I hope the beginning isn't too confusing, but we'll have to see.
Sasuke stood at the top of the Hokage tower with his hands behind it back, watching along the village. The village was finally complete. Villagers were welcome to roam free with some guidelines; they we're not to leave the village or were they allowed associating with shinobi.
Shinobi on the other hand were placed on an opposite side of the village. They continued wearing the chakra bracelets and we're also abused as scum. They we're highly supervised and were given few privileges to do anything. They we're truly slaves.
If they were told to do something then they were expected to do so. If they disobeyed then they were beaten and threw into a cell for days with limited disgusting food.
There was a giant wired fence straight through the village separating the shinobi and villagers. They we're never to cross or communicate.
Sasuke watched the shinobi side as a certain shy comrade was walking the streets. He knew it was Hinata. She was badly bruised and her clothes were torn and dirty. Her pale figure drug along the roads as she slouched. She glanced up at the Hokage tower as their eyes made contact. They continued to stare at each other and Sasuke knew that she wasn't looking for him or anyone of the Akatsuki. She was searching for Naruto.
Sasuke knew Naruto was banned from everyone. He rotten in a cellar, kept alive to threaten anyone who may have disobeyed Tobi.
Hinata paused and faced her body towards Sasuke as they continued to stare at each other as if challenging each other.
A hand interrupted their glaze at each other as Sasuke felt one on his hand. She turned towards the hand and shrugged it violently off.
"Isn't is glorious, Sasuke?" He heard Tobi speak behind him.
Sasuke remained silent and placed his glaze back on Hinata who had disappeared.
He turned around to find Tobi smirking towards the village. Sasuke ignored him and continued walking past him to the compound. No one was allowed in the compound. Not even 100 feet from it.
He walked to his house and into him room. He pasted over the still broken flag on the ground Sakura had carved.
'Sakura…' He thought gently in his head. It had been almost a year now since she had disappeared and he regrets everyday not going after her.
He sighed as he laid in bed. He didn't want to think about her. She left him. He became angry as he stared at the wall. He didn't know what he would do if she ever came back. But he continued to convince himself that she had died.
He closed his eyes as he saw an image of her bubbly bright face. He couldn't remember anyone else's bubble happy healthy face besides Sakura.
He shook his head of the 'non-sense' and gently fell asleep early in the afternoon.
PinkBlossem
Sasuke was rudely awaken by the screams of the villagers and the sound of bombs.
"Fucking Deidara," He muttered.
He flew off his bed to the outside. He saw smoke everywhere despite the night sky. He guessed it had to be around midnight. He ran towards the center of the village where he saw the majority of the fighting.
He glared and pulled out his katana. It was very hard to determine who was on whose team considering both teams had cloaks, but the Akatsuki had red cloud on theirs.
He growled, obviously not liking the idea of fighting when he could be sleeping.
There was one person that stuck out more than anyone in the crowd that was fighting. She was obviously a woman by her figure. She fought so vigorously and aggressively. She pulled out kunai after kunai and weapon after weapon. She was fierce and unafraid.
He ran towards her in a blink of an eye ready to pierce said woman, but as if she had eyes on the back of her head, she flung around and jumped back.
He watched as she hesitated and he used the moment to pounce towards her. She flung upwards towards the large fence and clung on to it near the top.
Sasuke ran up the fence and sliced through her figure. Sasuke narrowed his eyes watching her POOF away.
"Dammit," He muttered.
He heard a chuckle as she flung two kunai at him with amazing speed. On sliced through his sleeve, but not his skin while he dodged the other.
He heard her curse. He placed his fingers to his lips as he let fire violently flow out of his mouth. He knew he got her seeing that she had not jumped away. He smirked. He let the fire die down as he walked towards the place he saw her standing. He watched in astonishment as there was a giant hole where she stood and escaped. He glared and activated his sharingan.
He searched for her, finding her a half of a mile away, fighting with Sasori. He sped up ready to finish this girl to find that Deidara had snuck around her and threw bombs down around her. Sasori dodged them perfectly.
Unfortunately, she was unable to escape as fast. She flew into the gate as Sasori threw kunais at her, tearing her body up.
