NARUTO

Mischief, Mayhem, Akatsuki

This fan-fic has nothing to do with Special Bonds or Enemies of a Friend; it's just what I came up in my spare time away from my normal routine. Please read and comment. Enjoy.

The fifth hokage looked out her window on the bright day. The village of Konoha has never been so peaceful. What could go wrong? No, don't think that, she told herself. But…too late. Gosh, her bad luck is so lucky at times.

A big black falcon was flying from the distance towards the mansion where the Fifth Hokage, Tsunade, was in. As the bird drew nearer it landed on Tsunade shoulder. By looking at the bird Tsunade had no idea who it was from, so she opened the letter, and began reading.

Greetings from a certain group.

This letter is for The Fifth Hokage.

This is an order.

So please do the following.

By tomorrow morning Haruno Sakura MUST be banned from the Village of Leaf.

If not then we will come and destroy your village.

All right, we will tell you who we are.

Akatsuki.

Do not underestimate us.

We are powerful and advise you to do what we order.

We will repeat. Haruno Sakura must be banned from Konoha by 12:00 am.

Thank you.

Akatsuki Leader, Pain.

Tsunade stood there frozen by fear, confusion, and panic. Akatsuki, blackmailing her? She reread the letter over and over again, memorizing it. Why

Sakura? Oh, she already knew. It was a bit obvious. But what in hell should I do? She asked herself. I'm the Hokage of Konoha. It's her job to protect the

village. She knew what she had to do, but at THIS price. It was not fair, not at all.

The door opened and Shizune walked in accompanied by her pig.

"Shi-zun-e…" Tsunade managed to say.

"Hokage-sama? What's wrong?"

"Look." She handed the letter to her. Shizune read it and gasped.

"Wha-How? How did you…?"

"Shizune, please go find Sakura."

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Sakura walked up the stairs and opened the door.

"You needed me Hokage-san."

"Uh-yes, Sakura r-read this…please." Tsunade handed Sakura a letter. Sakura could almost feel fear in Tsunade. She looked down at the letter.

"WHAT?! What is this, it has got to be a joke right? Very funny…" Sakura said.

"No joke."

"Then. Then you're not going to listen to it." There was silence. "I mean this could be a prank!"

"The Akatsuki leader is named Pain, what normal person would know that?"

"Someone who had just found out and wanted the information to be used in some way…" Sakura waved the letter franticly. More silence. Sakura growled, "What are we going to do?"

"We don't want to take chances. So…" Tsunade slowly said.

"You're banning me? Couldn't you ban a clone of mine or something?"

"This is Akatsuki…they would know."

"FUCK AKATSUKI!" Sakura yelled. She kicked the chair which broke in half.

"Control your anger Sakura!" Tsunade yelled frustrated. "I don't want to do this, but… I don't want to take chances and end up losing the village."

"But, why me!?" Sakura yelled.

"Bait."

"Huh?"

"Think about it… and in the meantime…pack your belongings and stay close to Konoha incase this was a prank."

Sakura stood there motionless, she was being BANNED, and it felt like years when it actually was minutes that she was in the ramen shop with Naruto.

"I'm so sorry Sakura." Shizune said in the corner, quiet tears running down her eyes.

"Well…you, you wont see the last of me! And, and…" she was cut off by a screech at a window.

"Another one?" Tsunade picked the letter and read it…She gasped and quickly looked at Sakura.

"W-What does it say?" Sakura said, not wanting to know.

"Never mind about before…" Tsuande slowly said, "Go, Go far away from this village as possible." The bird in the window stretched its wings out, and

took flight but about midway out of the village it exploded into fire. Tsunade stared wide eyed. "Haruno Sakura…you have been banned from this village

permanently.

"W-What! What does the letter say?" Sakura protested. But Tsunade didn't answer; instead she picked up a kunai on her desk and walked over to Sakura

. She placed the point of the Kunai on Sakura's forehead protector which was on top of her head. A loud screeching sound came as Tsunade drew a line

that went through the leaf sign on the protector. Sakura gaped.

"How dare...you." she slowly said.

"Leave by 12:00 tonight. I'm sorry Sakura." Tsunade added.

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