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[quote=espeon][hide=Story part 2]“Ugly,” Sai greeted in response, plastering that fake smile on his lips. “Good evening.”

“Don’t call her ugly, traitor,” Naruto gritted his teeth. Although it had been a year since they had worked together and Naruto had mature significantly in many ways, he still utterly despised Sai. Especially when he started insulting Sakura.

“Sasuke-kun,” Sai ignored the now fuming Naruto as he greeted the Uchiha who stood in between Sakura and Naruto. They had met once before, after Sai’s personal mission started, in Orochimaru’s lair. The two didn’t like each other from the start, but Sai tried. Sasuke however, was less forgiving when it came to Sai.

“Hn,” Sasuke replied in a dignified manner, refusing to let Sai get the best of him.

Sakura had a vague feeling that something had happened between Sasuke and Sai, although both of them never mentioned a thing. But Sai being polite instead of giving Sasuke a nickname was a first; he had given everybody a nickname, or at least insulted them once or twice.

The ANBU Root member said nothing else as he continued walking, still ignoring the furious Kyuubi.

As soon as Sai had disappeared into the night, Naruto let out a deep sigh as he tried to calm himself down. Sai still got the best of him, no matter how hard he tried to ignore his taunts. Then again, perhaps Naruto shouldn’t call him names and just act cool like Sakura did. As long as Sai didn’t insult Sasuke, she could even handle the nicknames he had made up for her, ugly being his favorite.

But Naruto, being the alpha male after his training with Jiraiya, just couldn’t ignore the fact that Sai actually joked about Naruto junior. It was unacceptable and he had grown a great disliking to the Root member because of that.

“Do you want us to walk you home Sakura-chan?” Naruto asked, flashing his usual grin.

“That won’t be necessary,” Sakura replied simply. “I’m a Chuunin now, remember?”

Naruto shot her a concerned look before he walked towards her, blocking her path effectively. “I know, but you know me,” he said seriously. “I’m worried about you, Sakura-chan.”

Sakura smiled, touched by his words. In a spur of affection, she stood on her toes, wrapped her arms around his neck as she pulled him close. “Thank you, Naruto,” she whispered in his ear before releasing him. She chuckled as she saw his cheeks turn red, while he grinned like an idiot. Turning around, she smiled at Sasuke, knowing that he wouldn’t allow her to hug him. He lifted his hand in response, giving her a half-smirk before both he and Naruto parted.

Adjusting her forehead protector, Sakura calmly walked down the stairs and passed the gate that would lead her back to the main street. She politely greeted Neji as he passed her together with Shikamaru. Ever since the mission four years ago to retrieve Sasuke, all five participants had grown closer with each other. She was glad to see that their bonds were strong as ever, even after so many years.

Unfortunately, due her immense training program which required for her to be next to Tsunade’s side for at least thirteen hours a day, Sakura hadn’t really bonded with any of the Chuunin. Ino was probably the only girl in Konoha that she talked to.

Although, it didn’t really bother Sakura that much. Her dream to become a strong kunoichi had come true and nothing was more satisfactory than knowing that she had been given a reputation as a kunoichi who had surpassed Tsunade herself. Inwardly smiling with that statement, Sakura continued walking towards her new apartment, silently thanking Shizune for cleaning up. After all that had been going on these past few hours, she would have been too tired and too emotional to deal with her ransacked home.

Stopping in front of her house, she began searching for her keys until she heard someone laughing from the inside. Eyes widening, she pressed her ear against the door, trying to hear who was inside. Checking the lock, she realized that someone had come in through the window.

Grinding her teeth together in unadulterated fury, she resolutely stuck her keys in the lock. Kicking the now unlocked door open, she found her childhood bully, Ami, standing there with a kunai in her hands as if she was about to carve something into the wall.

“Shit,” the purple haired girl cursed as she noticed Sakura standing in the doorway. Sakura frowned as two other girls jumped out of the window, knowing that she wouldn’t be able to catch up with them.

“How dare you,” Sakura stepped inside of her house, inspecting the damage that Ami had inflicted upon her house. “What gives you the right to come into my house and wreck the entire place?” she spat out as she started to gather chakra in her hand. “Answer me!”

Ami blanched as Sakura stepped towards her with a furious expression in her eyes. She turned around to leave, but to no avail. Sakura was too fast for her and stood behind her before Ami even realized it. As Ami turned around, Sakura hit her as hard as she could, sending Ami flying through the open door until she landed in one of the bushes that surrounded Sakura’s house.

She could hear Ami cursing loudly as she ran away, a satisfied grin adorning her lips as she closed the door. Checking the living room and her own room, she quickly came to the conclusion that nothing had been touched and that Ami and her friends had just started with her hallway. She made a mental note to hit her when she saw her again.

After looking over the entire house, Sakura opened a window before collapsing on her new bed. Amazed that Shizune had done so many things for her, she promised herself that she would pay every single cent back. She had even bought Sakura a new bed and new, pink towels.