"Ha-ha, take that BITCH!" yelled Deidara smirking with pride.
Sasori walked closer to the woman and confined her with a chakra bracelet. Sasuke swore to see who she was after this little battle. He continued to glare as he looked for his next victim. He felt himself slipping a couple of times as he watched where Sasori had placed the woman.
He groaned as he made a mistake and let a kunai pierce his leg. He ripped it out and proceeded to fly towards a male that was slightly shorter than him and was obviously wear a cloak.
A noise was heard in the distance so fast that as fast as it came, the faster the ninja's retreated. The ninja he was fighting hesitated and Sasuke took the opportunity to flash behind him and knock him out before he could escape.
"Troublesome," Sasuke said thinking of Shikamaru. He shook his head as he picked up the male and slugs him over his shoulder. He walked to wear he knew the woman was take. He found her in the first cellar. He opened it up and threw the man inside.
"They thought they could get away with a fight, huh. There are still rebellions out there and we need to make sure to eliminate them," Tobi spoke as he appears behind Sasuke. "You did well, Sasuke."
And there is was again with his hand on his shoulder. Sasuke ignored it this time as he watched the woman with her head down, covering her face. He was irritated. He wanted to know who the blasted woman was!
He noticed Hiden walk over to the two captures. He removed the hood over the male. He was a blonde haired male with hair that reminded him of Kiba. He was around his age, maybe a year older. He was the girls would say, 'cute.'
Sasuke shook his head of the foul word.
Kisame moved towards the woman. Sasuke stayed silent as he patiently waited for him to remove her hood.
'Slow old ass shark!' He growled in his head.
He removed her hood and Sasuke couldn't believe his eyes. Sitting in front of him was someone he knew very well and was shocked she was in the battle.
He showed no emotion as Kisame kicked over her body cursing at how much of a bitch she was.
Hiden laughed at his actions as he took kicked the boy. Sasuke did nothing as he continued to stare at the girl.
In front of him was Temari, sister of the Kazekage of Suna. Sasuke became curious why Suna was attacking them.
Was Kankuro fighting too? Who else was helping them?
He thought of so many questions that he barely heard Tobi giving out orders to Sasori and Deidara to search the area and if he found anyone to give them a warning to surrender or Gaara would be killed. Sasuke showed no emotion as his mind was still on Temari.
He didn't know why he was so anxious to see who the woman was. Was it a sign?
'I could of sworn it was Sakura,' He thought, but mentally slapped himself, 'No! She is dead! There is no way she could still be alive'
Sasuke walked out of the cellars with his fellow Akatsuki.
'Why the hell am I still here anyways? Why haven't I helped any of my friends? Why did she leave me? Why did you have to die?' He continued to think to himself.
He walked out of the building to find the village partly, again, destroyed. He groaned knowing he will have to be on watch duty again while they work on the village.
Tobi may be evil and the Hokage now of Konoha, but he wanted to make an impression of the village. Other villages feared him for who he was, but anyone who may be close to the village should be feared by the giant fence and the look of the people to scare them off.
Sasuke waked around the village thinking back when Hinata and he stared at each other. He walked along the shinobi side finding that everyone seemed to be outside walking towards the gate. Many stared at Sasuke walked by and would whisper things to each other.
Sasuke ignored everyone as he continued walking around seeming like he was searching for something or someone. It took a couple minutes until he got to the far end of the village where the remaining rookie 12 stayed. They all seemed to stick together by the edge of the village. He knew the edge of the village was treated the harshest because it was, of course, the edge and people are more likely to escape.
Ino was the first one he saw. She looked terrible. Sasuke lowered his eyes not wanting to see Ino like she was. He didn't was the guilt. They were the only people who still believed in him. He walked closer as he heard, "Sasuke?" by a rough voice. He knew it was Ino.
He closed his eyes, took in a deep breath and stared at her in the eyes. Her hair had grown dull and she was a lot skinnier than usual. Her clothes were ripped into almost nothing and she had bad scraps on her body. He knew she fought against the Akatsuki 'Stubborn, just like Sakura.'
Ino came up to him with a frown on her fragile face. He knew what she was asking before she could ask.
