Chapter 3: Two weeks later……

Sakura was in her room packing things, placing them each in her bag. It was dawn, the sun was coming up. Sakura opened her fridge and rattled through to search for food. She then walked back into her room and put the necklace that Tsunade had given her. ‘I hope this mission turns out good’ she encouraged herself.

Sasuke, now back at his old apartment, Sasuke woke up that morning as he did some stretches and packed his supplies for the mission. He bolted out the door in his original Uchiha shirt (The black one that he wore in the Chunin exams against Garra) and headed to the Konoha gates.

Sakura was with Neji who was waiting impatiently for the Uchiha. “Where is that Uchiha he’s so go damn slow!” Neji said with his arms crossed and stared at Sakura. Sakura tried to smile but it turned into a frown. “We were supposed to leave ages ago!” Sasuke came running on the other end; he stopped at his two teammates.
“So are you guys ready?” asked the client. Sakura nodded and replied back to the man.
“Yep. Riku lead the way!” Riku resembled much like Sasuke except for the hair style and the eyes. He had blue cerulean eyes and for the hair it was spiked up. His hair was the color of darkish blue, with a hint of purple which looked like the dark night sky.

Hours had past and they were still walking, Sasuke walked with his hands shoved in his pockets whilst carry his items in a backpack. Sakura walked up to him, “You seem cool about this?” She asked him he closed his eyes and tried to walk faster.  “Sasuke….” She said quietly so nobody could hear her. Riku came up behind her and started talking to her. “Don’t worry about him” Riku said as he started the conversation between the two. Sasuke heard over his shoulder, he continued not to care.  Sakura gave a silent nod, and tried to continue the conversation as much as possible.
“So….Riku, Where is your village anyway?” Sakura asked. Riku laughed, but replied without hesitation.
“I’m sorry I forgot to tell you, my village is the Bird country we will be arriving any day now” Sakura smiled at his actions.
“It’s okay”
Neji walked over to where Sasuke was “You…..Jealous?” Neji asked in an insulting tone. Sasuke reacted to the question but tried to keep his cool.
“N-no why should I be?” Sasuke stuttered as he tried to cover the pink blush that had appeared on his cheeks. Neji began teasing him even further.
“See Sasuke you’re blushing”
“N-No I’m not” Sasuke bellowed. Sakura than shifted her attention from Riku to the Uchiha.
‘Sasuke what is it?” She ran up to him and looked at his face “Sasuke do you have a fever? Your face is all red” Sakura said as she placed her hand on top of Sasuke’s forehead. Sasuke looked at Sakura then shifted his attention to Neji, who was smiling at him and giving him two thumb ups, till he shifted his attention to Riku, who was giving him a mean death glare. Sakura looked at him and realized what Sasuke had been looking at she woke him up with her voice. “Sasuke-kun!” Sasuke stared at the pink-haired kunochi and looked at her.
‘Yes? Sakura?” She looked at him and then turned away and continued walking ahead of everybody else. Riku ran after her, Sasuke continued to walk when Neji came up to him.
“Nice going”
“What? How could you say that I was so close of being found out”
“Yeah and?”
“Shouldn’t you be concentrating on the mission you are the leader after all”
“Hn…Right now I’m more concerned of you and Sakura’s relationship”
“Hyuuga! That’s none of your business” Sasuke grabbed the collar of his shirt and threaten him with the Uchiha death glare. Sasuke dropped him and the two men continued to walk on in silence.

“So Sakura……Are you going to stay here a little while in the Bird Country?” Riku asked her.  She shrugged her shoulders.
“Riku…I don’t know actually”
“You can stay at my place when we arrive”
“That’s nice”
“You know you don’t look like a ninja” he said as he tried to continue to the conversation between the two. Sakura looked at him and raised an eyebrow.  “You’re too pretty” Sasuke overheard but kept his cool, Neji smirked at the Uchiha’s action.  “You should stay with me”
“I know I can’t but thanks anyway” Sakura said as she continued walking. Riku and Sakura continued to walk together while the Uchiha stared at them from behind.

Night had fallen upon them and they had set up camp. Neji and Sasuke had put up the tents while Sakura went to look for water with Riku.
“Do you think they will be ok?” the Uchiha asked the Hyuuga sounding concern for the pink-haired kunochi.  Neji smirked back at him but answered back while continuing to set up camp.
“So you do have feelings for her?” Sasuke faced him and walked away. “Hey where are you going?” The Hyuuga asked, Sasuke spoke over his shoulder and shoved his hands in his pockets gave a deep sigh and answered back clearly.
“Away from you” Neji stood their in shock; he looked at the half put up tent continued to put it together again.

Running through the trees two dark cloaked men jumping tree to tree, one spoke to his back to his teammate.
The other dark figure was more focus on what they had been assigned to rather than talking. He opened his crimson colored eyes and re-closed them. They both stopped and stood on a thick tree branch overhearing the conversation that was happening where they were.