Checking her alarm, she noticed that it was past midnight. Her eyes moved to the picture of her mother that had remained thankfully untouched. Her mother’s smile made her feel warm for a moment and then saddened as she realized what day it was. Tears started to slide down her cheeks as she put the lights out, clutching a pillow in her hands as she lied down.

It’s been three years since you’ve died, mom…

“You’re crying,” a deep voice drifted through the room, startling Sakura. Bolting upright, she tried to reach for a kunai when the voice continued. “Will you kill me kunoichi?”

As she tried to locate where the voice came from, her hand started to slide towards her lamp, determined to kill whoever had sneaked into her room. “Who are you?” she asked the darkness as green eyes scanned the room, waiting for someone to move.

Suddenly, the man in her room opened his eyes, revealing his blood-red Sharingan. Taken aback by this new revelation, Sakura moved backwards until her back was touching the wall. Memories of the previous night flooded her mind as she quickly realized what had happened.

“Uchiha Itachi,” she whispered fearfully.

“You have not answered my question,” Itachi said to her darkly.

Grabbing the handle of her kunai, she stared at the blazing Sharingan that watched her every movement. “What question?” she asked quietly.

In a flash, the eyes disappeared. Sakura had only one second to wonder if he had closed his eyes before she felt his hands pushing her down to the bed. The hand which held her kunai moved on reflex to slash at him, but it never got that far.

As his long, calloused fingers brushed over her wrist as they held her hand in an iron grip, refusing to let go as she struggled against him, trying to push him off. The feel of a kunai against her throat made her stop soon enough, oddly reminding her of her previous encounter with the Uchiha. “What do you want from me?” she whispered harshly.

“What I want,” Itachi whispered against her ear. “Are answers.”

“Answers to what?”

“Who trained you?” Itachi began calmly, kunai still pressing against her throat in a dangerous manner. “I saw you hitting that other girl. That strength isn’t common.”

“Tsunade, a member of the legendary sannin,” Sakura mumbled.

Itachi remained quiet after if he were pondering over her answer. Sakura knew better though; a man with Uchiha Itachi’s intelligence had already figured this out. No, he was pausing because he was carefully choosing his words.

His fingers were still clamped around her wrist as he pulled her arm towards him, obviously looking for something on her fingers.

She flinched as lighting hit not far from her house, illuminating Itachi’s face momentarily. But what shocked her most, was that he seemed to be smirking as he inspected her hand carefully before prying the kunai loose from her warm hand. She contemplated holding onto the kunai, but knowing that he still had his own kunai on her throat quickly stopped her from doing so as she voluntarily gave him the kunai.

“Were you born here?” Itachi asked suddenly in that deep, muted voice of his. Faintly, she wondered if he was able raise his voice. Probably not.

“Yes,” she managed to get out as Itachi removed the kunai from her throat. “Why are you asking me these things?”

Itachi amusedly looked down at her; she seemed to be shaking with fear. He had been observing her since her team walked out of the hospital, waiting for an opportunity to gauge her strength. It was pure luck that a girl was vandalizing her house, enabling Sakura to use her abilities. Now that he had seen her strength, he had been impressed. Never before had he seen such power.

The clouds that had previously been obscuring the moon finally drifted away, the moonlight streaming into Sakura’s room through the open windows. At that precise moment, Itachi stood up, relinquishing his hold on her.

She could finally see the intense gaze in his eyes, the lines that ran over his cheeks and his long, black and red Akatsuki robes. His eyes were blank pages as before, but he seemed to be lost in thought as he stared at the kunoichi.

At a loss of what to do, Sakura remained completely quiet as she sat up straight. If Itachi wanted to kill her, he would have done so by now, but it seemed he wanted her alive for some reason; there was no other explanation for his behavior. Frightened because of her discovery, she watched Itachi without even blinking as he sat down on the chair that was positioned next to her bed.

“I apologize for entering your house without your permission,” Itachi said almost casually.

Sakura felt as if her eyes would pop out of their sockets any time now. “Why have you come here?” she said quietly, eyes downcast. Curiosity was getting the best out of her, especially now that she had realized he wasn’t there to kill her.

“Sakura-chan!” Naruto suddenly yelled from the streets. Upon hearing the voice that meant her salvation, Sakura scrambled off the bed as fast as she could, determined to make Naruto hear her. Reaching the open window without any problems, Sakura turned around and found her chair empty, nothing indicating to the fact that a dangerous S-Class shinobi had been sitting there only moments ago.

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“What is it Naruto?” she yelled back, eyes still fixed on her chair.

“Tsunade-baa-chan called in for you, we have an emergency,” Naruto replied, the uneasy look in his eyes. “Danzou has betrayed Konoha and is sending Root ANBU towards Sand.”

Immediately, Sakura jumped out of the window, Itachi long forgotten. “What!” she uttered incredulously, starting to sprint towards the administration building together with Naruto. “If we send out ANBU towards Sand, they’ll think we’re attacking them!”

Naruto nodded as he gritted his teeth in frustration. Gaara was a good Kazekage and both he and Tsunade had established a great bond between the two countries, but if Konoha would attack Sand now, they would go to war.