"No, it wasn't her. Temari was captured with another male." He stated with no emotion.
Ino nodded and forced a smile on her face, "Don't worry Sasuke. She's out there somewhere. She'll come soon."
Sasuke saw through her fake smile and continued to watch her eyes water. Shikamaru came by her side to comfort her. He placed his arm around her waist. She turned her head to him and continued to smile. Shikamaru forced a smile on himself.
Sasuke envied what they had. He watched as Neji appeared behind him and placed his arm on his shoulder, "This has gone on long enough." Neji spoke as he looked at the whole group.
Sasuke agreed with him but said nothing. Shikamaru said nothing, but nodded.
"Then let's do something about it," Kiba barked out with enthusiasm. He grinned like Naruto.
"Ino, maybe you should Tenten and Hinata into the house. I'm sure Yuki is awake." Shikamaru spoke to her gently.
Ino's smiled disappeared, but she has a smirk on her face knowing what Shikamaru was going to do. She turned to Sasuke with his eye brow raised. She giggled, "Yuki is Tenten's and Neji's baby girl." She smiled brightly.
Sasuke smirked while Neji was still behind him. The girls went inside as the boys all got in a circle.
"What do you suppose we do," Lee asked.
Everyone turns to Sasuke, "Sasuke, you're the only one who is able to leave the village. We need you to find Sakura." Neji spoke.
Sasuke always told himself that she was dead, but everyone else had faith.
"And how to do you suppose I leave the village? He never lets me leave." Sasuke asked, but already coming up with many plans in his head to get out of the village.
"A mission. Simply ask for a mission outside of the village." Shikamaru stated. Sasuke nodded.
"We need to rescue Naruto" Kiba said. Everyone nodded.
"Sakura-chan could definitely rescue him," Lee said.
Shikamaru nodded, "Yes, but we can't rely on Sakura when she isn't even here. We don't even know if she is out there."
"Shikamaru is right," Neji said, "We need to think of a plan to get Naruto out."
"He's probably dying for ramen," Sasuke joked.
Everyone stared at him as if he was an alien, but after a couple of seconds, they all smirked and chuckled.
"We can't do anything with these damn chakra bracelets" Kiba grumbled.
"Sakura got hers off somehow so we can get all of ours off," Neji said remembering the story Sasuke had told them about Sakura was escaping.
"Why do you think she left?" Lee asked sadly.
Everyone became silent until Shikamaru broke it, "We don't know and now isn't the time to worry about it. We need to find her and we need to bring her back."
"Where would she have gone?" Sasuke asked.
"The one place where she would be comfortable and be able to ask for help." Neji said smirking obviously knowing where she was.
Sasuke raised an eyebrow as everyone caught on except him. He started to think deeply and wonder where she would feel comfortable. The Mist? It was a comforting place.
Then it snapped in his head His eyes widened.
Flasback
Sasuke was in Naruto's office a couple hours after he walked in on Gaara and Naruto talking. He had passed his exams and wanted to tell Naruto when he walked in on him.
He knocked on the door this time. He heard a 'come in' and he flew open the door.
Naruto had enlaced his fingers together and had them over his mouth as he was reading documents on his desk. Sasuke could obviously tell it was important.
"Why is he here?" Sasuke asked as if it was a command.
Sasuke knew Naruto knew who he was talking about because he answered him without looking at him, "There is going to be a war, Sasuke. He has come to help."
Sasuke nodded and was about to speak when Naruto interrupted him, "And I've missed Sakura-chan dearly."
Sasuke raised his eyebrow, but kept quiet.
Naruto looked up at Sasuke, "She has been gone for a long time now in Suna helping their hospitals and medical department. She's my Sister and I don't know what I'd do without her. "
Sasuke saw the pain in his eyes. He has not seen Sakura and now he knew why. He made a mental note to find her, but instantly took it back.
'What if she is still a fangirl?' He groaned. He pushed it aside and continued to tell Naruto about his exams. Naruto's mood changed completely as he smiled and congratulated him.
End of Flashback
"Suna…" He whispered. Everyone nodded. Sasuke smirked knowing he was so much closer to finding Sakura and knowing that getting out of the village would be easier than he thought knowing Temari was from Suna. He also smirked knowing that Sakura was behind this and she had to be alive. He was going to find her if it was the last thing he did.
