Puppeteer

Disclaimer : Naruto was never mine. Never did. Nuh-uh.

WARNING : Story MAY contain spoilers to the Anime watchers.

A/N: Omg! A Sasori x Sakura pairing! Amazing, no? Advise that you read in the later manga that Sasori is hot! -drools- Hints of ItaSaku or maybe even SasuSaku... or other usual pairings. Maybe NejiSaku if I feel like it.

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Sasori and Sakura are both the same age mind you :). Well, to me at least.

Puppets : 1 ( Or One-shot )
Konoha village was peaceful. No attacks, no siree! The grass was green like it was supposed to be, the sun was shining so beautifully like it does everyday when it rises, even Uchiha Sasuke, who was saved from Naruto and some of the other rookies, would enjoy the day inwardly, also, the river was clear enough where you could see people bathe, uh, that's not the point. Anyway, it's a day where nothing could go wrong, right?

The short pink haired girl raised herself from picking flowers to look at the crystal clear river. She sighed. It was so lonely to be here picking flowers without anyone with you. Sakura, was apparently the girl's name. It would be ironic to anyone who didn't know her to say that it was like her pink hair.

Sakura, would be annoyed and more annoyed saying that was delicate and fragile as the cherry blossom. For once, she would like someone to see that she was not weak. Everyone would think she wanted to be a ninja to be close to Sasuke, but they were wrong. She wanted to prove herself, if not the whole village, perhaps even one person would acknowledge her.

Kunoichi's were not weak. They were underestimated. Thus, she strived to become like her teacher, Tsunade the current Hokage. She stopped admiring the view as she felt a presence behind her.

"Show yourself!"

"Feisty little kunoichi, aren't you?" The myterious presence murmured.

Sakura noted the person was a man by his voice and it sounded familiar.. The person came out dressed in Akatsuki's clothing. "Akatsuki! Sasori the puppeteer... What the hell do you want!" Sakura asked with her voice tainted in venom.

"Relax, Sakura-san was it? I quitted the Akatsuki and it seems I managed to made it here but not unwounded..." He trailed off holding a hand against his stomach and blacked out.

Sakura sighed. Sasori seemed to be telling the truth since there was no way he would come alone to Konoha village. She hastily ran to him and checked his wounds. 'Only injured in the stomach. Fortunately it is not fatal. Judging from fainting, he must have came from a long way.' She quickly thought as she checked him.

She did a quick series of seals and held him to 'poof' back to her home like Kakashi usually did when he appeared at Team 7's usual meeting spot. Sakura was staying alone since her parents died on a mission.

Thankfully, she had appeared in her parent's room, thus, only needed to lift him up onto her parent's bed. She sighed again. Things wouldn't be so boring anymore. Sakura healed him moulding a little chakra into her hands.

After healing, she prepared something that would lastwhen he woke up in search of food. It was time to go meet her Team and she had accidentally set her alarm a tad too bit early so she spended her time picking flowers that contained medical properties for her collection of poisons and antidotes incase she had forgotten to wash her hands when she was making poison.

She left a note on the dining table for Sasori and not too quickly left the house to meet her Team.

Sakura purposely strolled to the meeting point knowing Kakashi would be late anyway even if she were to take a step each 10 minutes. Things would soon be interesting. If Sasori were to forsake his ways of being a traitor. She knew Tsunade-sensei could seal his chakra permanently if he chose not to stop his bad ways.

She wondered if she should bring Sasori to Tsunade-sensei after he had healed. Sakura could already imagine what he would do if he stopped his bad ways. Selling puppets, or being a puppeteer to please the kids. She flushed thinking it was cute of him to do that.

She arrived at the bridge in deep thoughts. Sasuke looked suspiciously at her since she arrived later than Naruto and she wasn't like herself since she would greet both Naruto and him but not ignoring them. He wondered what was occupying her thoughts, something, or maybe someone.

Sasuke felt something clenching his heart since the mention of her thinking about someone else beside him. He twitched slightly. He sighed inwardly. Sakura was making him weak. It was fine before, but now, she was affecting him. He was as sure as hell it wouldn't be long before he would melt by the sight of her.

Sakura, too involved in her thinking, did not notice Sasuke looking at her. She almost giggled if Sasori were to become a Konoha ninja, she was sure that he would get fangirls fast.

Sasuke noticed that Sakura was smiling and was holding back from giggling.

Confident that Sakura was thinking about him, he smirked.

Oh, if he knew how wrong he was... Since a certain puppeteer was occupying her mind.

After 2 hours later... Sakura still seems to be in deep thought and didn't even looked at Kakashi's way when he arrived with his trademark, "Yo!"

"You're late." Naruto said dully since he got used to Kakashi's lateness.

"Yes well, I had to wait for this guy finish picking his nose before walking since I couldn't walk looking at him since he was infront of me and his nose dirt was probably so in that it took so long..." Kakashi trailed off.

"That was lame Kakashi-sensei. If you manage to avoid attacks with your eyes closed, you could have avoided him that way too." Naruto replied apparently since he seemed to not only grow in strength, but intelligence as well.

Team 7 had matured greatly and Kakashi was proud of it.

"Today, we're going on probably a two-day mission to escort a girl to a nearby non-ninja village."

Sakura gulped. She hoped her guest at home knew how to cook.

tsuzuku.
Yay! New story. Want me to continue? -grins- I really want to continue since this is probably the first fanfic in featuring Sasori and Sakura paired together:p.

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Sorry if I'm spoiling the Anime!