Looking around, Sakura easily spotted Sasuke a few yards from them as he ran towards them. In front of her, the door to the Yamanaka flower shop opened and Ino dashed out together with Shikamaru and Chouji. And although she had not seen them yet, she was fairly certain that Kurenai’s three-man cell and Gai’s three-man cell were also heading towards the tower.

Entering the building, her suspicions were confirmed as she saw the other six standing there. Apparently, her teacher asked for them all to come.

Shizune stood there, dressed in her Jounin uniform as she directed Team 7 to sit down and wait for further instructions. Although she smiled at Sakura, she could clearly seethe uncertainty and fear in Shizune’s eyes.

“Everybody is here,” Shizune said as she counted the members. “I’ll get Tsunade-sama.”

“What’s going on?” Sasuke whispered to Sakura as he sat down next to her, adjusting his forehead protector. She glanced at him, taking in his alert but sleepy eyes. “You were asleep?”

“Hm,” Sasuke replied, keeping his eyes on Shizune.

“Who woke you up?” Sakura asked quietly.

“Naruto, he woke me first before going to your house,” Sasuke answered as his gaze shifted towards the door that was opening.

“I see,” Sakura answered. “Danzou sent out Root ANBU members to Sand as an assault.”

“Great,” Sasuke sighed before lifting his head to see Tsunade walking into the room. The entire room fell silent as the Fifth sat down on one of the chairs, a serious expression in her eyes as she whispered something to Shizune, who promptly left.

“As you all know by now,” Tsunade started, immediately capturing everyone’s attention. “Danzou has sent all Root ANBU members to Sand so that he can instigate an attack against Sand, making them believe that Konoha wants to take Sand over.”

“I’ve called you here because I want to form four main groups,” Tsunade continued after a short pause. “Every team here has been together since the Genin days and all of you are in tune with your team mates.”

“Excuse me,” Shikamaru raised his hand. “Shouldn’t the Jounin teachers be here as well?”

“No, we need three man cells for this,” Tsunade said to him, urging him to sit down with her hand. “Every individual team will have another task and I trust all of you to complete the missions to the fullest so that we can avoid a massive war.”

At that moment, Shizune appeared next to Tsunade, holding a piece of paper in her hands. She gave the paper to Tsunade who glanced at it before nodding curtly. “Shizune will continue from here.”

The dark-haired medic nodded before stepped forward. “If I say the name of your team, raise your hands. Team 3.”

Neji’s team raised their hands simultaneously and Shizune gave them a weak smile. “You will go to the Hidden Village of Mist and ask them if they’re going to ally themselves with either Leaf or Sand. If they don’t want to ally with both of us, try to persuade the Mizukage to help us out in case of a war.”

The three nodded slowly as they memorized their mission. “Team 10?”

Asuma’s three-man cell looked up before raising their hands as well. Sakura could clearly see Ino’s hand shaking violently as she thrust her fist in the air. “Your mission is similar to Team 3’s mission, yet you’ll be going to Stone.”

“Team 8,” Shizune offered Kiba’s team a half-smile. “Same mission, but you’ll be going to Cloud. Teams 3, 8 and 10 are to leave now.”

Nine shinobi nodded in response before disappearing from the room, leaving only Team 7 behind. By now, Sakura had figured out that they were going to Sunagakure; there was no other country of relevance left. Sasuke had a smug smile adorning his lips while Naruto actually seemed happy to go.

“Team 7,” Tsunade stood up, a worried expression in her eyes. “I deemed you the most capable team of going to Sand, especially because Gaara will listen to you, Naruto. Your mission will be to enlighten Gaara about Danzou’s treason and try to persuade him not to attack Leaf.”

“What if he tries to kill us?” Sakura asked quietly, staring at her mentor.

“Leave at once and come back to Konoha,” the Sannin replied without a second thought. “But Gaara is a good Kazekage. I’m fairly certain that he’ll listen to your story; he’s only looking for Sand’s best interest.”

“We know,” Naruto assured her. “Have you tried notifying them?

“We tried,” Tsunade replied bitterly. “Our messengers were murdered before they could even leave the country.”

“We won’t get killed,” Sakura tried to calm her mentor down as she flashed a smile. “Gaara trusts Naruto; everything will work out fine.”

“Right.” Tsunade didn’t sound convinced. “You’re free to go.”

They nodded before standing up and leaving the room wordlessly as they mused over their mission. Tsunade just watched their backs as she saw how her favorite team – although she would never admit it – left towards almost certain death.

“Be careful,” she whispered as the door closed behind them.

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Chapter Three – Dissonance

“You are not bringing those with you!” Sakura stated firmly as she snatched the cups of instant ramen out of Naruto’s bag. “You need room in your bag for bandages, extra kunai, and weapons!”

“But Sakura-chan!” Naruto protested while pouting.

“Just hurry up and finish packing, we need to go now!” Sakura replied mercilessly.

Naruto gave one last, heartbreaking look as he sighed and continued packing his extra clothing and weapons. Sakura turned around and gave the ramen cups to Sasuke who had been silent throughout the entire argument. He blankly stared at the cups before looking up, obviously at a loss of what to do.

