~!~ I don't remember if I mentioned it before so I'm gonna say it now, if anything is in ' ' and on a separate line then it's their thoughts xD~!~

~Sasuke~

Naruto and Sakura started shouting at Kakashi-Sensei for being late.

'I don't know why they bother, he's always late.'

He lifted his hands in a defensive motion, I waited for his 'lost on the path of life' excuse.

"Sorry, but I had to get Team 7's newest member all settled in."

I blinked my eyes to look at Alai.

'She couldn't seriously...'

I looked at her as she had her left arm by her side and her right arm behind her back, holding her left elbow. She was wearing the same outfit as yesterday except this time there was a leaf headband tied loosely around her neck.

'What!?'

"Stop lying Kashi, I've been trying to-MMM!" She was trying to speak, but Kakashi-Sensei had covered her mouth with his hand. The lazy teacher tried to change the subject.

"I think it's time to tell you guys your new mission!"

"Why is she on our team?" I asked, I wasn't letting this go. The girl was not only NOT a ninja, but she was new to the leaf and I wanted her far away from me. "She's not from the leaf, and that's putting aside that she's not even a ninja.."

Sakura walked over to me asking "Are you ok?" I looked over to Kakashi-Sensei and Alai, ignoring the pink girl's annoying questions. Alai looked to me as Kakashi-Sensei spoke.

"She may not be a ninja but she is c-"

"Kashi wait, he doesn't care about that, he's mad about yesterday!"

Kakashi-Sensei waited a moment while he thought about Alai's words.

'Who the hell is she to talk like she knows me!?'

"GET OVER IT SASUKE, WE HAVE A COOL NEW MISSION!"

The dope shouted, he doesn't care about anything else, he just wants to mess up another mission. Our teacher took this as a chance to change the subject.

"Ah yes! We are assigned a new mission! It's a missing persons case. Meet me in front of the Konoha gates in an hour!"

I took the opportunity to get as far away from Alai and this team as I possibly could. Sakura was trying to hold my hand once she caught up, so I just shoved my hands in my pockets. Naruto was running ahead to get home and pack. Alai stayed back with Kakashi-Sensei to talk to him.

"A team will never become as such if they are picking fights with each other."

"I'm not just picking fights Kashi I'm-"

I couldn't hear anything else after that because I was too far away. I would have stopped walking but no doubt Kakashi-Sensei and Alai would have noticed. I turned my head slightly so I could see over my shoulder at the two. Kakashi-Sensei's mask started moving, meaning he was replying to whatever Alai had said. Her mouth started to move again before she pulled on something around her neck, pulling it out from under her shirt. Kakashi-Sensei's eyes went wide at what was in her hand and he tried to grab her. She dodged quickly and ran toward us before putting the necklace back under her shirt. Hiding it from us, or more specifically...me.

I already saw it though, and I was going to be questioning Alai later about why she had it in her possession. She had to have some answers.

'Itachi...'

"I'll race you to the house Kashi!"

'So she was staying with Kakashi-Sensei... at least I know how to find her.'

I heard a sigh come from behind me as my teacher disappeared. It wasn't long before I heard a shout from in the distance.

"YOU MISSED! hehe better luck next time Kashi!"

I sighed at the voice, it was Alai's. 'I'll have to sneak up on her in order to corner her. Kakashi-Sensei can't even keep up with her.'

~FF to Konoha Gates~

I was the first one to show up at the gates, so I found a quiet place to wait for everyone to show up. Sakura was next and she instantly started squealing, trying to hug me. I was about to take drastic measures and hide, but the dope showed up and distracted her. Luckily for me, her anger issues were too much for her to contain. As she went to beat Naruto, Kakashi-Sensei showed up.

'He's on time for once.'

"HEY! YOUR ACTUALLY ON TIME TODAY!"

"All thanks to me!"

Alai appeared from behind our teacher smiling as always. She greeted Naruto before Kakashi-Sensei coughed, trying to get Alai's attention.

"Okay okay!"

She turned away from our teacher and made her way over to where I was standing. Smiling the entire way.

"Hey Sasuke? Can I talk to you for a minute?"

"What?" I said in an unemotional tone.

"I wanted to apologize for earlier, and yesterday. It wasn't really right for me to pick fights with you like that. That... 'Subject' is really touchy and I should have had more respect. So, I'm sorry!"

