Summary- the way things would have been, follow Sakura from her point of view. Her life as the cherry blossom of Akatsuki.

Rating- T for semi-strong language (hello Hidan) XD

Disclaimer- I do not own Naruto : ( sadness….

Authors Note- Hello! This is my second story, I would appreciate having zero flames :/ anyway please review over every chapter an give me feedback. I have seen a lot of Sakura/ Akatsuki stories so I figured I would write one of my own : ) this story is my first attempt at not writing in first person! So please give me some credit ever story I have written has been in first person.

Inner sakura

Thoughts

Normal speech

Black zetsu

White zetsu

ONWARD!

"Life is like a never ending maze,

we wonder looking for different answers,

usually coming across dead ends.

Until we finally find the end of the maze and finally get to leave"

- unknown

Chapter One

Sasori couldn't sleep. He didn't know why but he kept hearing whispers in the wind. It was as if the voice of someone was being carried towards him. Voices of pain and sorrow. He grunted and stood up quickly searching for a chakra signature with an annoyed expression on his face.

"What the hell are you doing" Deidara's voice rang out to Sasori's ears in the windy night.

"I hear something can't you hear it?" It was quite for several long seconds, Sasori heard a grunt of reply in the darkness.

"Sounds liker some crying animal maybe, Let's go find it so I can explode it and put it's out of it's misery" Deidara stated angrily.

Sasori tried to refrain from rolling his eyes. He was always so annoyed when he woke up. Always had to explode something….

They followed the chakra signature and the cries deeper into the woods. They had thrown on their Akatsuki cloaks and rushed off to find whatever it was. Sasori had no idea why it bothered him so much. They shouldn't even be hanging around being so close to Konoha and all.

Finally they reach the crying and stopped to look at what it was. A few feet away from them a helpless, crying child was sprawled out onto the forest floor. She had naughty short pink hair and pale skin. She was face down crying loudly.

"Great a kid!" Deidara said sarcastically.

The pink haired girl stopped and sat up. Wet green eyes met Sasori's and than Deidara's.

For awhile they just stood their eying each other.

The whimpering girl spoke up breaking the silence. "Are you two angels?" she asked happily.

Sasori bit his tongue to stop from smiling. He felt such compassion for such a small child.

"Yeah we were sent her to help you get home" Sasori replied sweetly.

Deidara huffed behind him. "We are already pushing it being to close to Konoha" Deidara whispered fiercely. He looked at the small girl and his gaze softened.

The girl's hope died in her jade eyes. " My family is dead, I was a member of the Haruno clan but they died from a sickness. Their was something funny in the food. I didn't eat dinner that night though….that's why I……I…." the pink haired girl stopped and layed back on the ground.

"You what?" Deidara asked gently.

"I didn't die like them, I was scared , scary men were coming to my house. They were in masks, they said the mission was complete I ran…….I can't go back. They think I'm dead to!" the child helplessly yelled.

Deidara was even more saddened by this. Corruption in Konoha is very likely. Obviously the anbu were under orders to wipe out the Haruno clan, it was probably getting to big and they feared it would take konoha over. This angered Deidara.

"What's your name?" He asked the child.

The child stood up and managed a small smile.

"Sakura Haruno!" she stated proudly ,saluting.

"Well Sakura….looks like you have no other place to go I think we should take you back" Deidara stated simply in response.

Sasori whirled around " Leader won't like this….."Sasori said between gritted teeth. Bringing a small child to the Akatsuki. However she was able to charm him and Deidara, so why not Leader-sama and the rest of the Akatsuki?

"Yay! I want to go back with"……she paused. "What are your names?" she asked innocently.

"Deidara" he said with a grin.

"Sasori" he replied with a small smile.

"Yay! I want to go back with Dei Dei onii-san and Sasowwy onii-san!" she stated happily.

They smiled, for the first time in a long time, they smiled.


"Sushi onii-san!" Sakura called. It was her won private way of talking to Kisame. It is what she had first called him the first time they had met. She had been with the Akatsuki for six months now. Things were going great. They has a lot of members.