PinkBlossem
Sasuke was walking towards the Hokage's tower planning a speech in his head wanting to leave the village. He didn't bother knocking on the door. Tobi didn't deserve that respect. He saw Tobi staring out the window with his back to him.
"Isn't it marvelous? And it's all mine." Tobi spoke. Sasuke rolled his eyes as Tobi continued "Did I say mine," He laughed. "I meant ours." He chuckled again.
Sasuke wanted him to shut up and he got straight to the point, "I want a mission."
Tobi turned around and narrowed his eyes at Sasuke. "And why, might I ask?"
"The girl we captured, her name is Temari. Sister of the Kazekage we have captured. She is from Suna. I demand a mission to Suna to investigate." Sasuke stated as if he was reading it. If course he did plan it in his head.
Tobi didn't seem sold by his statement, but agreed anyway, "Very well. You may go, but you must take Suigetsu and Karin."
Sasuke mentally groaned. He did NOT want to deal with those two, but said, "Fine."
Tobi smiled and nodded once, "then your mission, Sasuke, will be to investigate Suna. Kill anyone suspicious and bring back victims, if any, that may know of the plot to over-rule me, understood?"
Sasuke didn't respond; he continued to stare.
"You may leave when you feel ready and prepared." Tobi stated as he turned back to the window, "But don't forget your teammates."
Sasuke knew he was smirking, but ignored it and walked out of the Hokage building, looking for his former teammates. If Karin would be anywhere, then she would be with the prisoners. He headed in the directions of the cellars.
As he walked, he continued to think about Sakura, thinking that there is hope that she may be alive.
As he approached the building of all the prisoners, He opened the door slowly as the sun shined into the dark room. Sasuke closed the door behind him as he walked down the hallway with lanterns lighting the way. The building had been improved and made larger. There were two stories of holding rooms with more than 50 cellars on each floor.
Sasuke continued walking with his eyes set on the very end door on the first floor, knowing that was an office. As he walked, he noticed there were no prisoners; coming to a conclusion that Tobi had let them out temporary so they could re-build the village.
He reached the door and as he was about the place his hand on the handle, he noticed there were two prisoners in the whole place. They were placed behind metal doors so no one could see them.
Sasuke heard them both moving around, but they both silenced. Sasuke narrowed his eyes as he peaked through the door on his right through a small window.
Sasuke was started when his eye met another. He jumped back, but instant calmed down when he heard, "Teme?"
"Dobe?" Sasuke asked, but sounded more like a statement.
"Where have you been, Teme? Where is Sakura?" He asked
Sasuke was confused knowing it's been over a year since Sakura left, but realized he hasn't seen Naruto since Sakura was there. His eyes drooped, "She's gone, Naruto. She has been gone for over a year now."
Naruto became silent, "Sasuke," Sasuke's eyes widened knowing he just called him by his first name, "Bring her back… For me."
Sasuke knew it was a promise that couldn't be broke. He nodded, "I will."
"Or else, I will kill you," Naruto spoke with a smirk.
Sasuke smirked as well and nodded his head once, "Aa."
He turned back to the office door and placed his hand on the door knob. He almost grabbed for his katana knowing the red-head would be all over him. With a final growl, he opened the door to see Karin sitting on the couch with her legs crossed and her glasses off. Déjà vu?
"Karin, get ready for a mission. Now!" He commanded.
Karin's smile on her face turned into a pout, obviously not expecting a mission, "But Sasuke, I thought you were coming to see me?"
"We have a mission. Where is Suigetsu?" His eyes looked around the room as if he was there.
Karin placed her glasses back on and turn into a straight face. "Why is he going?"
Sasuke narrowed his eyes not wanting to answer her stupid question. "Get ready," He said and walked off to find Suigetsu.
Sasuke's first thought of where Suigetsu would be would be the pond, but he wasn't there. The next spot would be a bar… with a lot of woman. He walked into a couple of bars and didn't find him. As he was about to give up, he heard Suigetsu.
