Early in the morning we dismantled the tents and started in the same setup as the day before. I never looked Sasuke in the face and I was pretty sure that he never looked into mine. Nobody should find out what had happened that night, it was a one-time thing and somehow it was a good thing. Because this closeness between us ... it was unreal, if I wasn't entirely sure that I was awake the previous night, then I would say it was just a dream ...

The trees flew past my eyes again. I pressed the object against me convulsively and was vigilant. My feet kept pressing firmly against a branch and I had a feeling of security in them.
Several hours passed, no one spoke, everyone just concentrated on the mission. This time I was happy about the silence, so nobody had to find out about my mood. The mood wasn't just due to the previous night, there was another stupid reason. It was because the sky was covered in thick, gray rain clouds. The sun just had no chance to break through this wall of clouds with its rays. I felt a slight pull in me. It was just a torture for me to have to go through the day without the sun's rays and the wish grew bigger and bigger: I wanted to finally arrive in Sunagakure, the desert village. There were golden rays of sunshine almost every day, which glided gently over your body and spread a cozy warmth in you. But there was still a long way to go. Most of all, he walked through this stupid forest for quite a while!
Suddenly a rustle made me wake up from my thoughts. I heard it clearly, but the rest of the group didn't seem like any sound had reached their auricle. My eyes wandered warily over the bushes. Was there anyone hiding under the cover of the leaves?I suddenly felt scary and with a shivering feeling I stopped. Shikamaru noticed it out of the corner of his eye and stopped too. “What's going on?” His eyes looked at me with a serious expression, but I didn't really notice his question and just continued to stare hard at the bushes. Shikamaru obviously followed my gaze, because he said: "Hinata, could you take a look?" Now I turned my head away from the undergrowth and turned towards Hinata. How did she want to look now? But then her fingers quickly formed a finger sign and lines of concentration appeared around her eyes on her face. After a moment they disappeared again. "And what is it?" Shikamaru asked her seriously. "There is ...", she started, but it was no longer necessary, because there was a rustling again and a little bunny hopped out of the bushes and disappeared again into the next. The whole tension collapsed in me. Just a bunny ?! "Just a rabbit!", Shikamaru said already annoyed and rolled his eyes slightly. The guy with the dog on his head started laughing. Should the others make fun of me, I wouldn't change my face anymore. But it was really embarrassing, I was afraid of a little rabbit! The others turned around again and hopped on to the nearest branches. I followed them, my face flushed slightly, my eyes on the ground. Nobody turned to me, so at least I was spared this exposure!

So it went on. Tree, tree and tree. That was all I saw when I let my eyes wander over the surroundings. It was getting silly, how long could it be before we finally got out of this forest?
At that moment there was another rustling in my ears. That couldn't be true now! I looked at the others again. Was I the only one here whose ears heard such noises?Didn't the others really hear it, or could they distinguish between rabbit and hostile shinobi? In any case, I didn't feel like doing such an embarrassing act again, so I kept my eyes firmly on the front and put my ears on draft.

After a few hours we stopped. After all, we had to have a place to sleep that night, which in Shikamaru's opinion was exactly the right place for us. He divided us into groups. Some should get food again, others should search the area for enemy ninja. I was put in the ninja spy group ...
"Sui, you will also keep an eye out for hostile Shinobi. Sasuke will go with you and take care of the object!" What? I saw Shikamaru's face. It wasn't a joke. His face was serious. Shikamaru had just divided me into a group with Sasuke! With SASUKE !! I couldn't protest, however, what would the others have said then? It would have come out - our nightly conversation ... I could already feel the piercing glances from Ino and Sakura on my back, digging deep into it, just because I was on a team with Sasuke. What would they do if they found out about the night?

