I'm compleatly stuck with Captured?, you guys have no idea. You can check out my Deviantart site and read what I posted in my journal for more details. So I was at work, got bored. And...well here ya go.

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Broken.

Sakura stood there, staring at her sensei. The woman had to be insane! No way was she about to team up with….him. No way in hell!

"Please repeat, Hokaga-sama." She stated, in her Jounin voice. Her ANBU voice. Her captain voice. With a slight edge of anger threaded in there somewhere. Her hands were on her hips, her ANBU cat like mask clipped onto the side of her shorts. Her pink hair was pulled back in a pony tail. She was wearing her white ANBU chest guard, sporting the Haruno clan symbol of course, white Jounin vest and white shorts. The forehead protector that use to grace the top of her head, now sat down around her waist. Her black charka gloves had been replaced with new red ones at the time of her Jounin graduation, along with being given another headband, in which she had tied around her right leg, just below the wrappings that helped hold her kunai pouch to her. The black boot below had mesh peeking out from it. More wrapping slipped from under her shorts, to end right above her left knee, while more protruded from her boot, of the same leg, to almost meet in the middle of her leg, leaving a bit of skin. Last off, was the long sleeve mesh shirt she was wearing, along with the scowl on her face.

"As I said, Sakura, you will be taking Uchiha Sasuke with you on this mission. He will be a huge asset to your group." Tsunade said, once again. Her eyes were transfixed on her student, doing everything but paying attention to the ones behind the pink hair ANBU captain, who was, at the moment, on the verge of blowing up at the blonde woman. It had been years since Haruno Sakura had blown up at anyone.

Shikamaru was fidgeting in the corner he was in while leaning up against the wall. If his captain was going to explode he wanted to be as close to her as possible, because he would be the only one who could stop her before she hurt someone. Kiba and Shino would run, they were both already inching to the door, along with Akamaru. Neji, well, he was quite sure what Neji would do. Shikamaru turned to look at said Hyuuga, who was in turn looking at him. Neji wouldn't run. The Uchiha was due at any minute, then he'd need as much back up as possible.

Sakura watched as Shikamaru pushed himself off the wall and walked up to stand beside her. Neji quickly followed his lead and moved to stand on her other side. She was still in the middle of arguing with the big breasted woman in front of them.

"He has only recently returned to the village, Hokaga-sama, and if I remember correctly, which believe me, I do, he is still a Genin. He is not qualified for this mission." She was saying. She was starting to get a 

headache. She had been in the Hokaga tower for hours discussing her latest mission, when suddenly Tsunade had dropped this on her.

Tsuande was about to answer when the door opened behind the three ANBU, reveling Uchiha Sasuke. Sakura stiffen, but she did not turn to look at the new arrival. She was still focused on her teacher. Ignoring him as much as possible was her newest goal. She liked goals. They kept her in check.

"Just think of it this way, if he dies, he dies. You won't have to worry about him anymore, ne?" he questioned, ignoring the Uchiha behind them, apparently Sakura was doing the same. Normally it would have gotten a smile out of the pink headed girl. Normally. He was, instead, sent a glare.

"No one dies on my missions, Shikamaru. You of all people know that." She said. Her voice, however, was soft…sad, almost, and he knew that she was reliving the memories. With that, she nodded to her Hokaga and leapt to the window behind her, only she stopped before she completely left the building. "We leave in four days. Uchiha, you're with Hyuuga-san. You have four days to train with him, get to know his style, and he yours. You will depend on each other. This is more for you than it is for him. He knows what to do. You don't." Not once did she look at the Uchiha standing in the middle of the room. She formed a few hand seals and vanished in a spray of sakura flowers.

xXx

Shikamaru stuffed his hands in his pockets. His attire had hardly changed throughout the years. He still wore the same thing; only the Chuunin vest was replaced with a black Jounin vest, his wolf-like ANBU mask was clipped to the right breast, the vest was unzipped, however. Turning around, he took in Uchiha Sasuke. He had finally returned to the village after killing off his brother. He had been in serious condition but Sakura had refused to heal him. Instead she had left it up to Tsunade. Shikamaru didn't blame her. For the Hokaga, it was an easy task, as it would have been for Sakura. Sasuke looked almost completely healed. Sakura probably would have left scars, on purpose of course. The man before him had put her though hell these last eight years. She had grown distant. Cold. Until that day.