“Put them back for me while I’ll check what Naruto packs, okay?” Sakura asked gently.

“Hn.” Sasuke turned around and stalked to the small kitchen in the back of Naruto’s tiny apartment.

She smiled slightly as she watched the Uchiha walk away, wondering how willingly he was in the morning when he was half-awake. She felt sorry for him. According to Naruto, he hadn’t slept much during the mission and he hadn’t slept during the night that she stayed in the Uchiha mansion. He had probably not slept much before Naruto woke him up for this mission as well.

“I feel sorry for Sasuke-kun,” Sakura whispered to Naruto.

“Why?” Naruto asked obliviously as he stood up, heaving his backpack on his back.

“He didn’t get much sleep last night either, right?” Sakura said quietly.

“Don’t worry,” Naruto smiled gently. “Sasuke can go on for days without sleep before he truly passes out. You remember the Forest of Death right?”

“Yeah…” Sakura remembered. Shinobi from Sound had murdered a team from Rain and took their place. Their goal was to take Sasuke back to Orochimaru.

They had found out about the imposters during the first day. Sasuke didn’t go to sleep during the second, third and fourth day, afraid that they might attack when all three of them slept.

It wasn’t as if Sasuke didn’t trust the both of them. He probably trusted Naruto and Sakura the most; he was just afraid that something might happen to them and he only trusted himself to stay awake.

“Besides, he’s so paranoid that he’ll wake up every five seconds anyway,” Naruto said as he stared at her, trying to comfort her with his words.

“I heard that,” Sasuke’s soft voice sounded from behind her.

She smiled as she turned around to face Sasuke. He was leaning against the threshold; hands in his pockets as he smiled amusedly. She immediately spotted the tiredness in his eyes that had seemed to only intensify since the meeting.

She tried to open her mouth but Sasuke cut her off. “Don’t tell me that we’re going to take it slow just because I didn’t get enough sleep as of late.”

“Sasuke…” Naruto started.

“This mission is important,” Sasuke started icily. “We won’t risk any chance of another invasion because of me.”

“Okay,” Sakura smiled, ignoring the small protesting sounds Naruto was making.

Sasuke didn’t believe in himself. Sasuke thought he was weak and he was afraid that he might succumb to darkness again if he failed another time. Sakura knew that Sasuke thought he was worthless; to her, he was her knight in shining armor, but Sasuke wasn’t a knight.

He wasn’t perfect, like she had first assumed.

He was human.

He smirked at her in that arrogant way of his before lifting his backpack on his shoulder and turned around.

Naruto stared at her, obviously confused and oblivious to what had just happened, but one look at Sakura made him comprehend the entire situation and slowly the confused look turned into a happy grin as he followed Sakura and Sasuke out of his house.

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Miles flew beneath them as they made their way through the dark forest that surrounded the village of Konoha. They were aware of the large amount of ANBU that strolled through the forest; they had spotted them numerous times already.

It seemed Tsunade didn’t want to risk anything and had quickly dispatched most of the ANBU members to deal with possible enemy attacks.

Sakura wasn’t so sure if her mentor made a wise decision with doing that.

She sighed as she looked at her teammates jumping from branch to branch. She noticed the way that Sasuke’s wide, blue shirt would ride up every time he jumped up, showing off a strip of porcelain skin that matched the color of his face.

It was amazing how light his skin was; it seemed that it never changed. Not even after spending days in the hot sun. It almost seemed as if Sasuke was even untouchable to the sun.

The pink-haired kunoichi smiled as she entertained herself with that thought before discarding it.

They were on an important mission; not some easy D-Rank mission where she could think about Sasuke’s condition all day long or make up theories about how much gel he probably had to use to spike his hair up. She wasn’t twelve anymore.

“Watch out,” Sasuke’s deep voice awoke her from her thoughts.

That’s when she felt the killer intent and the bloodlust surrounding them.

There were many shinobi, she was sure of that. At least ten, maybe more.

Her green eyes focused on the ones nearest to them and from the corners of her eyes, she could see Sasuke withdrawing a kunai from his holster while Naruto opted for shuriken.

Feeling that they were nearing her, Sakura started to accumulate chakra in her hands, preparing herself for battle.

They stopped in the middle of a clearing and jumped down from the trees. Assuming formation, they pressed their backs against each other, all three of them holding a weapon in their hands as the Sand shinobi descended and surrounded them.

“Chuunin,” Sasuke whispered to them, recognizing the Chuunin uniforms from Sand.

“Equally leveled?” Sakura asked gently while keeping an eye on the enemy.

“Weaker,” Naruto responded this time.

“Attack!” one of the enemy shinobi wearing a mask called out and Sakura’s head snapped to the right as she faintly recognized the voice, but was unable to place it.

She watched as they started running to the trio, determined to kill and penetrate the Fire country even further, but they never got that far.

Various ANBU appeared out of seemingly nowhere, stopping them midway as they quickly disposed of the enemy shinobi. Only the leader of the Sand group stood still and as the ANBU from Leaf turned to face him, he quickly turned away and fled from the scene, several ANBU following him.