She closed her eyes and smiled at me, she was cheery even when trying to be serious. I couldn't help but smirk at the thought that this girl was apologizing to me. She knew she was wrong.

"Hn..."

"Huh? What was that?"

I didn't answer her. She heard me and I know she did, she was just trying to get an answer out of me.

"Hmm...Oh well! I guess that's the best I'm gonna get huh?" She turned around to face the group before saying. "Okay Kashi! Let's get this show on the road!"

"Right."

I tried to pull her back to demand an answer about her necklace but Kakashi-Sensei called her back to his side. He then threw a picture to Sakura as we listened to our Sensei give the details.

'I'll have to pin her later.'

"His name is Genmai from the village in Inaho. He went missing in the hills a few days ago."

"He got lost?" Sakura asked, Kakashi-Sensei looked to Alai.

"Have you been in the hills?"

"Sure have! It's really pretty and all nature like! There are alot of bandits in the forest though."

"Hm, so it's possible that this is an abduction. Stick close Alai."

She looked to Kakashi-Sensei and nodded. She sure was used to being in danger. I watched as she skipped ahead of Kakashi-Sensei, talking to Naruto about the mission like they were best friends. She ran out of the gates but before she ran too far ahead she turned to the guards and waved goodbye to them. They waved back, apparently they knew her too.

'Just who IS this girl?'

~Kakashi~

We made our way through the forest where Genmai was last seen, Naruto failed to quiet down and was only encouraging Alai's hyperactive personality even more. I was debating splitting them apart at first but I knew that would never work. Besides, there was a more serious task at hand, something was wrong.

'If this area is full of criminals and bandits, how come we haven't come across anyone yet?'

The idea of a trap didn't settle well in my gut. I took my team to a small clearing in the forest and looked up in the tree line.

'Nothing so far...'

"Alright, I'm going to scout the area."

"Which way should we go Kakashi-Sensei!"

Naruto looked at me impatiently, I was taking too long to answer him apparently. I sighed before breaking the news to him.

"I'm scouting alone, you guys stay here. You too Alai.."

"Wow, what did you do with Kashi?"

I ignored her comment and turned to Sasuke as she listened to Naruto complain. I spoke softly so only he could hear.

"Try not to let her out of your sight ok?"

I showed a smile under my mask, I waited for Sasuke's ever so common 'hn' before looking to Alai who locked eyes with me for a moment. I slowly nodded to her and she replied with her own nod. We had a secret conversation with our eyes. One that said:

'If anything happens, hide.'

'I know'

I looked away before leaping off into the tree's to find Genmai. In the event that Alai DOES run off, there's no way any of them could keep up, but I had to at least give an effort before taking off. I had no choice, if I brought Alai with me I could be getting her caught in a dangerous situation.

'Kalen would kill me if that happened.'

I shook the thought of Alai being hurt out of my head, I left her there with the rest of the team so that if something happened, she had a chance of getting away.

As I searched through the trees for Genmai or an ambush I heard the sounds of wolves in the distance, followed by a distressed shout. I jumped into action and found none other than my target, being attacked by wolves.

"Hold your breathe!"

Genmai fell to the ground as I threw a smoke bomb next to the small pack of wolves. The smoke scared them off before anymore harm could come to the target.

'Well that makes things easy.'

"There you are Genmai, we've been looking for you."

"Who are you? How do you know my name!?"

"You've been missing for a few days, we've been hired to find you. What have you been doing these past few days?"

"I- I don't know. I don't remember how I got in this forest."

'What?'

I leaned down next to Genmai to give him a hand up, but when I touched his hand, a seal appeared on the forest floor below us.

"A seal?"

I was trapped in a dark place with Genmai who was panicking. I looked around quickly before using a kunai to make a small cut on my thumb. I started drawing signs over the seal.

'What are they after? This is used to stall, It's only temporary-'

That was when it hit me.

"Alai..."

I started working on breaking the seal as fast as I could.

~Sasuke~

Things in the clearing were still quiet, with no signs of Kakahsi-Sensei anywhere. Alai noticed this too as she stared off in the direction where he left. She then turned to face me, she wasn't looking at me though.

'What is she thinking about?'

Before I could ask her, Naruto shouted like the idiot he was.

"I'M BORED, WHERE IS KAKASHI-SENSEI!?"

Alai turned around, almost as if just realizing we were all here.

