Me: I'm baaaaaaack. Did ya miss me? I sure missed you guys. I'm going to change the plot a teeny weenie bit kay? Read and review people.
Rating: PG 13, for now.
'This is thinking.'
"This is talking."
'This is Naruto talking to kyuubi and Sakura talking to inner self.'
'This is kyuubi/Sakura's inner self talking.'
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"All teams are ready to go, I presume?" the copy Nin asked.
"Yes, Kakashi-sensei." They replied.
"Okay ten, we shall all set off to our areas of assignment and meet in Suna in two days. Are we clear?" he asked again.
"understood." They answered and set off in their various ways.
Team three ran in silence as they were on heavy alert since their scroll was the real one. The silence was broken as Sakura held out a hand to stop them.
"Ah, what gives Sakura –chan" naruto asked.
"wh-what's wrong Sakura-san? Hinata asked.
"Sakura turned around to face them and answered. But not before she glared at Hinata.
'What's her problem?' kyuubi asked.
"Donno.' Naruto answered in his head.
"I sense some foreign chakra up ahead." Sakura said.
"Do you kn-know who they are?" Hinata asked.
"no I don't. Use your byakugan." Sakura spat.
….
'Oh, talk about your fixer upper.' Kyuubi said.
'yeah, something's going on and I don't like it.' Naruto agreed.
'oh really? Gee, What ever gave you that idea? Would you like a medal captain obvious?'
'quit your sarcasm you old fox, this is serious.'
'sure it is.' The fox said and rolled his eyes.
…...
"Oh-okay Sakura san, byakugan!" Hinata said.
"there are 5 people up ahead. Four look like bandits and the other seems to be a hostage." She added.
"okay, lets go, we can take em. Believe it!" naruto said and pumped his fist in the air.
"No, we have a mission. The hostage is going to have to find his way out of trouble on his own." Sakura said.
"How can you say that Sakura? We're ninja, it's our job." Hinata shouted, not stuttering one bit and clearly angry.
"And who the fuck made you the boss?" Sakura spat, shocking the poor girl who fell down the tree. (A/N did I tell you they were leaping? Opps, my bad.)
"Aaaah!" she screamed.
"Hinata!" naruto yelled and jumped after her, catching her just before she hit the ground.
"What's wrong with you Sakura?" naruto asked. Black slits visible in his now sharingan-red eyes. (A/N I'm sorry Sakura lovers, please don't hurt me. I'll make it up to you. I promise)
'Now you've done it.' Sakura's inner self warned and the real Sakura gulped.
"It's okay, na-naruto-kun, I'm alright." Hinata said in an effort to calm him down. Fortunately, it worked as his blood-red eyes calmed down to his normal vibrant blue.
"Are you okay? Hinata-chan?" naruto asked in a much calmer voice.
Ye-yeah naruto-kun I'm fine." Hinata replied.
"y-you can p-put me down now." She added.
"Huh?" naruto asked stupidly as he looked down at his hands and he blushed.
"Oh, sorry." Naruto blushed some more, put her and rubbed the back of his head, grinning while STILL blushing.
Hinata's response to him was MORE blushing and they both blushed until they were as red as tomatoes for Sasuke's dinner.
….
Somewhere in another direction, Sasuke sneezed.
"Seems like someone's thinking about you." Shikamaru said and yawned.
"Hn, I don't believe in such stupid superstition." Sasuke replied.
"If you say so.
….
"Um, naruto-kun, we have a hostage to save. Hello? You in there?" Hinata asked, waving a hand in front of the blonde's face.
"Huh, oh right. Let's go save the hostage." Naruto blushed and said.
"About time." Sakura said, thinking they were good but that assumption was soon changed as naruto glared at her.
"We'll have to talk about this later." Naruto said.
Sakura weakly nodded.
'I've never seen naruto-kun this angry. And he kind of defended me. Maybe I have a chance after all.' Hinata thought.
They all then go on the tree and began leaping, Sakura still glaring holes at Hinata's back. If looks could kill, I'm sure Hinata would have been dead and buried a long time ago.
….
The team got there by night fall as they took longer routes to avoid traps.
"Stop. We're here. The hostage is in that tent." Hinata said and pointed to a nearby tent after stopping them as the supposed bandits were seated round a camp fire.
"Ok, what's the plan?" Sakura asked.
"The plan's pretty simple, two of us distract the bandits, and one of us sneaks in, rescues the hostage, and takes her to a safe place and the other two catch up." Naruto said and grinned.
"I guess it is pretty simple but what if the people turn out to be more than bandits? They have got to be skilled if they were able to set all those traps." Sakura said.
"T-that's true. I- I have an idea. If they t-turn out to be n-ninja, na-naruto-kun would m-make a shadow c-clone who will t-take the hostage to a s-safe place while w-we all fight th-them." Hinata said.
"I think that's a great idea Hinata-chan!" naruto said and grinned wider. If that's even possible.
Sakura thought about a possible way to counter her suggestion couldn't come up with any.
"I suppose that's okay." Sakura said and smiled a smile similar to that of Sai's.
….
Some where in another direction, Sai… well you know the rest.
….
"so the plan commences i go!" naruto said and quickly did the hand signs for the shadow clone."
"Kagebunshin no jutsu!" he yelled and an exact clone of him appeared and ran off to the direction of the other tent.
Since Naruto's chanting had alerted the four men in the clearing but only one caught their attention.
The man was a long haired brunette with piercing golden eyes, pale skin and shark like teeth. He wore an Oto Nin forehead protector on his temple and a single eye patch on his left eye.
He also wore a pair of black pants and shoes and on his chest were just bandages. On his back, he had a super sized knife/sword with bandages wrapped around it.
"Hitori." Both Sakura and Hinata said.
"Who?" naruto asked and scratched his head.
Sakura and Hinata just sweat dropped.
"d-don't tell me you haven't heard of him." Hinata asked, clearly shocked.
"I never did pay too much attention in class but he kinda looks like Zabuza don't you think?"
"Oh Zabuza senpai. He was an old teammate of mine. That is until he died trying to help you stupid brats against Gato." Hitori said and huffed.
"Whatever Hitori or what not, we're just going to go now." Naruto said and backed away as he saw his clone leap into the trees with the clearly unconscious hostage.
"I'm afraid I can't let you do that." One of the other men said.
"Fall back!" Hinata said and did the hand signs for a suiton based jutsu.
"Suiton, amidogen no jutsu." Hinata whispered and a thick layer of fog covered the area.
Naruto and Sakura were then grabbed by the Hyuuga who had activated her byakugan and could see clearly through the fog.
As the stopped at a lake, they could faintly hear the calling of Hitori to his men to retreat for the night and they sighed.
"Where…is… your… c…clone?" Sakura said between breaths.
"It's on the other side of the river." Naruto said and jumped over the lake.
His teammates soon followed after him but stopped as they saw naruto staring at the hostage, shaking.
"What's wrong?" but girls inquired but they were soon silenced as the viewed the blonde girl with whisker masks lying on the ground.
"I-it's you." Naruto said.
Me: and cuuuuuut! My first cliffie yeah! Who do you think the girl is? If you've read my other story, double trouble, you should know. If you haven't, well go read it! Any one who can guess gets cookies.
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