Hey peeps. I actually wrote this way before I did Change of Events. I have more chapters already written for this one, so it will probably be updated more often. I have end of course tests this week and I dread it. They suck..I really wish I could stick all the teacher's fat heads in a microwave and watch them explode, stuffing my face popcorn and video taping the whole thing!! O.o Anywayss......umm here is meh new story starring Sasori and none other than the lovely Sakura. :)
Much Love,
-CausticCally
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any of the characters. :)
I can't believe after two whole years of painful training we are stuck on a simple C rank mission! We didn't half kill ourselves day after day just to end up protecting a rich and arrogant old man! Not to mention I didn't even get paired up with Naruto or even Kakashi. I mean TenTen is amazing with weapons but that can only go so far. Stop Sakura! You need to stop worrying about that. This is a simple C rank mission with only a slight possibility a fight will occur. All we have to do is get this annoying man to his house and come back. Simple.
"Hey Sakura, how much farther until we are at the halfway point?" said TenTen, bringing Sakura out of her thoughts as they leaped from tree branches with the client in between them.
"Yeah! I'm getting hungry here. I'm not going any further until I eat," piped in the client. He came to an abrupt stop and sat defiantly on the ground with his legs crossed, chin up.
Oh how I wish I could kill him. But then I wouldn't get paid or get a higher mission for killing the person we were supposed to help keep alive. Grrr I wish I could at least tape his fat mouth shut. He acts like a seven-year-old.
"Well, I guess we could stop here and eat what's in the pack and rest." I noticed my stomach was growling in agreement as we sat down to rest.
"That sounds good, I'm getting kind of hungry as well. When we get back hopefully they will give us at least an A rank mission like we deserve," TenTen grabbed some food from the pack and passed some to the old man. He gulped it all down and leaned back on a trunk of a tree and shut his eyes.
Well....at least that shut him up.
Suddenly, I felt a strong and dangerous chakra pulsing faintly in the distance. My body tensed as I motioned to TenTen to get in front of the client and guard him. She nodded understanding and crouched in front of the now sleeping man with a kunai in her right hand and an explosive tag in the left.
Good thinking TenTen. It's better that she didn't wake him up so he won't try to run or possibly fight.
I felt the unknown chakra slowly creep closer. Once it was within range, I threw one of my own kunai right at the vital point in the heart as a dark figure stepped out into the clearing. As the kunai penetrated, the figure turned into a pile of white what looked like putty on the ground. My eyes widened as I realized what happened.
Oh shit! It was a clay clone. Who could it be?
It clicked in her brain immediately. Who else uses clay? Soft laughter filled the space as two figures entered the clearing wearing black cloaks with red, puffy clouds on them. The one on the right had flaming red hair with brown eyes. The one on the left had blonde hair pulled back in a pony tail with one blue eye and a camera like object for the other one.
I didn't sense a second chakra. This isn't good. Nobody has ever been able to sneak past me unnoticed.
Fear racked through my body along with rage. These ninjas were from Akatsuki. The corrupt group of rogue ninjas, including Itachi Uchiha, Sasuke's older brother, and other lethal missing nin. He is the reason Sasuke left us so long ago. I felt a quick wave of sadness but it was soon replaced by more anger.
"Well, well Sasori. Looks like they fell for our little trap. I don't think it will be a problem defeating either of them," Deidara snickered as he looked between me and TenTen. The red-haired one, Sasori, grinned.
"It will only take a few minutes to accomplish our mission. These kunoichi will be no problem. Especially pinky,"said Deidara as he stepped forward, tongues of the mouths in his hands sticking out.
"You are going to wish you hadn't said that." I chuckled darkly and lurched at Deidara, gathering all my chakra into my fists. Deidara flashed out a kunai and threw it at me, the blade driving into my shoulder. With a poof my clone was gone leaving a shocked look on his face as well as Sasori's. I flashed right behind him and slammed my monstrous fist into his back. He flew into a tree on the opposite side of the clearing, making the tree shudder and sway. He slowly staggered up, blood dribbling down his chin from his mouth.
"You bitch! You'll pay for that, yeah" Deidara now had a crazy gleam in his eye and reached into his pocket and grabbed a handful of clay. Within seconds his hands produced a clay bird and sent it straight for me. There was a loud eruption as the clay bomb exploded. When the dust and smoke finally subsided, tiny cherry blossoms drifting to the ground where the only things left.
"What the hell! Where did she go? She should be blown up into a million pieces!" Deidara gasped as I flew down from the tree branch behind him and connected my fist with his back. There was a sickening crack as I broke his ribs. Deidara's eyes flashed open in pain and fell forward onto his knees, coughing up blood.
