Chapter 91

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It was a beautiful day, Aceso was heading to the ramen shop to meet Naruto when suddenly he fell out of the sky and into her arms.

"Naruto?" Aceso asked as he climbed out of her arms.

"How could they?" Naruto cried as he took her hand, he bolted up a rooftop. "Hooking up behind our backs."

"Who?" Aceso asked as they reached the top, sitting together was Sakura and Shikamaru.

"Hold it right there!" Naruto demanded. "What do you think you're doing, sneaking off for a secret rendezvous like this? Did you think I wouldn't find out about it?

"Naruto!" Sakura exclaimed.

"Huh?" Shikamaru asked.

"How? How could you do this!" Naruto demanded. "Sakura, after all the times I've asked you out!

"What are you talking about?" Sakura growled. " Have you completely lost your mind!" She grabbed his head shaking it. After getting shaken, it got explained.

"You mean, it's just an errand?" Naruto asked. m

"Yeah, a new poison was just discovered so Lady Tsunade sent me with this list of ingredients to give to Shikamaru's dad so he can analyze them in his lab," Sakura explained.

"Oh, man!" Naruto laughed grabbing his head.

"You really shouldn't jump to conclusions," Aceso said.

"Guess you're right," Naruto laughed more.

"Oh, I forgot to tell you guys about that Lady Tsunade just receive a status report from Temari in the Hidden Sand Village," Sakura brought up.

"What kind of status report?" Shikamaru asked.

"Yeah, what' up?" Naruto asked.

"The Hidden Sand Village just recently started a ninja training program, and they've adopted the same curriculum as the Leaf," Aceso explained.

"How do you know about it?" Sakura asked.

"Kankuro told me all about it in his letter last week," Aceso answered.

"So what about this training program?" Shikamaru asked.

"Well, the only thing is, Temari and her two brothers are gonna be instructors," Sakura answered. 

"They're what?" Shikamaru and Naruto asked sweating. 

"How did someone as mean and nasty as her get to be an instructor?" Shikamaru asked.

"Really? So Gaara's there, too, huh?" Naruto asked.

"Well, they are siblings, so I would hope so," Aceso said.  After getting ramen with Naruto, Aceso was summoned to the Hokage's office with Shikamaru.

"Gaara? Why?" Aceso asked.

"We're not sure yet," Tsunade answered. "The Four challenged Gaara, then took off. The hostage is a girl he'd taken on as a student. They grabbed the girl, the took off from the Land of Rivers, heading toward the Land of Fire. As of now, only Gaara, Temari, and Kankuro have been assigned to pursue them. I'm afraid that's all the information we have at this point."

"So based on that, I'm supposed to set up an operation to track down these arrogant idiots who want Gaara?" Shikamaru asked.

"Yes," Tsunade answered. "It's important we maintain our relationship with the Sand Village.

"But they've given nothing to go on!" Shikamaru argued.

"They had even less information to go on when we asked for their assistance during the Sasuke incident," Aceso brought up.

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