H. Sakura, not many knew her full name and those that did were few and far in between. She was one of the most feared pirates on the seven seas, yes only 'one of' not 'the'. There were three pirates that were greatly feared on the seas, she being one of them, the others were Sabaku no Gaara and Uchiha Itachi, the captains of the Red Sand and Akatsuki, while Sakura was the captain of the Bloody Cherry.
The three of them tried to avoid each other as much as possible, knowing that if it came to battle very few would survive, not that they or their crew were afraid to die, it was just to troublesome. Therefore Sakura had only met Itachi ones and never even seen Gaara.
This story begins on an invaded ship were a sandy blond woman whit her hair up in four pigtails was finishing tying the last crewmember to his comrades.
"Temari, we´re leaving, come on."
The blond quickly tied the last knot and jumped aboard the pirate ship, landing next to another blond whit her hair up in a high pigtail. As they sailed away the sandy blond, Temari, walked up to were a pinkette was standing taking a cloth of her head that had been cowering her hair color. "So Temari what did we get this time?" The pinkette asked placing a hat on her head and turning to her first mate.
"Looks like we´ve attacked a ship from India, only carrying dresses and other clothes captain." She said taking the wheel out of the others hands. "Well at least some of the girls will be happy about that. Ino, Karin and Kurenai have been bugging me about that their clothes are starting to wear out."
The captain then walked down on deck to see the loot for her self. "This is wonderful Sakura, finally new clothes and not these rags." The pigtailed blond squealed whit joy holding a pink dress up to her chest.
"Ino you know that you can´t wear that while working, right?" A woman whit her heir up in two buns asked taking up another dress to look at. "Of course I know Tenten but as you very well know I can just change it to something more practical." Ino answered sticking out her tong like a five year old. Sakura just shook her head and rummaged threw the clothes till she found a set of tight leather pants and a few shirts, all in different colors.
Making her way to her chamber she heard someone clear their throat behind her, turning around she came face to face whit more than halve of her crew. "What is it?" Sakura asked wary of the look on their faces.
"Well you see captain we were wondering." A red headed girl started. "If you would mind if we celebrated tonight?" A crimson eyed woman finished. "Eh… sure, have fun." Sakura then turned on her heel and attempted to flee to her cabin (key word attempted).
"Oh no you don´t." Two sets of arms then grabbed her and dragged her in to another cabin close by. Pushing her down on one of the three beds in there Sakura looked up in the faces of two of the oldest woman in her crew.
"Anko, you´re supposed to be on my side not hers." Anko, the purple haired one, hushed her. "You need to loosen up a bit, we all agree that you´ve been pushing yourself far too much." Sakura was speechless, but only for a second.
"And you decided to send Kurenai on me?!" Pointing at the black haired crimson eyed woman. "Hey I'm not that bad." She said holding her hands up. "Besides, if we get you to come and loosen up then Ino and Hinata will dress you up, not me. Temari made sure of that." She said looking disappointed.
Sakura secretly thanked her first mate for looking out for her like that, Ino was clothes crazy but nothing compared to Kurenai, plush Hinata would stop her, or at least try to, is she went overboard.
"Fine, but tell them nothing pink." She said crossing her arms glaring at them to make her message perfectly clear. The older women just nodded and soon were replaced by Ino and silver eyed, midnight black haired girl.
They were holding a blood red dress whit white trimming at the bottom. Sakura eyed the dress but before she could utter a word she was in it and Hinata was tying her hair up in a tight bun while Ino placed some powder on her face.
Later that night Sakura was actually enjoying herself dancing whit her friends and comrades all dressed up in beautiful dresses.
As the night grew dimmer the females on the ship didn´t notice the other ship creeping up next to theirs. Not until a man jumped across carrying a sword that is. The girls stopped at ones and all grabbed their swords as more men jumped across.
Sakura, who was in the back of the group, ripped of one of her sleeves and tied it around her head concealing her hair and then she stepped forward. "What business do you have here?"
