Hello, Akatsuki Friends!

Chapter 1

Sakura rose from the kitchen table and tossed her empty dishes in the sink, wincing at the loud clatter that followed. Cringing, she peered into the sink and moaned upon seeing one of her mothers fine china bowls laying in several large pieces at the bottom of the sink. Crap! Lazily throwing her dishes into the kitchen sink was one of Sakura's worst habits, but usually wasn't a problem because she always used plastic dishes. However Sakura was never one to like chores, and that included hating to do the dishes. Her parents have been on vacation and Sakura had procrastinated doing the dishes to the point were the only clean thing left to eat on in the house was her mothers fine china. Damn it, that was stupid! She cursed wile removing the pieces of bowl from the sink. Moms gonna kill me or worse, ground me! Sure that probably sounded pretty lame coming form a kunoichi, but come on, she's still a 16 year old girl! Freedom is one of the most important things to her! And she's a ninja for crying out loud! She needs to spend her time training so she can bring Sasuke back! She sighed a little and chastised herself for thinking about him. He doesn't even have any thing to do with this bowl! She had promised her self a wile ago she would not let the fact that he left depress her and so she would stop thinking about him.

After collecting all the pieces from the sink Sakura set them on the table and went searching for glue. Maybe I can stick it together again and she'll never notice. She forced open her family's junk dour which was so crammed with random crap it hardly even opened or closed. After digging through it for a wile Sakura pulled out a glue stick. Maybe this will work… She trudged back to the table strewn with pieces of broken china and set about a futile attempt to fix her mothers precious bowl.

About 30 minutes later Sakura gave up. It's way to late for this. She yawned glancing at the pitch black sky out side her window. It had to be close to 10:00pm. Okay, it wasn't really late, but Sakura puts herself through hell every day by training with Tsunade-sama and has gotten into the habit of treasuring any amount of rest she can get. She stood up from the table and stumbled tiredly down the hall and into her bedroom. Her parents wouldn't be home for a few days still so she wasn't worried about the sticky mess she'd left on the table. Normally Sakura was neat. She kept her room and her house clean and always did her chores without being asked. But within the last couple of years after Sasuke left she spent less of her time being a house made and more of her time being a kunoichi. She had to become a better medical ninja so she could help her team find Sasuke. She has been undergoing extensive training for two years and has become an excellent medical ninja, and has even learned a good fighting style so that she can fight when necessary. After her fight with Sasori of the Red Sand Sakura's medical abilities and strength had become fairly well known. Maybe Sasuke would hear of her accomplishment and come back just too compliment her… then he would ask for her hand in marriage wile begging for her to forgive him. Sakura once again scolded herself for thinking about Sasuke before changing into her ivory flannel pajamas and throwing herself into bed. She was asleep within minutes, her dreams filled with fantasies of Sasuke.

Sakura woke with a start, nearly falling out of bed. What was that noise? Did I just dream that? She had woken upon hearing a loud crashing sound like dishes clattering and breaking. Maybe I was just having a nightmare about that bowl. She thought feeling kind of dumb. She was just about to lay back down when another loud clatter broke the silence of her house.

"Damn it, Tobi! Can't you look were your going? She's gonna here us, yeah!" Scolded an angry voice that sounded as if it was coming from the kitchen.

Well, that would explain the crashing noise. Sakura thought, thinking of her lack of house cleaning.

"Tobi's sorry Deidara-sempai! But some one left piles of dishes all over the floor! Tobi didn't see them! Tobi's s-"

"Whatever! Shut up! She's gonna here us, yeah!"

Sakura had defiantly heard them. Who are these people? They sound like a couple of idiots! Idiots or not, they were in her house trying to be sneaky. They better not be trying to steal something! Sakura quietly slid out of bed and grabbed a kunai off her night stand. She kept her chakra level low so the burglars would think she was still sleeping and crept to her bedroom door. These guys probably aren't even ninja. What kind of ninja would trip over something on the floor anyway? She was just about to grab the knob of her bedroom door when she saw the it start to turn. Knowing whoever had broken into her house was just on the other side of the door, Sakura grabbed the door knob and yanked the door open.

