Red Clouds and Cherry Blossoms

Chapter 1

This fan fic takes placein the naruto univerese after another timeskip. At this time since the death of Tsunade Naruto has become the sixth hokage at the age of 18 and is now continueing at the age of 21. All the naruto gennin/chunnin that were to gether are all now 21 and most are jounin. Sasuke is still working with orrochimaru who isnt dead. Akatsuki is beleived to be broken up becuase of their long abstance of activity leaving only Naruto to still think they are a threat. It has come to be understood that infact all the Akatsuki are still alive or were becuse of a tactic called blood cloneing has been revealed. Blood cloneing is a jutsu that only s-rank criminals can use to its fullest extint. Blood cloning uses 1/2 the users chakra to create a replica of the user with half of the users totall strength that actually dies or simulates death untill the user wishes it gone when it then vanishes in a puff of smoke like a normall shadow clone. It is the most compleate form of cloning witch is why the akatsuki members were thought to be dead in some cases such as Sasori, and yes this is my loop hole i use to bring back all of the dead members with more strength. Give me some reveiws and i hope i did the naruto series justice with this plot. I plan to keep it going for a long time with more and more chapters, thank you and enjoy.

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Flash back fog

Sakura (sobbing)- W...Why cant i ever reach a strong enough level?... Naruto is now hokage... and Sasuke is still getting stronger with that dammed Ororchimaru... why an i the only one... the only one whos actions cant effect anyone else.. When Sasuke le left to get stronger with ft all i could do is cry to Naruto... and when Naruto left to get stronger to get Sasuke back all i did was still cry and here iam now 18 years old and still the only thing i know how to do is cry...stops crying... Wait ive heard this somewhere before havent i? Thats right when i watched Sasuke leave didnt he say exactly what ive just said... he needed to get stronger to do what his responsibility was. Even though it was simply to kill his brother maybe... maybe that way i can get more power the same way. Even though I may have to hurt some people is it worth it... is it worth it just to be recognized as aperson from team 7 who dosent need constant help. Latley with Shikamaru getting promoted to Konoha tacticianer he even promoted Ino to the title of recon specailist...and the worst part is she actually deserved it unlike any special title i could get from Naruto... I know why i need power... i know what I need the power for... I WANT TO STOP CRYING, I WANT TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE, AND I DONT WANT ANY MORE PROTECTION!!! and with that every sign of tears vanished from Sakura's face as she silently walked through though huge konoha village gates to her only chance to be a great ninja to her new life as a missing-nin.

Flash back over

Woosh, step, woosh, step, woosh Three cloaked figures are jumping quietly from tree to identicle tree in normal ninja like fashoin. The ninja look similar in the pale moonlight all three wearing straw hats with dangleing strips of cloth that hide their faces. Their cloaks come down to their ankles and are zipped up to their necks covering the lower part of the face. The cloaks are almost identicle. All three are black and share the same artistic cloud spotted pattern with the two taller ninja adorning red clouds while the slightly shorter one wears clouds of white. As an elite team they swiftly move through the woods untill the come to a clearing with a large stone wall standing still in the gentle wind as the rays of the shining moon hit it lightly.

Taking of the straw hat Deidara- Well well this is the great village of Konoha of the Fire Country.

Also taking of his straw hat in similar fashon Sasori- Yes it is... and since we ourselves have never been put in a situation that required us to venture in this area

we will have to put or navigation into the hands of my assistant.

Last to reveal her identity Sakura- I will do my best Sasori-sama as she removes the hat her less than shoulder length shows pink with a black streak above her right ear and a white one above her left. Her cloak and hair billow in the wind as the now fully grown Haruno Sakura stares at the leaf village symbol on the village gates with cold unfeeling eyes.

Sasori- Does it still have sentimental value to you?

Sakura(thinking shortly)-...No

Deidara- Well then you should do your best to guide us well.

Sakura(re-dawning her hat)- Understood.

Putting their hats back on they jump onto the large gates noticed by no one. As they gaze at the large city beyond the stone walls their attention, especailly Sakura's is directed to the largest building at the end of the land painted bright red still noticable i the night.

Sakura inner thoughts- Thats the hokage's office. Even though Sasori and Deidara are powerfull enough to subdue Naruto it would take both of them unlike Gaara and we cant affoard that much attention. We shold do well to be extra cautious while near that area.

Sasori(stiring Sakura back from her thoughts)- Sakura you know our objective well enough so ti is up to you to give us a less ditectable route through this place and to our goal.

Deidara- Lets hope promoting you to Sasori's 2nd in command and giving you that fancy cloak paid off.

Sakura- I will do my best to serve you both well.

Sasori- I do have confidence in you Saskura, let this mission commence

They leap to the ground below and slowly step by step make their way through the thick forrest and thick settling mist. Walking by each old and grown tree as the fog around their feet cover the bottem of their cloaks they have the apperance of phantoms. For over 15 min. they walk as though gliding as they come nearer and nearer to the dimly lit opening at the forests edge. The streets of konoha are now visable in their void state as the entire village slumbers in this being a time very close to midnight.

