Wow, this is probably the earliest I've ever posted.

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Sakura's eye's fluttered open. "Huh?" She mumbled before rolling over. There was nothing there though and she proceeded to fall on the ground. With a soft thump she felt the cold, wet dirt and a few patches of bright green grass. "This is so not my house." She stated as she came to that conclusion.

"At least you're right about that." The tall man with black hair, Sasuke, said coldly from his spot in a chair next to the makeshift bed that she was in. "We're leaving in ten minutes, grab your stuff." After he gave her the order, yes it was an order; he got up and left without another word.

"Get your stuff, Sakura. Go to a faraway place without your own consent, Sakura." She mocked Sasuke and her mother as she looked for her 'stuff'. She found her pink book bag and looked inside. A few pairs of sweatpants, a cute blouse, and a few other miscellaneous items from her room that her mother had obviously packed were inside the bag, but behind the bag was her favorite black jacket and tennis shoes.

After putting on a pair of black sweats and a hot pink shirt she walked out, slinging the light bag over her shoulder. Outside the small hut were trees. A lot of trees, more than Sakura had ever seen in any one place besides those channels that talk about the rainforest. "Wow," she breathed out. It was surprisingly beautiful.

"You've probably never seen this much green." Kakashi came out from the forest. "We have to hurry though, Konoha's at least a week away if we carry you, but that probably won't happen too much. You need to learn while you're here."

Sakura was never one to ask too many questions. She preferred to think about her questions and answer them herself but she couldn't help herself from asking, "Learn what?"

"Learn how to be a ninja of course. That's the main reason you're here, aside from your own safety of course." He was hiding something and Sakura knew it. Being the colorful girl she was she proceeded to tell him that he was hiding something. He just blew it off telling her that he wasn't hiding anything.

"I know you're hiding something and if you just tell me I'm sure that we'll get along. But if you don't tell me then I'll just have to talk to Mr. Stick in the Mud over here." She pointed at Sasuke who just stared ahead blankly.

"Fine, but only because I want this to be a peaceful mission," he was very relaxed when he spoke but she paid careful attention so that she'd know when he lied to her. Lies were something she was very good at noticing. "The real reason you're here, the reason your parents kept you in Japan for so long, is that you're supposedly destined to save Konoha from destruction."

"Destruction?" She asked as Kakashi started to walk. She followed with Sasuke trailing behind.

"Yes, an old priestess said claimed that one day Konoha would be destroyed unless a girl with pink hair and emerald eyes saved us." He glanced back at her and his eye crinkled in what she guessed was a smile. "But she also said the sky was green, I was really a cross-dressing girl, and that you'd be a boy."

Sakura laughed, "I can assure you that at least two of those are wrong."

"Only two? Does that mean that you are, in fact, a male?" Kakashi teased the younger girl.

The pink-haired girl looked shocked before blushing. "No, it means that you are hiding a very big secret from poor Sasuke over there." The both looked back at the boy who smirked. "See? Even he agrees and I can guess that he doesn't agree to just anything."

"That smirk doesn't necessarily mean that he agrees." Kakashi retorted. "He does that as a sign that he's actually alive underneath that fleshy thing we like to call skin." She giggled as she jogged to keep up with the much taller man. Sasuke had caught up and was looking mighty peeved at their jokes.

After a few more jokes Sasuke reminded Kakashi of where we were. Apparently we were coming near a place called Suna. Kakashi informed her that they'd be meeting the KazeKage.

"The what and the where?" Sakura asked her face blank. Obviously Kakashi and Sasuke had forgotten where she had come from.

"The Kazekage is the ruler, king in a sense, of the land called Suna. It's a desert land and luckily it's friendly with our own village of Konoha." The kinder man told her as they kept a brisk walk.

"I don't see any – oh. " She looked down at the sand that suddenly covered her tennis shoes. Just a second ago she was walking on lush grass and now it was dirt colored sand.

Sasuke smirked before picking her up easily. "It'll be just an annoyance if we try and let you walk." Before she could protest, he leaped up and began running at an incredible speed. Kakashi just ran right behind them.

Finally they reached what looked like a very large city…of sand castles. "I could make this at the beach." Sakura stated, before leaning against the pillage of sand. Surprisingly it didn't crumble.

"These took years to make, actually." A cold voice spoke from behind her. She screamed and turned around, meeting the gaze of a tall man. He stared down at her with his light green eyes and she stared up at him with her emerald eyes.

"So? I made a castle like this at the beach when I was nine, took me three hours. Then a little brat came over, stomped on it, and I got banned from that beach for trying to drown him." She shrugged with a small smile on her face. The other man just raised a nonexistent eyebrow. "I'm Sakura, by the way, and you are?" She held out her hand.

He took her hand and shook it firmly. "Gaara."

"Sakura, this is the Kazekage, Gaara, this is Haruno Sakura, she, she comes from a faraway place." Kakashi explained, sort of.

"Oh, you're the king of this sand village?" She asked nicely, hands behind her back.

"King?" The redhead tilted his head sideways and crossed his arms. Kakashi explained that it was a term from my country. "Then yes, I am king. But why are you three here?" She noticed that even though he never once looked at the raven haired man he still knew that Sasuke was there.

