to me. Or you will die."

"I won't speak in any other way than Danzou-sama has instructed me to. If there is something you don't like, please do as you see fit."

Orochimaru laughed. He dropped his head for a moment then shot a blade from him mouth, "You kids really have no manners…"

Sai stood in front of him, his eyes wide, the blade pericing his heart. Suddenly his face seemed to melt and fell apart, revealing himself to be nothing more than an ink clone. Sai slowly pushed himself up outta the ground as Orochimaru's sward turned into a snake and slithered back to him.

"When you talk to your superiors, it's polite to show you true face," the man told him. "What you say… On what basis should I trust it?"

Sai lifted his hand and reached into his bag. Suddenly Kabuto appeared and tackled him down, spilling the contents of the bag in the process and placed a kunai the Leaf Nin's head.

"What is this?" He asked looking at a letter.

Suddenly his eyes widened as he felt a cool blade to his throat.

"You are the weakest link," Mayumi purred, glaring at him.

Orochimaru stared at her, "… And here I thought you were the stupid one."

"I am!" Mayumi said pulling her blade away. "And don't you forget it!"

Kabuto grabbed her angrily and flipped her onto the ground next to Sai, she laughed nervously.

"When did you get here?" The dark haired Nin asked her.

"Well…"

*Flashback*

"Sai help Sakura!" Yamato shouted as the boy jumped onto his ink bird.

Mayumi looked over; he wasn't going to help their teammate. She bit her lip; she couldn't follow Sai and help her friend at the same time. She murmured her apologizes to the girl quickly and grabbed hold of the bird's foot, hopefully he wouldn't notice her. Mayumi pulled herself up close to the creature and hid herself in its feathers…

*End flashback*

"Come on, calm down Kabuto," Orochimaru told the male. "These kids will from today become out subordinates."

"…Can we trust them?"

"Please look inside this envelope…" Sai said, pointing at it. "It's for you from Danzou-sama."

"This…" Orochimaru said picking up the letter.

"What's in it?" Kabuto questioned.

"Kabuto, please release the kids. They're coming with us. Sai was it? What is your counterpart's name?"

"Arakaki Mayumi," he told him.

Orochimaru smiled, "Ah. An Arakaki… Then, shall we go?"

*At the Base*

"I'm not going in there with a whole bunch of guys and hardly any light!" Mayumi screamed as Kabuto tossed her over his shoulder.

Orochimaru smiled at her, "You have no need to worry my dear, we wouldn't touch you… Yet."

She bit her tongue and didn't talk for the rest of the way. That was perverted and gross and wrong on soooo many levels! But the worst part was, the guy kept giving her these creepy looks that was sending chills down her spine.

"You're late."

Her eyes lit up; she knew that voice…"

"Orochimaru… Did you forget about how you said you were going to teach me a new jutsu this afternoon?"

"You fail to mind your mouth, as always," Kabuto said, shifting the girl on his shoulder.

"Oh do calm down," Orochimaru said, smiling slightly. "Please, instead of training, I happen to have come by a few presents for you. They are shinobi from Konoha, just like you… I figured you could bathe yourself in nostalgia talking about your old village…"

"Whatever…" Sasuke said, opening his eyes and glaring.

"Hi there, I am Sai. You must be Uchiha Sasuke."

"Go away!"

"Damn it Sai!" Mayumi shouted, "You must be giving him that dumb ass smile, no wonder why he told you to leave!"

"Even if I force myself to smile… I guess I'm just east to hate… Naruto-kun hated me right from the start too. But between the two of you, I think I'll be able to get along better with you."

Sai eyes went wide as Sasuke used his Sharingan, causing the boy to fall backwards. Kabuto snapped at Sasuke dropping the female to the ground next to the replacement Uchiha.

"I wouldn't bother him, if I were you," Orochimaru told him. "He's even worse than me."

"I've got nothing to say to this loser, train me now," Sasuke told him.

"I've heard a lot about you from Naruto-kun," Sai told him. "He's been trying to find you this whole time… For the entire three years."

"…He still around?" Sasuke questioned. "Let's go Orochimaru."

"Naruto-kun, he truly thinks of you as his own brother. Sakura-san told me that."

"I only have one brother," Sasuke said. "And all I want to do is kill him."

Sai nodded, "Mayumi-san here said that."

"All right, let's go," Orochimaru said. "Kabuto, make us a dossier with these," he handed the male envelope.

"Mayumi," Sasuke spoke again. "…Come here."

Okay so I updated a bit fast than I thought I would…sue me. Anyways I hope it was okay cause I pushed myself to get this update done. But the poll is still the same, Sasuke's in the lead with twenty-six and Itachi behind him with twenty-one. So if you wanna change that or help Sasuke out I suggest you vote, anyways thank you for reading. You guys make me smile when you review. So please review/vote and I'll update again soon I hope. Thank you!