Hey guys! Thanks for all the awesome reviews you've been giving me lately! I made this chapter longer because it's been a while since I've updated, I will also be adding a few more stories, and updating my Inuyasha ones!
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Naruto stood and looked around before turning to the blushing Hyuuga still sitting on the ground. He smiled cheerfully, extending a hand and pulling her to her feet. She twiddled her fingers and smiled sheepishly.
"I wonder where we are...do you have any clue Hinata-san?" the blonde boy asked peering around them at the vast forest they seemed to be in.
"Well, um, Naruto...ummm..."
Naruto turned to her then and cut her off noticing her rambling," Don't worry Hinata-chan, I won't let anyone hurt you, so there's no need to worry! I'll protect you! Believe it!"
She would have began to wobble, but the arm he had thrown around her waist reassuringly had held her steady as he continued," Now do you sense anyone nearby?"
"H-Hold on Naruto-kun," Hinata managed trying to keep the stutter from her voice as she used her byuukagen," Yes, TenTen and Neji seem to be a ways west of here."
Naruto beamed," That's Great! Let's go find them then!" he replied pulling her behind as he ran full speed towards the nearest members of the rookie 9.
"Dangit!" A loud voice echoed in the small clearing as a certain brunette woke up," Neji get the heck off of me!"
When the Hyuuga failed to stir, TenTen took it upon herself to ever so "gently" shove him off of her and into the nearest tree. She grinned mischeviously at him as he slowly tilted his head back to look at her," What. Was. That. For.?"
She raised an eyebrow," You didn't look like you were going to wake up anytime soon, so I took the liberty of waking you."
His eye twitched angrily as he replied through gritted teeth," By throwing me into a tree? Tenten who does that?"
"It's not my fault! You were laying on me, my legs where going to sleep! I mean I could have slapped you I suppose..." she rambled slightly, resisting a chuckle at his seemingly concealed annoyance.
"This is no time for joking around, we need to find..." his voice stopped as he looked off to the side.
Tenten raised an eyebrow as he gritted his teeth and narrowed his eyes, she vaguely heard the rustling of bushes, but payed it no mind She watched curiously as Neji took on a look of anger and she turned to see what had vexed him so. She couldn't help but look at him funny as he gritted out.
"Naruto. Get. Your. Hands. Off. Of. My. Cousin... NOW!"
Sakura sat up and looked at her surroundngs, this definatly wasn't the same crater they had just rolled into. She rubbed her eyes and looked around not really familiar with her surroundings. This however only lasted a few moments as she rolled over on the boulder she was laying on and looked down over the edge to see Itachi sleeping at the base of the rock.
She stretched, sitting up and looking at the sky, it had to be no more then ten in the morning by the looks of the sun, she straightened out her short kimono and flicked down the collar of her new leather duster, before leaping off the rock and landing in a crouch infront of Itachi. Slowly two pairs of crimson slid open, to reveal a pair of amused emerald orbs staring back.
"Look at the birdie, huh, Itachi?" she mocked him as the memory's of their drunken escapade crossed her mind.
"Shut up," he replied obviously not happy, she decided to press the matter," Come on Itachi, you weren't that drunk, you can't have a hang-over."
"I don't."
She rolled her eyes and grabbed his arm, pulling him non to gently to his feet. He took a glance around and after a moment of looking into the dense forest around them, seemed to take note of where they where.
"Come on," he commanded jerking her arm in the direction he was walking, so with a sigh she followed him, later she would look back and realize what a bad idea it was.
Kakashi resisted the urge to roll his eyes at the foolishness of "youth" infront of him. It was like they hadn't seen each other in years.
"Gai-sensei!"
"Lee!"
"Gai-sensei!"
"Lee!"
Kakashi turned his atteniton back to his book, only to have his attention diverted moments later by a pull to his arm. He looked down into the eyes of a disturbed Kiba Inuzuka, who was currently staring in a kind of startled way at the two infront of them, nose snarled, eyebrows raised and twitching as he pulled on the fabric of Kakashi's arm and spoke," Can't you make them stop?"
