A scream echoed through the hallways as Pein rushed to the room where his wife Konan, was giving birth to their baby, he rushed to her side and held her hand, she squised his hand, more screams were heard while nurses told her to push, which konan did, 30 minutes later a baby girl was born, she had bright green eyes and pink hair, the two thought how unusual pink hair was but they still loved it,
"what should we name her?" pein asked, konan thought, looking at her new baby's hair, it reminded her of cherry blossoms,
"sakura. we should name her sakura" konan said
"its perfect " pein said.
sakura: 3 months old
Konan was holding sakura in her arms waiting for her dear husband, pein to finish getting ready, they were going to go to a meet a few rain ninja for a meeting, but someone needed to watch sakura while they were gone, Pein was putting papers in a folder as they were talking on who was gonna baby-sit sakura,
"Kakuzu?" pein asked
"what if he takes her heart?!" konan said
"Zetsu?"
"are you insane?!, zetsu would most likely eat sakura!"
"tobi?"
"seriously?, he's not responsible enough!"
"what about...sasori?"
"hmmmm, sasori would be a good choice..as long as he dosen't make her into a puppet!" konan said
"ok, i'll call sasori" pein said as he called sasori on the loudspeaker, a few minutes later sasori came into the office,
"you needed me?" sasori asked
"oh yes!, we need you to watch little sakura while we are gone" konan explained while handing her child over to sasori,
"but i don't know anything about baby-sitting!" sasori protested as her shifted the infant's position in his arms
"don't worry!, we'll only be gone for a few hours, we've already done everything you just need to entertain her" konan said
"and how do i do that?" sasori asked
"use your puppet skills?" pein suggested, sasori nodded, konan and pein were about to leave when konan said "oh sasori!, by the way keep my sweetie away from any sharp items, kill anything that harms her or is going to and at most keep her AWAY from Kakuzu and Zetsu, bye!", then they left rather quickly,
sasori entered sakura's room and placed her in her chair and then he took out a scroll, did a handsighn, then a small puppet that looked liked a mini sasori appeared, he placed in in front of sakura and moved his fingers, making the puppet move while sakura watched the puppet, 10 minutes later sasori saw sakura looking sleepy, he put the puppet down and picked her up to place her in her crib, sakura then fell asleep as sasori sat on a chair, in her room waiting for konan and pein.
Pein and Konan came back 2 hours later to see sakura sleeping quietly in her crib,
"wow, you did a good job!" konan cheered
"thanks" sasori said
"ok!, you are offically sakura's baby-sitter!" konan said
'oh boy' sasori and pein thought
sakura: 3 years old
"Sasori-nii-san!" little sakura yelled through the hallways of the akatsuki base in rain, she then saw sasori in the kitchen and wrapped her arms around his legs,
"hi saku-chan" sasori greeted ruffling her hair. sasori and sakura had gotten very close, she almost always called him "nii-san" because they were as close as siblings, and sasori treated sakura like a little sister and acted to her as a big brother, he was deffenitlly was the closest akatsuki member to sakura besides her parents,
"nii-san, do you have any missions today?" little sakura asked
"i don't think so" sasori replied as he picked her up,
"oh, well tou-san and kaa-san wanted to see you" sakura said
"then lets go" sasori said walking out of the kitchen, down the halls, and to the leader's office
"you called for me?" sasori said letting sakura down, sakura ran to her mother and father
"you have a mission, but this mission will take years" pein said
"aaaawwwww" sakura whined, the 3 adults couldn't help but laugh,
"don't worry sakura you won't be away from sasori" konan stated, sasori and sakura gave konan a questioning look,
"your mission is to train sakura" pein stated
"really?!" sakura cheered jumping and clamping her hands for a few seconds,
"yes sakura-chan, we're going to get you trained to be a ninja, you want to be in akatsuki one day right?" konan asked her child who had a big,sweet smile on her face and nodding her head vigorously "yes',
"alright then get going, sasori train sakura in pupperty and the usual training" pein said, sasori nodded and left holding hands with sakura's tiny one, the two left to the woods just outside of rain, sasori trained sakura to use kunai and shuriken, use chakra and trained her in the first step to learning puppetry, drawing chakra to your fingers, sakura was gifted, on almost all but two shots, sakura aimed the point of the kunai right in the middle, she also had exellent chakra control for a 3 year-old. after 2 hours of training they headed back,
"wow, you gave her quite a work-out" konan said looking at sakura who was laying flat on the couch,
"yes, but also she had exellent chakra control and accurate kunai targeting" sasori said
"well, good job sasori, for today" pein praised, afterward, it was 8:30 when sakura took a well deserved bath and sleep.
