The Good Girls That Went Bad

I have no excuse for the lateness of my update. I can only tell you, my fans who have not abandoned me, that I am so sorry.

This is the beginning of the Suna Problem Ark. I'm not sure how long it will last, but I want to keep it up for about four or five chapters.

I don't own Naruto and my spelling sucks.

Chapter Twelve~ Suna Problem Part 1

Shizune ran threw the long halls quickly. She needed to get to Tsunade quickly! She finally saw the door to the Hokage's office after running for what seemed to be a long time.

"Tsunade-Sama," Shizune almost yelled when she burst threw the doors of the room. Tsunade looked up from her work, almost happy to have a distraction, but that small joy died at the look on her friends face.

"Yes?" Tsunade asked calmly. It was probably about an Akatsuki member disturbing the peace again.

"Suna wants to end the alliance it has with Konoha!" That was a bit of a surprise to the blond Hokage.

"What?"

"Suna found out about the treaty we made with Akatsuki. Considering that Sasori killed a past Kage of theirs and almost killed Gaara-Sama, it's understandable, but their threatening to go to war with Konoha!"

"What?"

"It's not Gaara-Sama that wants the war, but nearly all the Suna council members are voting for it!"

"What?" Is it just me, or has Tsunade's vocabulary been decreased to one word?

"Get Sakura and Hinata Fuuma, Itachi Uchiha, and Naruto Uzumaki in here, NOW!" Guess not. "Tell them that they better be ready for one hell of a mission!"

XxXxX Yeah, That's Right, Itachi, Hinata, Naruto, Sakura, and Neji won! XxXxX

"So why are we here?" Hinata asked as she, Sakura, and Itachi entered the room. Naruto was already there, but the three Akatsuki members had taken their time.

"Suna is threatening to go to war with Konoha because of the alliance between us and Ami."

"You didn't see that one coming?" Sakura questioned. She was glared at in response.

"Again, what dose this have to do with us?" Hinata questioned.

"I hope you four are ready, because you're going to Suna and are going to try to convince Gaara and the Suna Council to not break the treaty between us and not go to war with us," Tsunade told them. "I am labeling this as an S class mission. Hinata, your team leader. I want you all back before two months have gone-"

"It will hardly take me and Hinata a week to convince them that the Akatsuki are no longer a threat to Suna," Sakura interrupted. Again, she was glared at in response.

"I don't care how high and mighty you might think you are, Fuuma, I'm not about to risk war, and you four are the best choices to send," Tsunade growled. Sakura 'Humf'ed in response. "You have twenty minutes to get prepared, now get out!"

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Fifteen minutes after the mission assignment with Tsunade, Sakura and Hinata were walking to the gate with Itachi and found Naruto waiting for them.

"Hello, Naruto," Sakura said to him.

"Hi, Sakura-Chan, Hinata-Chan, Itachi-san," Naruto greeted them.

"Are you ready to go?" Hinata asked him. Naruto nodded. "Good, now lets go."

And with that, the mission began.

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"How exactly are we going to convince that council to not go to war?" Sakura asked as the four of them leaped from tree to tree.

"We tell the council that Konoha simple over powers Suna. If they do go to war with Konoha like they did years ago, they will lose and they will experience worse damages then Konoha, especially since the Akatsuki are with them now," Itachi told her.

"Wrong," Naruto said, "All you guys have to do is show up. When they sees that Hinata-Chan and Sakura-Chan, some of the best medic nins around, are apart of Akatsuki, they surly will believe that you two managed to turn the Akatsuki around."

"Or they could believe that the Akatsuki turned us," Hinata told him.

"Good point."

"So what are we going to do?"

"I vote Itachi's idea!" Sakura said.

"Of course you would," Hinata teased.

Sakura glared and was thinking of tripping her, but chose against it. Itachi nodded in approval at Sakura's growing maturity.

"Well I think that my idea would have worked out just fine!" Naruto said with a slight pout.

"You would," Hinata told him. Naruto looked away. Ouch.

"Stop," Sakura said suddenly. Everyone did as she said. "Hinata . . ." Hinata then sighed and reluctantly activated her Byakugan.

"A large group of ninja are heading our way- I don't think they mean any harm, but it's best to avoid them." Sakura nodded. "Itachi and I will go west, you and Naruto go east," Sakura told them. She and Itachi then leaped onto the tree branch next to the left of them. Hinata and Naruto leaped onto the tree branches to their right.

