Summary: While in disguise, Sakura has a run-in with the three Hebi males, and somehow manages to join their group in search of Itachi. Lets hope that Sasuke doesn't kill her if and when he finds out whom she really is. SasuXSaku and NaruXHina.
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Spoiler Alert: This story may/will contain a lot of spoilers from Naruto Shippuuden.
Important: This is in Naruto Shippuuden when Karin scatters Sasuke's sent, which in turn, splits up Naruto's team.
I don't own Naruto.
Thoughts'
normal
"speaking"
"Inner-Sakura"
flashback/dreams/etc.
'flashback/dream thoughts'
Starting with Hot Springs
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Ch 1 "Hi, I'm . . ."
There it was, a beautiful natural hot spring, untouched by man. It was the perfect place to change into her disguise.
Flashback:
"Alright, listen up everyone," Kakashi looked at the group. Everyone was waiting intently for him to speak. They had just missed Sasuke again; his sent seemed to have split into many directions. "If we truly get separated, I want you all to disguise yourselves, not with a transformation jutsu, but with the spare clothes I put in your bags. The Rain ninja and Akatsuki will be looking for us, but instead of seeing Leaf ninjas, they'll see rouge ninjas. We will meet at a special bar named Toad Mountain. There we will meet up with Jeraiya. Any questions?"
"Um . . . w-why can't we use the t-transformation jutsu?" Hinata looked over at the man in front of her timidly.
He smiled at her. "If one of you run into Itachi, he'll know it's you right away. Won't he, Naruto?" He looked at the genin. The boy seemed to be troubled by something.
"Hm? Oh . . . right, yeah. Hey, Kakashi, why is Ero-sannin in Rain? I thought he was with Baa-chan."
"Well, I'm not all that clear on the details, but I know that he's gathering as much info on the Akatsuki as he can. Also, he was able to inform me that the Akatsuki leader, Pain, is the leader of Rain country, so we'll have to be extra careful."
"Kakashi-sensei, how do we know who's who if we run into each other before we get to the bar?"
"Stop calling me sensei, Sakura. But that is a good question. If that does happen, one of you will ask a question and the other will answer. Now then who wants to decide what the password is?
"'WHAT'S THE BEST RAMEN IN THE WORLD!'" Naruto screamed, almost making everyone's ears bleed.
"Shut up, Naruto!" Sakura whacked him on the head giving him extra storage space for his rather small brain. "Anyway, I think the question should be, 'When does a ninja strike?' and the answer would be, 'A ninja waits until the time is right. When the enemy sleeps and drops his guard, when his weapons lie forgotten in the stillness of the night. That is the moment for a ninja to strike'."
Naruto looked surprised for a moment, and then a look of sadness appeared. But a large grin overtook all other emotions. "That's the one Sasuke-teme came up with during the Chunin exams. I think it's a great password, and this time I won't forget it. Believe it!"
"I-I think that's a g-great idea too," the Hyuuga heir stole a glance at the blond and blushed. 'Even with that bump, Naruto-kun is so handsome.'
"Then it's settled. That's our password." Kakashi's eye closed as he smiled.
"Wait a second you guys. Each of you needs to swallow one of these," Yamato handed out small seeds. The three younger members of Team Kakashi instantly recognized them as Yamato's tracking seeds. "This way I'll know where you are if we can't find you for some reason."
End flashback.
Sakura undressed and hid her stuff behind some rocks near the edge of the hot spring. All her weapons were there so she could easily grab them if need be. She pulled out the hair dye and wrappings for her chest. The enemy was on the lookout for six shinobi, two kunoichi, and one dog. But Kakashi told them that only one person in their group would dress up as a girl. She shivered at the thought that it might be Naruto. Kami help the female population if he enters a bathhouse as a girl. Those poor innocent girls exposing themselves without realizing there was a perverted, hormonally challenged, pubescent teenager in there with them.
She placed the new clothes and a towel on the rocks next to her, and stepped into the hot relaxing water and began to dye her hair black, because lets face it, what man has pink hair. She leaned against one of the rocks and closed her eyes for a second.
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Ten meters away, Team Hebi was heading East to the Village Hidden in the Rain. One handsome and emotionally-dead man, one very large gentle man, and one very aggravated man with pointed teeth and a large sword on his back. The last was carrying a unconscious redheaded woman with thick glasses and clothes that didn't leave much to the imagination.
"Hey, Sasuke, can we please stop now? I'm tired, thirsty, and really pissed that I have to carry this useless baggage!"