The man on the other side of the door jumped back and yelled throwing his hands up in the air. It was too dark to see properly but he appeared to have on some kind of mask. Just then a yellow blur flew around down the hall and leapt on the still yelling masked man, knocking him over and pinning him to the ground.

"Shut up! Be quiet you dumbass! The whole neighborhood is going tho hear us, yeah!" Shouted the man on top of the masked one.

Sakura flipped on the light switch to her room, lighting up the rather ridiculous scene on the floor near her door. The man on the bottom was laying belly down and was sprawled out like a starfish. He had semi-short spiky black hair and was wearing an orange mask that reminded her of a snail. The orange mask was swirled and had only one eye hole. The man on top, or at least he sounded like a man, had long blond hair in a half pony tail with his bangs hanging out covering the left of his slanted blue eyes. They were dressed in black cloaks covered in red clouds. Wait a minute, black cloak with red clouds? Sakura sweat dropped. These loosers are part of Akatsuki?

The blond man stood up releasing the masked one. Sakura tensed, recognizing the blond man. He was partners with Sasori of the Red Sand! These guys are no joke! Sakura thought, remembering the state Kakashi-sensei was in after dealing with the blond man.

"Put your weapon down pinky, were not going to hurt you, yeah." Insisted the blond man, sounding rather annoyed. "I'm Deidara and this is Tobi, were from Akatsuki, yeah."

"Hello, Sakura-chan ~ 3!" Greeted Tobi, who was still lying on the floor.

"Get up you idiot, yeah!" Shouted Deidara, kicking Tobi in the ribs.

"Ow, ow, ow! Deidara-sempai!" Cried Tobi, jumping upright.

"Don't call me that, yeah!" Deidara insisted, whapping Tobi upside the head.

Sakura stood there watching the two men. These guys are Akatsuki? Maybe Akatsuki isn't really what I thought it was… Then she remembered Sasori of the Red Sand and how Kisame and Itachi were also part of Akatsuki. These guys must just be misfits or some thing.

"What do you guys want?" Demanded Sakura, ignoring Deidara's request of putting down her kunai.

"Tobi and Deidara are here to take you to Akatsuki, Sakura-chan!" Said Tobi, clearly excited.

"Leader-sama knows about you medic ninja abilities, yeah." Deidara specified. "Akatsuki needs a medic. Kakuzu can stitch people up, but that's about it, he's no doctor. Zetsu knows about plants and stuff, so he's pretty good when someone catches a cold, but we need someone to heal us when we come back from a mission half dead, yeah."

"What the hell makes you guys think I'm going to come willingly?" Demanded Sakura. She was known for her outbursts of anger, which were probably magnified now due to having been woken up in the middle of the night. She was still to tired and groggy. She understood she was in a crappy situation, but her thinking was still slow. Slow, but not slow enough to keep her from being prepared. She had been labeled as one of the best thinkers in her academy, hadn't she? She readied a chakra laden fist. If I can take one of these guys down… Konoha could use them for interrogation! Wait! damn it! What am I thinking? I'm in deep shit! I can't hold my own against these guys! There Akatsuki! There S-ranked criminals!

"Well, we were hoping you'd just be attracted to our offer, yeah." Replied Deidara. "But, I guess your pretty loyal to Konoha." The blond smirked. "Don't think were not gonna use force if it comes down to it. Akatsuki needs you, yeah."

Sakura just glared at him, attempting to hold up her defiant front.

"Akatsuki has gone and made unwilling members before, Sakura-chan!" Tobi chimed in, seemingly unaware of how terrible that comment was.

Deidara must have noticed the unintended repulsiveness of the Tobi's comment because he turned around and delivered the masked man a harsh jab in the ribs.

"Gack!" Tobi choked due to the obviously unexpected attack from his team mate. "Ow! Tobi's a good boy!"