sakura: 7 years old
Sakura and Tobi were playing a game of tag,
"come catch me tobi!" sakura yelled being chased by the playful tobi,
"tobi like games, tobi gonna catch sakura-chan" tobi said chasing the 7 year-old, meanwhile konan was trying to stop them, she was in charge for the week since pein had to go for a mission,
"hey, you two stop!" konan yelled, but sakura and tobi just continued running around,
"hey!, sasori stop her!" konan yelled
"i don't know, she dosen't listen, she has more energy now you know" sasori said shrugging,
"how about you get itachi?" kisame then suggested
"why?" konan asked
"didn't itachi have a little brother the same age as sakura?" kisame said
"oh right!" konan said as she entered her husband's office and called itachi on the loud speaker
"yes, konan-sama?" itachi asked
"can you stop her?!" konan said pointing at sakura who was now chasing Tobi,
itachi sighed and moved in front of sakura, he poked her in the head like he did with sasuke, sakura stumbled back a bit and looked at itachi who said
"you need to stop running around, your making your mother upset", sakura nodded ad ran up to her mother,
"sorry kaa-san" sakura apologized bowing,
"its ok saki, but next time listen" konan told her,
"and also, itachi, sasori and kisame, you have a mission" konan then said as she handed itachi a folder that explained their mission, he read it then gave it to sasori and kisame, then closed it.
"well, see you in a few days saku-chan, and with a new member too" sasori said, sakura had a sad look in her eyes, she hated when her 'big brother' had to go on missions, then sakura said goodbye to the 3 akatsuki as they exited the hideout.
sakura: sakura's 10th birthday
Today was sakura's 10th birthday, sakura entered the kitchen to her a chorus of "Happy Birthday Sakura!" as she walked through to the table where her breakfeast had already been placed, sakura looked around and noticed everyone was there exccept deidara, 3 years ago deidara had joined the akatsuki and made friends with sakura, she would call him "dei-dei" and he would call her "cherry", then 5 minutes later, deidara entered the kitchen and ran right up the sakura,
"happy birthday Cherry, yeah!" deidara said
"morning Dei-dei, and thanks" sakura said back, she group ate breakfeast and then went to go hangout in the lounge room, when the akatsuki didn't have missions they would hang-out there, but today was sakura's birthday so everyone got the day off, they talked, watched moves and hanged-out, at 12pm the group had a strawberry shortcake flavoured cake, everyone exccept for itachi,kakuzu and Zetsu had a peice, its not that they didn't like sakura they just didn't like sweets,
after 15 minutes in was present time, she got a total of alot of presents,
she wanted to get sasori's first, he gave her 3 puppets that he made himself, the were in scrolls and he also gave her a bag for the scrolls, after he gave his gift to her, sakura tackled sasori with a hug, chanting "thank you" and then let go.
next was Deidara, he gave her a small clay sulpture of a sakura tree[which sakura loved], and a bag of explosive clay, deidara was also was attacked by a hug from sakura, she then let go,
after deidara was tobi, tobi gave sakura a dogtag necklace that on one side had the akatsuki insighnia; a red cloud, and the other side had the symbol for the rain village, tobi also gave sakura a black and red ninja backpack, and again like the rest sakura gave tobi a hug whil tobi cheered "yay!, saku-chan likes tobi's present, that makes tobi very happy!", then she let him go,
kakuzu gave her some money, hidan also gave sakura money and a card, and then kisame gave sakura a black and white katana with cherry blossoms engraved on the sheath, she said thank you to them,
then there was itachi's present, it was two presents, she opened the first one to be a bracelet that had charms of the akatsuki insighnia, the rain village symbol and the uchiha clan crest, sakura squealed, put it on and latched onto itachi who was microscopicly smiling, the next present from itachi sakura opened, was a box with holes in them, she opened the box and out jumped a black wolf pup, the pup jumped on sakura and licked her face while she laughed, the pup calmed down and get off of sakura long enough for sakura to jump itachi and hug the lights out of him, she let go, picked up her new pup and turned to her parents,
konan took out a small box from under her sleave of her cloak and gave it to sakura, sakura opened it to see an origami hair peice like her mothers, but this one was dyed red and looked like a cherry blossom flower, then pein put a BIG box in front of sakura, sakura put her pup down and opeed the box, the box had a rain village headband, 2 outfits, a pouch filled with kunai and shuriken, ninja shoes, ect.,
sakura gasped then asked "does this mean i can be a ninja?", her parents nodded "yes", sakura tied the headband around her neck and smiled, then here mother said "oh sakura!, i have one more gift" as she pulled out a small box, sakura opened it to see a round silver locket with the akatsuki insighnia on the front, she opened the locket and inside had 4 slots to put pictures, there was already 1 picture of her and sasori when she was 3 years-old, she closed the locket and put it on, she looked back up at her parents,
"thank you, its beautiful" sakura said hugging them, her parents hugged her back and then let go, this was surely a rememberable birthday.