They stopped while Sasuke checked the map. They were about five miles from Rain and the Akatsuki base. They'd be in enemy territory soon so it would be best if they rested up now and allowed their female teammate, Karin, to wake up. Suigetsu had angered her again, only this time he dodged her punch, which in turn made her lose her balance and she fell face first into a poisonous plant. Thankfully it wasn't life threatening, but she had been out for nearly three hours.
"We'll make camp near a hot spring just north of here. Come on." He left.
"Heh, finally! Here, Jugo, you take her for now," he handed over the drooling Karin. They both grimaced as her drool slid from the side of her mouth into her ear.
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"Ah, so good." Sakura stretched a bit then she tied her hair back into a tight ponytail, similar to Shikamaru's, only shorter and with bangs. The girl took a quick glance at the close Kakashi gave her; a simple pare of black capris, a black sleeveless top, a sleeveless, tight brown leather vest, a brown belt, and regular black ninja sandals. She let out a sigh and sank down deeper into the water, unable to keep her eyes open . . .
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. . . Sakura could hear noises from somewhere nearby. Voices. She slowly opened her eyes, hid her chakra, and listened intently.
"-that she's tied up to a tree. I'd rather not have that bitch sneaking under rocks, rapping us with her eyes," the one closest to her said.
"I still think it was wrong of us to do that. She might freak out when she wakes up." This man sounded older and spoke gently and quietly as if he were shy. Sakura could only sense three people, and all of them appeared to be guys.
"She can sense us, remember? So she'll know where we are. How much farther till we reach Rain, oh great leader?" he joked.
'Are they Rain ninja?'
"Less than five miles." Sakura's eyes widened
'It couldn't be . . . could it? S-Sasuke-kun!? He's so close, but he . . . Damn it! If only . . .' She bit her bottom lip in frustration. She turned around and grabbed the wrappings. Being as quiet as possible, she wrapped her chest tightly. The girl couldn't decide if she should try and leave to find the others, stay and find out as much info as possible and pray that she isn't caught and killed, or confront him and be killed or knocked out . . . again.
"Hey, Sasuke, while you fight Itachi, I fight Kisami, right? I want his Samehada."
"Ah."
There was silence for a while, but it was soon broken when one of the men started moving around. Sakura panicked, he was moving toward her hiding spot and aside from the wrappings, she was butt naked. She sank deeper into the cloudy water. The intruder stopped when the largest man spoke.
"Suigetsu, what are you doing?"
"I wanna explore that cave." Suigetsu said.
'Cave!? What? No!' she looked at the small cave to her left. '. Damn it all, he's gonna see me. What do I do?'
"Run for our life!"
The kunoichi's heart beat faster as he moved closer to her. She backed up deeper into the shadows, only to trip.
SPLASH!
COUGH, COUGH, COUGH!
She didn't need to see to know that the three were already in fighting stances. She opened her eyes to see Suigetsu looking directly at her. "Who the hell are you?" he pointed at her. The medic was startled at his rudeness but stuck to the shadows, hopping, Sasuke, who was now in view, wouldn't see through her disguise. Thankfully the steam seemed to give them an unclear view of her, making her really look like a guy. Blushing furiously she spoke up.
"Oh . . . AHEM um, m-my name is Migurame Shiro. I'm from . . . Moon Island."
Sasuke's face was impassive as he observed what little he could see of the stranger. It was obvious he was lying, but he didn't have any visible weapons on him. "Moon Island is a long way away. Why travel so far?" It was more of a demand than a question.
"W-well . . . a friend of mine is in danger from an organization of missing nin who call themselves Akatsuki . . . I came to help protect him. So . . . yeah."
He was telling the truth this time, which meant that Sasuke might get some more info on him. "Do you know anything about a man named Uchiha Itachi?"
"Or Hoshigaki Kisami!?"
"Yep! I also know who died this past year, who may have killed them an-"
The giant man interrupted her, "excuse me, but how do you know who killed them?"
"Hm, Jugo has a point," Suigetsu put his hand on his chin as if he were deep in thought. "How do you know so much?"
"I-I got some of my info from someone who practically killed a powerful and deadly Akatsuki member. And three of her friends killed two more."
"Oh, okay," Suigetsu accepted the answer. "So what do ya know?"
"Okay, first off . . ." Sakura smiled. She was finally helping Sasuke, even if he didn't know it was her. She held up ten fingers in front of her. "There can only be ten Akatsuki members, because they only have ten rings and they travel in groups of two. The Akatsuki are allowed to leave the group whenever they want so long as they return their ring. However, one member, Orochimaru, one of the Legendary Sannin, quit the organization and kept his ring making him an enemy. He was supposedly Uchiha Itachi's original partner."