The ANBU that stood in front of Sakura turned around. He was wearing a porcelain mask in the shape of a dog.

“You three are going to Sand?” he asked, voice muffled by the heavy mask.

“Yes,” Sasuke replied. “Can we go?”

The ANBU nodded and watched as the three Chuunin ran off towards their goal.

Behind his mask, Kakashi sighed, saddened, before following his ANBU team.

Tsunade had issued most of the retired ANBU leaders to rejoin ANBU for the moment and protect the four teams that would leave the Fire Country that night in order to bring peace to Konoha.

Albeit grudgingly, Kakashi had agreed to go, but he had never expected Tsunade to send the Chuunin groups.

At the very least, he had expected to see some more experienced Jounin.

Tsunade had definitely disappointed him.

But his team would come back; he was sure of that.

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“So basically,” the man with red hair spoke up. “You want us missing-nin to form an organization and then hunt down these… demons.”

“That’s ridiculous…yeah,” the blond shinobi Itachi spotted earlier spoke up in a deep voice. “Why would I leave my village for something like that? Not all of us are missing-nin, we’re still taking the exam.”

Itachi glanced around the group, finding that more people agreed with the two that had just spoken. He found himself secretly agreeing with them, although he was quite tempted by the man’s offer for some strange reason.

Power was something he always wanted; something he needed to prove his worth with.

“And what kind of power,” Itachi said quietly. “Can you possibly offer us?”

“I’ll reseal the demons inside of you,” the man said stoically. “You will all gain tremendous power. Each Bijuu has his own powers and you’ll all be able to hunt down one of those Bijuu, take them with you and I shall reseal it into your bodies.”

“And what would you gain when we get stronger?” a man with slick, light hair asked as he sat down on the branch next to Itachi.

“My purpose is to form the strongest organization alive,” the man whispered. “Of course, I’ll be hunting one Bijuu down as well.”

“And why would we leave our villages?”

“Because you’re geniuses. All of you want the same goal; to get away from expectations, from a world where excelling is necessary. Where geniuses are supposedly needed,” he said. “I will not expect anything of you. I will not bind you to one village for the rest of your lives.”

It remained quiet after that statement and Itachi was positive that he wasn’t the only one contemplating this offer.

If he left with this man, he would be free. His father would never send him on those tedious S-Class missions again; he would never have to witness that smile that his mother put up in front of him to hide the fact that she truly didn’t understand him.

He would be free from Sasuke who was so demanding, who wanted to be like him.

Who just didn’t understand that this life was hard.

“However…”

“However?” the shark man rasped.

“There are two conditions…”

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Surprisingly enough, after the first encounter with the Sand shinobi that the ANBU from Leaf had driven away, there were no more attacks and Team 7 passed through the border that led to the River Country without encountering any problems.

Sasuke had estimated that they would reach Sand in two days if they would hurry.

Fortunately enough, Sunagakure did not lie far from the border to the Wind Country and if they were lucky, they might be able to reach the village with only light battles. From there on in, things would be difficult.

Assuming that Gaara had given the order to kill on sight, they might have to try and battle their way through an endless stream of various ranked shinobi. The other option they had was to cast a genjutsu on the three of them to make sure they would be invisible and they could get over the wall then.

After that, it would be a matter of reaching the Kazekage’s headquarters and hope that Gaara had remained calm and collected so that he would listen to their story.

However…

If Gaara choose not to listen to them… Sakura was sure that they wouldn’t make it back to Konoha.

They stopped when night began to fall. Finding a place to camp was easy. Although Naruto had first complained why they couldn’t sleep in an inn, Sasuke had explained, half-irritated, that Sand shinobi might find them easily.

Sakura didn’t mind. She preferred the forest to the small cities that were scattered around the River country.

As the small campfire Sasuke made started to warm the three Chuunin up, Sakura took a moment to observe the ever alert Uchiha. She instantly spotted the dark circles underneath his eyes and the way that his eyelids seemed to be too heavy that he had to fight to keep them open.

“Sasuke-kun…” she whispered quietly.

Immediately, Sasuke’s head snapped up and he stared at her, eyes widened. It took a moment for him to realize that nothing was the matter and he seemed to relax somewhat as he took in the form of the roseate kunoichi.

“What is it Sakura?” he asked, tone implicating impatience.

“Go to sleep,” she directed gently. “Naruto and I will stand guard for a couple of hours.”

Sasuke just stared back at her with those mesmerizing dark eyes of his. “No.”

She sighed, preparing for a verbal battle with him which she wouldn’t forfeit until he gave in and went to sleep. But surprisingly enough, Naruto stepped in.

“She’s right,” the blonde said calmly. “Go to sleep, you’re of no use to us when you’re about to fall asleep.”

For a second, Sasuke glared at Naruto but soon the glare vanished and Sasuke uttered an amused sound before standing up, dusting his white shorts off before stalking off to a tree, mere meters away from the camp fire.

He said nothing, just glanced around the area before hesitatingly closing his eyes.

“How did you do that?” Sakura whispered incredulously.