"Yes, this is quiet...disturbing," Shino Aburame added adjusting his glasses as he spoke in his monotone voice.
"This is troublesome, right Choji?" Shikamaru asked turning to his frend, only to find that his friend was completely oblivious to the whole ordeal going on infront of them, as he quietly munched away on his chips.
A few feet from the group, Ino Yamanaka rolled her sleeves up and triumphently marched her way from Asuma's side up to the hugging pair," LISTEN HERE!" she screamed," YOU TWO HAVEN'T BEEN SEPERATED FOR MORE THEN TEN MINUTES! GET OVER IT!!
Everything stopped at her shrill shriek and Kakashi swore he heard Shino's glasses crack, but he wasn't quite sure, so he decided to step in before she started round two of the rant he could feel coming," She's right we have to find the others, it appears we have left our time and are probably in the future now. So lets try and be descreet and just not get noticed."
A loud explosion erupted in the forrest that had gone silent from Ino's yelling, Kakashi slowly turned his closed eyes to the left before opening them and sighing," So much for being discreet..."
"You have no idea where your going do you?" Sakura commented casually as Itachi struggled through the dense forest, the over grown path they seemed to be taking definiatly wasn't fit for walking.
"Hn," he replied monotonously.
"HN?!" she cried throwing her hands up, whirling him around to face her," We are lost, L-O-S-T," she continued spelling the letters out for him," lost as in we have no idea where we are! We have no idea what has happened to anyone else and we...wow."
Itachi stood stoic for a minute looking at her intrigued expression, and finally turned his head to the right to see what she was looking at. There within the foliage of dark, light-scattered forest was a building. Sakura's feet moved on there own accord, Itachi following, as she walked up to the entrance casually.
"Hey Weasel, what is this place?"
He merely pointed towards the top of the building, where in big blue letters, one word was written,"Orochi-Mart."
She put a finger to her chin and stared strangely for moment," I wonder who owns this?" she questioned recieving a shrug from Itachi.
She glaced back towards the eldest Uchiha only to find his previous spot vacant, a tug on her wrist made her look up, to find him already walking towards the doors. She followed him, stopping in bewilderment when the doors slid open themselves," What kind of juutsu is that?"
Itachi glanced around, one eyebrow raised," Be on gaurd."
"Naruto," Kakashi muttered in annoyance.
It had only taken a quick trip through the forest to discover the source of the explosion. As the group of nine made up of: Kakashi, Asuma, Gai, Lee, Shikamaru, Chouji, Kiba, Shino, and Ino jumped down from the tree limbs. TenTen was standing with her arms crossed with a look of annoyed amusement clearly on her pursed lips, Hinata was standing beside her looking rather alarmed by the situation.
Kakashi let his eyes trail from the two kunoichi to find Neji Hyuuga rolling around on the ground in a fist fight with Naruto Uzamaki.
"What's going on here?" Ino asked beating the three jounins to the question.
Tenten grinned with a chuckle," Well you see I was just standing here with Neji, when Naruto came bounding out of no where with his arm thrown around Hinata. For some reason, I suppose because Naruto beat him in the Chuunin exams, and with the whole male pride thing, and all...Well let's just say it went a little something like... Naruto get your hands off my cousin, then Neji threw Naruto through a tree, which caused the tree to land on another one, which is probably the sound you heard that led you here. Well, as you see now there just umm...well you know you got here after that."
"Now boys, boys! That's not youthful!" Gai insisted, breaking them apart. Neji stood and crossed his arms with an Uchia-rivaling-glare, whilst Gai had his hand atop Naruto's head, keeping the pawing boy pushed away from his "opponent."
Kakashi rubbed his temples gritting out," Naruto..."
