Author's Note: I'll be giving out some few points for people to understand. First of all, Sasuke killed Itachi and returned to the Hidden Leaf Village with Naruto and his group. To top it off, they successfully killed Kisami after he killed Sasuke's group, Hebi. Akatsuki has decided to put a stop on their mission, and now, Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura are jounins. Also, Koko retains her memories of her actions while being under Zofis' control, and Sherry doesn't know this. I'm thinking of this pairing: Sasuke and Koko. Why? Because they're so much alike; both are best friends of a blond-haired character, turning evil, being a pawn by some creepy guy, and then turning back to the side of good.

Chapter 1: Briefing

Tsunade and Shizune heard a knock on the door of their office.

"Come in," Tsunade said.

The door opens and three teens enter the office. One is a spiky-haired blond haired boy wearing an orange uniform and a black headband with a sign of the Leaf, and his name is Naruto. The other boy is raven-haired, and wears a short-sleeved gray shirt with the Uchiha insignia on his back and black pants. His name is Sasuke, and ever since his return to the village he once left, he wears a blue headband with the insignia of the village. Lastly, the girl they were with has pink hair, wears a red vest pink skirt with black shorts, and a red headband with the same insignia wrapped on her head. Her name is Sakura.

Their teacher, Kakashi, also entered the office.

This forms Team 7.

"So you wanted to see us, Lady Tsunade?" Sakura asked.

"Yes, I did, Sakura. Here's a very important mission for you all, especially you, Sasuke," the Hokage replied with her hands clasped on her mouth.

"What's this got to do with me?"

"Sit down. We're going to watch a movie about it," Shizune instructed, pointing to the four chairs.

The team sit down on the chairs and the curtains are blocking the windows. Also, the lights of the office are being closed as well.

As they all watch a movie from the projector, it reveals a young brown-haired girl who is about to have a happy life until she meets a monster that is smaller than her that he ended up manipulating her heart into turning to the dark side. With this, she took revenge on the people who bullied her because of being poor and burning her own village. Her best friend, a blonde-haired girl, tried to stop her, but failed and was almost killed if it wasn't for another monster whose height is the same as the one who manipulated her friend.

Upon going to the monster's hideout, the blonde girl defeated him, but there is bad news. If she attempts to burn her brainwashed friend's spellbook, she will retain all her memories of her evil actions that she will be overcome with guilt long enough for her to lose the will to live on. Therefore, her friend threatened the villain to erase all her memories involving with being the villain's partner, and if that failed, her gothic monster friend makes the threat, making her wish successful.

That ends the movie.

"What's the problem?" Naruto asked.

"The problem is that Koko, the brown-haired girl, retained her memories, that's what," Tsunade replied, putting both Naruto and Sakura surprised by this, but not Sasuke and Kakashi. "She tried to be cheerful for her blonde-haired best friend, Sherry Belmont, by not letting her know she still has her memory intact. Too bad she can't keep this up forever especially she remembers the bad things she did and said to her. The movie you just saw is from when I sent a ninja from another village to look from her memories inside her head. In other words, you're watching her memories as a movie. I could say Koko is like you when you left us three years ago to join Orochimaru, Sasuke."

"Did you hear that, Sasuke? She's your type!" Naruto teased.

"S-Shut up, loser!" Sasuke blushes from this remark.

"Anyway, your mission is to go Mochinoki City and help this girl overcome with her past, but you have to be careful because Zofis might be loose to the city. That means you have to stop him from causing more trouble into manipulating people's hearts into joining him," Tsunade explained the mission.

"Understand," Kakashi stands up from his seat and turns to his students. "Ready to go there?"

"Ready!" Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura stand up from their seats.

The four started to pack up with their stuff and ready to go to Mochinoki City for their mission.