Naruto and its characters belongs to Masashi Kishimoto.
She was wearing a kimono of a rustic red color, some parts faded to a dark pink, the magnificent swirls and twirls ina dull peach. Her pink locks framed her face, and fell down in long strands down her back. She moved with precise movements, like the Hyuuga, and had strict control of her emtions, like the Uchha. Whenever she would leave her estate many people would watch her, enraptured in her beauty. She always walked around with her eyes closed, so no one had ever seen her eyes, however it was rumored to be a breathtaking ruby color to go with her pink locks. She never conversed with anyone, simply went for her strolls without anyone daring to bother her. So the morning when Konohamaru ran into her, knocking her over in the process, everyone held their breath and waited. She accepted the hand Naruto offered her, and once standing Naruto bowed deeply, apologizing profusely with Konohamaru.
She gave them a simply wave of her hand, cutting off their apology, before continuing her walk. Naruto swore he could see a glint of metal dissapearing back into her kimono sleeve, but he diregarded it, instead choosing to whack Konohamaru on the back of the head for not being a good enough ninja to dodge her.
When she returned it was late, an unusual occurrence for her. The material at the bottom of her kimono squelched when she would take another step, obviously soaked from wherever she had taken a stroll. In the dark she had an ethereal grace, her hands hidden by the kimono sleeves- siler barely glinting from under the hem.
She walked with her normal grace, her face set in an emotionless stone mask. The ninja passing by her would shiver, realizing how cold a beauty she truly was.
"COME IN!" Tsunade yelled at those waiting on the other side of the door.
In walked the Rookie 9 and their teachers accompanied by Itachi and Sai. The others she wished to talk to ould not make it currently, and her meeting with the Clan Heads would be later when the Elders could be bothered to join the meeting.
As they came in they were met with startling bright emerald eyes- eyes that were unseeing. Pink locks were complemented with a rustic red kimono that was damp along the hem.
"I would like you all to meet Sakura-san. She is blind. However, ever since she was a child she has been an undercover agent for Konoha," Tsunade stated with Sakura giving them all a nod of acknowledgment. "A recent mission went wrong and she had to go to bloodbath protocol. Itachi, I need you to stick to her side for as much as you possibly can for the next week. If there is a time where you must leave her side you are to tell whoever is easiest to find, or whoever the hell you run into fist you see amongst us here to watch Sakura while you're gone. Do all of you understand?"
Everyone was rather skeptical of the pnkette. Unbothered by their stares she stood, walked over to Itachi, and stuck out a hand with well kept silvery nails. When Itachi went to shake her hand her silvery nails dug in, and Itachi letout a strangled yelp from the sudden pain. Kakashi moved in to pry the nails out but stopped when the silver nails receeded, bringing the blood to coat her nails. A soft green envelped her fingertips, and when she placed them over the injuries the skin began to knit itself back together until it looked as though the injury were never there. She brought the remaining blood on his arm to her lips, and easily removed every last drop with her tongue. She then proceed to suck off the blood from her fingers and gave a nod to Tsunade.
"I will have no problem in discerning him from others," Sakura stated, moving to sit in Tsunade's chair and taking a scroll along with ink and a senbon. She dipped her finger with blue chakra into the ink and removed it- wiping the ink off by making a large circle in the middle of the scroll. After dipping the senbon in the ink she proceeded in creating a detailed drawing of a large cavern with puppet pieces littering every here and there. "I managed to destroy much of Akasuna no Sasori's arsenal, however my target's partner managed to remove Sasori himself before I could break him. I was not see by Deidara, however Sasori would easily be able to describe me, for I had to drop my henge so as to not waste any chakra I needed for othe battle that ensued."
The Sand siblings entered- Kankura leading them and Shizune trailing behind them trying to tell them that Tsunade was currently in a meeting.
Before Kankuro could walk much farther he found senbon pinning him to a wall. Sakura was standing, and her blind eyes were attmepting to focus on the puppet-user. "Sakura, stand down. He is Kankuro- brother to the Kazekage."
Sakura's hand twitiched, and her fingers were once more covered in their silvery color once more, but she nodded, and Kankuro found himself free of senbon, with a pool of silver at his feet. "If you would spar with me some time I'd be grateful."
Sakura's words were clipped, but she needed more practice battling puppets- who's smell easily blended in with the woods. She handed the finished scroll to Tsunade, who smiled. "Was Sasori heavily wounded when Deidara rescued him?"
"Yes, but nothing he can't repair," Sakura sighed. Off to the side she had draw Sasori- only he looked like a puppet.
"Hey, why'd you draw a puppet- and a smashed one at that?" Kankuro asked, being his normal nosy self.
"This is the damage Sasori received, As I said, he will be able to repair himself soon," Sakura answered. She raised an eyebrow as she truend her head in Kankuro's direction. "Did you not know Akasuna no Sasori turned himself into a puppet?"
Itachi was surprised, and over the next week Sakura was seen more often- although rarely did she speak. She had sparred with Kankuro twice, and the Kazekage told her to take it easy if there was to be a third time since he'd be the one Kankuro complained to about all the puppet's he lost. Many learned that Sakura was extremely dangerous- even if she was blind. Many began thinking that perhaps because she was blind was why she was so dangerous. She was always alert, she was a light sleeper, and due to her lack of sight even the tiniest of sounds could be heard by her ears from quite the distance. All Konoha ninja were wary of her- many had seen one of the times she sparred Kankuro with her monstrous strength and amazing medical ability. They had learned Sakura was actually Tsunade's student- who had surpassed the Sannin herself. The kunoichi had a vast expanse of book knowledge in her arsenal, and was extremely talented with senbon. When her nails were a silvery color they knew it was deadly chakra enfused with melted down senobs coated in poison.
It was after that week that Konoha found Akatsuki at their doorstep.
Sakura stood at the forest outskirts with Kakashi at her side as they face the Akatsuki who stood by Konoha's gates. The rest of the ninja were on the walls and inside the gates- it was rather obvious Konoha would leave the two to die outside rather than risking opening the gates to let them in.
"Sakura Haruno, last time you had nearly destroyed me," Sasori stated, his voice carrying to those on the wall by the breeze.
Sakura gave him a smile. "I am asumming you had trouble with repairing your body. I am glad, for the mean I perfected it."
Cherry blossoms drifted in the wind, falling to the ground. In a flash Sakura was withing arm's rach of Sasori. "I believe it's time I cut the strings of your beloved puppet."
He growled, but was stopped by Pein. Sakura frowned, and turned her sightless gaze to the leader. "The puppet is not yours to control, you already have your own."
He froze and stepped back, allowing Sakura to battle Sasori- and ultimately break the puppet until it remained lifeless. After the battle finished Kakashi drew a kunai, stopping only after Sakura raised a hand.
"He is dead now, unless you wish to lose Konan too I suggst you retrieve his ring and withdraw her. Your holograms can't fool me- they produce no real scent as Konan and Sasori do, and the hold no heartbeat," Sakura called out.
Paper butterflies dispersed, and the Akatsuki dissappeared, leaving behind Sasori's body without a special ring.
Sakura's moves were slightly more jagged then before, and when Kakashi went to help her inside he noticed the joints of her arms- her wooden arms. Sakura turned to him, and with his blaizng Sharigan he finally saw it- Sakura was a puppet. Not completely- he notice- but enough that she had to use chakra to move.
"Sakura?"
She looked up at him. "My apologies, Kakashi, but you are no longer needed. Sasori never fully changed me, and now that he is dead I can finally move my own strings."
A Sakura and Sasori oneshot.