“Hit Sasuke’s weak spot,” Naruto grinned as he turned his fish above the fire, whining slightly as he burned his hand.

She chuckled slightly as Naruto turned around and stared at her, pouting slightly. “Sakura-chan?”

Sakura smiled before taking Naruto’s hand into hers, quietly activating one of her medical jutsu as she healed Naruto’s burn. Sakura heard Naruto’s sigh of relief as her cool chakra spilled over his hand.

“It’s better now Sakura-chan,” he said after a quiet moment. “Thank you.”

“You’re welcome,” Sakura said softly as she smiled back at the cerulean-eyed boy.

He smiled that trademark smile of his before turning back towards the fire, gently grabbing the stick that was pierced through his fish before sitting down on the floor next to Sakura.

“Sasuke-kun is asleep,” Sakura reported after tuning into Sasuke’s chakra. It seemed sedated and peaceful and as she listened to him, she hadn’t missed the fact that his breathing had deepened and steadied.

“Yeah, but he’ll be awake soon enough,” Naruto said before swallowing his bite. “You know him; he’ll even catch a squirrel approaching him from a one kilometer radius.”

Sakura chuckled lightly, enjoying this rare moment of piece during the mission as she grabbed the bottle of water she had packed. Finding it empty, she sighed slightly, mind scanning over the vicinity before recalling a small spring close by.

“I’m going to fill up my bottle,” Sakura whispered. Naruto stared back, the thought of leaving her alone obviously haunting him, but he glanced at her hands first, obviously recalling her strong punch before nodding.

“Be careful,” Naruto said calmly, before taking another bite of his dinner.

She smiled as she stood up; adjusting her kunai pouch before dashing off towards the spring she had seen before, hoping that she would encounter no one.

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She felt like she had been running aimlessly for hours in a row before finally hearing the familiar sound of running water. Sakura sighed in relief as she started to sprint to the source.

As soon as she reached the clearing and the small spring, Inner Sakura did a little dance as she walked towards the stream, preparing her bottle. Bending over slightly, she stuck the bottle into the water, enjoying the way the freezing water numbed her hands.

Until she felt someone watching her.

Acting as if she hadn’t noticed anything at all, she stood up as the bottle was filled, closed the bottle and sighed in relief when she couldn’t find any hostile chakra levels near her. The feeling that someone was watching her was gone, thankfully and she smiled slightly.

At the exact moment when she tried to turn around, the presence appeared behind her and she froze. Whether her attacker had paralyzed her or she had froze in fear was unknown to her, but she couldn’t move as she felt another body pressed up against her.

And then a rich, deep voice spoke up. The tone of the man’s voice was familiar, calm, smooth, tinged with both arrogance and humor as his lips neared her ear.

“They’re coming.”

She whirled around, grabbing a kunai from her pouch and lashed out, only to find that the man had disappeared and she was standing alone in the clearing.

For a moment, she looked around the vicinity, watching as the leaf on the ground danced as a small breeze passed by. Then, the words of the man entered her consciousness and she hurriedly sent chakra to her feet as she dashed back to the camping site; the bottle of water completely forgotten.

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From a far distance, she could hear the distinctive sound of the Chidori, long before she could even spot the blue chakra moving. She heard Naruto yelling and immediately felt another surge of chakra coming up.

Rasengan, she noted for herself as she doubled her speed before finally reaching the clearing.

Various Sand shinobi were scattered around them, and in the middle, Sasuke and Naruto stood back to back, the Rasengan and the Chidori activated.

She only saw Sasuke’s face, his teeth gritted and his Sharingan blazing while the Chidori’s gently light-blue glow illuminated his face. Momentarily, she stopped, just to watch the interesting man he had become, before he moved towards their enemy.

Amazed, she watched him as he avoided his enemy, his movements becoming like a dance to her. She was completely enthralled and amazed that Sasuke made such movements.

Before he went to Orochimaru, he had a rather blunt way of attacking.

It seemed that now he came back, his movements had a certain air of grace that was certainly fitting to the Uchiha. She watched him as his hair shifted with every movement and as his shirt rode up when he jumped into the air.

Then, a Sand shinobi rudely awoke her from her observation as he jumped in front of her, kunai poised in his hand. Abruptly, Sakura moved out of the way and gathered chakra in her hand before landing one good punch on their adversary, cracking his skull successfully.

Another shinobi followed and Sakura moved away as she gracefully spun around her enemy, throwing several shuriken into his direction and turned away as she saw the shuriken hit and her opponent plummeted lifelessly towards the ground.

From the corners of her eyes, she saw Naruto’s Kage Bunshin handle another batch of shinobi and from her left; she could clearly hear the Chidori.

Two Sand-nin loomed in front of her, kunai readied in their hands as they rushed towards her. Hastily, she grabbed a kunai from her pouch and crouched down into a defensive position, kunai positioned in front of her.

Someone appeared next to her, and although she couldn’t see him, she knew by his distinctive chakra signature that it was Naruto.

“Move!” she heard Sasuke shout from behind her. Completely trusting her teammate, she jumped to the right while Naruto moved to the left, successfully avoiding the two incoming shinobi and the kunai with the explosive tag that Sasuke had thrown.