He narrowed his eyes as he heard his laughter. He couldn't spot him unto he saw his shows in a food joint. To his surprise, he was eating ramen. How much Suigetsu reminded him of Naruto scared him.
"Suigetsu, get ready. We have a mission." Sasuke stated as he watched him slurp his noodles.
He looked at him with innocent eyes and swallowed, "FINALLY!" He jumped up and followed Sasuke to the front gates where Karin was waiting for them. They said nothing to each other as both Karin and Suigetsu waited for Sasuke to take off first.
Right as Sasuke leaped off into the trees, they followed close by. It was surprisingly quiet to Sasuke until, "Stop that!"
"Shut up four-eyes and stop staring at his butt!"
"I'll kill you!"
"Bring it on, fire crotch!"
"Arrrgh!-"
"Enough," Sasuke interrupted. He stopped and glared at both of them.
Karin bowed, "Sorry, Sasuke-kun"
Suigetsu scratched the back of his head avoiding eye contact.
"We're on a mission to find Sa-suspects on the battle. Do you want the village to be attacked again?" Sasuke glared.
Both Karin and Suigetsu shook their head. Sasuke turned back around and continued his way to Suna. He knew it would take two days, but he had a good feeling about going there.
'She has to be there. She has to be' He said in his head with hope.
He increased his speed as did Karin and Suigetsu. He didn't know what to expect when he would arrive, but he was hoping for the best.
'What am I going to do when I find her? Capture her? Beg her to come home? Uchiha's don't beg. How am I going to get her in the village?' Questions were soaring through Sasuke's mind. He took a deep breath and tried his best to ignore it. His first task was to find her first.
Suigetsu and Karin continued to bicker behind him, but he didn't mind anymore. He was too preoccupied with his own thoughts. He didn't even know how she would react to seeing him; or even how he would react.
After a couple of hours of traveling, Sasuke stopped in a clearing along with Karin and Suigetsu. Sasuke didn't have to say a word to them as they both started setting up camp. Suigetsu went to fish and Karin set up the tents. Sasuke walked around collecting fire wood.
He placed all of them in the center and preformed his jutsu to start the fire. Right as it was set, Suigetsu returned with fish and placed them by the fire to prepare to be cooked. Karin was still setting up tents; she was on the last one, which was the second one. Sasuke wondered why she set up two when one kept watch and two could fit in a tent. Then he felt it was best not to say anything and be grateful he didn't have to sleep next to her.
"I'll take first watch," Sasuke said. Karin nodded and pushed her glasses further up her face. Suigetsu was chowing down on a fish that had been cooked already. Karin grabbed a fish herself and started eating as Sasuke followed.
Sasuke knew he wouldn't be able to sleep tonight even if he didn't have to keep watch. He had so many questions running through his head, but he knew he had to sleep for the next day since they would be arriving in Suna.
After they ate, everything was cleaned up, the fire was stomped out and Suigetsu and Karin both headed to the tents with a couple of nasty words before leaving each other's sites.
Sasuke sighed as he laid his head back on a tree trunk.
"Finally, silence," Sasuke whispered in the silent night.
He rested his eyes as he sat there in silence. He hoped nothing would wake him or would alert him. He didn't want to have to deal with that tonight. He was ready to go to Suna and find Sakura to defeat Tobi. He wanted to know why she left him. Why she left her friends as well. He felt more open with her and now with her gone…he felt down a lot.
He sighed as he sat through the night. He couldn't wait until Karin took the next shift. He wanted to sleep very badly. Too much has happened in one day so he couldn't wait for them to wilt away in his dreams.
Minutes ticked by that turned into hours. It never had felt so long for Sasuke for the shift change. He was completely relieved when he saw Karin immerge from her tent. What made him even more happy is that when Karin was tired, she didn't have enough energy to flirt with him.
"Hello, Sasuke-kun. I'll take over now," She said with a yawn. She walked over to where Sasuke had been sitting and tried to sit very closely next to him where they would be touching, "Or you could stay out here with me," She winked at him.
'She should be tired! Now flirtatious,' He thought in his head a little annoyed. He was always annoyed when he was tired.
Sasuke jumped up before her butt touched the ground and he walked faster to the tent than he ever has.
