Sakura's point of view.
The road was long and tiring because of the tireless distance our enemies had traveled, the sunlight was high in the blue sky, and it was only a few hours before it started to get dark.
As we moved through the branches of the trees and took a short rest before continuing on our way, but for some reason, I had a strange feeling that appeared in my heart.
As the wind moved leisurely through the place where we rested and cooled our tired faces that had a little sweat on them. My shinobi instincts were warning me that something was stalking us in the distance, and for no reason should I let my guard down.
It was a strange feeling that I had not perceived beforehand, however, perhaps it was my mind playing tricks on me.
"What's wrong, Sakura, you seem to be worried about something," Shikamaru asked me as he drank some water.
"It's nothing, it's just that I feel like something is following us, however maybe it's just my imagination," I replied dryly, as I did not doubt that something was going on, but I didn't know what it was.
"Okay." Shikamaru ended the conversation with me, seeing that I had no interest in talking.
"Guys, I think it's time for us to continue on our way." Shikamaru decided it was time to move on, and as we were getting back information, Neji interrupted him.
"Wait a minute!!!!!" He said as he stood looking for a few seconds in one direction only.
"What are you observing?". Shikamaru.
"Looks like we're not the only ones looking for Sasuke.". Neji mentioned to us as he was telling what was happening in the fight of five anbu and five sound village ninja.
As we shielded what was happening a few meters away from us, we decided to wait for the decision of our leader Shikamaru who had a terrible expression on his face.
"This is completely wrong, there should be no anbu on these grounds and if somehow the anbu are trying to rescue Sasuke, why didn't anyone inform us about this or warn us about a backup support, unless they are not anbu from our village, and they are pretending to be shinobi from our village!!!". Shikamaru communicated his thoughts and asked me to need to try to communicate with someone from the village using the Summoning Jutsu.
Being the only one who knows the Summoning Jutsu and allowing me to make a call with someone in the village. Quickly, I bit the thumb on my hand so that the blood would show and performed the Summoning Jutsu.
*Pop!* The smoke cleared, leaving a small light blue snail.
"Hey little guy, I require you to patch me through to Anko-sensei."
The snail looked at me for a moment before nodding with its two tall eyes and turning into the appearance of my teacher Anko and waiting for my teacher to answer the call.
"The anbu are moving to the Northwest, if they continue to advance I don't think I'll manage to see them anymore since I'm at the limit range of my Byakugan," Neji said while waiting for Shikamaru's decision.
"What a bummer." Shikamaru scratched his head in annoyance, "There's no choice, it's good to know that they are moving to the Northwest and that gives us a chance to rescue Sasuke who is sealed in that earth dome, but at the same time it's very worrying to know that we have no idea if they are allies or enemies."
We started moving very carefully in Sasuke's direction while I was still waiting for Anko-sensei to answer the call since I was quite far from the village and the signal was taking longer than it should.
"Come on, get connected please!!!". I claimed to the poor snail that was on my shoulder and struggling to connect the signal.
End of Sakura's point of view.
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Meanwhile, in the hot springs of Konoha.
The quiet hot springs the village had should have been calm and relaxing, however, it was quite the opposite because of the laughter and a cheerful atmosphere caused by three girls.
"🎶🎵CHA-LA-HEAD-CHA-LA🎵 NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS 🎶, ALWAYS THE MOOD WILL KEEP🎵...🎶🎵CHA-LA-HEAD-CHA-CHA-LA🎵 VIBRANT MY HEART FEELS EXCITEMENT, I WILL MAKE A GENKIDAMAAA.... 🎶 🎶".
(I don't think it's necessary to name the song. Many of us know what song it is).
Anko held the bottle of shampoo in her hands that simulated a microphone while singing at the top of her lungs and the water droplets sliding down her breasts and her curves as she festively moved her body.
With a cheerful voice, Anko who finished washing her body sat in the bathtub as the song continued and Karin took over from Anko.
