Sakura sighed unhappily and peered out the window, resting her head on her hand. ‘Sasuke’s not paying any attention to me… What can I do to get him to notice me?’ She wondered to herself with another sigh. ‘If he doesn’t start to notice me he might fall for… UGH! Miss Ino-pig!’ Sakura scowled. ‘Unless he falls for ME first...but how…’ She sighed for the third time. And tapped the window sill with her other hand. Her face lit up and she grinned as she got an idea.
***
“What? You want us to WHAT?” Kiba blinked and Akamaru barked, looking up at Kiba and then back to Sakura. Neji raised an eyebrow. “I want you two—errrr three, to kidnap me!” Sakura grinned. Akamaru cocked his head and stayed next to Kiba. “Why would you want us to kidnap you?” Neji asked. “Well, what I want you to do is supposedly kidnap me and dress up as “mysterious Rock Ninja”. Then leave a note for Sasuke saying, “We are Ninja from The Hidden Rock village. We have one of your ninjas, Sakura Haruno; meet us at Light Point if you want her back. If you say anything to anyone we’ll kill her.” There was a glint in Sakura’s eye. “Then when he comes let yourselves be beaten easily. I’ll pay you all greatly!” She added. Chouji blinked. “I don’t see why you wanted me to overhear this though Sakura…” Tsunade said from her chair and folded her hands together. Neji rolled his eyes. He was not going along with this!!
“Well if Chouji, Neji and Kiba are all gone from the village it will rouse suspicion… So I was wondering if you could pretend you sent them on a mission…” Sakura retorted. Akamaru barked loudly. “And Akamaru of course…” Chouji chuckled and Neji humphed. Tsunade sighed. “Frankly this sounds…interesting. Very well,” The Sannin replied. “…of course there will be a fee…” She grinned with her eyes closed. A drop of sweat went down the side of Kiba and Chouji’s neck. “50 dollars in coins!” the Hokage said. “Ahhhh…” Sakura frowned. “Oh very well…” Sakura replied.
In her mind, she was jumping up with a mad expression on her face and yelling; “50 DOLLARS?!? THAT WILL TAKE UP ALL MY SAVINGS! EVEN FROM THE MISSIONS I’VE BEEN ON!” Tsunade opened her eyes and leaned back in her chair. “Very well then! They went on a mission to the village Hidden in The Vines to deliver some lost goods!” She said, slamming her fist onto the table but not hard enough to break it. “I’m not going to do this. I have better things to do with my time…” Neji grumbled, crossing his arms and turning his head away stubbornly. “Well Hinata is on a mission and I need a Hyuga Clan member! I can’t do any of this without you…” Sakura whined with a sigh. “NEJI I DEMAND YOU HELP HER!” Tsunade growled. Shizune had left when they had come in and started their “meeting” but Ton-ton was still there. “Do it or I’ll send you on kitty Genin missions instead of real ones!” She added, glaring at him. “Oh very well…” Neji mumbled through clenched teeth.
Sakura smiled and felt like jumping for joy!!
***
“Are you sure this is going to work?” Kiba asked Sakura after writing the note. Neji frowned. “It won’t if there’s Barbeque all over the ink…” He mused, glancing at Chouji. Akamaru whined and Kiba glared at him. “I can’t help it I need to eat!” Chouji said, stuffing his face with more chicken. Kiba finally sighed and crumbled the note, brining out a pen and another piece of paper.
“I’m sure it’ll work! What could go wrong? If Sasuke goes to Tsunade’s office about it she’ll pretend she’s not there!” Sakura replied to Kiba, giving Akamaru a rub. Kiba finished the note within seconds and put it in an envelope, not bothering to seal it. “If you say so…” Kiba shrugged. “Who wants to deliver the note?” Kiba asked. “I will after I finish this!” Chouji volunteered. They all frowned; imagining Chouji grabbing the note with his barbequed fingers… “No we need someone sneaky…” Kiba and Sakura looked at Neji, Akamaru grinning. “What?!” Neji demanded. “You’re perfect for this…” Sakura said. “Me? Why not Kiba?” Neji muttered rolling his eyes. “Because I have to stay here and make sure everything is prepared. We need to set up a few traps and things and we need my nose…along with Akamaru’s, of course.” Kiba said. Neji grumbled and finally gave in, taking the envelope. “Fine.” He said and then took off back towards Konoha.
