"Aniki-chan, Aniki-chan." A little pink haired girl screamed, tears in her little green eyes. No response "Aniki-ch-." Sakura was cut off with a fist, she bit on it, the man yelped and released, and Sakura began to scream for her Aniki to come.
"Shut the hell up you little brat, you're coming with us and no one is coming to save you." One of the masked men sneered. Sakura ignored him and continuously screamed.
"C'mon you little brat, we promise Orochimaru-sama will be nice to you." The second masked man coaxed to no avail.
"Aniki-chan, Aniki-chan, Aniki-chan, Aniki-chan!" Sakura continuously shrieked.
"That's it, there's no reasoning with this brat we'll have to take her by force, I don't know why Orochimaru wants her, she's annoying." The first masked man hissed. Sakura watched them begin to close in on her and she screamed even louder, she was sobbing at this point.
"Aniki-chan, please…rescue me." Sakura whispered before feeling a slight pressure push into her back and the world grew black. When Sakura awoke she heard whispers, it seemed to be an argument, Sakura listened.
"Orochimaru, why on earth would you want that girl…you're not a child molester are you?" a smooth voice asked.
"No you idiot, of course not, but she is worth a lot to the Akatsuki, do you know why?" an old crackled voice responded.
"No why would a 8 year old girl be worth anything to them." The smooth voice snapped.
"Because Itachi has been her caretaker ever since she was 3, that's why." The crackled voice calmly replied.
"So we hold her hostage until they give us what we want?" the smooth voice asked.
"Yes." The crackled voice answered. Sakura pondered, she didn't like being a hostage, and she knew she wouldn't easily escape but she knew how to torture them.
"AHHHHHHHHHH!" Sakura shrieked, the doors burst open to reveal a white haired man wearing glasses and a ghost white black haired man with yellow eyes. Sakura jumped to her feet and ran up to the black haired man. "You look like Michael Jackson, mister." She stated bluntly. The white haired man snickered and the black haired one turned red with anger.
"Why you little brat." He hissed.
"Oh come on Orochimaru she's only a kid." The white haired man was smirking now.
"Shut it, Kabuto." Orochimaru snapped.
"Are you gonna rape me Mister Michael Jackson?" Sakura asked. Orochimaru smirked he knew how to deal with this.
"Yes, I am." Orochimaru replied smiling evilly.
"Mmhm, mmhm and what does rape mean?" Sakura asked knowing just how to make a person angry, she had been doing it to Deidara for years. Orochimaru was speechless and Kabuto doubled over in laughter. "Mr. Michael Jackson, why am here. Are you gonna kill me am I gonna die. Are we still on earth, are you an alien oh my god what species are you? Are you gonna eat my brain? Are you gay because Aniki says that Michael Jackson was gay and you look like him so there must be a reason, right? Are you crazy because before my mommy died she told me to stay away from crazy people? Am I still a human, am I part spider now, like spider man no I wanna be part bird so I can fly. No flying is boring I wanna see through walls, no I wanna be super strong, no I wanna know everything. Wait, I wanna have all the superpowers then everyone would have to do what I say because I would be the strongest I would make candy it's own food group and I would have all the toys in the world. All school would be recess and kids would rule everything. If I ruled the world I would move me, my Aniki, and all of my friends into a bigger than the universe mansion, what would you do if you ruled the world, would-" Sakura was cut off.
"Enough." Orochimaru yelled, she could visibly see a vein popping out of his skin.
"Why mister crazy frog, Michael Jackson is boring so I'll call you crazy frog because you're crazy and I like frogs. Do you like frogs mister crazy frog, if not what's you're favorite animal mine is a dragon, I would call you crazy dragon but crazy frog sounds cooler so-" Sakura was interrupted again.
"Shut up, and speak one more word and you'll die." He snarled.
"But Orochimaru-teme you can't kill me because my Aniki will kill you and you won't get what you want, lets both face it I can annoy you as much as I pleasure and there is nothing you can do about it." Sakura sneered. Everyone was silent, neither Kabuto nor Orochimaru had thought that girl to be this smart.
"You will call me Orochimaru-sama, I may not kill you but I can torture."
"Funny how you should say this because I can torture you too Mister Michael Jackson replica."
"Enough," Kabuto intervened, "you can't harm her and the sooner we get rid of this thing the better."
"If I might ask, what is it that you hope to gain out of abducting me?" Sakura questioned.
"It's none of your concern." Orochimaru said smugly, finally he had won.
"Oh really? AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Sakura screamed and both of them winced. They both expected her to stop but she didn't falter once her lungs perfectly booming the noise. Surprisingly her scream continued for a good 5 minutes until she stopped to catch her breath and wink at them. "I can do this all night; this is how I get stuff from Aniki." And she began to scream again.
