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Chapter 5 The Akatsuki Members

"Hey, nine tails."

"What?"

"How about a nice little 𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗴𝗲?"

Sasuke was moving ahead of everyone, ignoring his friends telling him to get back in formation. He was worried, and everyone could see that no matter how hard he tried to it.

Everyone could see how desperately he was trying to conseal it, his tears. Shikamaru guessed he was just worried about Naruto as a friend.

But deep down, Sasuke was worried because..
He felt the same pain once as a child. He couldn't count how many times he was about to go on the wrong path,he didn't because of Naruto's smiling face.

Naruto endured and never showed ANY sign of pain. Unlike Naruto, he wasn't that good at it. He only avoided any contact with anyone unlike Naruto, who surrounded himself with people...

𝗛𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀.

"I SMELL HIM!" Exclaimed Kiba with pride. Everyone was looking at him, waiting for an answer, to where Naruto was at. "If we keep heading in this direction for 30 minutes or so, we find him." said Kiba.

They were lucky to have a someone with a keen sense of smell. Well, not lucky, since Shikamaru figured he's play a big role in this with his nose.

"So should we hire him?" asked Itachi.

"Why not, it not like we need all of his chakra for the Gedos Statue" replied back a voice.

"Alright then, who are you going to sent? " asked Itachi again.

"Probably myself, and the nearest group, you'll help too, just in case." replied the voice again.

"Fine." said Itachi with small sigh.

Everyone was accelerating at top speed until...

𝗜𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗱.

"You..," said Sasuke. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?!?!?" shouted Sasuke. "My foolish little brother, I'm here to stop you, from getting to our new member, Naruto." said Itachi.

Sasuke was about to charge straight at Itachi until he felt a hand on his shoulder,it was Shikamaru. "What?!?" asked Sasuke with inpatient. "It's either Naruto or him."Shikamaru said calmly.

Sasuke totally forgot about that, this was tough choice. Either he saves Naruto, or he takes his chance to kill Itachi. He wanted to help Naruto from out of his misery as a fellow friend but yet, he wanted to kill Itachi as a "revenger".

"I'll do it," said Neji out of the blue. "One of Gai Sensei's was training us to not look into people eyes. He said this was" visual training" and it's going to come in handy right about now," said Neji." Go Sasuke, save Naruto, your eyes can see things even the Byakugan can't see." said Neji with a thankful smile on his smile.

" Thanks Neji, " said Shikamaru." Let's go everyone."with that, everyone quickly moved away. Itachi used his crows to stop them but Neji used" Eight Trigrams, Sixty Four Palms" on the birds.

"Are you sure with leaving Neji behind?" Asked Kiba. "Sure I'm sure" replied Shikamaru with a lazy tone. "I agree with Kiba, shouldn't we left Itachi to Sasuke?" asked Choji with an opened bag of chips."Look, Lady Tsunade personally recommended Sasuke since they have a close relationship," said Shiramaru. "He'd would have a chance of convincing Naruto,alright?" said Shikamaru.

Just then, a man with blonde hair and weird looking guy appeared from behind the tree.