"🎶🎵CHA-LA-HEAD-CHA-LA🎵 DON'T THINK ANYTHING JUST LISTEN 🎵, DREAMS ARE IN YOUR HEART 🎶... 🎶🎵CHA-LA-HEAD-CHA-LA🎵 NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS, I'LL SMILE TODAY 🎶 🎶 🎶...".
Karin was more used to bathing with Anko, so she went along with them in everything they did, as they began to bond with what happened in the Chunin exams and more so when she became their teacher.
The two developed a close bond of friendship because they shared some of the same qualities.
The last girl would look at them with slightly wide eyes at the foolish things they were doing.
Tayuya, who would normally be practicing her flute calmly and harmoniously, was drawn into this strange relationship.
The snail playing the song stopped at the end of the song and waited to be told which song to play.
"Since it's just the three of us in this huge bathroom, I think it would be time for Tayuya-chan to sing a song as well."
"Who would want to do such stupid things!!!!!". A blush appeared on Tayuya's face as she groaned while giving a glance at Anko's breasts and averted her gaze as she felt embarrassed and humiliated by her small breasts.
She almost intuitively covered her small breasts with one of her hands and quickly gave a glance at Karin's breasts which were a flat desert and with that, she felt a little better and even lifted her chest with joy knowing that she wasn't the weakest link.
"You're thinking something rude, aren't you?". Karin mentioned approaching Tayuya and saying warily as she placed one of her hands on her waist and showed her whole body to Tayuya.
Tayuya didn't know why these girls were so liberal but tried to look away feigning ignorance, "I don't know what you're talking about."
Karin looked at Tayuya's flushed face, and her mind quickly guessed at a reason for the color of Tayuya's face.
"Do you have an attraction to chic-...". Kirin stopped her words as she saw Tayuya's cold and emotionless eyes.
"Come on, don't fight girls." Anko intervened by placing her two arms on both girls' shoulders to stop them from arguing further, and handed the bottle of shampoo to Tayuya to sing while giving her sad puppy eyes.
*TCH* She snapped her mouth with a bit of annoyance, "You know the bottle won't make any difference." Tayuya tiredly answered her, knowing she had no choice.
- If you can't handle your enemy, join him! Stupid Genji should have told Anko and Karin to team up with me -. Tayuya thought, knowing that Genji cared about her mental state and would try to help her socialize a little more, so she wouldn't be alone.
"Give me that." Tayuya snatched the bottle of shampoo from her and declared to the snail what song to play.
Slowly, the sound of various musical instruments could be heard coming out of the snail.
Tayuya sang the song that Genji dedicated to her in her spare time, a song that Tayuya liked very much because it motivated her to keep going and the lyrics of the song gave her meaning to her life.
"🎶🎵I'm just trapped, empty and alone...🎶🎵 AND THE GUILT IS MINE!!! ¡¡¡¡ AND THE GUILT IS MINE!!!! 🎶🎵I want to heal, I want to feel...🎶🎵What I thought was never real...🎶🎵I want to let go of the pain I've had for so long.... 🎶🎵Delete all the pain until it's gone!!!🎶🎵I want to heal, I want to feel...🎶🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵 I want to find something I always wanted.... 🎶🎵".
(Linkin Park: somewhere I belong...).
Tayuya used his whole being to sing with his true feelings in this song, he even completely integrated himself into the song that he forgot where he was.
"🎶🎵A PLACE WHERE I BELONG 🎶🎵!!!". Her voice was emotional, and you could manage to feel the loneliness in Tayuya's voice at the end of the song.
Anko and Karin watched with a shocked look at Tayuya and couldn't help but hug Tayuya's body while their eyes have a stream of tears about to burst.
"They got us and Genji, Tayuya!". Karin told her as she hugged Tayuya's body tightly with the intention of not letting her go.
Anko agreed with Karin's comment, "Karin-chan is right." She expressed to her as she wiped the tears from her face with Tayuya's arm.