"No," Corrected Deidara, "Tobi's an idiot, yeah!"

With that Sakura lunged at Deidara, taking advantage of his distraction by aiming a chakra induced punch at his face. Deidara noticed just in time to dodge the punch. The maneuver was sloppy, however, and his attempt at a counter attack was an absolute fail. As he dodged Sakura's blow her fist whizzed by his head by mere millimeters. He dug one hand into his bag of clay wile trying to grab her flying wrist with the other. He missed her wrist. His hand brushed her wrist but instead of taking hold, his palm, lips and all, grazed from her wrist up her arm and off her shoulder. Sakura instantly jumped back and let out a screech.

"What the hell was that?" Shouted Sakura, her voice high and her face flushed.

"Wha…?" Was all Deidara could manage. Blush spreading across his face as well.

"You freaking LICKED me!" Sakura practically screamed rubbing her offended arm vigorously in attempt to remove the Akatsuki fag cooties.

"I did not! You just rubbed your arm along my tongue, yeah!" Deidara screeched, his voice growing high as well.

"Tongues!" Sakura freaked. "How many freaking tongues do you even have?"

"That's none of your damned business, yeah!"

"Why the frigging hell do you even have mouths on your hands?"

"I was born with them, yeah!"

"What are they even for, personal enjoyment?"

"What the HELL are you implying? I use them for my art, yeah!"

"Tobi thinks were getting distracted." Tobi cut in.

Sakura whipped around to face Tobi. "Well, Sakura thinks-"

Sakura's comment was cut off by the ringing of her door bell. All three of the disturbed maniacs in the Haruno house grew quiet instantly. The neighbors! They can help me! They'll tell some one Akatsuki is in Konoha!

"Haruno! What the hell is going on? It's 2:00 in the freaking morning! I have to work tomorrow! What do you think your doing?" Yelled an angry voice through the front door of the Haruno house.

Sakura was just about to yell for help when a gloved hand clamped over her mouth. All Sakura could get out was a muffled "Mpth!" before Tobi had grabbed her from behind.

"Now, now, Sakura-chan!" Giggled Tobi quietly. "You can't rat Tobi and Deidara-sempai out!"

"Hey, Haruno! Can you hear me? Is every thing alright?" The voice from behind the door shouted again. Sakura futilely struggled against Tobi's grip.

Suddenly Deidara gave a small cough, then raised his voice to a high feminine pitch and called out to the neighbor who was on the other side of the door. "Yes, every thing is quite alright thank you for your concern. Sorry to wake you, yeah."

"I heard other voices, weren't your parents supposed to be gone?" Questioned the neighbor, apparently oblivious to the lack of skill in Deidara's completely transvestite technique.

"I was just listening to the TV REALLY loud. Sorry! I guarantee I'm by my self and completely alright, yeah!" Replied Deidara in his tacky impression of a female voice.

"All right then, good night! And next time consider your neighbors!" Yelled the neighbor through the door, voice fading as he left.

"Wow, Deidara-sempai! Tobi is impressed! He didn't know you could make such a cute girl!" Cheered Tobi, wiggling behind Sakura, letting his hand drop from her mouth.

"Maybe he's just gay." Commented Sakura. Pissed that her chance at rescue was gone.

"What did you say, bubble gum head, yeah?" Growled Deidara angrily.

"I said you're a fag, barbie doll!" Sakura sneered back. She was tired, angry, and was becoming unreasonable. I just need to hold my own against these guys for a bit. Some one will help me if I make a big enough ruckus. I need to make noise!

Sakura was just about to scream when Deidara lunged at her. She probably would have been able to dodge if it weren't for Tobi still holding on to her. So instead, a syringe sunk deep into her side. Deidara leapt back with a smirk. Sakura had a good idea of what was in the syringe when she started to feel dizzy almost immediately. Stupid! You don't call an S-ranked criminal GAY! That was the last thought that went through her head as her vision faded to black and she felt herself go limp against Tobi behind her.

To be continued...