Ch.11

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As soon as the bodies stepped away from the establishment, they began their assignment. With a nod towards the group, two bodies immediately disappeared from the dirt street, while another pair faced west and vanished, leaving a wisp of smoke curling off the ground. The only two remaining duo was Rock Lee and Hinata.

"Are you r-ready Lee-kun?" Hinata asked. She was anxious to start searching the village. She couldn't understand it, but she had a distinct feeling that this place could be where Naruto is hiding.

She watched Lee stretch his legs on the other side of the doorway. When he stood back up he gave her a blinding smile and a thumbs-up.

"Yosh! I am ready when you are Hinata-chan! We shall scan our part of the village in half the time it takes the other teams to complete theirs! If not, I'll carry everyone to our next destination!" He finished off with a waterfall suddenly materializing behind him, which is geographically impossible due to him standing on solid dry dirt a few moments ago. Hinata tried her best to ignore the warped laws of nature that she was experiencing and continued looking at her friend.

"Okay, you t-take to the 6-9 section, and I'll take up here by9-12." Hinata sighed as Lee gave a quick salute to her and vanish down the road. The only thing left of Lee's presence was the dust image left behind. The byakugan wielder turned northwest of the restaurant where Kakashi stationed himself and slowly began to scout the people around her for a shock of yellow hair.

'Now its time for m-me to do my part.'

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Two bodies ran under the cover of the tree's branches that protected them from the hot sun's rays beating down on their backs. They had begun their mission to scout out and retrieve their missing comrade. Running in their assigned direction, they kept a look out for anything else that should be reported when they return to the meeting place.

Soon the ninja running ahead had stopped near a giant tree and jumped to one of its branches. The second ninja reached the same branch without any hesitation..

"This village is bigger than we first expected." Sasuke scanned the whole village from his position. They were near the entrance where they entered the village and could have seen most of the gate. Sakura looked around too and noted as much as she could.

The village was originally thought, by the recover team, to be a small unknown town in the middle of nowhere, but now, with the view over the whole perimeter of where the gates and walls kept the village surrounded, it turned out to be a smaller form of a monopoly city.

"The trees around the gate from earlier must have hidden the rest of their boundaries from us. But we should have still seen it, though..."

Sasuke looked over his shoulder at his teammate. Her emerald eyes gazed back, and they shared a nod.

"Maybe there's more to this village than meets the eye."

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On the other side of town, a brisk wind was blowing across the local people. And Lee was causing it. He deftly searched the roads and small stands around him with blinding speed. Some people watched in curiosity as they saw a peculiar man dressed in a horrendous outfit flashing from one area to another. The people looked on as they heard the weirdest comments fall out of that man's lips.

"Excuse me, kind youthful people! I have a lost friend of mine who I dearly miss and would like back. Would you have happen to see him?"

The townspeople kept looking at the loud man, who must have lost a pet, and he was intent on finding it. Poor pet.

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She walked along the road so she would blend in as much as she could. It would be a dead giveaway to see a teenage girl speeding over rooftops. When she had left the restaurant, she was watched curiously by the nearby people. Some kept sparing not so secret glances at her form. They were probably confused as to why she had left her overactive friend to run wild in their home...or they never saw her eye color.

Even if it was the case, she paid no attention to the curious locals and continued to inconspicuously search for who she was suppose to look for. Turning to the right after walking down a stretch, she turned on to what appeared to be a main road and headed into a crowded part of town.

She kept walking calmly into the area, which turned out to be a marketplace, and looked casually over heads to see if one of them might have yellow hair. She strolled near groups of people who were arguing over prices, pretending to be interested in what the stalls had to offer in reality, she was listening in on the conversations to see if someone by chance, knew about her secret blonde crush.

Usually, good pieces of information were collected through eavesdropping. But all the sellers and costumers where talking about, was irrelevant local gossip.

Small children were running into the street while playing with each other, and other people, mostly adults and elderly people, were looking at the variety of games currently playing. Using her skills, she evaded the bustling people around her while she searched their faces. None of them were fitting the description of what Tsunade had given her. She would have gladly used her blood limit to speed up the search, but too many people were just looking at her.

'This plan isn't working. I need to go somewhere less crowded to use it.'

Slowly she edged from the middle of the market and turned down another road. It was still apart of the busy market area, but was not as condense. She searched the smaller section quickly for a sign of bright blonde hair and blue eyes, before she soon ducked near the side of a building. The people tended to themselves and did not notice the pale-eyed female disappear.

In the shade and secrecy that the building provided, she looked out at the road and quickly went through the signals for the Byakugan. Finally stopping her hands on the last hand sign, she concentrated chakra to her pupils, and felt the familiar expansion of her veins. Immediately her vision began to flash in odd white and black colors, but she was used to it. And just as she began to look beyond the lining of buildings and people, she felt a presence behind her and a hit in her shoulder that caused her to stumble out from the shadows.

She would have turned around and defended herself before she was struck, but the person was in her blind spot automatically. She had to deactivate her bloodline because everyone watched her when she fell back into the public's eye. They would freak out if they saw her activated limit; it didn't have the most humble appearance.

As gracefully as she was capable of, she stood up from kneeling and turned around. Quickly, she found her assailant. She found herself staring into pools of blue.

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My revision is complete. I rushed to meet the deadline, so this chapter is shorter than I wanted it to be. Maybe the next chapter will be up in a couple of weeks; I'm a slow writer. Hope its better than last time.

Ja Ne

-Sexyinumama

P.S.: Happy belated Valentine's Day

Happy belated b-day to my 2 friends in school.

Happy b-day to me! I'm the-date-of-my-birthday-old! Yay!