"Ok we want money." Orochimaru lied. Sakura frowned she knew he was lying but her lungs were beginning to hurt. So she decided to play dumb, and just agree.
"Ok." she shrugged and plopped back to the bed in the room and closed her eyes. "So when can I go home?"
"When we get what we desire."
"When, might that be?"
"As long as it takes."
"'As long as it takes' isn't good enough I want a specific time."
"You don't get to know, you're a hostage."
"I should know considering the fact Pein is right behind you." Both men froze and turned to come face to face with Pein, leader of the Akatsuki.
"Hand over the girl." Pein demanded, exasperated.
"How did you get in my base?" Orochimaru asked.
"That is beside the point, I asked for the girl." He demanded once more. Sakura stood from the bed and rushed into Pein's arms.
"Pein-sama!" Sakura shouted hugging him. Pein lifted the pink-haired cutie into his arms, holding her firmly and she wrapped her arms around his neck. He turned his back on both of them and began to walk off Orochimaru was about to grab the girl when suddenly 15 year old Hidan popped up holding his 3 bladed scythe.
"What the fucking hell did you think you were gonna do to our fucking Sakura?" Hidan cussed. Orochimaru's eyes narrowed.
"Kabuto, you know what to do." Orochimaru ordered. He nodded and began to fight Hidan. While this happened Orochimaru attempted to get past Hidan but failed. Hidan continuously fought both of them easily. Meanwhile Pein carried Sakura to the exit of the place.
"Sakura please cover your eyes." Pein instructed. Sakura nodded and squeezed her eyes shut and hid her face in Pein's shoulder. She could hear gurgles of coughing from nearby but she ignored it she was used to it by now. Since technically she belonged to Akatsuki because of Itachi she had accompanied the Akatsuki on a couple of infiltrations that involved some deaths. Sakura knew the Akatsuki weren't evil, they were what Sakura thought of to be spies and held important information that the guy who kidnapped her might want.
"Pein-sama, what did that guy want?" Sakura asked.
"I don't know, Sakura." Pein replied.
"Is Hidan-senpai gonna kill them?" Sakura asked again.
"Yes, they deserve to die for taking cherry blossom." He replied warmly. Sakura smiled slightly at the sound of her own nickname.
"Yeah they do Silver." Sakura replied. She felt him laugh. "Pein-sama?"
"Yes Sakura?"
"Can I call you Pein-senpai?" she asked sleepily, she was tired for a reason she wasn't quite sure.
"Of course, cherry blossom." He responded whole-heartedly.
"Hmmm." Sakura mumbled out before drifting off into sleep. When Sakura awoke it was already the next day, she blinked and smiled she was back at the Akatsuki headquarters. Sakura lifted the covers off her body still feeling quite tired at how early it was and she tip-toed into Itachi's room which was the room next to hers. She gently pushed the door open; Itachi was fast asleep and snoring slightly. She walked up to the bed and snuggled up to her Aniki and almost instantly fell asleep.
"Mmmmmm." Sakura groaned at the sudden light. She rubbed her eyes and noticed Itachi studying at his desk, just because they were spies didn't mean they didn't go to school. "Aniki-chan!" Sakura sprung from the bed and towards Itachi.
"Sakura." Itachi chuckled when she landed in his lap and hugged him.
"What are you studying?" Sakura looked at the history book and the notes he had been taking.
"The Holocaust." He replied, writing more notes.
"Boring." Sakura stated hopping off his lap. "I'm gonna go annoy Deidara, when you're done studying will you help me with my math homework?" Sakura asked.
"Of course, Sakura." Itachi promised, drawing his attention back to the book. Sakura skipped back to her room and changed out of her pajamas and into a red blouse with a denim skirt, black leggings, and her silver ballet flats that Pein had given her for her eighth birthday. She walked over to her mirror and brushed her long pink hair into pigtails. Sakura instantly ran off looking for Deidara, she chose him to annoy because he had the funniest reactions, of course every once in a while she would draw on Sasori's puppets…but that was beside the point. Finally she found him… arguing with Sasori about which art was true art. Sakura sighed she knew how to end this argument effectively. She pushed in between the two and began to scream randomly.
"MY NAME IS SAKURA, I LIKE PUDDING, CHOCOLATE IS AWESOME." She screamed until they both grew silent. "Now that you both shut up all art is ugly, you both lose." Both of the artists glared at her until Deidara spoke.
"Sakura, I'll prove to you that true art is fleeting un, I'll show you some fireworks, you'll love it, un."
