Yoshiro was on tree branch sleeping. After 3 hours of sleeping, he woke up, blinked and look at his surroundings. "I must have over slept." He said while rubbing his eye. He checked his stuff and smirked. "Well, I guess Naruto kept his promise. There's not a single Leaf Shinobi who's trying to bring back this scroll." He put the scroll back in his pocket and left the forest.

He didn't know that some of Sai's Ink clones were spying on him and they decided to follow him.

x-x-x

Peaceful, Quiet and Noiseless. Redundancy. Anyway, we can see our fellow Shinobis are hopping or leaping on the tree branch, as always, still looking for that Shinobi.

"Where the heck is that guy?! We've been looking for him in 3 hours and there's still no sign of him." Naruto complained.

"Relax, I'm sure we'll find him." Shikamaru said and yawned.

Hinata stopped at her tracks and so as the others.

"What's—" Naruto was interrupted by thousands of shurikens coming at them.

Hinata backed off a little and the others revealed their kunais. Hinata closed her eyes for a while until an imaginary yin-yang symbol appeared. She started swaying her hands in any direction and used Protection of Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms to protect them.

Kakashi sighed and put the kunai back in his weapon's pouch, "Good job Hinata."

Hinata just nodded and deactivated her Byakugan.

"Who threw those shurikens anyway?" Naruto asked.

"Don't worry, it's just an accident." Hinata said.

"Accident?" They all asked in unison.

"Yeah, she's right."

Shikamaru's eyes widened, that voice seems familiar to him.

"Sorry, we thought you were the enemy." Temari said and she and Kankuro appeared behind the trees.

"Temari?" Shikamaru was astonished to see her again.

"Hey, I'm here too." Kankuro said, but he was busy staring at his sister. "Would you please stop staring to my sister like that." He said while waving his hand on his face.

Shikamaru just rolled his eyes and mumbled, "Troublesome."

"Anyway, what are you guys doing in here?" Naruto asked.

"Same as you guys." Kankuro said.

Since the sun is setting, they decided to find a safe place to camp and continue their conversation on that place. When they found that safe place, they set up the fire and started eating dinner.

"Can we go back to our conversation? Are you guys sent on a mission or something?" Kankuro asked as he took a bite from his rice ball.

"Yes, we're sent on mission to retrieve the forbidden scroll from the shinobi who stole it." Kakashi said as he flipped a page on his book.

"Who stole the scroll?" Temari asked.

"Well, we don't know who he is, but—" Kakashi took the picture in his pocket, "Here's what he looks like." He showed to them the picture and Temari's eyes widened while Kankuro choked out his food.

"He stole the leaf's forbidden scroll?!" They shouted.

"Did you know him?" Sai asked.

"Yeah, He's a former Shinobi from our village—His name is Yoshiro. Our mission is to bring him back to our village." Temari said and Naruto's eyes widened.

"I suggest that we should work together to find him." Shikamaru said.

"You just want them to join because she's—" Shikamaru covered Sai's mouth.

"Troublesome, I think you should sleep." He said and removed his hand on his mouth.

"He's right. If we all work together, sooner or later we'll find him." Temari said.

"Right now, we should all rest. We'll find him tomorrow." Kakashi said and closed his book.

"I agree." Shikamaru said and lay his back on the tree and went to sleep.

"Night." Kankuro said and they all went to sleep except for Naruto.

"Hey kit, aren't you gonna sleep?"Kurama asked.

'I love to, but since Kankuro and Temari knows about the enemy, I have to find him before they found out or before he hurt my friends.' He stood up and his body can't move after he stood up. Obviously. 'What the? I-I can't move.'

"At least it comes in handy. Kit, you're going to find him and you don't even know where he is."

'I don't care! I just want their safety!'

"How can you find him at this hour? If you even try to find him, you might end up in a wild goose-chase. Think about it."Kurama said and Naruto's body went back to its non-numb state.

He sighed and sat down. Whatever the fox said was true. He can't find him at this time and he might run into another trouble.

'Guess you're right, Kurama.'

"Just go to sleep kit. Find him tomorrow."

Naruto glanced at his friends. They're obviously tired from their search. He can't do anything but to feel guilty for not telling them. He knows that they'll be mad if they found out; Moreover, he has nothing to do. He just wants their safety. He sighed thinking about it and put his hands behind his head. He'll just have to finish it tomorrow. Then, he closed his eyes and went to sleep.

x-x-x

With Yoshiro...

Yoshiro made it in his hideout and sat down. Actually, his hideout is one of Orochimaru's old-abandoned hide-outs and he does his experiments at this place. The reason his village knows what he is doing, it's because of señor curiosity. His friend decided to follow him because he's getting suspicious about him. It turns out that he has studied forbidden Jutsus illegally. Before his friend report it to the Kazekage, he killed him. How did the village knows? They saw his friend's dead body in the village and asked him what happened to his friend. He lied to them but they found it out later.

"What took you so long?" Someone appeared behind the shadows.