The explosive behind her was enough to take out the two nin and create a small explosion of dirt all around them, staining her hair and face with mud.

As the smoke started to clear, she saw that Naruto had gone through the same process as he wiped the dirt away from his face with an aggravated look before he shot a glare into the Uchiha’s direction.

She chuckled lightly as she mimicked Naruto’s gesture, trying to make herself as presentable as possible before standing up, dusting off her clothes as she walked towards the dark-haired youth that was staring at Naruto in that usual blank manner of his.

“You thought that was funny?” she heard Naruto scream at Sasuke.

The corners of Sasuke’s mouth quirked into a smirk as he pocketed his hands. He stared at Sakura for a moment, observing her form momentarily to check if she was injured before moving his gaze away again.

She smiled slightly.

“I liked the present Sasuke-kun,” she said, voice tinged with humor as she searched her pockets for a tissue. She was rewarded with the same smirk Naruto had been given and smiled back at him as she pulled out the small piece of cloth she found in one of her pockets.

Eyeing it warily, she quickly wiped her face off, smiling as Naruto starting ranting to Sasuke about the dangers of using explosive tags with teammates in the vicinity while Sasuke seemed to be ignoring the blonde as he stared at something in the distance.

“Something wrong?” Sakura asked simply as she saw the Uchiha still staring at the same spot, eyes squinted as if he saw something.

“… No,” Sasuke shrugged.

“Are you listening to me?” Naruto sighed heavily.

Sasuke just shot Naruto a glare before he turned around, walking calmly past the bodies of the Sand shinobi before grabbing his backpack that still rested against the tree.

Meanwhile, Sakura stared into the direction she came from.

Someone told her what was happening and had disappeared as soon as he came. The voice was still playing over and over in her head as her mind analyzed the deep tone over and over again, trying to remember if she had heard it before.

And there was something else bugging her about the three words the person had uttered.

“Sakura-chan, you okay?” Naruto said, interrupting her train of thoughts as he moved his hand in front of her eyes, trying to capture her attention.

She looked up at his worried blue eyes and smiled lightly, the words still playing over and over in her head. “I’m sorry Naruto, what did you say?”

“I asked you if you were alright,” Naruto’s brow creased somewhat, still gazing at her as if the answers would appear on her forehead.

“I’m fine… I was just thinking about something,” Sakura replied cryptically.

“Sasuke, didn’t one of the kunai hit your arm?” Naruto switched the subject, walking towards the Uchiha as Sasuke walked towards them.

“It’s a minor cut,” Sasuke answered apathetically.

“Let me look at it,” Sakura said sternly. “It might infect later on.”

“It’s not necessary,” Sasuke heaved his backpack on his shoulder, ignoring the small stinging he felt in his right hand. “It barely nicked it, I’ll bandage it later but we should get out of here before more come.”

They’re coming…

Finally, the full meaning behind the words hit her and as she finally realized that various chakra levels were nearing them at high speed, she opened up her mouth, only to be cut off as she saw a kunai hit Naruto’s back.

His bright, blue eyes widened as he stumbled forward, teeth gritting in an attempt not to scream out in pain. Her teammate fell onto his knees, unable to walk any further.

Shuriken and kunai started flying around them and from the right of her, she could hear Sasuke engage in battle but Naruto was still down on the ground and another shuriken was embedded in his shoulder as a senbon flew past him and made a small gash on his cheek.

Why isn’t he moving! Naruto!

Scared for her best friend’s life, she abandoned rationality and ran towards her fallen teammate, grabbing a kunai from the pouch that was strapped on her leg.

Managing to avoid most of the incoming objects, except a senbon that pierced her thigh and a shuriken that nearly tore a sizeable hole in her shirt, she reached Naruto, quickly glancing at his back, yet not surprised when she realized that the wounds were half-healed already and Naruto wasn’t in direct danger of losing his life.

Finally, the rain of weapons stopped and she felt Sasuke’s back pressing against her while he panted harshly. Naruto groaned harshly before he pushed himself off the ground, wiping away from of the blood that colored his cheek crimson.

Quickly counting the number of enemies, Sakura’s eyes widened as she realized that they were up against at least twenty shinobi.

They were overpowered and there was nothing that could help them now.

She trembled slightly, knowing that both Sasuke and Naruto would do anything to survive. Even if Naruto had to activate his tails and Sasuke had to activate his cursed seal, even though he had sworn never to use it again.

For a moment, it was quiet as the Sand shinobi surrounded them; the only sound heard was the wind howling while the leaves on the ground rustled.

Then, one of the Sand shinobi screamed before he fell down.

Startled, they all looked into the man’s direction as he lied on the floor, blood slowly streamed from under his body. Shocked, they stared at the man, before realizing that several kunai were sticking out of his back.

The Sand shinobi stirred before moving towards them, but a large form stopped them from nearing the three Chuunin any further.

“Kisame!” Naruto screamed, recognizing the Akatsuki member that had appeared before them.

She inhaled sharply as she realized that another familiar chakra signature was coming closer.