"Maybe he got caught :o"

"What?! You don't think that do you Alai?" Sakura asked.

"Well...he has been gone for a long time... I'm sure he's fine!"

Alai's face lit up again, hiding the fact that she was seriously thinking about Kakashi-Sensei's possible danger.

I sensed it then, other ninja in the area, and they had kunai coming right for us. I quickly kicked Naruto across the field and grabbed Sakura, escaping from the area in the process. Once the dust cleared, I heard Naruto shouting as I looked in the area for Alai.

"HEY WHAT GIVES!? WHAT WAS THAT FOR!?"

'Where did she go?'

"Are you Kakashi's team?"

I looked ahead to see three shinobi standing in the center of the clearing. Two guys and a girl. The girl wore grey and black scaled armor with her hair pulled up and spiked, with a mask covering her face. The guy on the other side was dressed in all black with a mask covering his face as well, like Kakashi-Sensei. The guy was hunched over and stood behind the leader, a man dressed in all white, he wore no mask but instead had a white skin placed on top of his head and wrapped around his shoulders. They were staring right at Sakura and I.

"What if we are?"

"Then I believe we found our target."

"What do you want?"

"You'll have to find that out now won't you Sasuke Uchiha."

'He knows my name?'

The 'leader' of the group took a step forward, I stood up and walked away from Sakura and got ready for a fight.

What happened next was so fast that it took a moment to process the events in my head. The shinobi took a step forward and then he was on the ground, having barely dodged a well aimed arrow.

'So there she is.'

"Should have run when you had the chance!"

He threw a kunai in response to her arrow, but no noise was heard.

'He missed.'

He noticed that she made no noise and went to investigate, but not before giving his team-mates the signal to attack us. The girl made her way to me as the other male attacked Naruto. I pushed Sakura back so she wouldn't be in the way. The girl threw a kunai but I dodged and counter-attacked, after a few minutes I'd managed to kick her back into the center of the field, where she was hit with an arrow. The leader saw this and was clearly becoming annoyed. He threw a smoke bomb to the ground and we heard a sudden scream.

"How about we play our own game of hide and seek..."

"Do you really think we have time for this?"

"We'll make time.."

The trio was arguing with each other as the smoke finally cleared. Revealing to us that Sakura was now unconscious in their grip.

"HEY WHAT DO YOU THINK YOUR DOING!? GIVE SAKURA BACK!"

"Come and get her."

They took off into the forest with Sakura still unconscious. Naruto sat there for a moment realizing exactly what happened.

'Where is Kakashi-Sensei?'

Alai jumped back down to the forest floor and placed her hand on Naruto's shoulder, trying to calm him down.

"We'll get her back."

"WELL THEN WHAT ARE WE WAITING FOR!? LET'S GO!"

"We should wait for Kakashi-Sensei..."

When I told them that, they both turned to me with shock written on their faces. Clearly they don't agree... In a way, I knew that Naruto would be upset about my suggestion, but Alai I expected to agree with me.

"WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY!? WE CAN'T LET THEM HAVE SAKURA!"

"The best idea is to wait for Kakashi-Sensei, we can't take them by ourselves."

"Well then fine! you stay here, I'll go after Sakura."

"I'm going with you.."

Naruto nodded to Alai and jumped off, not waiting for her to follow, she took the arrow she previously fired at the leader and put it back in her quiver.

"Let him go off by himself. It might be you they're after."

I tried to reason with her, Kakashi-Sensei told me to keep an eye on her, and I couldn't do that if she went off running with Naruto.

"I'm not leaving Naruto or Sakura like that, if she was captured because of me than I'm responsible for her life, not to mention Naruto's now that he's gone off after her. You know I'm surprised at you."

Her tone was serious, something I hadn't heard since the bridge with Haku, she was always hyper and cheery.

"Hn."

"Someone close to me once taught me something. 'Those that break the rules and regulations are scum. But those who abandon their comrades are worse than scum' "

She didn't say anything else as she turned her back to me and bolted through the trees after Naruto.

'That saying...'

I looked back to where Kakashi-Sensei took off for a moment.

'He taught her that?'

Alai was his friend for an amount of time that we don't even know. It's possible that she picked it up from him.

'Or maybe she learned it from the same person he did.'