When I walked next to Sasuke, there was only an embarrassed silence between us. An awkward silence that I would have loved to break, but what should I have said? It would only have been more embarrassing! Last night would never have been best, then maybe there would still be a silence between us now, but not an uncomfortable one!
By tensing my muscles, I got myself out of my mind and realized that my job at the moment was to track down ninjas.
I searched everything with keen eyes. There was nothing to be seen, even after a while.However, I couldn't really stick with it. My thoughts kept drifting to Sasuke. My mouth wanted to finally call him a few friendly words, but my mind stubbornly resisted it.
When Sasuke stopped in front of me, I looked at his back. It was a beautiful and straight back, lined with broad shoulders. His neck, which peeked out of his T-shirt, looked pretty, especially the black hair that played around him, made him this pretty overall picture that one would have loved to touch gently. Was Sasuke's neck warm and soft? At that moment, by distracting my mind with the Sasuke picture, my mouth managed to conquer the mind and a few words came out.
"Sasuke, about last night ..." "Shut up!", He interrupted me with a harsh tone. I flinched. Should i shut up? Was he trying to suppress what had happened, or what kind of stupid problem did he have now? But in the next moment the question was superfluous for me, because an enemy ninja jumped out of the bushes with an elegant somersault and landed just in front of us. I was frozen in shock. How paralyzed. Nothing could be moved anymore, I was no longer in control of my body. I hadn't heard it at all, or was it because my ears were still on draft? The ninja looked at the object that I was holding tightly, grinned and suddenly stood very close to me. "You have it. Very nice! So I didn't fall in love. You know, sweetheart, I've been watching you all day ..." he said in a dark, purring voice. He was already stretching out his hands for the object and would certainly have been able to take it from me without great effort, because I was back in my old mission style
relapsed: paralyzed with fear, unable to do anything! But then Sasuke's fist hit him right in the face.The ninja was thrown backwards, and Sasuke was already with him and rammed his foot into his gut, so that blood spurted out of the Shinobi's mouth. He was pushed hard against the nearest tree trunk. A crack could be heard and the ninja slumped lifeless on the floor.
Startled, I put my hand over my mouth so that no scream could slip out. I looked at Sasuke with wide eyes. He turned his head and for the first time since last night he looked me in the face again, straight into my eyes. His were tough. His whole face looked hard. Disparaging one. "Why didn't you do anything, you know that you have to protect the object and this shinobi was anything but heavy. You could have turned it off with ease!" I couldn't answer him. No words came out of my lips. His eyes narrowed, then he said it to me right in the face, cold and naked: “You are too weak!” With these words he turned around and began to search the area again. The words bounced hard on my face. Inside of me I felt this weak, ugly something that I had repressed at the beginning. Now it was back again, that something that would never become a real ninja! But there was something else inside of me. It was something strange, a feeling that was more uncomfortable than the weak thing. As if something had just broken in me and with every thought that was about Sasuke and this incident, this painful feeling got bigger!
Hesitantly I followed Sasuke, but I couldn't stop tears from welling up in my eyes.
Sasuke searched everything again, but this hostile ninja was the only one.
When we got back to the others, Sasuke Shikamaru immediately reported about our acquaintance.
"We were able to track down an enemy shinobi. He was after the item. I took it down immediately.However, there were no other ninja to be found in the area, so we can assume that he was alone. ", he said calmly and calmly to Shikamaru." Which village did he come from? "He meant seriously." He wasn't wearing a ninja headband, so I couldn't identify him. "Again that calm and serene voice in his voice. Shikamaru sighed and leaned against the next tree, the conversation was over for him. Sasuke disappeared into one of the tents that the others had already set up and no longer looked in my direction Head I sat on a different tree than Shikamaru's.
Why was I unable to do anything again, why was I so weak and that even before Sasuke? It was so unfair, why couldn't I be as normal as everyone else, a perfectly normal Kunoichi! If I screwed up this mission too, then that was it, Tsunade would certainly not give me a new assignment. But it was also silly, a ninja who couldn't fight on missions! But worst of all was the stinging that I felt when I thought of Sasuke, his face had been so cold and his words so hurtful ... I shouldn't really care about him, actually I should just turn the cold shoulder on him, but it was did not work.
There was a bark just next to my ear. I turned my head so that I was looking straight into the face of the cute dog who usually sat on one guy's head. A grin crossed my face when I saw him wagging his tail in front of me. I held out my hand carefully, he sniffed it excitedly. I slowly ran it over his