Knowing that Sasuke would disappear any second now to fight his older brother, Sakura tried to sign Naruto that Itachi was nearing, but the blonde was only focused on the shark-man that stood in front of them with a malicious smile gracing his lips.

He looked to some point behind them then and suddenly, the warmth that Sasuke’s back was radiating was gone. She heard the Chidori howl as the younger Uchiha ran towards his older brother, hell bent on getting his revenge, whether they were up against twenty Sand shinobi or not.

It took her by surprise that he would attack Itachi without even feeling the need to say something to him, but she supposed that words were unnecessary when it came to the both of them. They had talked enough during their last encounter, Naruto had told her as much.

“Sasuke!” Naruto screamed desperately, staring as the scene behind them unfolded.

Sakura whirled around, paying no more attention to Kisame as Sasuke attacked his brother.

The only thing she could hear in that instant was the Chidori, Naruto screaming his name vaguely and Kisame, muttering something from behind her. The entire scene looked ethereal to her, the blue chakra from Sasuke’s deadliest attack illuminating the elder Uchiha’s face brightly.

She felt Kisame move away from them, undoubtedly handling some of the Sand shinobi that took the distraction as the signal to attack.

Sasuke lashed out and for an instant, there was nothing.

Then, blood stained the grass around the two Uchiha and for a moment, she remained completely quiet as she realized that Sasuke had actually hit Itachi. Naruto ran towards Sasuke as his best friend withdrew the hand that had seemingly pierced through Itachi.

This…isn’t right… Something’s wrong…

And she was proved right as Itachi’s face deformed and he turned into an older man with a small beard and the forehead protector of Sand.

Both Naruto and Sasuke seemed to realize something as they turned into her direction, eyes widening.

It took her a moment to realize that someone was standing behind her and that his arm was around her neck, successfully stopping her from even attempting to struggle against him, knowing that he could break her neck in a second if he wanted to.

Everything that happened afterwards was just a blur to her as Itachi quickly pressed one of the pressure points in her neck and she fainted, unable to move anymore.

“Sakura-chan!” Naruto yelled loudly, running towards her, but it was already too late.

Forming a couple of seals with his left hand, Itachi and Sakura suddenly vanished into thin air.

“Itachi!” Sasuke screamed out, Sharingan blazing as he scanned the vicinity, only to find out that it wasn’t a Genjutsu; his brother wasn’t there anymore.

Kisame turned around as soon as he felt Itachi completely disappear from the area, grinning at Naruto and Sasuke who were running towards him; both with an intent to kill in their eyes.

He wasted no time and formed a couple of seals as he activated the explosive tags he had scattered around. The last thing he saw before everything exploded was the look of pure shock on Naruto and Sasuke’s faces as everything exploded violently.

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Several miles away, Kisame released his jutsu on the unfortunate Sand shinobi he had killed and used so that he could create the distraction that would hopefully prevent Sasuke and Naruto from chasing them.

Itachi jumped on top of the rock Kisame was sitting on, glancing towards the shark-man as he tightened his hold on the kunoichi, gesturing with his head that they should go on.

Kisame just nodded and followed the younger Akatsuki member wordlessly.

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and unfortunately the person who wrote it hasnt wrote the last chapter yet lol. hoped you liked it i did :) bibi now!:wave[/hide][/quote]

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bobbym: 2011-01-25 10:25:39

Hi josnan33;

Welcome to the forum!

Centrovoy: 2009-10-15 05:19:09

don't call her math......(((

Sarah12: 2009-08-07 06:23:06

That is fuuny:D

quittyqat: 2009-08-02 00:16:35

Any more?

espeon: 2006-10-01 17:52:02

lol if you knew the characters you would be laughing on the floor like i am now

espeon: 2006-10-01 17:48:20

im reading this funny fan fiction with sakura and akutsuki. god its funny when sakura purposely makes deidara and kisame fight again. hehehehehe im going to draw a fan comic of that and show it to my friends. its so funny

Devantè: 2006-10-01 17:48:15

Wikipedia definitely describes luck extremely well.

espeon: 2006-10-01 17:47:02

lucky

Devantè: 2006-10-01 17:45:38

I have my ways of typing and posting fast.

I rarely see that '1 minute flooding system message' appear, though.

espeon: 2006-10-01 17:19:58

also how do u post so fast? theres a 1 min flood traffic

Devantè: 2006-10-01 17:19:23

<hide=Story>Your fan fiction animé</hide>

Just replace < and > with [ and ].

espeon: 2006-10-01 17:17:50

o fine then i think it hurts my eyes though. other thing is i forgot how to use a hide tag lol

Devantè: 2006-10-01 17:16:59

espeon wrote:
hide tags wont work since it makes the background almost worst than the original background

Actually, since your text is black, it would show up perfectly on a pink background in the hide tags. You wouldn't be stretching the forum.

espeon: 2006-10-01 17:16:40

lol which the explanitory part where u can see things where u have no idea what it is be explained or just the whole story lol

Devantè: 2006-10-01 17:15:46

I've no understanding of any of this.

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