I shrugged it off before looking back to where I'd last seen Alai, after a moment or two I sighed and jumped after the two idiots. Kakashi-Sensei would kill me if anything happened to that girl. I had to catch up to them though before they did something stupid. I felt Naruto's chakra heighten, which told me that they just found the group and he was doing something stupid.

'Great.'

As rushed forward to see Naruto standing in front of them shouting like the dope he is. He never does get the idea of surprising your enemy. I didn't see Alai anywhere and Naruto was about to be hit with kunai, so I had to step in. I used my kunai to block the ones that were aimed for Naruto and appeared beside him on the branch he stood on.

"SASUKE!?"

"Now that we've lost the element of surprise, again.."

"Told you they would come." The leader said to his team-mates. The girl looked around.

"There's one missing..."

"Ah, the pretty one with the bad habit of shooting arrows. I wonder where she could be. I'd like to play with her again."

"GIVE SAKURA BACK!"

Naruto jumped down to the ground and recklessly started throwing shadow clones at the three ninja. The leader jumped up on a branch to escape the weak wave of clones.

"Keep them busy here, I'll go ahead."

"Got it!"

He took off into the trees again while the other two shinobi attacked Naruto's clones. It took only a moment for me to realize what the dope was doing, he actually had a plan. There was a thin wire across the forest floor and he was slowly pushing them to it.

'If he doesn't hurry then they'll notice...'

I grunted before jumping down and kicking the girl in the gut, sending her back far enough to set off the trap, explosions went off on the sides of the two closest trees and sent them crashing down on top of the enemy shinobi, kicking up a cloud of smoke.

"YEAH WE GOT 'EM! GREAT IDEA ALAI!"

"Alai came up with the plan?"

"Yeah, she set up the tags and had me distract them!"

"Hn, figures..."

"HEY, WHAT'S THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN!?"

"Where's Alai?"

Naruto started screaming behind me, I completely ignored him as I looked around for the other member of our team.

"ARE YOU EVEN LISTENING TO ME!? DON'T IGNORE ME!"

"She probably went after that guy, we should hurry."

'What is taking you so long Kakashi-Sensei'

"Hey...Where's Alai?"

"...idiot.."

"WHAT DID YOU CALL ME!?"

Naruto started ranting again, forgetting that we now have TWO missing team-mates and that doesn't even include our squad leader. I sighed and pushed past him to follow the direction I had seen that shinobi went.

'He'll follow sooner or later..'

"What the hell Sasuke, where do you get off just leaving like that!? We're leaving Alai behind!"

"Alai is following the guy who has Sakura."

"How do you know?"

"She wasn't the one who set off the trap, she probably left right when he did."

"Then we gotta go help her!"

He ran off then, jumping from branch to branch with me close behind. I still had to make sure the dumb girl was alright, or else Kakashi-Sensei would never let me hear the end of it. When Naruto started slowing down, I knew he'd lost where the guy went.

"His chakra signatures are coming from this way."

I said as I took lead, I couldn't sense Alai in the area like I could during the training session so she's either hiding herself or she went in the opposite direction.

'Hopefully she went to get Kakashi-Sensei.'

As much as I hoped for that I somehow knew that she wasn't looking for our teacher, which only told me that she's hiding from that ninja. The village may consider her able to keep up with a rookie Genin team, but she wouldn't be able to handle an enemy shinobi by herself. Especially when she has to save Sakura in the process.

~Alai~

My eyes started fluttering open as I realized I wasn't on the ground, in fact I was hanging from something. For a few moments I couldn't see much because of my blurry vision, but I looked up anyway. Eventually I saw that my wrists were tied together and I was pinned to the roof of some type of stone.

"I see you've woken up.."

The voice made me snap my head down to the source, it was the ninja in white that I was following.

'He must have came up behind me.'

I looked around, taking in the details of the cave I was being held captive in. One thing I didn't find during my glance was anything pink. Which meant that he hadn't found Sakura again. I sighed out of relief.

'At least she's safe.'

"I wouldn't be so happy yet my dear, Ya see when you took the pink haired girl, I realized I needed new bait. You'll serve just fine in that aspect."

"I don't want to be bait though."

I frowned at his statement, trying to find a way to get down safely.

"I thought you wouldn't appreciate that, but I don't think you want to cut yourself down. At least not before looking down that is. I'd hate to lose my bait so easily."

I looked him in the eye before glancing down to the ground below, or should I say lack there of. I was hanging on the ceiling of the cave, and below me was a huge black hole. Probably going deep down below the earths surface.