Silence surrounded the two of them for the first few minutes before it became too much for the blond.

"You don't like to use your Byakugan, do you?" Naruto asked her.

"I don't, it reminds me that I still have Hyuga blood in me," Hinata told him. She didn't look at him.

"Yea, I found out about that about three days after you. . . uh, left with Sakura."

"Well, it's not as if no one saw it coming. I had been weak back then."

"You were never weak in my eyes," Naruto told her. He then wanted to kick himself for saying something so cheesy.

"Thank you, but I'm sure that Ino seemed much better than I in your eyes as well." Hinata was oh so temped at that moment to slam her head against a tree. Stupid!

"Please," Naruto asked her in a slightly darker voice that made Hinata turn her head and look at him. His eyes were shadowed so she couldn't see them and a frown was set on his lips. "Don't mention that night or Ino. It's a touchy subject for both me and her."

"Why? You both seemed to have been enjoying yourselves," Hinata said. The frown deepened.

"Hinata . . . please." Hinata stopped talking about Ino after that.

"How has Kiba and Shino been?" Hinata asked him suddenly. Naruto was a bit surprised by her question.

"Haven't you talked to them yet? I know that you guys in Akatsuki stick together most of the time, but—"

"I'm afraid to." Now this nearly made Naruto loose his footing on the tree branch. Hinata came back to Konoha all bad-ass and kicking Neji's ass, but she's afraid to talk to her old team. "I'm afraid that they will reject me. Kiba can hold a grudge like you wouldn't believe, Kurenai lost Azuma because of Hidan and Kakuzu, and Shino lost his closest cousin when Kisame killed him. If they hate me or don't forgive me for being apart of Akatsuki . . . I don't think I'll ever be able to forgive myself."

Naruto was silent for a few minutes. Hinata looked so sad, so heartbreakingly beautiful, almost like a crying angel. He quickly shook his head to clear his thoughts. "When you left, Kiba, Shino, and Kurenai felt like they lost a part of themselves. Kiba and Akamaru ran all over the forests trying to find a hint of our scent, Shino sent waves of his bugs out to search, and Kurenai tried desperately to convince Granny Tsunade to let her go and search. When they saw you again, they were as shocked as everyone else that you were with Akatsuki, but I know that they forgave you for everything the second they saw that you were alive. You should talk to them. I know that they miss you."

". . . Thank you, Naruto, you always knew how to make me happier," Hinata said to him. He saw a slight smile on her lips and felt hope fill him. Maybe she will forgive him after all! "But I'm still far from forgiving you for betraying me. You're going to have to do a lot more that one friendship speech to win me over."

. . . And his hope was crushed to rubble.

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Hinata and Naruto met up with Sakura and Itachi at a small clearing an hour later. The two girls then got themselves comfortable on a large boulder and watched as the men set up camp.

"You know you could help!" Naruto grumbled to them as he struggled with the ten.

"Yes, we are aware of this, Naruto, but we simply choose to ignore it," Sakura told him with a large grin before ordering him to get back to work.

After a long stair-down with Itachi, the two girls went to get firewood and agreed to take the first watches.

"How do you stand living with them?" Naruto asked him. He knew that he should still be suspicious of the elder Uchiha and shouldn't be comfortable around him, but the guy was so much like Sasuke that Naruto couldn't help but be a bit on the friendly side.

"They rarely act like that, but it's gotten worse since they came back to Konoha," Itachi told him. He found it odd that the blond was this comfortable around him; most people have to be around him for years before they stop acting tense, formal, and intimidated around him. Itachi shrugged it off as nothing though. He's probably just use to being around Sasuke.

"They have changed a lot since then, hu?" Naruto asked him. Why dose this boy insist of talking all the time? Itachi preferred silence.

"Yes, they have."

"I mean Sakura-Chan isn't as mood swing-y as she use to be anymore, but I wonder if she's still violent and hits anyone who annoys her too much, but I guess that being . . ." Itachi sort of zoned the blond out as he continued to ramble on about how much the girls had changed. Of course they had changed, it has been three years since they last saw Naruto, change was bound to happen, and the boy didn't need to ramble on about what was different.

"… Than again, if Hinata was still like that then I doubt that she and Sakura would have…" Really? Can't this guy stay quiet for five seconds? He's hardly even drawn in air! How can he keep talking so fast? He's almost as bad as Tobi.