Shikamaru shook his head to clear his thoughts away from their destination before speaking to the Uchiha. "You heard what she said. You need to start working with Neji immediately. You only have four days." He said. He wouldn't be ready in four days, Shikamaru knew that. His next words proved it.

Sasuke looked up at Shikamaru, frowning. "I don't take orders from Sakura. Or you, Nara." He said.

There was a throat-clearing sound from behind Shikamaru, and everyone turned to look at Tsunade. "Actually, you do. She is your captain. She is the one who will be deciding if you become a Jounin, possibly an ANBU, or if we keep you at Genin and force you to go though the Chuunin exams again."

Shikamaru watched as Sasuke's eyes widened just the tiniest bit before he pulled his emotionless mask back over. He smirked before jumping over Tsunade's desk to the same window Sakura had. Tsuande's voice stopped him.

"She left before I finished. Tell her that this is a regular A-rank mission. As far as we know. But the details are suspicious. Watch out for possible S rank details." She was flipping through the stack of paper that was sitting in front of her. "Dress Jounin, take ANBU. Report to me if the mission status changes. I'll be raising the price if it does. Requesting three of my best ANBU, one being my best medic, that damned man." The last was stated under her breathe, but not low enough that all the shinobi in the room couldn't hear her.

Again Shikamaru smirked. He turned to face the village below, getting ready to leave.

"I don't need a partner. I do just fine on my own."

Shikamaru turned around before letting himself slid to sit on the window seal. His hands in his pockets. "It really doesn't matter what you think you need, Sasuke. Sakura groups everyone up for a reason. It's the buddy system. Back up. You don't go off on your own. Going off will get you killed."

"Hn." Sasuke scoffed.

"Don't brush it off. You should be honored to be allowed to even visit her team. No one has died on her team in three years. If she's on it, its successful. And she's had many different teams. She's raised three sets of Genin to boot. All passed their Chuunin exams the first time. Eighty-five percent have passed 

their Jounin exams the first time as well. So again, I say. Don't brush it off." Shikamaru watched as Sasuke seemed to think it over. He was still wearing the white Uchiha shirt that Sakura had said that he had been wearing when they say him those many years ago. The purple sound belt was gone. All that was left was the white shirt and black pants. He had yet to recover a leaf headband.

"Why has no one died?" Sasuke questioned.

Shikamaru looked around the room. Tsunade, Shino and Kiba were all watching him intently. Neji was leaning up against Tsunade's desk, his head hung, eyes closed. But he was listening. Shino and Kiba were sitting in the chairs across from Tsunade. They were now on the edge of their seats.

"Ino, Lee, and Chouji were all killed three years ago. In a dysfunctional team, with bad leadership. He split them up so that they could "cover more ground". The group of missing nin that they were looking for, stayed as a group and picked them off. One by one. Sakura, Neji and I…were the recon team. We were back up. She found them first. She was leading. I found her wasting her chakra on a long dead Lee. She was screaming and crying. When I told her that Lee was gone she took off and found Ino. Who had also been dead for quite awhile. She ended up beating on Ino's body. Screaming at her. Begging her to not die, that she was going to save her. Again she was shoving chakra into a dead body. It took both me and Neji to get her off and calmed down." Shikamaru's eyes had casted down to the floor. He looked up at Tsunade, who was crying, before glancing out the window beside him. "That was the last time she ever cried."

Shikamaru leaned back, out the opened window while turning to look at Sasuke. "She groups everyone up into pairs. Threes when needed. She always takes an even amount of people. She sets them together based on their skills. Who can support who." He pointed at Shino and Kiba. "I'll use them for an example. A "duh" example if you will. Shino's bugs can hinder someone's movements enough that Kiba and Akamaru have enough time for their attack, moving only a second before impact, not giving the enemy a chance to save themselves." He said.

Sasuke was looking at him now. Like he had figured something out. Shikamaru stood up and turned back to the window. This time, he was really leaving. He had a feeling that he knew what this was about.

"Yes, I'm with Sakura. Been with Sakura from the start." He could feel the glare burning into his back. What the hell is his problem? He quickly shook it off and hopped out the window, racing across the 

rooftops to his team's training area. Time to go deal with collateral damage from Haruno Sakura. He thought. How troublesome.

I hate how it gets shorter on here. Meh. Anyway. There ya go. Now. Go to my profile for a link to my DA page. Becuase I KNOW that SEVERAL of you are confused with Sakura's ANBU set up. Its there. Now. Reviews pwease!! Oh! And comments on DA would be UBER cool. .