He laid down and placed his katana by his side in arms reach. He needed this. He closed his eyes as he laid his head on the pillow and fell asleep instantly.
PinkBlossem
The next morning was loud.
"You fat bitch! You ate all the food!"
"No I didn't! Besides, they were small fish, shark face."
"Bimbo!"
"Man whore!"
"Slut"
"Ass whip!"
"Tampon!"
"ARRRGHHH! I'll kill you!"
Sasuke heard shuffling with groans and slaps. He groaned as he stayed where he was. He didn't want to deal with this. He sighs and walked out of the tent to find Suigetsu sitting on Karin while she was throwing her arms in random directions.
"Pack up, we leave in 5 minutes." Sasuke stated as he gathered his things.
Karin stopped and tried to look at him from her position. Suigetsu grinned at him. With one fine jump on Karin with his butt, and Karin groaning with a quiet curse word, he jumped off and gathered his things as well. Karin laid there for a second trying to catch her breath but soon follows after them.
Sasuke took off full speed towards Suna. They should arrive at the village rather late, but enough time to find an Inn instead of sleeping out in the forest.
They continued running for hours. They would take a couple minute breaks for breaks and to eat or use the restroom, but they went back in full speed. He was determined to make it there today.
It was around midnight when they arrived to Suna. People were still roaming the streets, but not many. What surprised Sasuke the most was multiple people were wearing cloaks like Temari's and that boy they captured. It would be easy enough to sneak in the village wearing those cloaks and find a Inn for the night.
"Get a black cloak and blend in," He stated as he looked at Suigetsu and Karin. They both nodded as they pulled one out of each of their bags. Sasuke did the same, happy to actually pack it this time. Sasuke never packs his cloak, but this time he was hoping that he would spy on Sakura without her knowing before making his scene.
They placed their cloaks on and Sasuke leaped forward towards the village. It was fast, but he was able to leap in without anyone seeing. He waited for Suigetsu and Karin. When they finally had leaped over, they spread apart. All of them going in different directions, but they all would meet up at the hotel.
Karin was the one who found a hotel first and checked herself in. Sasuke kept an eye on her with his sharingan and tried to focus on which room she was going to. Sasuke entered the hotel after she had reached the room.
"Welcome, sir. How may I help you?" a cheerful voice said from behind the counter. As he turned his head to get a glimpse he saw pink.
The girl behind the counter was wearing a pink apron over a white dress. She had short blonde hair that barely reached her shoulders and she had grey eyes. Beside her was an old man with a cheerful smile on his face. He was planning on ignoring them and walking to the room until he saw how innocent they both looked. He mentally sighed.
"I have a room already," He said with a calm voice. He knew he should have said thank you, but he couldn't get it through his mouth.
They continued to smile, "If you need anything, just give up a call. Thank you for staying with us."
Sasuke nodded and made his way he remembered Karin going. He didn't bother knocking on the door, but instead tried walking in. TRIED! Stupid door was locked.
He rammed his fist onto the door as Karin came running to open it up. Sasuke walked inside to see two queen sized beds. He didn't say anything, but he knew Karin did it on purpose.
A sound came from the window as Sasuke grabbed his katana. He came eye to eye with Suigetsu climbing in from the window.
"Had to take the hard way," He chuckled as he scratched the back of his head.
"Idiot" He mumbled. He climbed in and collapsed on the bed, obviously tired. He seemed to fall instantly asleep.
'Damn bastard took the whole damn bed' He continued to curse him out in his head. Karin laid in bed with her eyes on Sasuke.
Sasuke glared at her and grabbed a pillow off the bed and laid on the floor. It wasn't comfortable, but it was better than being in bed with her.
"Sasuke-kuuuuuun," He heard her groan…or was that a moan?
"Sleep," He simply said deadly.
She huffed, but didn't say anything else. Sasuke closed his eyes and let sleep take over him. He waited for the morning. He was determined to find her tomorrow. He had no doubt in his mind he wasn't going to find her. If he was this close then there is no turning back now.
Sasuke thought of her smile and fell asleep remembering her soft lips the day she carved the Uchiha fan into the ground. He would find her. He was ready.