"I told you you shouldn't have said that." I glared. Then I glanced at TenTen, who was still in position, who had a slight smile on her face. The client, on the other hand, had pure terror written all over his face and fainted.
Well, at least he won't do anything stupid now.
Deidara stood up uncertainly and looked at Sasori, who was leaning casually up against a tree.
"Sasori, my man. It seems we underestimated this one. She is actually a trained kunoichi. I will let you play with her and show her who she's really messing with." Deidara limped to a nearby tree and leaned against it for support. Sasori grinned and stepped forward with a scroll ready at hand.
Which one of those puppets is he going to summon, I wonder? From all the information we have on him, we don't have any details on what weapons are concealed in those puppets. Deidara on the other hand, was easy to out maneuver. All I know about Sasori is that he is a very young, powerful puppeteer.
"She is indeed interesting. I think I will make her into one of my puppets once I'm done with her." My heart sped up nervously.
A PUPPET!! Who does he think he is! I will not become one of his toys!Chaa!!
"Hmph! I would rather die than become one of your playthings!" I widened my stance as he smirked and slammed the scroll on the ground. One of his massive puppets appeared in front of him. You can see the chakra in his strings as he attached them to the puppet. Long, sharp blades protruded out of the arms. Some sort of purple liquid dripped of the edges and onto the ground.
Oh no...poison...if I get even a scratch, I will only have a short time before my body starts shutting down. I am going to have to be extra careful with him.
"What's the matter little cherry blossom? Are you scared?"
"I'll give you a damn puppet show." I muttered and ran towards him while flinging five kunai towards the weak joints in the puppet armor. The puppet blocked three but two drove into the left joint. It unhinged and fell to the ground.
Who is this girl? She knew where the weakest points in my puppet are. Maybe she will be of use to us.
"Very good Sakura. I'm slightly surprised you knew where to strike. However, you cannot defeat me." He sounded so sure of his words, I almost believed them.
He opened the puppets mouth and needles soaked in poison spewed out, heading my way. I ducked and jumped up to move away but Sasori flung his puppet's fist into my side. I was knocked back into a nearby tree, the rough bark cutting into my shirt and skin. As I stood up panting, I felt the pain instantly gathering in my lower leg. I looked down and blood was running down her leg in a steady stream from a deep gash near her knee. She sent chakra to her hands and a green glow engulfed her hands as she pressed it to the wound. The severe gash was now completely gone. She looked back towards Sasori, satisfied with the loss of his smirk and raised eyebrows.
"Yes Deidara. She will be of definite use to Akatsuki. She is what they say she is, a medic nin."
This girl won't give up. We will have to find another way to catch her off guard in order to take her without killing her.
Sasori glanced at Deidara and nodded. Deidara then flung two kunais toward TenTen who wasn't paying attention and watching me.
"Tenten watch out!" I screamed. Tenten turned her head to see the kunais flying directly towards her chest. She closed her eyes, expecting pain to come. When it never did, she peeked up to see me in front of her with one kunai in my shoulder and one in my side. I gasped for breath at the hit I took for Tenten, trying to hide the excruciating pain. Sasori watched me with wide eyes as I yanked the kunai out of my body and the wounds began to heal themselves. They stopped at just a scratch to prevent using too much chakra. I am low enough as it is.
She can heal herself quickly, as expeted. Now is the time before it's too late.
Sasori propelled his puppet and swiftly knocked out Tenten from the back. He then headed toward me but I leaped swiftly out of the way.
"I must admit you are quite impressive, but your chakra is low and you can't even fully heal your injuries." Sakura stood there panting, her hands on her knees trying to ignore the pain that erupted throughout her body every time she drew in air. She slowly raised her body up and glared at Sasori.
"I. .do. ..not... give. up....on my comrades......or.......myself," I spat.
She certainly won't give up, I know that, but she is too weak to take us both on and she knows it.
In a last effort she flung one of her teammate's kunai with an explosive tag attached to it into Sasori's puppet. It exploded and the puppet was now completely demolished, bits and parts spewing to the ground. Sasori stared in shock as his beloved puppet burst into shards of wood in front of his eyes.
SHE JUST DESTROYED MY FAVORITE PUPPET!
"Goodbye Sakura." Sasori cooed menacingly before Deidara appeared behind me and knocked me out cold. Sasori turned around and walked back toward base with Deidara limping and carrying Sakura over his shoulder behind him.
I woke up in a seriously confused state. I sat up on a bed dizzily and gasped as pain shot through my entire body.
Oh shit! Where am I!?! Where's Tenten and the client?
The day before's events flooded my brain. I jerked up to a the other chakra presence in the room.