"Hold up! We already know that . . . sort of," Suigetsu complained. "We-"
"Shut up, I'm getting there. So anyway, that leaves nine members. The first to die was Sasori of the Sand. He made puppets out of humans, while he himself was one. He stored an extremely deadly, rare poison in the puppets and he stabbed the cutie, who gave me this info, in a vital spot. I think her name was Sakura . . . yes, Haruno Sakura. She has pink hair, emerald eyes and she's a Konoha kunoichi. I believe she was a chunin, cuz the perverted, loudmouth, idiotic blond she was with was a genin. His name was Naruto." Her gaze landed on Sasuke, hoping, praying for some reaction to her news. There was none.
Sakura formulated a plan. There was no way she would give up easily, if not ever. "If you want to know more though you'll have to do me a tiny weeny little favor," she smiled innocently, while her eyes held a glint of mischief.
"I'm listening," his smooth monotone voice hid his curiosity.
"Let me join your group and I'll tell you everything I know about Akatsuki. Deal?"
Everyone awaited his decision. ". . ."
'Pleas say yes!'
". . . No."
"What! But you guys are after Akatsuki aren't you?"
"What would you have to offer? We already have a tracker, a strong swordsman, and a berserker."
"I'm a highly skilled medic. I can heal you guys when you're injured, sick, or poisoned; and from the looks of it, you are already injured. I can also easily sense and undo most genjutsus. Plus I'm very strong, physically."
". . . Fine."
Sakura beamed and almost made the mistake of stepping out of the shadows to hug him, but thankfully she stopped herself. She waddled though the water to her cloths behind her, trying to make her walk as guy-ish like as possible, which was harder than it looked.
"Hey, hang on a second," Suigetsu took a step closer to her. The girl was petrified. Had they already figured her out?
She didn't bother to turn around. "Yes?"
"Where'd you get that nasty scar?" Suigetsu pointed to her side.
Sakura mentally breathed a sigh of relief. "Oh, that? It was an injury I obtained in a fight with . . . with an enemy."
"Oh?" Suigetsu smirked, "who?"
"That's really none of your business." she whipped her clothes on quickly. She looked up, but regretted doing so. Sasuke and Jugo were changing right in front of her while Suigetsu climbed out of the hot spring in his birthday suit. Her face looked like a tomato. Part of her wanted to look up and see a naked Sasuke again, but her logical side said it would be way to suspicious, and she might blow her cover.
"So this tracker of yours is the person tied to the tree?"
Sasuke positioned his katana between his back and the purple rope around his waist. "Yes, she is."
'She?' "She had better not try to steal my Sasuke-kun!"
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While they headed to this 'She', Sakura told them everything she knew about the Akatsuki, some of which was from the journal Kabuto had given them.
A loud voice broke the temporary quiet moment. "SSSAAAASSSUUKKEEEE! SASUKE!"
"What the hell was that!?" Sakura looked around wildly.
"That," Suigetsu said in an aggravated sigh, "would be Karin."
"Ka-rin?"
"Yes."
They finally reached the screaming woman only to have her scream louder. "Sasuke! There's a leaf ninja next to you! Who are you? What do you want with m- with Sasuke?"
'Crap.' "I already told you guys that I received my information from some leaf ninja. She must have sensed me when I was with them." She turned to Karin, "my name's Migurame Shiro, I'm your new teammate." 'And I'm going to make your life a living hell,' she smiled sweetly.
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Yay! The first chapter is finished! Anyone who reviews gets a cookie. I have already decided what some of the later chapters will be, but getting there is another matter. Wish me luck. Also it may be a while before I can update due to a MAJOR English project that will take three months to do. I hate English class.
I'll put up a poll for this chapter as soon as I can. Check it out.
I just realized that I forgot to make a Poll in Wolfish Desires after chapter 1. But since I already updated, it would be pointless. Hopefully I'll find other Polls I can put up.
Preview Ch 2: Giant Cockroaches and a Male Kunoichi
Sakura felt a light tap on her back. She turned around only to see Suigetsu poke at some lumpy mold. He kept mumbling about how it move an inch from where it was before. "Suigetsu, is there something you want?"
"Huh?"
"You tapped me on the back."
He crinkled his nose, "no I didn't." Sakura shrugged and turned back to the tinny jars. "Oh cool! They really are huge!"
Something on her back moved and the kunoichi paled. She craned her neck to get a good look at her back, only to came face to face with the shinny face of a giant cockroach. One of it's long antennas brushed against her cheek.