“What did you mean, traps?? You’re not supposed to hurt Sasuke!” Sakura protested loudly. “Well we’re going to set traps he’ll easily dodge and see. I mean unless we set up traps he might get suspicious. Don’t worry it’s nothing that will hurt him.” Kiba responded. “Let’s get to work.” Chouji said after finishing most of his snacks and wiping off his hands. ‘I can’t believe I am doing this… this is SO stupid…’ Kiba thought and murmured something. Soon Neji returned. Tsunade had made sure it would work by calling Sasuke to her office for a “mission” to give them time to slip the note under his door. She said once Sasuke came she’d say it was a mix-up by Raidou and she really needed Rock Lee, (which was not true). “We’ve set up the traps. Sakura insisted we put some farther away from the others.” Chouji said and Sakura smiled from where she was tied tight to a tree in the clearing. “And it’s no doubt who’s idea that was either…” Neji sighed. “You got it…Sakura.” Kiba frowned. “What’s worse is these clothes we’ve got to put on…” Chouji said, bringing out dark suits and hoods with Hidden Rock village headbands on them. “They don’t look so terrible… they aren’t tight or anything.” Neji said. “It’s not that… look on the back of this one!…” Chouji said, swinging it around. There, on the back, was a red circle with a bag of chips inside it and a slash through it.
Kiba burst out laughing. “It’s not funny!!” Chouji growled. “Look at yours Kiba!” Chouji swung another around and Kiba gulped. The same red circle was there with the slash through it, but there was a picture of a dog in the circle!! Neji tried not to chuckle but a small one escaped. “IT’S NOT FUNNY!” Kiba and Chouji both shouted at Neji. “Okay, okay…!” A drop of sweat went down the back of Neji’s head. “Hurry up and get dressed Sasuke will be coming soon!” Sakura said and then she looked distant as she thought of Sasuke. “Fine… Akamaru, come on.” Kiba said, grabbing his “suit”. Akamaru arfed and followed him behind some trees. “You’ll have to stay here boy… Sasuke will recognize you…” Kiba said, setting Akamaru down on a stump with a frown. Akamaru whined sadly but nodded. Kiba stood up and ducked behind a tree, changing into the stupid suit with a scowl.
***
Naruto put his hands in his pockets as he passed Sasuke’s locked room but he stopped when he saw a note under the door, barely visible from the outside. Tsunade had told him to come this way because he needed “more exercise”. (What he didn’t know if Tsunade had known he would see the note and get curious. Then it would teach Sakura a lesson.) ‘Hmmmm…wonder who sent Sasuke a note…’ Naruto wondered, staring at the part visible.
‘I really shouldn’t look it is not polite but…’ He grinned and reached down, grabbing the note. ‘Curiosity has overcome me! Believe it!’ He thought.
“Hmmm… ‘Dear Sasuke; we are Ninja from The Hidden Rock village. We have one of your ally ninjas, Sakura Haruno; meet us at Light Point if you want her back. If you say anything to anyone we’ll kill her. You can count on that! We have a spy in the village. Also, if you don’t show up within an hour or less we will end her life.’” Naruto’s mouth dropped open and sweat covered his brow. “They have Sakura!! They might KILL HER!!” Naruto dropped the note and ran towards the gates of Konoha. He slammed into Genma and Shoshin as he ran and knocked them over. “AGH! Naruto! What in the WORLD was that for?!” Shoshin growled after him. “Sorry! It’s a matter of life or death!” Naruto called to the older boy. Shoshin grumbled something angrily. “Ha ha! Can’t win them all, Shoshin!” Genma grinned and helped him up. “Yeah, guess your right.” Shoshin murmured, coughing at all the dust around. Rei stared after Naruto, blinking. She had been trying to avoid her comrades again and then he suddenly had shot past her, knocking her over by accident and causing a cloud of dust.