"Hi Sakura." A feminine voice came from a woman sitting cross-legged in a chair near my bed. She had short, blue hair and blue eyes with an Akatsuki cloak around her shoulders.
"I'm Konan. I am here to welcome you the Akatsuki headquarters and tend to your wounds. You might be confused right now, but we really do not intend to hurt you. In fact, we want you to become part of Akatsuki. We are in desperate need of a skilled medic. Plus I am the only girl here and it would be nice to not be around guys all the time." She smiled warmly and I was silent in shock.
"....." I had expected torture, death, anything but this.
"I know it's confusing. All you do is hang out here until you and your partner get a mission. I should warn you though, if you try to escape they will only bring you right back. Anyway, I will take you down to dinner to officially meet everybody." She got up and helped me up. I obliged, only because I couldn't really protest.
Why is this...Konan...being so nice to me. I can't help want to be friends with her. She seems kind, unlike all the stories we hear of Akatsuki. They go on missions and hang out in their free time the same as we do.
Konan led me down a long hallway and a down flight of short stairs and into a large dining room. As soon as we entered the room, everybody became silent and stared. Konan motioned for me to sit in the chair on the right of her. I felt every pair of eyes in the room on me as I sat down.
Dammit. What am I supposed to do now? I'm in a room filled with people that probably hate me and are imagining different ways to kill me before the night is over.
I hesitantly looked up at everyone and to my surprise, they weren't glaring at me with murderous eyes. They all looked kind of......curious. Soon, they all just continued on with their conversations like normal. Everyone except Sasori. He stared at me with a blank face and a hint of anger in his eyes.
"So Sakura, we heard you blew up one of Sasori's famous puppets," Zetsu, a man with a venus fly-trap around his head, said. I glanced at Sasori and it wasn't just a glint anymore. It was rage.
"Shut up!" snarled Sasori, cutting Zetzu a look that could literally kill.
"Hey chill man. I'm sure you can fix it." Sasori stood up and turned towards Sakura.
"Pein wants us to meet with him." I was a little hesitant to follow him, thinking he might lead me to my death for destroying one of his puppets, but I followed anyway. He led me down another hallway and stopped at a wooden door and knocked.
"Come in," said a cool voice inside the room. Sasori opened the door and we walked into a huge room. Pein looked up and smiled. I immediately noticed a large number, I mean more than four, of piercings. He also had the Rinnegan within his eyes.
"Hello Sakura, glad you could finally join us. I heard about your impressive skills when you battled Deidara and Sasori. Nobody's ever been able to completely demolish one of Sasori's puppets." He said, obviously amused. Sasori grunted.
"We do hope you will stay a bit and become our medical nin and also work on missions as well. Sasori, Sakura will now be your new partner. You two will share a room and receive your first mission within a week. You are dismissed." I took a peek up at Sasori and regretted it. He stared down icily at me.
"Let's go get you a uniform," he grumbled and stalked out the door. I quickly followed him into another room that was filled with various cloth and fabric.
"Are you going to make my uniform?" I asked watching as he pulled out the signature colors of Akatsuki.
"Yes. I design and make all uniforms of Akatsuki," he said. He quickly and skillfully began making her uniform. Within five minutes it was completely done. He stood up and held up the the final product, proud of his work.
"Wow it's beautiful,"I said. And I meant it too. It was the usual coat with red shorts and a long sleeve mesh net underneath a red sleeveless top.
"Building puppets is not the only art I do." He said curtly. He got up and motioned for me to follow.
"Okay, we are apparently staying in the same room and I refuse to sleep in the same bed as you. So do you want the floor, couch, or...the floor?" He gestured towards the couch against the wall.
"Well I'll definitely go for the couch," I said, setting my things on the couch, avoiding his eyes.
"The bathroom is over there. And don't bother trying to escape because I will only bring you back and kill you very slowly."His emotionless facade was back again as he gathered his puppet, ready for mending.
I flinched slightly and headed towards the bathroom to change into my uniform. As I shut the door, I slumped down to the floor overwhelmed between staying here and trying to escape, even with the possibility of dying a very painful death. It just hit how extremely tire I was and decided to hurry up and take a relaxing shower. I took way longer than necessary, letting the warm water run over my body, soothing my sore muscles. After what seemed like thirty minutes I peeked out the door to see if Sasori was still in the room. When the coast was clear I walked out with only a towel and ran right smack into a rock hard body. Sasori.
Yeaahh....so how did you like it?? Please review!! I really would like to know your opinions. Message me with any questions or suggestions. XD Hehe let's hope I don't get arrested for manslaughter and can continue to write. ;)
-CausticCally