"See," Anko insisted, walking out of the other side of the forrest, Gaara, Temari, Kankuro, and Kurenai, trailing her," I told you they had to be at the source of the fighting."
Kurenai smiled slyly back at Anko," Yeah, you where right."
"So now that we're all here, I'd say our Sakura and Sasuke are to, our goal is to find them and to find there "senseis"..." Kakashi was cut short as Naruto exclaimed," Hey Kakashi-sensei, do you feel that?"
Kurenai looked behind her and replied," He's right Kakashi, I sense Naruto's chakra in that direction, but he's right here. There's others with him."
Asuma replied," Well it looks like we're about to meet our older selfs."
"We don't know whats awaiting us so be preparred," Kakashi informed the genins behind him.
"OH HOW YOUTHFUL THIS WILL BE!" Gai exclaimed throwing his fist in the air for exageration as Lee nodded enthusiastically.
Asuma smacked himself in the head," Why did we bring this guy along again?"
Kakashi sighed," We didn't."
"Can we go find them now?! We're going to run into them sooner or later," Naruto exclaimed.
Kakashi looked his way and grinned," Might as well..."
"Itachi..." Sakura began looking around the store," Why did we come here again?"
He shrugged again which caused her to glare," Nothing better to do."
"NOTHING BETTER TO DO?! WE NEED TO SEE WHATS GOING ON and...oh my gosh..." Sakura replied eyes going wide and mouth hanging open as she tipped in a sway to one side in shock.
Itachi stared at her," Why do you always do tha..."
He trailed off as he saw what she was talking about. They had just been randomly walking through isles of random things such as: towels, and chairs, and shampoo, and sunglasses, and just so happened to stumble upon the picture frames.
"Itachi?" Sakura began her left eye twitching," Why are all the default pictures in these frames of Sasuke?"
Itachi couldn't resist the chuckle that escaped him," Well, Well, Well, it seems his little "fan club" finally opened a store for him."
Sakura giggled and pushed Itachi slightly," He's just going to love this," she replied exageratingly as the two went from chuckles to laughter.
Itachi pulled her from the isle, as she held on to his arm, tears rolling down her face from laughing so much," I can't belive that! That was hilarious!" she exclaimed.
She soon straightened up and sighed, as she continued to follow after Itachi, who looked amongst the random things. He stopped in an isle labeled weapons and quiete conveniantly stuffed his pockets full of random kunai's, and shurikans, and other little handy, sharp knick-knacks, Sakura scolding him the whole time. After which he whistled a tune and set off to no where in particular again.
Sakura looked around them," Hey Itachi, I wonder where everyone else is..." she couldn't help but to stop at the one isle in particular infront of them labeled: camping.
"PLEASE ITACHI!"
"No..."
"COME ON!"
"No..."
"HAVE SOME FUN!"
"Ummm, let me think here...NO!"
Sakura shrugged and picked up the old accustic guitar claiming she would rather be playing electric. Itachi cursed his fate, the crazy pink haired kunoichi had spotted a fake display of a fake fire, fake log seats. A camper was set up beside them on display, and now of all things the girl had picked up a guitar and was about to sing. Oh a cliff ledge was looking so inviting at the moment.
She opened her mouth to begin singing, when she was suddenly cut off by the speakers in the corner of the stoor walls blasting a loud siren. Sakura dropped the guitar and jumped up quickly at the sound of approaching feet. She looked from the "security guards", also known as the sound four, to Itachi who stood there looking like he wanted to be hit in the head with a brick.
As the gaurds moved towards them, she dropped her quitar and exclaimed, pointing wildly at Itachi who glared even harder at her,"HE DID IT!"
"Your not to touch the display," the gaurd reminded her as she and Itachi where placed in a room known as Orochi-Mart Jail. It wasn't a very pleasent place, it was dank with wooden benches and bars blocking there escape. Itachi only stared at the wall, before finally bringing a hand to his temple and muttering annoyedly to himself.
"You know this all your fault," he reminded her casually about thirty minutes later as she stared into space.