“I can’t believe this… We look so stupid…” Neji grumbled. They all were dressed in the dark suits, wearing black boots and leather black gloves. All that was visible was their eyes. Chouji’s suit was a little tight on him. “Who bought these evil suits?!” Kiba growled, glancing over his shoulder at his back. “Need we mention WHO?” Kiba and Chouji had little “marks” on the side of their heads showing they were angry and suddenly Sakura felt very small… They all heard a branch break. “He’s here!” Sakura whispered excitedly. Akamaru peered at them. He’d come near them smelling one of Chouji’s snacks, he couldn’t help it but he was starving.
“Yeah Akamaru’s here alright…” Kiba chuckled and grabbed one of Chouji’s snacks, handing it to Akamaru. “There you go boy, now go back to the stump!” Kiba said, waving a finger at his nin-dog. Akamaru arfed and ran back towards the stump hidden in the trees with the chicken in his mouth. “AHH WHY’D YOU DO THAT?!” Chouji demanded, getting very angry. “He was hungry…” Kiba explained sheepishly.
Chouji’s hood finally ripped in several places and fell off.. “Oh great… what are we going to do NOW??” Neji growled. “Maybe if we just stick this headband around my head and take off my Leaf Village headband Sasuke won’t recognize me!” Chouji suggested. “Good idea… Let’s try it!” Neji said and Sakura sighed, getting impatient. They did just that but it still looked like Chouji. “Well it’ll have to do…” Kiba frowned. A stick on a string fell down in front of Chouji. “He’s here!” He announced in a whisper and Sakura smiled radiantly.
“Any moment now we’ll see him coming!” Kiba warned. Naruto looked around, there didn’t seem to be anything out of the ordinary so far… “GAH GAG!” Naruto cried out as he flung into the air from his foot.
“Sounds a little like Naruto… but it can’t be.” Neji mused. “He couldn’t have fallen into one of our traps…could he?” Kiba asked. “Were they harmful?!” Sakura demanded. “Not one…” Chouji said. A giant pillow slammed into Naruto and he heard a branch break. He suddenly went flying around in circles. Suddenly the rope broke and he went flying to splash into a stream. “GAHHH!” Naruto shouted and his mouth shot open, his eyes becoming wide and white. “STICK OCTOS!” mini octopus’s suddenly came up to him and started to stick to his arms and legs. “GAHHHHH!” he yelled. “Gee Sasuke sure sounds weird…” Sakura mused.
Naruto crawled out of the creek, the octopus still stuck on his clothes. He stood up straight, Sakura still needed to be rescued. He took a step forward and stepped in something but he didn’t notice. He stopped after a few seconds and sniffed around. He smelled something… He held his foot up, standing on one leg and saw poop on his shoe!! “DOG CRAP!!?!” Naruto said angrily. He grumbled and felt a string against his leg. Suddenly a plunger shot out and hit him in the face, covering his eyes and nose. He breathed with his mouth and wandered aimlessly forward. He felt his foot on a spring and two mattresses slammed into him. The plunger fell off and he stumbled into a tree. Something paper slammed into his face because of the sudden breeze and he grabbed it. “A NOTE!” Naruto’s mouth dropped open.
“Chips…chicken…milk…bread… A shopping list? Naruto cocked his head and turned it around to look at the front. “Buster Bob’s Best BBQ chips?!” He realized it was a empty bag of chips with a shopping list on the back. He stuffed it in his pocket and looked down. He was on a board! He stepped forward trying to get off and felt a rope under his foot. A rock slammed into the board further ahead and he went flying forward and then splashed into another creek. A few sticky fish grabbed onto him along with more Stick Octos. He growled starting to get angry and stood up. Naruto stood up and found himself face to face with… himself! It a dummy stuffed with cotton and looked a lot like him.
A board shot out of the rocks and slammed into Naruto’s back. He slammed into the dummy and ended up…KISSING IT! A giant crab was the one who had pushed the board out. “AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!” He yelled. There was a tape recorder on the back of the dummy and it cried, “AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!”
Kiba held back a laugh as he heard the scream. “He must have fallen for our worst trap but I do admit I am surprised….” He said. “WHAT WAS IT?!” Sakura demanded. “Well we kinda set it up so if he fell for our other traps he’d end up kissing a cotton dummy copy of Naruto…” Chouji said and Neji grumbled. “UGH how disgusting! That would be torture! Why’d you set up that kinda of trap?!” Sakura demanded. “Well we didn’t think he’d fall into any of our traps!” Chouji explained sheepishly.