A handsome red head then steeped forward also, as he did that Sakura saw out of the corner of her eye that Temari backed away in to the gathered females and shielding her face by looking down and away from the man. For Sakura that only meant only one thing, Sabaku no Gaara the captain of the Red Sand was standing before her.
"Sabaku leave my ship or there will be consequences." She hissed threw her teeth. The red head stopped in his tracks right in the middle of the ship and the armed crews. Sakura took two steeps forward looking rather angry. 'How dare he invade my ship, dos he not know who I am?' Sakura thought.
Her crew knew that when angry you did not mess whit the captain, they all hoped that the captain intruder would have the sense to walk away, surely he knew who he was dealing whit, it was obvious.
Then he spoke proving them all wrong. "Who are you who knows my name, you look nothing like a pirate? Have we met before?" Sakura was getting angrier by the second and the calm voice of Gaara was doing nothing to help.
"That is none of your business Sabaku, leave now or there will be blood." Her voice was so venomous that the two crews took a step back but the captains did not budge.
Taking his eyes of the woman in front of him Gaara scanned the other crew, only made up by females he noticed, and then he realized who he was dealing whit and smirked. "Ah, so you´re the famous H. Sakura, huh? I have to admit that I was expecting something different."
Sakura had had enough, she raced her hand and snapped her fingers and simultaneously both crews attacked. Sakura was now face to face, sword to sword whit Gaara fighting whit all her might. She ducked when a third sword came aiming for her head, looking up she saw a big bulky brunette.
Sakura saw instantly the family resembles between Gaara and him but before she could respond the attack Temari, whit her hair down from her regular hairstyle and a tear from her dress covering the bottom half of her face, ran in to him taking him head on.
Sakura faced Gaara again and blocked an attack, turning and aiming for his back, only to be blocked.
Meanwhile Temari was having slight trouble whit the brunette, begin backed up to the side of the ship whit him attacking furiously.
"I wonder why you have your face cowered, is it because you´re so ugly?" He taunted trying to get her to loose her focus, Temari said nothing and just kept blocking and attacking. "Well when I've beaten you I guess I´ll just see for myself." He kept going as he attacked, actually managing to make a small gash in her makeshift mask and scratch her chin.
Then suddenly he grabbed her hand making her drop her sword. "I changed my mind, I would like to see who I'm beating before hand." He said taking the edge of the mask yanking it of.
Temari bowed her head but the man just lifted her chin up making her make eye contact whit him, gasping he let her go. "Temari, what are you doing here?" Temari smiled at him tilting her head. "Hi Kankuro, long time no see." Then she quickly took the little dagger in his belt and used the handle to knock him out.
When Temari looked up she saw Gaara lifting an unconscious Sakura on his shoulders and jumping over to his ship, making all of his crew do the same. Temari pushed the unconscious male away so the other men could not see him before jumping across.
Quickly tying him up Temari went to help the other girls, even if they were strong the female body wasn´t built as strongly as a male's body so their side had suffered more damage.
When done cleaning up and staring to plane how to get Sakura back, Kankuro finally woke up. "Damn, that girl hits as hard as ever." He groaned and as soon as the words were out of his mouth a blond and a blue haired woman bent over to find him were Temari had stashed him.
"Temari, why is there a tied up guy behind the ropes?" The blonde called across the ship to were Temari was talking to Anko. "Shit, I forgot about him." Came the reply.
"Nice to know you think so highly of me." Kankuro said rolling his eyes. Shaking her head Temari turned to the ones that found him. "Take him to a cell, I can´t deal whit him now." As they took under his tied hands he spoke up to Temari. "That´s just cruel Tem, not having time for your own baby brother." Gasping at that, the ones up on deck looked between the two looking for a resemblance.
"Oh shut it Kanky or I'll shut it for you. Deidra, Konan, take him down now and if he says one word gag him and chain him standing." The blond and the blue quickly nodded and lead the now quiet male down to a cell, just as they knew not to mess whit Sakura when angry they knew not to ignore Temaris orders when given in that tone.