Deidara- The sun will rise in very few hours he gazes at the moon in the night/early morning sky. we should idealy be done before then.

Sakura- I know. I plan to be long gone from this horrid town by the time the sun shows its first rays

Sasori simply nods his head in aprovall of the plans scheduale as they start to venture into the dimly lit roads as the street laps flicker. While they make their way little by little through the paved streams of asphault a shadow in the dim grey light given off at every street corner twitches in the night. Sasori instantly sees it and recognizes it as a konoha shinobi coming closer while secretly preparing somthing hidden under his cloak. Step by silent step the ninja comes closer to the aware scorpian as Deidara senses Sasori's feelings and waits for him to have his fun. As the enemy rounds the corner with the flickering light it becomes clear of his identity as he shuts his book for the night and looks great ahead with eyes wide open. Sakura instantly recognized her old teacher as the sharingan user Hitake Kakashi.

Sakura(in a whisper)- Sensei?

Kakashi is frozen by the sight of the three cloaked enemys on his simple walk home.

Kakashi- What...How could it be you? How could you still be here?

Deidara- Oh just becuse our members take a leave of absance for a year or two you ninja instantly think our lack of activity means we are broken up. Tsk tsk tsk shame on you shinobi for jumping to conclusions.

Kakashi- But..but Naruto is the only one who still thinks you are still out there. So youve waited untill we had forgotten about you like the cowards you are.

Sasori(in a flash now behind Kakashi)- Isnt it odd how the best and most effective plans at first are always called cowardly.

Kakashi- What are you planning on doing now?

Sasori- Shhh Kakashi, you are getting to old to be still dealing with us the thing Sasori had prepaired under his cloak now hit the ground with a glass shattering crack. The broken object is now clearly a glass bottle witch at one point contained one of Sasori's many different poisens. Now on the ground lays a small pile of glass with the contents now evaporated into a thin purple mist that Kakashi has now also inhealed unknowingly. Now sleep copy ninja just sleep.

With that Hitake Kakashi falls unconcious to the ground, his body limp and his breathing still steady. After this Kakshi is moved onto the sidewalk on his back and left with his book folded neatly on his chest While the group move back into their steady pace of walking twords the goal. After another good half hour of walking throuh the winding streets the group of cloaked ninja reach finnaly the large hokage's office and even more carfully walk around the entrance past the light of Naruto's study shining above as the only real light source in the city illuminating the black and red fire insigniya above the entrances.

Deidara- Well?

Sakura- A left. Its not much farther.

Deidara- Good you know how Sasori hates being forced to wait for somthing beificiall to the organization.

Sasori- Deidara I understand your concerne about mny patiance but the smooth succes of this mision is far more important than my prefrences. Sakura take your time if it is what it takes to get us to our destination unnoticed.

Deidara- Still dont think this means you can dwindle on unimportanat details. Get this done efficiantly but quickly.

Saskura- I know,... its not much farther.

In less than 3 minutes the group makes itself down the left corner and through the last deadly silent street. At the very end of the street thier objective destination becomes clear. The trio is standing in front of a middle class sized building labled Konoha records and library but it seems the steel doors have many locks on them to prevent night wanderers from taking classified information.

Sakura- Iam sorry but the door is heavily locked and i cant help you with this.

Deidara- It is ok we expected it from a hidden vllages security and we came prepaired. with that he pulls from his robe three figureins that on impact with the door grow into mellon sized clay spiders that attach themselves to the door hinges.

Sakura- But what about the noise of the explosion? It is sure to bring in other villigars.

Sasori- We came prepaired for that also he pulls out a scroll from his back and upon unrolling it on the ground it starts to smoke lightly puppet summoning technique: DOSU! with this call the smoke pours out and when cleared shows the gray camoflauged sound ninja with the amplifiers still on his arms.

Sakura- But he was...

Sasori- Yes one of Orochimaru's minions witch you met at your first chunin exam.

Deidara- It seems before the final match he seemed to get on Gaara's bad side and he makes a motion over his neck with his finger to symbolize death After that Sasori thaught it would be the perfect oppertunity to test out puppets that used sound based attacks.

Sasori- This is the result

With that statment Deidara snaped his fingers and Sasori pulled his chakra strings and in the same instance a large but sompleatly silent explosion pushed in the steel dorrs. After the smoke clears Sakura can see the teams result. The doors are gone now blown into the building itself.

Sasori- Dosu's amplifiers can absorb all the vibrations given off by Deidara's explosions making them completely silent and rather unnoticable. This puppet is very good for forced entry with Deidara. he throws another scroll at the puppet and it vanishes in another puff of smoke as it is resealed in the scroll.

Sakura- I see.

Sasori now leads the group into the dark and mysteriouis library of shinobi knowledge to their unknown goal deep inside the erased records.

End of Chapter 1