"It's a long journey to Konoha since she's not a ninja yet so we wanted to know if we could stay here for the night." Kakashi said nonchalantly. Sakura noted the 'not a ninja yet' and sighed. All eyes turned to her, but no one asked any questions.

"It's fine, just don't cause too much trouble." The young man, around her age at least, was wrapped in sand for a second and when the sand disappeared he was gone also.

"Now that's pretty cool." Sakura said wide-eyed. "Can I do that?" She asked hopefully.

Kakashi shook his head. "That's Gaara's technique. We'll talk more tonight." He led their small group to a sand hotel. The outside was the light brown color but the inside was wood. Kakashi ordered one room with three beds.

"Three beds? There's such a room?" She laughed but the other fifty people, Kakashi and Sasuke included, just stared at her. "What?"

"Rooms here go up to four beds per room since ninjas generally travel with three other companions." Kakashi explained. Sakura made an 'O' with her mouth.

They walked up two flights of stairs and went in the clean room. "I call shower first." Sakura stated before grabbing her clothes and running into the bathroom.

Sasuke glanced at the door, making sure it was closed, before speaking. "She's…odd. Not what you'd expect from Konoha's savior."

"Yes, but at least she's interesting." The older man interjected. "If you knew her parents then you'd understand that she gets her personality from them." He smiled from behind his blue mask at the memories.

"They didn't seem so bubbly." The raven haired boy leaned against the headboard of his green and brown bed.

"They weren't, actually. They were just very happy people." He stopped talking when Sakura walked out.

"That was refreshing. I mean, how do you ninja-people do this? I feel gross after just walking." She shook underneath her green monkey pajamas that matched the beds.

"You'll feel worse tomorrow." Sasuke mumbled from his bed next to hers.

She curled underneath the covers and looked at him for a second, "Hmm…probably, but I feel clean now and that's all that matters to me meanwhile you're still dirty and smell." Then she proceeded to stick her tongue out at him. "I've only known you for a day and while I'm not even sure if this is a dream I'm certain that you are a stick-in-the-mud type of guy." She stated matter-of-factly.

"If that's what you want to believe." He said simply before turning off his light. Kakashi followed suit and Sakura, who had been glaring at the stoic boy, did the same.

Once the team was up and ready to leave Kakashi led them to the entrance where Gaara stood looking ever-so bored.

"Oh, Kazekage," Sakura waved before turning to Kakashi, "is the king supposed to visit his visitors before they leave? That has to become boring after a while." She smiled at Gaara as she spoke.

Kakashi ignored her, "Yo Gaara, what are you doing here?" He asked calmly, eye looking lazy.

"I have a message for Tsunade and I figured that you'd be able to take it to her." Gaara handed Kakashi a scroll. "It's important that you give it to her immediantly." He glanced at Sakura. "Carry her if you have to."

Kakashi nodded, looking serious. "Sasuke, you carry her as far as you can and then rest. I'll go ahead." Sasuke nodded but the Sakura looked almost bewildered at the though. Before she could tell the man to stop he was gone in a flash.

"Come." Sasuke barked out as he began walking away.

Sakura turned to say a kind goodbye to Gaara who just raised another non existent eyebrow. She then proceeded to walk next to the cold boy. "Should I wear a collar and leash while I'm at it, Master?" She asked, looking angrily at her nails. Her pink and white nails were chipped and the paint was almost non existent.

"That'd be excellent, slave." Sasuke agreed before picking her up and throwing her over his shoulder in one move. "You're too slow. I'll make sure the leash is extra short when we get home."

Sakura didn't want to know where home was. She was too busy grabbing at the boy's white jacket for leverage. "Put me down!" She yelled, trying to beat the wind.

He flipped her so that he now held her bridal style without stopping. "We should be a day or two away from Konoha when I stop." He informed.

She ignored him and instead focused on holding onto his neck. It was nightfall when he finally stopped. Looking down in his arms he saw the girl was asleep and after a few seconds on internal debate he dropped her.

"What the- Sasuke! That was uncalled for!" She rubbed her butt before turning her head to try and examine it. "Thanks," she said sarcastically, "now my butt is green." One of her favorite pairs of sweatpants, a cute baby blue color, had a large green and brown stain on it.

"Who is going to see it out here? Trust me; it's not your best feature." He stated matter-of-factly.

Sakura stuck out her tongue. "Then what is my best feature, pervert?" She sat down on a large rock next to Sasuke. He ignored her simply telling her to sleep. "I'm not tired." She pulled her legs up.

"Well I am so sleep." He laid back on the flat rock and closed his eyes. She moved as far as she could (it was the only rock and she doubted pushing him off would make him nicer to her) before attempting sleep.

"Are you always this chatty?" Sakura asked after a few minutes of silence. She didn't like silence when she was bored and right now she was very, very bored.

"No." Was his answer.

"Is it just me? Do I make you feel the urge to talk?" She teased, turning over to look at him. He stayed perfectly, almost scarily, still.

"Only to shut you up." He turned over so that his back was facing her.

"At least it's a start." She whispered before trying her hardest to sleep.

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Sasuke speaks? The horror. But then again, if he didn't this story wouldn't get very far.

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