Naruto

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto

Ch 1

Sakura Haruno, age sixteen. Walking alone she could only think about her shift at the hospital later that evening. She had no idea where she was going but she felt she should get some fresh air before she became stuck in the stuffy hospital rooms tending to bloody patients

"Hey Sakura, wait up!" a blushing Naruto ran up to meet his teammate. He stood before her smiling from ear to ear. "Sakura would you like to go get some ramen with me later tonight?" the blond ninja asked, hope filling his pleading eyes.

"Sorry Naruto I have to work late at the hospital tonight. Tsunade-sama said so." Naruto's smile turned up upside down.

"Aw, come on Sakura-chan you can ditch Granny Tsunade for one night can't ya?" Naruto looked at Sakura waiting for the answer he wanted. Sakura sighed.

"Naruto it's not that simple. A group of Anbu have returned from a "b" ranked mission and most are obviously injured." She turned to walk away but Naruto's hand on her shoulder stopped her from proceeding.

"Pleeeeeease!" Naruto pleaded. Sakura merely brushed his hand off of her shoulder and continued her walk.

"Sorry Naruto" she said waving goodbye to him, though not even turning around. A dejected Naruto was left alone on the street.

-Later at the Hospital-

Sakura was tending to one of the Anbu men who had just been brought in. His major injuries were a punctured lung and a gaping wound on his side which she had bandaged heavily.

"I'm leaving for the night are you sure you'll be fine on the night shift?" the Hokage stood in the door way.

"I'm sure I can manage Tsunade-Shishou" Sakura looked up from her patient to smile at her former teacher. Tsunade had taught her almost everything that she knew.

"Alright then, goodnight Sakura" Tsunade left Sakura to her work. Sakura began to work on the man's lung. Her hands began to glow green as she placed them on the male's chest.

-one hour later-

Sakura's eyes were slowly closing.

"No, I mustn't… sleep…" she thought. Her eye lids grew heavy as she drifted off to sleep. CRASH!! Sakura suddenly woke up to the sound of breaking glass. She looked at the time. 2:30 am . When she tried to sit up she found it difficult for the man she had been healing before she fell asleep on had an arm over her. She glanced at his face only to see that he look happy to be in that awkward position.

"Pervert…" she whispered under her breath as she pushed his arm off her. She grabbed a kunai and staggered to the door, still half asleep. She pressed her ear against the wall and stayed as quiet as she could manage. Footsteps! She heard footsteps!

'Its probably the medic-nin coming to take over for me.' Sakura thought. She opened the door and stepped out into the hallway. What she saw was far from a medic nin. Two dark figures stood in front of her. She could only see their silhouettes. One was tall and had a high ponytail. The other was shorter and seemed to have spiky hair and some sort of mask concealing his face. Both were wearing long cloaks with white lined red clouds on them.

"Akatsuki!" she hissed under her breath. The two shadows moved into the light. Sakura now could see their details. The one with the high ponytail had long blond hair, blue eyes, and looked very feminine, the other was in fact wearing an orange mask and his hair was dark brown. Sakura began to focus chakra into her fists.

"So she's familiar with the Akatsuki, yeah?" the blond Akatsuki member said. Sakura was taken back by the deep voice. Her face must have looked weird because the shorter one began to laugh.

"What's with the face yeah?" the blond asked hitting the shorter one on the head with his fist.

"I thought that you were a woman!" She giggled. Sakura was definitely not in her right mind because that last comment made the he-she enraged.

"THAT IS IT! Tobi, outta my way! I'm gonna blow her up, yeah!" he snarled. Instead of getting out of the way so his teammate could blow Sakura up, Tobi ran over and gave Sakura a bear hug. Sakura was taken back by this. HE WAS A S-CLASS CRIMINAL HUGGING HIS ENEMY!

"Please don't hurt her Deidara-sempai! Tobi thinks she's pretty!" Tobi cried! Sakura pried the boy off of her and backed up.

"TOBI YOU MORON! Fine, I won't blow her up because I'm feeling considerate. Just let me be the one to knock her out, yeah"

"WHO SAID THAT I WAS GOING TO LET YOU KNOCK ME OUT!!" Sakura ran toward the man fists raised. She thrust them at his chest but all she hit was smoke. Deidara reappeared behind the girl and placed a kunai to her throat.

"I said so! Now we can do this the easy way or the hard way yeah?"

"What are you talking about?!" Sakura argued, struggling to break free.

"You coming with us back to the Akatsuki lair wither you like it or not yeah" Deidara hit her in the back of her neck with his free hand, and everything went black for the young kunoichi.