Her favorites being Dei-onii-san and Sasori onii-san. Kisame was her favorite "onii-san" to play with, he was always helping her play pranks on Hidan and Kazuku-sama.

Sometimes Konan would catch her and yell telling her to stop getting into trouble. Konan was Sakura's mother. She loved her very much. Even Pein referred to as "Leader-sama" fell in love with the little girl. Sakura didn't see a lot of him though. He had several piercing on his face and kept to himself.

Orochimaru, Sakura never liked him. He seemed like he only wanted to join Akatsuki for one odd reason. He was always looking and watching Itachi as well. Sakura had even asked Itachi-sama if Orohimaru "had the hots for him" that was the first time Itachi had smiled.

The next one was Itachi-sama. He generally ignored her, but showed compassion to her. He had told her once that "You're the same age as him….I wonder how he is. Who he was, Sakura did not know. She only knew that she was ten years old and a "Special" member of the Akatsuki. She had asked to join the group and go on missions once. But Konan had gotten all tense and started yelling at her. She had cried, and all of her onii-sans, and even her mother later on had come to comfort her.

And last was plant- onii-san, she had recently started calling him Zetsu-sama. Sakura found him very strange at first . She didn't know if she preferred the white side, or the dark side of him more. In time she came to love them both.

You would never think the Akatsuki were so bloodthirsty when it came to their Sakura-hime.

Life was going pretty good. But a lot of beginnings start of happy. Life seemed almost untouchable to Sakura. Konan always told her "life is like an onion, as you grow up you are shedding away childhood" Sakura never really understood it and simply stated "I hate onions they make me cry"

Konan had laughed " Life makes you like that sometimes…"she whispered.

Sakura hated seeing her family sad, and that is usually how they were……


Two Years Later……….

Sakura laughed and stuck out her tongue "Haha! You all suck!" she declared happily.

Hidan smirked dangerously "You fucking little bi-" he started.

He was interrupted mid sentence by a hard slap to the back of his head.

"Ouch you bastard what the hell was that for!" Hidan yelled loudly dropping his scythe to glare at Deidara.

"Konan tells you all the damn time to watch your mouth around her" Deidara answered angrily he pointed to sakura still glaring at Hidan. Hidan stole a glance at Sakura who was sticking her tongue out at him.

Kakuzu laughed and walked away back into the base.

Hidan smiled and patted Sakura on the head "You did a good job kid, I'll get you next time count on that" and he winked at her and walked back inside.

Twelve years old, she had lived with them for two years and it felt like an eternity. She loved them all dearly, and always would.

Sakura skipped happily but was interrupted from Zetsu emerging from the ground.

Good job Sakura . Yes you are improving by leaps and bounds. He stated simply.

Sakura grinned happily, she always liked pleasing one of the members of Akatsuki.

"Hai Zetsu-sama!" she watched as Zetsu emerged back into the ground disappearing probably for a meal. the members of Akatsuki never did tell her what he ate….oh well. Sakura shrugged it off and turned to the last member on the field.

Itachi.

He stared at her with red sharingan eyes.

Sakura gasped and was pulled into a world of darkness.

She smirked and turned around playfully.

"Cancel it…."Itachi commanded loudly.

Sakura smiled even bigger. "Again?" she asked proudly. "I'm getting bored…."

"SHANNAROOOO! I'm getting sick of this shit!" inner Sakura's voice rang out and she emerged growing tall and strong looking down at Itachi.

He raised an eyebrow and eyed the inner manifestation.

"HERE I COME!" Inner Sakura's threw her large first towards Itachi who barely missed it.

Shit…" he muttered.

Sakura's eyes fluttered open and she realized she had yet again cancelled the sharingan. She stood back up to look at Itachi who had his usual onyx eyes.

Itachi walked away leaving Sakura to herself.

Sakura didn't need any praise though. His eyes said it all.

Good job Sakura….

This is a very short chapter I usually start my stories off with a short chapter, the rest will be long. I will not update until I have at least five reviews. Thank you J