"No, I'll show you that true art is eternal by buying you a doll." Sasori chided. Suddenly both artists began arguing again.
"OH WILL YOU TWO JUST SHUT UP," Sakura growled, usually the ugly art thing worked, "there is no definition of true art but rather what it means to you, to Deidara it's fleeting, to Sasori it's eternal but that is what it means to you and no one is going to change your opinion because that is all true art is an opinion." Sasori and Deidara glared at each other and Sakura sighed she was so bored. So she merrily skipped up to her room and got red lipstick, scissors, and some sharpies. Then she skipped into Sasori's room and picked up a pretty blonde puppet and plopped to the floor, a mischievous gleam in her eyes. First she smeared the lipstick all over the puppets lips then she colored the unpainted eyes bright pink and she wrote stuff all over her body and clothes. Then she hideously cut off parts of the puppet's dress and finished it all of with an untidy haircut. She smiled proudly at her work, Sasori would be p-i-s-s-e-d pissed. So she grabbed the puppet into her arms and ran down the stairs shouting.
"Sasori-senpai, Sasori-senpai look what I did!" Suddenly she entered the room where Sasori was, he was now reading a book his eyes boredly traveled to Sakura and then they froze at the sight of his puppet. "See Sasori-senpai, look how pretty she is!"
"Sakura," Sasori said calmly, as though not to frighten her away, "come here."
"Sasori-senpai, you look mad." Sakura began to back away.
"I'm not mad, I just want to talk to you." The crimson haired 13 year old hissed slowly.
"Crimson is mad." Sakura stated before dropping the puppet and running away, she could hear Sasori chasing after her.
"Get back here cherry blossom." Sakura hurried into the first room, Deidara's.
"Deidei-senpai, protect me from the wrath of Crimson!" she said hiding behind Deidara. Sasori burst through the door; his eyes were burning in fury.
"Sakura, what did you do?" Deidara questioned.
"I made his puppet look prettier." Sakura frowned. Deidara chuckled.
"Sorry Sakura, I can't help you with this one, good luck with Sasori." Deidara replied, giving her a little push on her back towards Sasori and he caught her easily. He scooped her up into his arms and flopped her onto his shoulder like a sack of potatoes. Sakura shrieked and pounded her fist on his back.
"Deidara you traitor." She yelled half sobbing. Sasori dragged her to his room and thrust her on the bed. He began to pace across the room, obviously thinking of her punishment. Until he finally smirked, Sakura gulped she knew this would be unpleasant, whenever Sasori got back at her it was awful. He left the room and returned holding her favorite stuffed dragon. He smirked and swiftly ripped his head off; also he ripped it completely apart. He plopped the pieces in front of Sakura who was bleary eyed.
"You killed, Bernie." Sakura sobbed. She picked up the remains of Bernie and ran off to her room crying. She slammed the door shut and buried her head in her pillow and just sobbed. She heard the door open but she didn't stop crying, she felt a shift in weight on the bed and hand started massaging her back.
"Sakura, what happened?" Itachi asked. She turned to face him, head still on her pillow.
"I-I was bored s-so I r-ruined one of S-Sasori's p-puppets so h-he d-destroyed B-Bernie." Sakura stuttered. Itachi frowned at her.
"You know what you did was wrong?" Itachi asked.
"No, I was just trying to have fun." She replied.
"Sakura you can't destroy others personal belongings even for fun, what you did wasn't ok, promise me you won't do it again."
"I promise I won't ever do it again." Sakura whimpered.
"Good, and what Sasori did was way worse he was older and he should've known better." Itachi stated.
"Ok Aniki-chan."
"I'm gonna go talk to Sasori, and when I come back we'll work on your homework."
"Ok Aniki-chan." Sakura returned watching Itachi leave. About 5 minutes later Itachi returned with Sasori. Sasori looked reluctant and Itachi looked smug.
"Sakura I'm s-" Sasori was cut off.
"Sasori I'm sorry!" Sakura cried, running and wrapping him up in a hug. Sasori, shocked, hugged her back.
"I'm sorry too, Sakura." Sasori replied. Sakura smiled happily. Sasori then promised to fix her stuffed animal and Sakura promised to help fix his puppet. Then Sasori returned to his room.
"Sakura lets work on your homework now." Itachi said grabbing the math book on her desk.
"Ok Aniki-chan!" Sakura yelled attempting to glomp him; Itachi laughed at her and caught her. He lifted her up into the air and put her on the ground again, she was laughing loudly.
"Now come on cherry blossom, homework." And with that they began Sakura's homework a smile never leaving her face.