"Don't blame this on me, Cyndi, your the one who wanted to catch that danged "birdie" so bad, I mean if you hadn't got drunk and jumped for the bird in the first place...We could have set things right and left back to our own time, pretty as you please. Of course you had to make things difficult as always."
"First of all, I wouldn't have set things "right" by retrieving Sasuke for you, or by retrieving you from me," Itachi replied in a superior tone.
"Oh, well then Mr. Know- It-All. What would you have done?" Sakura raged between gritted teeth.
He grinned arrogantly back at her," That is simple. I would have stolen the portal, left things as they where, found Deidara, and things would be back to normal by now. If you weren't such a bad ninja you would have thought of doing the same."
Her eyes widened in rage as she turned ready to strike him with her glowing fist, only to find he was standing She glared menacingly as he continued," So you know they left the door unlocked right? We can leave any time we want..." he grinned at her astounded look, as he used his index finger to poke the door, which swung free.
They had only made it down the hallway when four figures appeared behind them," Stop right there!"
She turned to Itachi and rolled her eyes" Oh, boy..."
The two dissapeard, and reappeared behind the four, Itachi kicked one into a wall, she pulled a "Sasuke" on another, Itachi used his sharingan on the other one of his opponents, whilst she used her fist. Sakura turned to say something, but was met with a fist to the face.
"What the he..."she trailed off yelling curses and turning to him with flames enveloping her body," What WAS THAT FOR!!!!"
He twitched slightly and took a step back," I...well I thought you where one of them, I wasn't really paying attention."
She advanced towards him and he backed away, this was really going to hurt in the morning...and then it hit me like a slap in the face, a solution that would hurt less then a good beating," Fine then Kunoichi, I'll give you one free shot."
She automatically stopped and grinned mischieviously," Fine then," and turned to walk away.
"Wait what are you doing I said free shot," Itachi questioned confused.
"Oh I'm going to take that free shot...but," she sneered," I"m not going to tell you when it's coming..."
"The rules don't..." Itachi began but was cut off by the strong pressence of chakra that had appeared behind them, they both turned, then burst out laughing.
"Well, well, well, long time no see Sakura...Itachi," Orochimaru grinned. He was wearing a white visor with a vest of purple over a black robe top, and the same ugly purple bow and pants as always. Kabuto, standing next to him, looking rather cocky, was wearing his normal clothes and a grey visor.
"So what do you say we do with them Kabuto?" ...Kabuto?" Orchimaru turned scowling at him," Why aren't you answ..."
"There getting away," Kabuto monotoniusly informed him watching as the two dissappeared behind the next corridor which led through to the exit on the right.
"WELL AFTER THEM!" Orochimaru declaried, as Kabuto dissapeared, appearing moments later on a charkra infused golf-cart. Orochimaru seated himslef in the passenger seat, put his hands in the sleeves of his robe and chuckled evilly as the golf cart slowly took off. Unaware of a certain sleeping blonde Akatsuki member in the backseat.
Itachi slowly trotted up to the black and red crotchrocket that had so nicely been placed on display at the back exit of the store. Only a few of these had been made, everyone else used carriages and such, these were very rare, and he was eager for the opportunity to be able to drive one, though he would never admit it. He had just sat down, when the unfamiliar buzzing alerted him of Orochimaru's slow approach. He never expected what happened next.
Sakura looked around for any means of escape from Orochimaru, only to find Itachi seated on what she knew to be a chakra infusable motorcycle. She had driven the rare bike only a few times before, and she grinned. So Itachi thought he was going to drive? She raced forward threw herself on infront of him, forcing him back a little with her abrupt arrival on the bike. She infused chakra into it and with a wicked grin, let out a loud battle cry and took off flying through the forrest, golf-cart in tow, unaware that they where headed towards a very strange gathering of past and present shinobi.
Thats it for this chapter! I'll update soon!
-Michiharu