"Oh wow! That's pretty far down, I wonder how deep it is!"

"If you'd like, I can arrange for you to find out once your friends arrive."

"I think I'd like to just get down where you are thank you very much. It would make things go over a little quicker!"

"Now as much as I would love to let you down, you have a nasty habit of shooting sharp objects at me."

"All this just for Sasuke? Not worth it mister."

"Hm, so you've figured out the point of all of this?"

"It was a secret?"

I smiled down to him, not caring that I was hanging from the top of a cave just above a huge hole that would surely mean the death of me if I were to fall. He glared up at me before turning to the entrance of the cave. Naruto and Sasuke were on their way, while Sasuke was trying (and failing but he get's an 'A' for effort) to hide his presence, Naruto didn't care at all as he bolted through the caves entrance.

"GIVE US SAKURA BACK!"

"Oh Naruto, Hi! Yeah Sakura's fine. Probably still unconscious...but safe!"

"Alai!? WHAT DID YOU DO TO HER YOU JERK!?"

The shinobi looked at Naruto with a bored expression before flicking his eyes toward Sasuke, who had just entered the cave. He then looked up to me with a grin spread across his face.

"I believe a thank you is in order cutie, didn't you say that you were curious about how deep that hole was?"

"I actually believe I took that back."

He grinned again before throwing a kunai to cut the rope that was holding me securely to the top of the cave.

I felt gravity quickly pulling me down into the depths of the hole. My hair whipping across my face as I was falling, my hands still bound by the ropes. I closed my eyes and tried to block out my fear while quickly trying to call for help when suddenly I felt everything stop.

'What?'

I felt arms scoop me up, placing one arm under my legs and the other across my back. My hands (that were still bound) went over the persons neck as the direction of the wind changed.

'Someone saved me.'

I opened my eyes as the thought reached my mind, when I looked, I found a pair of onyx eyes staring right back at me as he landed on the other side of the cave, away from the shinobi.

"Sasuke?"

"If you want to be on a ninja team so much, then why don't you try being a little less useless."

"I got captured saving our team-mate." I replied, sticking out my tongue. He smirked before speaking.

"Still got yourself captured by some idiot that Naruto can take on. Your lucky I found your bow, so there's something for you to do."

"You mean that Naruto got beat by."

Sasuke looked to see what I was watching, the shinobi was beating Naruto into a wall. When the blond fell to the ground he turned to see me safely next to his target.

"Just don't get killed, I need answers from you.." Sasuke told me briefly before we turned our attention to the ninja.

"Hm so you got rescued by the knight in shining armor."

I smiled at the shinobi before jumping across the hole to be in front of him. His eyes widened momentarily as my foot quickly collided with his face, sending him into a wall near Naruto.

"I did say that I wanted to be down on the ground where you were."

"And what do you plan to do without your bow to shoot sharp objects at me?"

He laughed before appearing behind me.

Everything went black then.

~!~ Alai: Hurray! Story time!

DawnxAingeal: The chapter is already over hun...

Alai: Ah! No D:

DawnxAingeal: DON'T BE SAD!

Alai: TOO LATE! -cries-

DawnxAingeal: Wtf... stop crying :( -blows up tower-

Brother Sparrow: WHAT THE HELL STOP BLOWING UP MY TOWERS!

DawnxAingeal: What tower? O:-)

Brother Sparrow: I really need to take away your toys Andromeda -.-(best friends nickname for me)

DawnxAingeal: But that's no fun :'(

Alai: Oh wow! Magic lights!

DawnxAingeal: I thought you were sad?

Alai: That was before all the pretty magic lights went off! *.*

DawnxAingeal: God you are FAR too happy -.-

Alai: Mhm! DawnxAingeal make more magic lights!

Brother Sparrow: DON'T TAKE HER SIDE!

Alai: She created me...I kinda have to

Brother Sparrow: ... Out smarted again... -.-

Alai: So DawnxAingeal, when's the next chapter?

DawnxAingeal: It's already up :P I posted it while Brother Sparrow was looking for my non-existent explosives

Brother Sparrow: DAMN IT WHAT DO YOU USE TO BLOW UP MY TOWERS!?

DawnxAingeal: I don't know what your talking about dear brother O:-)

Brother Sparrow: Of course not -.-...

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