"… Cause Sakura use to be all 'I'll kill you if you do this!' and Hinata use to be all 'I'm too shy to say anything' but in a cute way, you know? I still think that…" Dear god, when will it end?

When Sakura and Hinata returned an hour later, Naruto was in a one-sided conversation about ballet and Sasuke's hair while Itachi was slowly losing his mind.

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On the second day of the trip, Itachi woke to the sound of screaming. Apparently, a skunk had made itself comfy in the girl's tent last night, more specifically, in Sakura's sleeping bag.

Sakura had woken up and felt something soft and fluffy on her stomach, she woke up and found a cute cat. She had given a soft 'aww' at it and started to stoke its black head. Fifteen minutes later, Hinata had woken up and, realizing that it wasn't a cat that was on her best friend, freaked out. This of course startled our little skunk and it aimed and sprayed at Hinata who quickly ran to the left. Naruto, being the unfortunate hero that he is, had ran into the tent to see what was wrong with the girls and instead got a face full of skunk spray which caused him to scream like a girl. Sakura finally realized that it wasn't a cat on her, and calmly walked out of the tent, trying to calm the scared skunk down. She sent the little guy in the woods and walked back to camp where Hinata was gently washing the nasty spray of Naruto's face while both ninja's tried not to breath.

Itachi then walked out of his tent and asked Sakura what he missed, who only laughed.

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*Some of you may be very surprised by this, but during the day, the deserts of Suna are really hot. It doesn't help when you wear heavy, dark cloaks like the Akatsuki members were. Sure, Naruto had black pants and an orange shirt, but it didn't help him much.

"I'm dying here!" Sakura said as she ran threw the desert. She and Hinata had gotten too use to the damp air that filled Ame and the Akatsuki head quarters.

"Deal with it," Itachi told her. Unlike them, he was use to different climates due to all of his missions.

"You're not nice, Itachi!" Hinata yelled at him. She was very annoyed, if you couldn't tell.

Sakura looked around her and groaned when all she saw were hills of sand. The desert seemed endless, and they were only halfway threw it. 'God,' Sakura thought to herself. 'I would hate it if I got lost out here. . .'

"Crap! Where's Naruto?" Hinata said as she looked around them.

"Hu, I thought it was quite around here," Itachi said calmly.

"This is not the time to be calm!" Hinata snapped. Sakura was actually impressed; she had thought the human neck would break at the speed Hinata's was going as she scanned the area for the blond.

"You are searching a bit hard for someone who, and I quote, 'don't give a damn about the cheating bastered, I can get, and have had better', hu?"

Hinata blushed and for a second, Sakura was sure that a shy, sixteen year old was before her. Na, the heats probably just frying her brain a bit.

So, for the next hour, the three look everywhere for the blond. They nearly passed out from the heat, had to avoid a few scorpions, and laughed when Itachi started to hallucinate, but they didn't find the blond.

"Shit, they are going to be SO pissed," Sakura groaned. "They're going to say we killed him and left his body for the vultures."

"I'm sure he will be fine."

"You're just saying this because you don't like him."

"A bit."

So, the three ninja continue their journey and within the hour, arrive at Suna. Guess who was leaning against the village gates waiting for them? If you guessed Santa, you were wrong. It was Naruto!

"-OUT THERE FOR A F*CKING HOUR—"

"—SO DEAD!"

"—sleep with one eye open—"

"Sakura, Hinata?" The four ninja looked towards the inside of the village gates, well, Sakura, Hinata, and Itachi did. Naruto was too busy being strangled by Sakura. They found Temari, elder sister of the Kazekage, with her spiky dark gold hair still in her signature four pony tails, a light blue kimono styled dress with long slits along her legs, and her large fan weapon strapped to her back. She hadn't changed much from the last time they had seen her, but she looked older, a bit more on the feminine side too.

"'Sup Temari!" Sakura said casually, as if they had seen each other every weekend instead of four years ago. Temari blinked her pretty eyes.

Hinata at least had the decency to give a shallow bow to her. "Hello again, Temari-san." Temari blinked.

Itachi nodded, way too prideful to bow. Temari snapped.

"What the hell?" People from the street behind her turned to look at what had made the sister of the Kazekage scream like that. The fellow ninja around her covered their ears, hoping that the ringing would stop. Gaara looked out the window of his office and wondered just who the hell Konoha sent.

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