There was a sign that said, “OPEN MOUTH AS YOU PASS, OR ELSE!”. Naruto wondered whether he should or not but eventually opened his mouth and walked by. A bottle slammed into his mouth, it was open and Naruto felt liquid pouring down his throat. He grabbed the bottle pulled it back, spitting out the liquid. He had already swallowed some though and he dropped the bottle. He chuckled. Then laughed a little, then burst out laughing. “AHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAH EHEHEHEHE HAHAHAHAHA… Oh no…l-laughing poison…!” Naruto said. He kept laughing as he walked for a few seconds before he finally stopped laughing. “He’s here! Get ready to be beaten up!” Sakura whispered. Neji muttered something. “B-“ Kiba whacked Neji. “Don’t!! If he sees you with that he might guess your Neji! Don’t use it!” He scolded as a person’s foot came into view. Kiba ran forward with Chouji. Chouji knew Sasuke would probably recognize him… “GUBLAH!” Naruto cried as Kiba and Chouji pounced him. “N…you!” Chouji’s mouth hung open. Naruto, of course, didn’t recognize Chouji OR his voice. He kicked Chouji and Kiba off him and then proceeded in beating them up until they lay unconscious in the bushes. “Serves you right for kidnapping Sakura!” Naruto muttered as Neji ran over, ready to “attack”.
“GAH! N-!!” Naruto punched Neji and then beat him up too. Naruto threw him into a creek after he’d beat him to a pulp. Sakura had closed her eyes and pretended to be unconscious. ‘Ohhhh I hear the sounds of fighting!! He’s coming!!’ She thought, looking poor and in need of help. She heard footsteps. He was coming forward! She felt her hands suddenly were loose and the ropes fell off as “Sasuke” cut her free with a kunai knife. “Sasuke” lowered Sakura to the ground slowly, gently. “I need mouth to mouth resuscitation…” Sakura whispered. Naruto blinked. “Uhhh okay!” Naruto leaned down and it took Sakura a moment to realize it was Naruto’s voice. She opened her eyes as Naruto put his lips on her trying to give her mouth to mouth resuscitation. “GAHHHH NARUTO!” Sakura punched Naruto and sent him flying backward to slam into the ground. Sakura stood up angrily. “GRRRRRRRRRRR!!!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?!” She demanded. “S-Sakura! I-well you see you were kidnapped and so I came to rescue you!” Naruto explained. “GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!” Sakura seemed to become a giant as she crossed her arms and there seemed to be a different landscape; fire. Neji growled as he came out of the creek. Chouji moaned, rubbing the back of his head. “Does anybody smell something?” Neji asked, noticing a smell. “Ummm Chouji… your suit…” Chouji looked down at his suit where Naruto had kicked him and yelled in surprise. “DOG POOP!!” He screamed and froze, not knowing what to do. Kiba looked towards where he heard the sounds of fighting then looked away as he saw Sakura beating up Naruto. “I think we might need to buy flowers… Sakura’s beating him to a pulp…” Kiba said as Akamaru came up, concerned. “We’re alright Akamaru!” Kiba assured him. “I knew I shouldn’t have gone along with this. Waste of time!” Neji growled.
***
Sasuke put his arms behind his head and stopped as Kakashi did. “This is the spot I am going to teach you in,” Kakashi began. He stepped on something and then jumped back, looking around. He’d stepped on some sort or tiny invisible string! A bag of white powder suddenly came down a little ways from the trees and exploded, sending the powder flying and engulfing them in it.
“Ahahahhaahah…” Sasuke started laughing, scratching around him. “Uhuhhuhuhuh…heheeeheheheheeheh hahahahahahaaha! HA HA HAHAHAHAH!” Kakashi started laughing too and scratching. “W-what is—AHAHAHAA HEEHEHE HO HO HO--this?!” Sasuke demanded. “AHAHAHAAHA I—GWUAHAHAAHHAA—DON’T KNOW! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!” Kakashi replied and they both started laughing even harder. “What in the?” Shikamaru and Ino stopped. “S-SASUKE! W-what happened?!” Ino’s mouth hung open but neither Kakashi nor Sasuke heard her. “They’re acting like monkeys!” Shikamaru blinked and his hands came down from behind his head…
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