Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Three Years Later ❯ Fighting the good fight. ( Chapter 3 )

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Beta note: Another chapter edited… guh… I'm so slow. I left this one as is, with the exception of grammatical and spelling errors. You should give me a time line or something, so you don't feel the need to post the non-edited stuff before I can get these off to you.

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Chapter 3: Fighting The Good Fight


It took Sasuke only five minutes to get ready and he was already waiting outside of the Hokage's Tower, when Neji and the rest of the backup team arrived.

" The great Uchiha really is going on this mission," Neji said, a small smirk on his face. "After three years, this is how you get to see your team."

Sasuke pulled himself from the wall and walked the six steps it took to cover the distance between himself and Neji. "They won't even know I'm there."

Neji pushed the Uchiha away from him, so that there was once more a comfortable amount of personal space surrounding him. "You're not even going to tell your team you're there to save there lives?" Neji's smirk deepened as he taunted the other dark haired young man. "What's the matter Uchiha; scared?"

The long haired Hyuuga didn't even have time to move before Sasuke was upon him. "Shut up!" the teen ager snapped.

It took three shinobi to pull Sasuke off of Neji. Shino, Kotetsu and Izumo, held the boy's separate from one another while Genma leaned against the wall laughing around his senbon. "Oh this is good, to bad Kakashi missed this."

Ino turned to look at him from the sidelines, "You sure are an ass; you know that right?"

Genma turned and looked at Ino, his senbon hanging from his lips. "Oh, come on baby, it's all fun and games until somebody gets hurt." He turned to face her more fully, "Wanna get hurt?" he questioned, waggling his eyebrows suggestively.

Ino leered and made her way over to him, throwing her arms around his neck, "You won't know how to hurt
a woman like me." With that said and done, she lifted her arms from around him, turned, and walked away.

Izumo and Kotetsu, who were still holding Sasuke, burst out laughing, "Damn, she sure got you there."

" That's enough!" They all turned around to find Tsunade standing in the doorway, her hands on her hips. "What the hell is going on? There is a team out there that needs your help, and your all standing here, like idiots!"

Kotetsu and Izumo let Sasuke go before following her into the office, with Sasuke right behind them. Neji pulled himself up, quickly running his hand down his shirt before following everybody else into the office. "I apologize, Lady Tsunade, for that display of poor behavior," he made quick amends.

" Let's cut the crap and get down to business." They all nodded as they waited for her to brief them on the
mission they would be undertaking in a matter of minutes. "Here it is: Team Kakashi; they were on their way home from an extended mission, and were expected back some point either yesterday, or today. However, there has since been radio contact, from which we have learned they are in need of assistance."

" When did this report come in?" Ino asked; if it had been too long, it might already be too late. And what the hell were they doing standing here? The old hag should just give them the co-ordinates, and let them be on their way already.

Tsunade looked over at the worried girl, "It came in about ten minutes ago. The plan was to send you six, but now I'm sending Uchiha as well. Kakashi's team cannot know he's there. Nobody but you six is to know, got it?" The assembled team nodded in the affirmative, "Good. Now, get your asses out of here!"

No more need to be said, as the team disappeared from the tower.

Kakashi, Sai, and Naruto stood in a perfect line waiting for the fight that they knew that was coming. "Come on Sakura, get ready." Naruto whispered to her.

"I'm working on it," the pink haired girl whispered back in a harsh tone.

Naruto looked ahead again, as the nins' got closer. "Any minute now," came another whisper. As the first of the enemy ninja came through the forest, Kakashi and Sai quickly moved two steps ahead, moving performing the hand seals that would allow them to do their first Justus.

" Sakura, now," Naruto yelled as he ran behind her.

"I'm on it!" Sakura ran in front on the group and pounded her fits into the ground with all of her tremendous strength, and then jumping back with Naruto as the ground opened, and pulled their opponents in.

"Good work, Sakura-Chan!"

Nodding her head as she watched Naruto run into the fight, screaming, " Kage bunshin no jutsu!" and ten other Naruto's ran into the forest.

Kakashi quickly pulled five kunai from his weapon pouch, throwing them at the enemy nins'. "Kakashi," he turned the voice calling him, "they're Sound nins!" His visible eye widened slightly.

" What? Sasuke might be here," the whisker marked blonde paused, distracted for a moment.

Sakura turned to her blond teammate, "Naruto watch out!" Naruto quickly turned to avoid the kunai that came at his back.

"The Uchiha is dead," laughed one of the Sound shinobi maliciously.

Kakashi, Naruto, and Sakura turned and looked at the ninja standing on a tree not too far away, but with sufficient coverage from the branches, making their long range weapons nearly useless. "I thought you were dead Kimimaru."

" So did I."

" What do you mean Sasuke's dead?" Sakura asked, hoping Kakashi didn't get the wrong idea. There would always be a small place in her heart for the Uchiha, but she loved Kakashi now, and she loved him more.

" He's been gone for three years now," Kimimaru shouted down at them.

" You lie!" The group turned and looked at Naruto. "I would know if he was dead; I would feel it."

" Let's get this over with," Kimimaru yelled as he jumped from the tree and ran towards Sakura. She took a few steps back before slamming her fist into the hard ground and jumping back as the earth moved, throwing Kimimaru off of its previousy solid surface.

"Naruto, watch out!" a voice came from seemingly out of nowhere. Nobody had time to move, as the sword that was about to go through the blonde's stomach was deflected a few millimeters to the right by a well thrown shuriken, and Naruto was thrown to the ground, another body covering his own.

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Smurf-chan's note: Here's the second part of chapter three, edited and ready to go. Mostly you just need to watch your capitalization, and swapping out words like where, for were, and there for their or even they're.

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