Tayuya was paralyzed by this kind of affection she was receiving from her friends, but she quickly returned to her normal attitude.
"!!! STEP ASIDE YOU PAIR OF IDIOTS AND STOP WIPING YOUR BOOGERS ON MY ARM!!!!". She shouted reproachfully at them, nevertheless, she still managed to perceive her friends' emotions of concern.
"They're daughters of bitches." Tayuya stated quietly as she sketched a small smile and a sigh after detaching herself from the two girls and waiting for them to finish comforting them.
Following detaching from Tayuya and continuing to sing other songs, Anko's snail began to produce the incoming call sound as she took on the appearance of Sakura.
*Bero Bero Bero Bero* *Bero Bero Bero Kachap* "Mmm, what's up to Sakura, I heard you would have a ninja mission, how are things over there?". Anko replied to him as she took a good swig of one of the sake bottles they ordered from the restroom attendant and uses her other hand to eat some potato chips.
*Gulp* *Gulp* *Gulp* *Gulp* The sounds were heard as Anko bottomed the bottle of Sake and waited for Sakura to answer her.
"Ss... Sensei I need... *Distortion sound* send me...*Distortion sound* message...*Distortion sound* Hokage tower...*Distortion sound* Anbu attack...".
Sakura's flame was cut off without warning with the sound of an explosion and ended with those last words. Anko, who had her almost empty bottle placed it aside while she asked one of the snails to download the video of what happened on Sakura's side.
The snail did not take long to search the network of the life he had with his parents to watch what happened with Sakura, since almost all the snails that were in the ninja camp had a backup video in case of an emergency.
The snail blinked a few seconds and shows a projection, Anko was watching the video from the beginning and how the call was cut. The few minutes she watched the video was enough to know that she was attacked and that the attackers had shinobi specialized in jamming signals.
It was known by all the ninja people that the shinobi that use the lightning element can cause interference in radio communication because the lightning interferes with the transmission of signals sent through the modulation of electromagnetic waves.
That is why villages continued to use hawks or other types of birds to deliver messages to prevent the message from being intercepted by others or to prevent allied villages from getting confidential information. Although these means of communication still have shortcomings sometimes, it was better than broadcasting most of the time.
"What's going on, Anko, and why the long face?". Karin asked her as she was eating some sweets.
"In agreement with the tomato," Tayuya told him as he drank cold milk.
"What do you mean tomato, we have almost the same hair color!" Karin complained as she pouted her cheeks and chewed a coconut milk candy tenderly in her mouth.
"No, you're wrong... My hair is hot pink and yours is red. If we look at it from a different point of view, let's formulate that my hair is neither pink nor red, but somewhere in the middle." Tayuya explained with a proud face.
"That doesn't make any sense to me, besides you just admitted that you have pink hair."
"No my hair is hot pink, and it's something completely different from your hot red, well my hair color is in the middle of the two colors and that's enough for you to understand that we have different hair colors."
The two started arguing about meaningless things and left Anko aside.
Anko frowned as she was interrupted by the discussion of the two girls getting up from the bathtub to go straight to the tower and as she abruptly got up from the bathtub, causing her two breasts to jiggle happily with a few water droplets running down her body.
With the sudden movement of Anko and her breasts, the two girls stopped fighting and cursed God for being so unfair to them.
"Girls, I have to go." Anko placed her towel on her body and ran out of the hot spring to go report Sakura's message after thinking carefully about what happened.
Tayuya and Karin watched Anko leave the place, and they continued to relax in the place. When they had enough of the hot spring, they prepared to return home, but they quickly remembered something important.
"Did Anko give you money to pay for the entrance fee to the hot springs?". Karin asked.
"Nope, you guys were supposed to have invited me, so I figured I didn't need any money."
The two girls looked at each other for a few seconds and almost as if their minds were synchronized almost at the same time they said.
" "Let's run!!!" ".
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